Die too young!

101. Patrick Dewaere

Popular but troubled renegade French actor Patrick Dewaere was christened Jean-Marie Patrick Bourdeaux on January 26, 1947, at Saint-Brieuc in Britanny in the north-west region of France. The third of six children born to actress Mado Maurin (1915-2011), his mother made acting a family affair. All ...

102. John Matuszak

Actor | The Goonies

John Daniel Tooz Matuszak was an American professional football defensive lineman in the National Football League and also an actor. Matuszak was born in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. He attended the University of Tampa and played for their football team. Matuszak also played for various NFL teams; his ...

103. Peter Vogel

Actor | Charley's Tante

Peter Vogel was born on March 22, 1937 in Munich, Germany. He was an actor, known for Charley's Tante (1963), Flying Classroom (1954) and Kottan ermittelt (1976). He was married to Gertraud Jesserer. He died on September 21, 1978 in Vienna, Austria.

104. Robert Louis Stevenson

Writer | Muppet Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer from Edinburgh. His most popular works include the pirate-themed adventure novel "Treasure Island" (1883), the poetry collection "A Child's Garden of Verses" (1885), the Gothic horror novella "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr ...

105. Vladimír Dlouhý

Actor | Kajínek

Vladimír Dlouhý was born on June 10, 1958 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Kajínek (2010), Hlidac c.47 (2008) and Arabela (1980). He was married to Gabriela Svárovská and Petra Jungmannová. He died on June 20, 2010 in Prague, Czech Republic.

106. Michael Dorn

Actor | Das letzte Schweigen

Michael Dorn was born on December 22, 1968 in Germany. He was an actor, known for The Silence (2010), Mondscheinsonate (2009) and 3 (2010). He died on March 10, 2012 in Berlin, Germany.

107. Cass Elliot

Soundtrack | Free Guy

Cass Elliot was born Ellen Naomi Cohen on September 19, 1941, in Baltimore, Maryland. She grew up in the Washington D.C. environs and in her senior year of high school, performed in a summer stock production of "The Boyfriend" at the Owings Mills Playhouse, where she played the French nurse who ...

108. Richard Hillman

Actor | Bring It On

Richard Hillman was born on December 13, 1974 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Bring It On (2000), Detroit Rock City (1999) and Boys and Girls (2000). He died on June 27, 2009 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.

109. Christoph Schlingensief

Director | Menu total

Christoph Schlingensief was born on October 24, 1960 in Oberhausen, Germany. He was a director and writer, known for Menu total (1986), Egomania: Island Without Hope (1986) and 100 Jahre Adolf Hitler - Die letzte Stunde im Führerbunker (1989). He was married to Aino Laberenz. He died on August...

110. Stephen Gately

Soundtrack | Billy Elliot

Stephen Gately was born on March 17, 1976 in Dublin, Ireland. He was an actor, known for Billy Elliot (2000), The Rocky Horror Tribute Show (2006) and Watership Down (1999). He was married to Andrew Cowles. He died on October 10, 2009 in Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain.

111. Bob Marley

Soundtrack | I Am Legend

Bob Marley was born on February 6, 1945, in Nine Miles, Saint Ann, Jamaica, to Norval Marley and Cedella Booker. His father was a Jamaican of English descent. His mother was a black teenager. The couple were married in 1944 but Norval left for Kingston immediately after. Norval died in 1957, seeing...

112. Peter Tosh

Soundtrack | Savages

Peter Tosh was born on October 19, 1944 in Grange Hill, Jamaica. He was an actor and composer, known for Savages (2012), Pineapple Express (2008) and Lords of Dogtown (2005). He died on September 11, 1987 in Kingston, Jamaica.

113. Tyrone Power

Actor | Witness for the Prosecution

Tyrone Power was one of the great romantic swashbuckling stars of the mid-twentieth century, and the third Tyrone Power of four in a famed acting dynasty reaching back to the eighteenth century. His great-grandfather was the first Tyrone Power (1795-1841), a famed Irish comedian. His father, known ...

114. Kellie Waymire

Actress | Enterprise

Kellie Waymire was born on July 27, 1967 in Columbus, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for Star Trek: Enterprise (2001), Star Trek: Voyager (1995) and Playing by Heart (1998). She died on November 13, 2003 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

115. Adam Yauch

Soundtrack | Real Steel

Adam Yauch, an only child, was born on August 5, 1964 in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Frances and Noel Yauch, who is a painter and architect. His father was Catholic (of Irish, German, and French descent) and his mother was Jewish. Adam attended Edward R. Murrow High School in the Midwood ...

116. Ricky Nelson

Actor | The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

Ricky Nelson was born on May 8, 1940 in Teaneck, New Jersey, USA as Eric Hilliard Nelson. He was an actor, known for The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet (1952) and Rio Bravo (1959). He was married to Kristin Harmon. He died on December 31, 1985 in De Kalb, Texas, USA.

117. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Writer | Le Petit Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was born into a family of old provincial nobility. Failing his final exams at a preparatory school, he entered the École des Beaux-Arts to study architecture. In 1921, he began military service in the 2nd Regiment of Chasseurs, and sent to Strasbourg for pilot training. The...

118. Anton Chekhov

Writer | Kis Uykusu

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born in 1860, the third of six children to a family of a grocer, in Taganrog, Russia, a southern seaport and resort on the Azov Sea. His father, a 3rd-rank Member of the Merchant's Guild, was a religious fanatic and a tyrant who used his children as slaves. Young Chekhov...

119. Patricia Haines

Actress | The Avengers

Patricia Haines was born on February 3, 1932 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Avengers (1961), The Last Shot You Hear (1969) and The Adventures of Don Quick (1970). She was married to Bernard Kay and Michael Caine. She died on February 25, 1977 in Northampton,...

Ex-Wife from Michael Caine!

120. Andy Gibb

Soundtrack | Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle

A blessing or a curse? Every silver lining has a cloud, yet sadly Andrew Roy Gibb had to find that out the hard way. Born the fifth and final child to parents Barbara (17 November 1920-12 August 2016) and Hugh Gibb (15 January 1916-6 March 1992) Andy grew up with his three older siblings dominating...

121. Divine

Actor | Pink Flamingos

Originally born Harris Glen Milstead just after the end of WWII, Baltimore's most outrageous resident eventually became the international icon of bad taste cinema, as the always shocking and highly entertaining transvestite performer, Divine.

Milstead met maverick film director & good friend, John ...

122. Kenneth J. Warren

Actor | Mystery and Imagination

Balding (later shaven-headed), stocky-framed Australian character actor Kenneth J. Warren (the "J" stands for John) was a reliable performer on both stage and films, his imposing, beefy frame and darting, sliver-eyed presence almost a tell-tale sign of peril yet to come.

Born in New South Wales in ...

123. Kurt Raab

Actor | Die Zärtlichkeit der Wölfe

Kurt Raab was born on July 20, 1941 in Bergreichenstein, Sudetenland [now Kasperské Hory, Czech Republic]. He was an actor and production designer, known for Tenderness of the Wolves (1973), Satan's Brew (1976) and Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (1970). He died on June 28, 1988 in Hamburg, West Germany.

124. David Janssen

Actor | The Green Berets

David Janssen was born David Harold Meyer in 1931 in Naponee, Nebraska, to Berniece Mae (Graf) and Harold Edward Meyer, a banker. He was of German, and some Swiss-German and Ulster-Scots, descent. David took the surname of his stepfather, Eugene Janssen. The Janssen family settled in Hollywood when...

125. Allison Hayes

Actress | Attack of the 50 Foot Woman

Anyone who loves B-movies of the 1950s appreciates this lovely actress Allison Hayes. She was born Mary Jane Hayes on March 6, 1930 in Charleston, West Virginia. The auburn-haired beauty was the 1949 Washington, D.C. entry into the Miss America pageant. Shortly afterwards, Mary Jane adopted the ...

126. Robert Pastorelli

Actor | Striking Distance

Beefy, roughhewn actor Robert Pastorelli was a former boxer and an admitted drug addict before he cleaned up his act and pursued theater work in New York in such 1970s productions as "Rebel Without a Cause," "The Rainmaker," and "Death of a Salesman," he headed west and turned to film and TV in ...

127. Constanze Engelbrecht

Actress | Diese Drombuschs

Constanze started into the movies at an early age: as the German voice of "Jeff" from "Lassie." After "Gymnasium" (high school) the daughter of actress Alice Franz studied singing at the Richard-Strauss-Konservatorium in Munich, Germany, at Guildhall School in London, GB, and at the Mozarteum in ...

128. Nicholas Clay

Actor | Excalibur

Nicholas Clay was an English actor, most famous for playing the legendary knight Lancelot du Lac (Lancelot of the Lake) in the medieval fantasy film "Excalibur" (1981).

Clay was born in London.His father was a professional soldier, who served in the Corps of Royal Engineers (nicknamed "Sappers"). ...

129. Michael Gothard

Actor | Lifeforce

Best remembered in Britain for the television series Arthur of the Britons (1972), Ken Russell's The Devils (1971) and as the villain in For Your Eyes Only (1981). His break into films came with Don Levy's Herostratus (1967). His career was intermittently successful, interspersing notable ...

130. Ronald Lacey

Actor | Raiders of the Lost Ark

A prolific character actor on British television for three decades, Ronald Lacey was born on June 18, 1935 in the suburbs of London. He began his career in 1961 after compulsory National Service. He attended The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. His first notable performance was delivered ...

131. Sage Stallone

Actor | Rocky V

Sage Stallone was an American actor and film director from Los Angeles. His best known role was Robert Balboa, Jr. (Rocky Balboa's son) in the sports drama film "Rocky V" (1990).

Stallone was the eldest son of actor Sylvester Stallone (1946-) and his first wife Sasha Czack. His parents married in ...

132. Susanne Lothar

Actress | Funny Games

Susanne Lothar was born on November 15, 1960 in Hamburg, Germany. She was an actress, known for Funny Games (1997), The White Ribbon (2009) and The Reader (2008). She was married to Ulrich Mühe. She died on July 21, 2012 in Berlin, Germany.

Widow of Ulrich Mühe!

133. Hanns Lothar

Actor | One, Two, Three

Hanns Lothar was born on April 10, 1929 in Hannover, Germany. He was an actor, known for One, Two, Three (1961), The Buddenbrooks (1959) and The Buddenbrooks (1959). He was married to Wiemer, Gabriele, Ingrid Andree and Kari Noller. He died on March 11, 1967 in Hamburg, West Germany.

134. Bibi Besch

Actress | Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Bibi Besch, a talented actress, was born in Vienna, Austria, to Gotfrid Köchert, a renowned race car driver, and actress Gusti Huber. She had a busy career, especially as a supporting actress on TV, spanning over twenty years. Her exceptional performance in the TV series, Doing Time on Maple Drive ...

135. Silvia Seidel

Actress | Anna

Silvia Seidel was born on September 23, 1969 in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany. She was an actress, known for Anna (1987), Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left (1993) and Storm of Love (2005). She died on July 31, 2012 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.

136. Gerlinde Döberl

Actress | Onkel Silas

Gerlinde Döberl was born on October 1, 1951 in Linz, Upper Austria, Austria. She was an actress, known for Onkel Silas (1977), Der Jäger von Fall (1974) and Schloß Hubertus (1973). She died on June 14, 1989 in Thessaloniki, Greece.

137. Judith Barsi

Actress | The Land Before Time

The only child of Jozsef Barsi and Maria Benko, Judith Eva Barsi beat 10,000-to-1 odds when she was discovered at a San Fernando Valley skating rink at age 5 1/2 in 1983 and mistaken for a three-year-old. Her first commercial was for Donald Duck Orange Juice and she went on to appear in anywhere ...

138. Nicole DeHuff

Actress | Meet the Parents

Nicole DeHuff was born on 6 January 1975 in Oklahoma. She began her acting studies at the prestigious Carnegie Mellon Acting Conservatory. Her first screen role was in the comedy hit Meet the Parents (2000), in which she co-starred with Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller. Her character (Deborah Byrnes)...

139. Kaisa Hämäläinen

Actress | Taivasmatka

This young actress astounded everyone with her profound performance in the acclaimed short film Taivasmatka (2001). Being only thirteen years old by the time of the filming, Kaisa faced a difficult task debuting in the leading role playing a young girl going through an emotional journey. Despite of...

140. Brandon De Wilde

Actor | Shane

Brandon De Wilde was born into a theatrical family and made a much-acclaimed Broadway debut in "The Member of the Wedding" at age 9. He was the first child actor to win the Donaldson Award, and went on to repeat his role in the film version, directed by Fred Zinnemann in 1952. As the blond-haired, ...

141. Margaux Hemingway

Actress | Killer Fish

Born in Portland, Oregon, she grew up in on a farm in Ketchum, Idaho. But dad was Jack Hemingway, son of the Nobel prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway and, with that heritage, fame was almost foreordained. By the time she was 21, after the lead in the rape melodrama Lipstick (1976), she had a ...

142. David Strickland

Actor | Suddenly Susan

David Strickland was born in Glen Cove, Long Island, New York, on October 14, 1969. Raised in Princeton, New Jersey, he never thought about an acting career until moving to the LA suburb of Pacific Palisades while in high school. Instead of going to college, he joined a theater company and began ...

143. Clemens Kleiber

Actor | Polizeiinspektion 1

Clemens Kleiber was born in 1967. He was an actor, known for Polizeiinspektion 1 (1977), Das Haus mit der Nr. 30 (1977) and Der große Karpfen Ferdinand und andere Weihnachtsgeschichten (1978). He died in 1998.

144. William Hootkins

Actor | Star Wars

William Michael Hootkins was born on July 5, 1948, in Dallas, Texas. He moved to London, England in the early '70s and lived there up until 2002. Hootkins was an actor at Theatre Intime while attending Princeton University where he learned how to speak fluent Mandarin Chinese. He also trained as an...

145. Michael Clarke Duncan

Actor | The Green Mile

Michael Clarke Duncan was born on December 10, 1957 in Chicago, Illinois. Raised on Chicago's South Side by his single mother, Jean, a house cleaner, Duncan grew up resisting drugs and alcohol, instead concentrating on school. He wanted to play football in high school, but his mother wouldn't let ...

146. Ross Hill

Actor | Renegade

Ross Hill was born on April 11, 1973 in Munich, Germany. He was an actor, known for They Call Me Renegade (1987), The World of Don Camillo (1984) and Aktuelle Schaubude (1957). He died on January 15, 1990 in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Son of Terence Hill!

147. Stephen Dunham

Actor | The Mummy

Stephen Dunham was born on September 14, 1964 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for The Mummy (1999), Paranormal Activity 4 (2012) and Get Smart (2008). He was married to Alexondra Lee. He died on September 13, 2012 in Burbank, California, USA.

148. Sam Kinison

Actor | Back to School

Sam Kinison was a popular stand-up comedian from Yakima, Washington, mainly active in the 1980s and the early 1990s. He also had a few acting roles in film and television. His only recurring role was that of Hugh, the main character's alter ego in the short-lived sitcom "Charlie Hoover" (1991). The...

149. James Franciscus

Actor | Beneath the Planet of the Apes

James Grover Franciscus graduated magna cum laude from Yale University in 1957 with a B.A. in English and theater. His father, John Allen Franciscus, was a pilot killed in action during WWII. His mother was named Loraine (nee Grover) and he had one sibling, a brother named John. Mr. Franciscus is ...

150. Dirk Bach

Actor | Lukas

Dirk Bach was born on April 23, 1961 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany. He was an actor and writer, known for Lukas (1996), Kir Royal (1986) and Verbotene Liebe (1995). He died on October 1, 2012 in Berlin, Germany.

151. Patrick Swayze

Actor | Dirty Dancing

Patrick Wayne Swayze was born on August 18, 1952 in Houston, Texas, to Patsy Swayze (née Yvonne Helen Karnes), a choreographer, and Jesse Wayne Swayze, a chemical plant engineer draftsman. His mother owned a dance school in Houston, where Patrick was also a student. His father passed away in 1982. ...

152. Dack Rambo

Actor | Gunsmoke

Dack (given name Norman) and identical twin brother, Dirk Rambo (Orman), were born in sunny California in 1941. Dack's noticeable difference was a mole on his left cheek. Both happened upon an acting career, at age 21, after being discovered by Loretta Young for her TV show, while sitting in a ...

153. James Baskett

Actor | Song of the South

James Baskett was born on February 16, 1904 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA as James Franklin Baskett. He was an actor, known for Song of the South (1946), Revenge of the Zombies (1943) and Policy Man (1938). He was married to Margaret. He died on July 9, 1948 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

The First Black Academy Award-Winner!

154. Lang Jeffries

Actor | Solo contro Roma

Lang Jeffries was born on June 7, 1930 in Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for Alone Against Rome (1962), Mexican Slayride (1967) and The Revolt of the Slaves (1960). He was married to Mary Householder, Gail H. Getty and Rhonda Fleming. He died on February 12, 1987 in Huntington Beach, ...

155. Jenni Rivera

Actress | Filly Brown

Dolores Janney "Jenni" Rivera was a Mexican-American actress, singer-songwriter, T.V. producer, spokesperson, philanthropist & entrepreneur known for her work within the banda and norteña music genres. She began recording in 1992, and her recordings often have themes of social issues, infidelity & ...

156. Edward G. Robinson Jr.

Actor | Some Like It Hot

Edward G. Robinson Jr. was born on March 19, 1933 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Some Like It Hot (1959), Get Smart (1965) and Invasion, U.S.A. (1952). He was married to Nan Elizabeth Morris, Ruth Elaine Menold Conte and Frances Chisholm. He died on February 26, 1974 in...

157. Joan Hackett

Actress | The Last of Sheila

Joan Hackett was never one of your conventional leading ladies. Directors sometimes found her difficult to work with. Yet this strong-minded perfectionist had an unquenchable individuality that came through in her performances, and she never hesitated to appear unglamorous whenever the role ...

158. Susan Hayward

Actress | With a Song in My Heart

Susan Hayward was born Edythe Marrener in Brooklyn, New York, on June 30, 1917. Her father was a transportation worker, and Susan lived a fairly comfortable life as a child, but the precocious little redhead had no idea of the life that awaited her. She attended public school in Brooklyn, where she...

159. Pier Paolo Pasolini

Writer | Il Decameron

Pier Paolo Pasolini achieved fame and notoriety long before he entered the film industry. A published poet at 19, he had already written numerous novels and essays before his first screenplay in 1954. His first film Accattone (1961) was based on his own novel and its violent depiction of the life ...

160. Lana Clarkson

Actress | Fast Times at Ridgemont High

This beautiful, long-legged blonde actress was known to be a kind, intelligent and dependable actor with a comedic talent as well. She appeared in many American TV hits of the 1970s and 1980s, such as Three's Company (1976), The Jeffersons (1975), The New Mike Hammer (1984), Riptide (1984), Knight ...

161. Anita Mui

Actress | Yim ji kau

With a career that began in her early childhood, Anita Mui is the queen of Hong Kong's pop-music industry. After she won a singing contest in 1982, her life in the limelight began. In the early stages of her career her image was a little bit tomboy-ish and sexy (which was the reason she was called ...

162. Mindy McCready

Soundtrack | Switchback

Mindy McCready was born on November 30, 1975 in Fort Meyers, Florida, USA. She was an actress, known for Switchback (1997) and Mindy McCready: Ten Thousand Angels (1996). She died on February 17, 2013 in Heber Springs, Arkansas, USA.

163. Alex Raymond

Writer | Flash Gordon

Alexander Gillespie Raymond was born on October 2, 1909 in New Rochelle, New York, to Beatrice Wallazz (Crossley) and Alexander Gillespie Raymond, a civil engineer and road builder, who encouraged his drawing from an early age. His sister, Beatrice, was the paternal grandmother of actors Matt Dillon...

164. Philip Francis Nowlan

Writer | Buck Rogers

Philip Francis Nowlan was born on November 13, 1888 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He was a writer, known for Buck Rogers, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979) and Buck Rogers (1939). He was married to Theresa Nowlan. He died on February 1, 1940 in Bala, Pennsylvania, USA.

165. Bourvil

Actor | The Longest Day

At the age of three, André Zacharie Raimbourg and his family moved to a town in the region of Normandy called Bourville. He finished school at the age of 15 and began to work as a baker. He was already playing harmonica, mandoline and cornet when he engaged himself in a village band. In the ...

166. Hans Putz

Actor | Das fliegende Klassenzimmer

Hans Putz was born on November 12, 1961 in Germany. He was an actor, known for The Flying Classroom (1973), Meine Frau erfährt kein Wort (1970) and The Consequence (1977). He died on June 19, 1979 in Germany.

167. James Gandolfini

Actor | The Sopranos

James Gandolfini was born in Westwood, New Jersey, to Santa (Penna), a high school lunchlady, and James Joseph Gandolfini, Sr., a bricklayer and head school janitor. His parents were both of Italian origin. Gandolfini began acting in the New York theater. His Broadway debut was in the 1992 revival ...

168. Chantal De Freitas

Actress | Tatort

Chantal De Freitas was born on July 26, 1967 in Kiel, Germany. She was an actress, known for Tatort (1970), Talk of the Town (1995) and Alles wird gut (1998). She was married to Kai Wiesinger. She died on July 2, 2013 in Hamburg, Germany.

169. Erich Hallhuber

Actor | Café Meineid

Erich Hallhuber was born on July 14, 1951 in Munich, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Café Meineid (1990), Regina auf den Stufen (1990) and Auf dem Nockherberg (1982). He died on September 17, 2003 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.

170. Cory Monteith

Actor | Glee

Cory Monteith was born on May 11, 1982 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada as Cory Allan Michael Monteith. He was an actor, known for playing the singing jock Finn on the American TV show Glee (2009) and films such as Monte Carlo (2011), and Final Destination 3 (2006). He died on July 13, 2013 in Vancouver...

171. Frank Zappa

Soundtrack | Baby Snakes

Of all the qualities that typified Frank Zappa, perhaps the most striking is that he was a paradox. A workaholic perfectionist rock star who eschewed the hippie culture of the 1960s, deploring its conformism, spurious ideals and drug use, Zappa was not only a brilliant rock guitarist but an ...

172. Frédéric Chopin

Soundtrack | The Avengers

Frédéric François Chopin was born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin, on March 1, 1810, in Zelazowa Wola, Masovia region, Duchy of Warsaw, Poland. His father, named Mikolaj (Nicolas) Chopin, was a Frenchman who came to Poland from Lorraine, and eventually became professor at Warsaw Lyceum. His mother, ...

173. Jonathan Dümcke

Actor | TKKG und die rätselhafte Mind-Machine

Jonathan Dümcke was born on March 9, 1991 in Potsdam, Germany. He was an actor, known for TKKG und die rätselhafte Mind-Machine (2006), Bloch (2002) and Tatort (1970). He died on August 5, 2013 in Italy.

174. Tommy Morrison

Actor | Rocky V

He was a heavyweight professional boxer who held the WBO heavyweight title in 1993. He made national news Thursday, Feb. 15, 1996, when he announced that he was HIV positive. He then retired from boxing. He was suspended from worldwide boxing when he tested positive prior to a boxing match against ...

175. Norbert Mahler

Actor | Die Wolke

Norbert Mahler was born in 1961 in Bayreuth / Franken. After finishing school he devoted himself to theater. Initially this meant joining a group of young artists who found together at the Bayreuth Young Drama Festival. One of their performing specialties were parodies to the works of Richard ...

176. Maria Callas

Soundtrack | Ghost in the Shell

This volatile opera diva was born Sophie Cecilia Kalos in New York City to Greek émigrés on December 2, 1923. Her father set up a pharmacy and changed the family name from Kalogeropoulos to Callas. As a child Maria studied the piano. When her parents separated (she was 14 at the time), her mother ...

177. Billie Holiday

Soundtrack | Minority Report

Billie Holiday was a true artist of her day and rose as a social phenomenon in the 1950s. Her soulful, unique singing voice and her ability to boldly turn any material that she confronted into her own music made her a superstar of her time. Today, Holiday is remembered for her masterpieces, ...

178. Hiram Keller

Actor | Fellini - Satyricon

Hiram Keller was born on May 3, 1944 in Moody Field, Georgia, USA. He was an actor, known for Fellini Satyricon (1969), Orestes (1997) and The Survivors of the Bounty (1974). He was married to Kristina St. Clair. He died on January 20, 1997 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

179. Paul Walker

Actor | The Fast and the Furious

Paul William Walker IV was born in Glendale, California. He grew up together with his brothers, Caleb and Cody, and sisters, Ashlie and Amie. Their parents, Paul William Walker III, a sewer contractor, and Cheryl (Crabtree) Walker, a model, separated around September 2004. His grandfather, William ...

180. George Reeves

Actor | Adventures of Superman

George Reeves was born George Keefer Brewer in Woolstock, Iowa, to Helen Roberta (Lescher) and Donald C. Brewer. He was of German, English, and Scottish descent. Following his parents' divorce and his mother's remarriage to Frank J. Bessolo, Reeves was raised in Pasadena, California, and educated ...

181. Philip Seymour Hoffman

Actor | The Master

Film and stage actor and theater director Philip Seymour Hoffman was born in the Rochester, New York, suburb of Fairport to Marilyn (Loucks), a lawyer and judge, and Gordon Stowell Hoffman, a Xerox employee, and was mostly of German, Irish, English and Dutch ancestry. After becoming involved in ...

182. John Henson

Actor | Muppet Treasure Island

John Henson was born on April 25, 1965 in Greenwich, Connecticut, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Muppet Treasure Island (1996), Muppets from Space (1999) and Muppet*vision 3-D (1991). He was married to Gyongyi Henson. He died on February 14, 2014 in Saugerties, New York, USA.

183. Glenn Miller

Soundtrack | Wild at Heart

Alton Glenn Miller was born on March 1, 1904, in Clarinda, Iowa; the son of Lewis Elmer and Mattie Lou Cavender Miller. He started his music studies when his father gave him a mandolin. He soon traded the mandolin for an old horn. In 1916 he switched to trombone. In 1923, he enrolled in the ...

184. William Shakespeare

Writer | The Tragedy of Macbeth

William Shakespeare's birthdate is assumed from his baptism on April 25. His father John was the son of a farmer who became a successful tradesman; his mother Mary Arden was gentry. He studied Latin works at Stratford Grammar School, leaving at about age 15. About this time his father suffered an ...

185. Ferdinand Marian

Actor | Jud Süß

Ferdinand Marian was born on August 14, 1902 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was an actor, known for Jud Süß (1940), Ohm Krüger (1941) and Madame Bovary (1937). He was married to Maria Byk and Irene Saager. He died on August 7, 1946 in near Dürneck, Freising, Bavaria, ...

186. Roy Brocksmith

Actor | Total Recall

Roy Brocksmith began his career on the bar at Hap Kuhl's Tavern in his native Quincy, Illinois, at the age of three. As a boy soprano, he performed in churches, schools, and appeared regularly on local radio and television programs. At 16, he taught at the local children's theater. Two years later ...

187. Michelle Thomas

Actress | The Young and the Restless

Michelle Thomas was born in Boston but raised in New York and New Jersey. She attended the Montclair School of Arts and the Broadway Dance Center. She is survived by her mother, Phynjuar Thomas (a stage actress and acting coach); her brother, David Thomas; her grandfather, Cecil G. Saunders, Sr.; ...

188. Frank Jacobsen

Actor | Antons Fest

Frank Jacobsen was born on December 10, 1964 in Husum, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He was an actor, known for Antons Fest (2013), Tatort (1970) and Unter uns (1994). He died on June 18, 2014 in Berlin, Germany.

189. Dave Legeno

Actor | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

A twin fisted existentialist, whose post-Nietzschian sensibilities reject the lantern of the cynic in a quest for a sun that leaves no shadow. He attended Dr Challoners Grammar School where he achieved 8 'o' levels, he then elected to work on demolition sites rather than continue his education to ...

190. Skye McCole Bartusiak

Actress | Don't Say a Word

Skye McCole Bartusiak was an American child actress and child model. She appeared in The Patriot (2000), Don't Say a Word (2001), as Rose Wilder in Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder (2002), 24 (2002-03), Boogeyman (2005), and Kill Your Darlings (2006). Bartusiak died at the...

191. Philipp Brammer

Actor | Joyeux Noël

Philipp Brammer was born on August 28, 1969 in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany. He was an actor, known for Joyeux Noel (2005), Lost Horizon (2010) and Wagner (1983). He was married to Dominique Lorenz. He died on July 28, 2014 in Ramsau bei Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany.

192. Misty Upham

Actress | August: Osage County

Misty Anne Upham, born in Kallispell, Montana, grew up in south Seattle, the fourth of five children. She began her career at the age of thirteen when she joined a community theater group, Red Eagle Soaring. What began as a summer workshop soon turned into a full-time job. By the age of fourteen ...

193. Thomas Kornack

Actor | Wir

Thomas Kornack was born on April 14, 1976 in Erfurt, German Democratic Republic. He was an actor, known for Wir (2013), Beloved Sisters (2014) and In aller Freundschaft (1998). He died on November 6, 2014 in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany.

194. Khan Bonfils

Actor | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Khan Bonfils was born in 1972 in the UK. He was an actor, known for Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999), Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) and Skyfall (2012). He died on January 7, 2015 in London, England, UK.

195. Colin Clive

Actor | Frankenstein

Who could forget Colin Clive's "It's Alive! It's Alive!" as he melted to the floor mumbling the same over and over in ecstasy after his success at animating the Monster in the first sound version of Frankenstein (1931). Film history - horror film history - but part of a short history for actor ...

196. Truman Capote

Actor | Murder by Death

Truman Capote was born on September 30, 1924 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Murder by Death (1976), The Innocents (1961) and Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961). He died on August 25, 1984 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

197. Karina Kraushaar

Actress | Hallo Robbie!

Karina Kraushaar was born on April 9, 1971 in Eilenburg, German Democratic Republic [now Saxony, Federal Republic of Germany]. She was an actress, known for Hallo Robbie! (2001), Our Charly (1995) and The Air Rescue Team (1997). She died on March 5, 2015 in Hamburg, Germany.

198. Lee Remick

Actress | The Omen

Lee Remick was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, to Gertrude Margaret (Waldo), an actress, and Francis Edwin Remick, a department store owner. She had Irish and English ancestry. Remick was educated at Barnard College, studied dance and worked on stage and TV, before making her film debut as a sexy ...

199. Daniel Jacob

Actor | Ich heirate eine Familie...

Daniel Jacob was born on August 18, 1963. He was an actor, known for Ich heirate eine Familie... (1983), Woman Doctors (1984) and Polizeiinspektion 1 (1977). He died on February 22, 1985.

200. Uwe Beyer

Actor | Die Nibelungen, Teil 1 - Siegfried

Uwe Beyer was born on April 14, 1945 in Timmendorf, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He was an actor, known for Die Nibelungen, Teil 1 - Siegfried (1966), Mona M. - Mit den Waffen einer Frau (1996) and Olympia - Olympia (1971). He died on April 15, 1993 in Antalya, Turkey.