Alvin Ailey
Dancer
5-Jan-1931 1-Dec-1989 Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Edward Albee
Playwright
12-Mar-1928 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Horatio Alger
Author
13-Jan-1832 18-Jul-1899 Ragged Dick
Marc Allégret
Film Director
22-Dec-1900 4-Nov-1973 Entrée des Artistes
Chad Allen
Actor
5-Jun-1974 Matthew Cooper on Dr. Quinn
Peter Allen
Singer/Songwriter
10-Feb-1944 18-Jun-1992 I Go To Rio
Ted Allen
TV Personality
20-May-1965 Food & Wine Queer Eye guy
Kevin Allison
Actor
16-Feb-1970 Red-haired gay on The State
Pedro Almodóvar
Film Director
25-Sep-1951 Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
Marc Almond
Singer/Songwriter
9-Jul-1956 Contemporary cabaret vocalist, Soft Cell
Hardy Amies
Fashion Designer
17-Jul-1909 5-Mar-2003 Dressmaker to Queen Elizabeth II
Kenneth Anger
Film Director
3-Feb-1930 Pioneer avant-garde filmmaker
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Philosopher
8-May-1954 The Ethics of Identity
Marshall Applewhite
Religion
17-May-1931 26-Mar-1997 Led the Heaven's Gate cult to suicide
Reinaldo Arenas
Novelist
16-Jul-1943 7-Dec-1990 El Mundo Alucinante
Alexis Arquette
Actor
28-Jul-1969 Last Exit to Brooklyn
John Ashbery
Poet
28-Jul-1927 Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
Nils Asther
Actor
17-Jan-1897 13-Oct-1981 The Single Standard
W. H. Auden
Poet
21-Feb-1907 29-Sep-1973 The Age of Anxiety
Francis Bacon
Philosopher
22-Jan-1561 9-Apr-1626 Novum Organum
Francis Bacon
Painter
28-Oct-1909 28-Apr-1992 The Screaming Popes
Paul Bailey
Novelist
16-Feb-1937 Gabriel's Lament
John Balance
Electronic Musician
16-Feb-1962 13-Nov-2004 Coil
James Baldwin
Novelist
2-Aug-1924 30-Nov-1987 Go Tell It on the Mountain
Alan Ball
Screenwriter
13-May-1957 American Beauty
Samuel Barber
Composer
9-Mar-1910 23-Jan-1981 Adagio for Strings
Clive Barker
Novelist
5-Oct-1952 Hellraiser
R. H. Barlow
Author
18-May-1918 2-Jan-1951 Literary executor of H. P. Lovecraft
John Barrowman
Actor
11-Mar-1967 Central Park West
Jürgen Bartsch
Criminal
6-Nov-1946 27-Apr-1976 Teenaged homosexual serial killer
Lance Bass
Singer
4-May-1979 *NSYNC, the Quiet One
Billy Bean
Baseball
11-May-1964 Going The Other Way
James Beard
Chef
5-May-1903 23-Jan-1985 First prominent TV chef
Andy Bell
Singer
25-Apr-1964 Lead singer of Erasure
Nate Berkus
Designer
17-Sep-1971 Interior decorator, often on Oprah
Arthur Gary Bishop
Criminal
1951 10-Jun-1988 Utah serial killer of boys
Mr. Blackwell
Critic
29-Aug-1922 Issues an annual "Worst-Dressed List"
Anthony Blunt
Historian
26-Sep-1907 26-Mar-1983 Art historian, Soviet spy
Dirk Bogarde
Actor
28-Mar-1921 8-May-1999 A Bridge Too Far
Edgar Bowers
Poet
2-Mar-1924 4-Feb-2000 For Louis Pasteur
Paul Bowles
Author
30-Dec-1910 18-Nov-1999 The Sheltering Sky
James Bridges
Film Director
3-Feb-1936 6-Jun-1993 Urban Cowboy and The Paper Chase
Benjamin Britten
Composer
22-Nov-1913 4-Dec-1976 Billy Budd
David Brock
Journalist
1962 Blinded by the Right
David Brudnoy
Radio Personality
5-Jun-1940 8-Dec-2004 Boston talk radio host
Frank Bruni
Journalist
31-Oct-1964 New York Times food critic
Jim J. Bullock
Actor
9-Feb-1955 Monroe on Too Close for Comfort
Victor Buono
Actor
3-Feb-1938 1-Jan-1982 King Tut on Batman
Raymond Burr
Actor
21-May-1917 12-Sep-1993 Played Ironside
Augusten Burroughs
Author
1965 Running With Scissors
David Burtka
Actor
29-May-1975 American theater actor
Dan Butler
Actor
2-Dec-1954 Bob "Bulldog" Brisco on Frasier
Samuel Butler
Author
4-Dec-1835 18-Jun-1902 Erewheon
John Cage
Composer
5-Sep-1912 12-Aug-1992 Experimental composer
Simon Callow
Actor
13-Jun-1949 British theatre actor
Mario Cantone
Comic
9-Dec-1959 Laugh Whore
Truman Capote
Novelist
30-Sep-1924 25-Aug-1984 Flamboyant author of In Cold Blood
George Washington Carver
Inventor
12-Jul-1864 5-Jan-1943 God's gift to peanut farmers
Roger Casement
Activist
1-Sep-1864 3-Aug-1916 Irish revolutionary, gay diarist
Benvenuto Cellini
Sculptor
1-Nov-1500 13-Feb-1571 Florentine Mannerist goldsmith and sculptor
Luis Cernuda
Poet
21-Sep-1902 5-Nov-1963 Generation of '27
George Chakiris
Actor
16-Sep-1934 West Side Story
Richard Chamberlain
Actor
31-Mar-1935 Dr. Kildare and Shogun
Graham Chapman
Comic
8-Jan-1941 4-Oct-1989 Monty Python's King Arthur
Alfred Chester
Novelist
7-Sep-1928 1-Aug-1971 The Exquisite Corpse
Maurice Chevalier
Actor
12-Sep-1888 1-Jan-1972 Love Me Tonight
Peter Christopherson
Electronic Musician
27-Feb-1955 Throbbing Gristle, Coil
Anthony Clark
Actor
4-Apr-1964 Greg Warner on Yes, Dear
Van Cliburn
Pianist
12-Jul-1934 Piano prodigy
Montgomery Clift
Actor
17-Oct-1920 23-Jul-1966 From Here to Eternity
James Coco
Actor
21-Mar-1928 25-Feb-1987 Only When I Laugh
Roy Cohn
Government
20-Feb-1927 2-Aug-1986 Joseph McCarthy's henchman
Steven Cojocaru
Critic
5-Jan-1965 Entertainment Tonight fashion critic
Bill Condon
Film Director
22-Oct-1955 Gods and Monsters, Kinsey
Aaron Copland
Composer
14-Nov-1900 2-Dec-1990 Fanfare for the Common Man
Douglas Coupland
Novelist
30-Dec-1961 Generation X
Noel Coward
Playwright
16-Dec-1899 26-Mar-1973 Prolific English popular playwright
David Crane
Film/TV Producer
10-Aug-1957 Co-creator of Friends
Hart Crane
Poet
21-Jul-1899 27-Apr-1932 Industrial and urban poet
Darby Crash
Musician
26-Sep-1958 7-Dec-1980 The Germs
Quentin Crisp
Actor
25-Dec-1908 21-Nov-1999 The Naked Civil Servant
George Cukor
Film Director
7-Jul-1899 23-Jan-1983 Gone With the Wind
Andrew Cunanan
Criminal
31-Aug-1969 23-Jul-1997 Murdered Gianni Versace
Michael Cunningham
Novelist
6-Nov-1952 The Hours
Leonardo Da Vinci
Artist
15-Apr-1452 2-May-1519 Mona Lisa, The Last Supper
Jeffrey Dahmer
Criminal
21-May-1960 28-Nov-1994 Homosexual serial killer cannibal
Drew Daniel
Electronic Musician
1971 Half of Matmos
Jaye Davidson
Actor
21-Mar-1968 The Crying Game
Christian Dior
Fashion Designer
21-Jan-1905 23-Oct-1957 The 1947 New Look
Dirk Dirksen
Business
1937 20-Nov-2006 Godfather of San Francisco punk
Divine
Actor
19-Oct-1945 7-Mar-1988 Poodle poop-eating drag queen
Tom Dooley
Activist
17-Jan-1927 18-Jan-1961 Deliver Us from Evil
Joel Dorius
Educator
4-Jan-1919 14-Feb-2006 Prof fired for gay porn arrest
Kyan Douglas
TV Personality
5-May-1970 Grooming Queer Eye guy
John E. du Pont
Criminal
c. 1938 Lunatic, murdered wrestler David Schultz
Robert Duncan
Poet
7-Jan-1919 3-Feb-1988 Bending the Bow
Fred Ebb
Musician
8-Apr-1935 11-Sep-2004 Top Broadway lyricist
Bret Easton Ellis
Novelist
7-Mar-1964 American Psycho
Perry Ellis
Fashion Designer
3-Mar-1940 30-May-1986 Founder, Perry Ellis International
Brian Epstein
Business
19-Sep-1934 27-Aug-1967 Manager of The Beatles
Rupert Everett
Actor
29-May-1959 My Best Friend's Wedding
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Film Director
31-May-1945 10-Jun-1982 The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
Harvey Fierstein
Actor
6-Jun-1952 Gravel-throated way gay Brooklyn native
Thom Filicia
TV Personality
17-May-1968 Interior Design Queer Eye guy
Siegfried Fischbacher
Magician
13-Jun-1939 Half of the Siegfried and Roy magic act
Mark Foley
Politician
8-Sep-1954 Congressman from Florida, 1995-2006
Tom Ford
Fashion Designer
27-Aug-1961 Extremely influential Gucci designer
E. M. Forster
Author
1-Jan-1879 7-Jun-1970 Howard's End
Pim Fortuyn
Government
19-Feb-1948 6-May-2002 Assassinated Dutch presidential candidate
Michel Foucault
Philosopher
15-Oct-1926 26-Jun-1984 History of Sexuality
Barney Frank
Politician
31-Mar-1940 Congressman, Massachusetts 4th
Stephen Fry
Actor
24-Aug-1957 Jeeves on Jeeves and Wooster
Jeff Gannon
Journalist
c. 1958 White House shill, $200/hour male escort
Robert Gant
Actor
13-Jul-1968 Ben on Queer as Folk
Luis Alfredo Garavito
Criminal
25-Jan-1957 Colombian serial killer, murdered 140+ boys
Federico García Lorca
Poet
5-Jun-1898 18-Aug-1936 Lament for a Bullfighter
Jean-Paul Gaultier
Fashion Designer
24-Apr-1952 Made Madonna's black studded bra
David Geffen
Business
21-Feb-1943 Music industry mogul
Jean Genet
Novelist
19-Dec-1910 15-Apr-1986 Theatre of the Absurd
Boy George
Singer/Songwriter
14-Jun-1961 Karma Chameleon
Stefan George
Poet
12-Jul-1868 4-Dec-1933 Algabal
John Gielgud
Actor
14-Apr-1904 21-May-2000 Prospero's Books
Allan D. Gilmour
Business
1934 Twice Vice Chairman of Ford
Allen Ginsberg
Poet
3-Jun-1926 5-Apr-1997 Howl!
John Glover
Actor
7-Aug-1944 Lionel Luthor on Smallville
Nikolai Gogol
Author
19-Mar-1809 21-Feb-1852 Dead Souls, The Overcoat
Jason Gould
Actor
29-Dec-1966 Son of Streisand and Elliott Gould
Farley Granger
Actor
1-Jul-1925 Strangers on a Train
Thomas Gray
Poet
26-Dec-1716 30-Jul-1771 An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard
Michael E. Guest
Diplomat
1957 US Ambassador to Romania, 2001-04
Steven Gunderson
Politician
10-May-1951 Congressman from Wisconsin, 1981-97
Thom Gunn
Poet
29-Aug-1929 25-Apr-2004 The Man with Night Sweats
Allan Gurganus
Novelist
11-Jun-1947 Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
Edmund Gwenn
Actor
26-Sep-1875 6-Sep-1959 Miracle on 34th Street
Brion Gysin
Artist
19-Jan-1916 13-Jul-1986 Inventor of the Dreamachine
William Haines
Actor
2-Jan-1900 26-Dec-1973 Show People
Rob Halford
Musician
25-Aug-1951 Lead singer of Judas Priest
David M. Halperin
Scholar
? One Hundred Years of Homosexuality
Keith Haring
Painter
4-May-1958 16-Feb-1990 Abstract graffiti and mural artist
Neil Patrick Harris
Actor
15-Jun-1973 Doogie Howser
Randy Harrison
Actor
2-Nov-1977 Justin on Queer as Folk
Lorenz Hart
Songwriter
2-May-1895 22-Nov-1943 Lyricist, Rodgers and Hart
L. P. Hartley
Novelist
30-Dec-1895 13-Dec-1972 The Boat
Richard Hatch
TV Personality
8-Apr-1961 Survivor
Nigel Hawthorne
Actor
5-Apr-1929 26-Dec-2001 The Madness of King George
Harry Hay
Activist
7-Apr-1912 24-Oct-2002 Gay activist, founder The Mattachine Society
Darren Hayes
Singer/Songwriter
8-May-1972 Savage Garden vocalist
Antony Hegarty
Singer
1971 Antony and the Johnsons
Henri III
Royalty
19-Sep-1551 2-Aug-1589 King of France, Poland
Edward Hibbert
Actor
9-Sep-1955 Gil Chesterton on Frasier
Perez Hilton
Columnist
23-Mar-1978 Gossip columnist
David Hockney
Painter
9-Jul-1937 Paintings of LA swimming pools
J. Edgar Hoover
Government
1-Jan-1895 2-May-1972 Corrupt FBI Director for 50 years
Roy Horn
Magician
3-Oct-1944 Half of the Siegfried and Roy magic act
Edward Everett Horton
Actor
18-Mar-1886 29-Sep-1970 Prolific 1930s comedic actor
A. E. Housman
Poet
26-Mar-1859 30-Apr-1936 A Shropshire Lad
Richard Howard
Poet
13-Oct-1929 Untitled Subjects
Frankie Howerd
Actor
6-Mar-1917 19-Apr-1992 Up Pompeii
Rock Hudson
Actor
17-Nov-1925 2-Oct-1985 Ice Station Zebra
Tab Hunter
Actor
11-Jul-1931 Damn Yankees
Robert Indiana
Artist
12-Sep-1928 Creator of the "LO/VE" sculpture
William Inge
Playwright
3-May-1913 10-Jun-1973 Come Back, Little Sheba
John Inman
Actor
28-Jun-1935 8-Mar-2007 Are You Being Served?
Christopher Isherwood
Author
26-Aug-1904 4-Jan-1986 The Berlin Stories
James Ivory
Film/TV Producer
7-Jun-1928 The Remains of the Day
Max Jacob
Poet
12-Jul-1876 5-Mar-1944 Le Cornet à dés
Derek Jacobi
Actor
22-Oct-1938 Claudius on I, Claudius
Marc Jacobs
Fashion Designer
9-Apr-1963 Fired in 1993 after releasing a "Grunge" line
Henry James
Author
15-Apr-1843 28-Feb-1916 Portrait of a Lady
Derek Jarman
Film Director
31-Jan-1942 19-Feb-1994 Director of The Last of England
Alfred Jarry
Playwright
8-Sep-1873 1-Nov-1907 Ubu roi
Michael Jeter
Actor
26-Aug-1952 30-Mar-2003 Evening Shade
Elton John
Singer/Songwriter
25-Mar-1947 Bennie and the Jets
Holly Johnson
Musician
9-Feb-1960 Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Philip Johnson
Architect
8-Jul-1906 25-Jan-2005 The Glass House
Leslie Jordan
Actor
29-Apr-1955 Lost in the Pershing Point Hotel
Chester Kallman
Poet
7-Jan-1921 18-Jan-1975 Librettist, translator
George Kelly
Playwright
16-Jan-1887 18-Jun-1974 Craig's Wife
Lindsay Kemp
Dancer
9-May-1938 Dance teacher for Bowie, Kate Bush
Udo Kier
Actor
14-Oct-1944 Creepy trick Hans in My Own Private Idaho
Tommy Kirk
Actor
10-Dec-1941 The Mickey Mouse Club
James Kirkwood
Novelist
22-Aug-1924 21-Apr-1989 A Chorus Line
Lincoln Kirstein
Author
4-May-1907 5-Jan-1996 Co-Founder, New York City Ballet
Randal Kleiser
Film Director
20-Jul-1946 Grease
T. R. Knight
Actor
26-Mar-1973 George O'Malley on Grey's Anatomy
Jim Kolbe
Politician
28-Jun-1942 Congressman from Arizona, 2003-07
Carson Kressley
TV Personality
11-Nov-1969 Fashion Queer Eye guy
Tony Kushner
Playwright
16-Jul-1956 Angels in America
Nathan Lane
Actor
3-Feb-1956 The Producers
Jack Larson
Actor
8-Feb-1928 The Adventures of Superman
Chi Chi La Rue
Film Director
8-Nov-1959 Transvestite hardcore director
Charles Laughton
Actor
1-Jul-1899 15-Dec-1962 Island of Lost Souls
Yves Saint Laurent
Fashion Designer
1-Aug-1936 Christian Dior protege
Arthur Laurents
Playwright
14-Jul-1918 West Side Story
Edward Lear
Poet
12-May-1812 29-Jan-1888 The Owl and the Pussycat
David Leavitt
Novelist
23-Jun-1961 The Lost Language of Cranes
John Lehmann
Poet
2-Jun-1907 7-Apr-1987 Thrown to the Woolfs
Liberace
Pianist
16-May-1919 4-Feb-1987 Concert pianist indulging in rhinestones
Limahl
Musician
19-Dec-1958 Lead singer for Kajagoogoo
Alain Locke
Author
13-Sep-1886 9-Jun-1954 Leader in the Harlem Renaissance
Bjørn Lomborg
Scholar
6-Jan-1965 The Skeptical Environmentalist
Greg Louganis
Swimmer/Diver
29-Jan-1960 Olympic diver won four gold medals
Arthur Lubin
Film Director
25-Jul-1898 12-May-1995 Phantom of the Opera
Matt Lucas
Actor
5-Mar-1974 Little Britain
Ludwig II
Royalty
25-Aug-1845 13-Jun-1886 Mad King Ludwig of Bavaria, 1864-86
Paul Lynde
Comic
13-Jun-1926 10-Jan-1982 Hollywood Square
George Maharis
Actor
1-Sep-1928 Buzz Murdock on Route 66
Jean Marais
Actor
11-Dec-1913 8-Nov-1998 Beauty and the Beast
Christopher Marlowe
Playwright
6-Feb-1564 30-May-1593 Doctor Faustus
Johnny Mathis
Singer
30-Sep-1935 He's as helpless as a kitten up a tree
F. O. Matthiessen
Critic
19-Feb-1902 1-Apr-1950 American Renaissance
Armistead Maupin
Author
13-May-1944 Tales of the City series
David Edward Maust
Criminal
5-Apr-1954 20-Jan-2006 Serial killer of boys
Robert McAlmon
Author
9-Mar-1896 2-Feb-1956 Village: As It Happened
Roddy McDowall
Actor
17-Sep-1928 3-Oct-1998 Planet of the Apes
James McGreevey
Politician
6-Aug-1957 Governor of New Jersey, 2002-04
Ian McKellen
Actor
25-May-1939 Gandalf the Grey
Terrence McNally
Playwright
3-Nov-1939 Frankie and Johnny
Joe Meek
Music Producer
5-Apr-1929 3-Feb-1967 Innovative record producer
Gian-Carlo Menotti
Composer
7-Jul-1911 1-Feb-2007 The Saint of Bleecker Street
Ismail Merchant
Film/TV Producer
25-Dec-1936 25-May-2005 Co-founder of Merchant Ivory Productions
William Meredith
Poet
9-Jan-1919 Partial Accounts
James Merrill
Poet
3-Mar-1926 6-Feb-1995 Nights and Days
Stephin Merritt
Singer/Songwriter
1966 The Magnetic Fields, The 6ths
George Michael
Singer/Songwriter
25-Jun-1963 Celebrity masturbator
Michelangelo
Sculptor
6-Mar-1475 18-Feb-1564 Renaissance sculptor and painter
Harvey Milk
Politician
22-May-1930 27-Nov-1978 Openly gay SF city supervisor assassinated
John Cameron Mitchell
Actor
21-Apr-1963 Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Isaac Mizrahi
Fashion Designer
14-Oct-1961 Unzipped
Karl Philipp Moritz
Novelist
15-Sep-1757 26-Jul-1793 Anton Reiser
F. W. Murnau
Film Director
28-Dec-1888 11-Mar-1931 Nosferatu, Sunrise
Michael Musto
Columnist
1955 Village Voice gossip columnist
George Nader
Actor
19-Oct-1921 4-Feb-2002 Robot Monster
Klaus Nomi
Musician
24-Jan-1944 6-Aug-1983 New Wave counter-tenor from Mars
Graham Norton
Talk Show Host
4-Apr-1963 Host of The Graham Norton Effect
Ramon Novarro
Actor
6-Feb-1899 30-Oct-1968 Ben-Hur
Richard Nugent
Author
2-Jul-1906 27-May-1987 Harlem Renaissance writer
Rudolf Nureyev
Dancer
17-Mar-1938 6-Jan-1993 Defected to France from Kirov Ballet
Frank O'Hara
Poet
27-Jun-1926 25-Jul-1966 Meditations in an Emergency
Peter Orlovsky
Poet
8-Jul-1933 Beat poet lover of Allen Ginsberg
Joe Orton
Playwright
1-Jan-1933 9-Aug-1967 Prick Up Your Ears
Wilfred Owen
Poet
18-Mar-1893 4-Nov-1918 Dulce Et Decorum Est
Peter Paige
Actor
10-Apr-1968 Emmett on Queer as Folk
Chuck Palahniuk
Author
21-Feb-1962 Fight Club
Kenneth Parnell
Criminal
26-Sep-1932 Kidnapped Steven Stayner
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Film Director
5-Mar-1922 2-Nov-1975 Salo: The 120 Days of Sodom
Walter Pater
Critic
4-Aug-1839 30-Jul-1894 Marius the Epicurean
Phanocles
Poet
fl. 4th c. BC fl. 4th c. BC Greek elegiac poet
Danny Pintauro
Actor
6-Jan-1976 Jonathan Bower on Who's the Boss?
Cole Porter
Composer
9-Jun-1891 15-Oct-1964 Very gay songwriter
Francis Poulenc
Composer
7-Jan-1899 30-Jan-1963 Les dialogues des Carmélites
Marcel Proust
Author
10-Jul-1871 18-Nov-1922 In Search of Lost Time
Manuel Puig
Novelist
28-Dec-1932 22-Jul-1990 Kiss of the Spider Woman
James Purdy
Author
17-Jul-1923 Eustance Chisholm and the Works
Raymond Radiguet
Novelist
18-Jun-1903 12-Dec-1923 Le Diable au Corps
Gilles de Rais
Royalty
10-Nov-1404 26-Oct-1440 Liked to masturbate onto dying children
David Rakoff
Author
27-Nov-1964 Don't Get Too Comfortable
Anthony Rapp
Actor
26-Oct-1971 Broadway cast of Rent
Terence Rattigan
Playwright
10-Jun-1911 30-Nov-1977 Separate Tables
John Rechy
Author
10-Mar-1934 City of Night
Robert Reed
Actor
19-Oct-1932 12-May-1992 Mike (dad) on The Brady Bunch
Charles Nelson Reilly
Actor
13-Jan-1931 Very, very gay actor
Cecil Rhodes
Business
5-Jul-1853 26-Mar-1902 De Beers
Arthur Rimbaud
Poet
20-Oct-1854 10-Nov-1891 Une Saison en Enfer
Jerome Robbins
Film Director
11-Oct-1918 29-Jul-1998 West Side Story
Mark A. Robbins
Government
c. 1964 Office of Personnel Management
Gene Robinson
Religion
29-May-1947 Openly gay Episcopalian bishop
Jai Rodriguez
TV Personality
22-Jun-1979 Culture Queer Eye guy
Richard Rodriguez
Essayist
31-Jul-1944 Hunger of Memory
Ernst Roehm
Government
28-Nov-1887 1-Jul-1934 Organizer of Hitler's Brownshirts, the SA
Anthony Romero
Activist
? ACLU Executive Director
Cesar Romero
Actor
15-Feb-1907 1-Jan-1994 The Joker on Batman
Ned Rorem
Composer
23-Oct-1923 Paris Diary
Sinclair Ross
Novelist
22-Jan-1908 29-Feb-1996 As For Me and My House
Michael Rumaker
Author
5-Mar-1932 Beat author, The Butterfly
RuPaul
TV Personality
17-Nov-1960 Sugar and spice and duct tape
Bayard Rustin
Activist
17-Mar-1910 24-Aug-1987 Organized the 1963 March on Washington
Sai Baba
Paranormal fraud
23-Nov-1926 Sex-crazed avatar
Victor Salva
Film Director
29-Mar-1958 Powder, Jeepers Creepers
George Santayana
Philosopher
16-Dec-1863 26-Sep-1952 The Realms of Being
Severo Sarduy
Author
25-Feb-1937 8-Jun-1993 De donde son los Cantantes
Dick Sargent
Actor
19-Apr-1930 8-Jul-1994 Darrin #2 on Bewitched
Dan Savage
Columnist
7-Oct-1964 Weekly way-gay sex columnist
John Schlesinger
Film Director
16-Feb-1926 25-Jul-2003 Marathon Man
Peter Schlesinger
Photographer
1948 Photographer and painter
Martin Schmidt
Electronic Musician
? Half of Matmos
Fred Schneider
Singer
1-Jul-1951 Lead singer, The B-52's
Joel Schumacher
Film Director
29-Aug-1939 The Lost Boys
James Schuyler
Poet
9-Nov-1923 12-Apr-1991 Freely Espousing
David Sedaris
Author
26-Dec-1956 Contributor to This American Life
Paul Shanley
Religion
25-Jan-1931 Molesting priest
Matthew Shepard
Victim
1-Dec-1976 12-Oct-1998 Gay hate crime victim
Brian Sibley
Author
14-Jul-1949 Penned dramatizations for LOTR
Bryan Singer
Film Director
17-Sep-1965 X-Men
Stephen Sondheim
Composer
22-Mar-1930 Composer of musicals
Dan Stamper
Activist
27-Feb-1969 Editor of Viscera! vampire webzine
Lytton Strachey
Author
1-Mar-1880 21-Jan-1932 Eminent Victorians
Billy Strayhorn
Composer
29-Nov-1915 31-May-1967 Take the A Train
Gerry Studds
Politician
12-May-1937 14-Oct-2006 Congressman, Massachusetts 10th
Sulla
Military
138 BC 78 BC Roman General, dictator
Andrew Sullivan
Journalist
10-Aug-1963 Conservative gay barebacker
George Takei
Actor
20-Apr-1937 Sulu on original Star Trek
Cecil Taylor
Jazz Musician
15-Mar-1929 Avant-garde jazz pianist
Rip Taylor
Comic
13-Jan-1934 Walking confetti fountain
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Composer
7-May-1840 6-Nov-1893 Russia's best known composer
Neil Tennant
Musician
10-Jul-1954 Vocalist for Pet Shop Boys
Scott Thompson
Actor
12-Jun-1959 The Kids in the Hall
Virgil Thomson
Composer
25-Nov-1896 30-Sep-1989 Four Saints in Three Acts
Scott Thorson
Relative
c. 1958 Liberace's young male lover
Wolfgang Tillmans
Photographer
16-Aug-1968 If One Thing Matters, Everything Matters
Bobby Trendy
TV Personality
c. 1979 Anna Nicole's tacky designer
Alan Turing
Mathematician
23-Jun-1912 7-Jun-1954 Computing pioneer
Gus Van Sant
Film Director
24-Jul-1952 My Own Private Idaho
Carl Van Vechten
Novelist
17-Jun-1880 21-Dec-1964 Patron of the Harlem Renaissance
Gianni Versace
Fashion Designer
2-Dec-1946 16-Jul-1997 Fashion designer murdered by Andrew Cunanan
Gore Vidal
Author
3-Oct-1925 Visit to a Small Planet
Bruce Vilanch
Author
23-Nov-1948 The fat guy who writes everyone's jokes
Luchino Visconti
Film Director
2-Nov-1906 17-Mar-1976 La Terra Trema
Rufus Wainwright
Musician
22-Jul-1973 Gay Messiah
Andy Warhol
Artist
6-Aug-1928 22-Feb-1987 Outrageously successful pop artist
Michael Warner
Scholar
? Fear of a Queer Planet
Gedde Watanabe
Actor
26-Jun-1955 Long Duk Dong in Sixteen Candles
Matthew Waterhouse
Actor
19-Dec-1961 Adric from Doctor Who
John Waters
Film Director
22-Apr-1946 Pencil-moustached director
Ian Watkins
Singer
8-May-1976 H from STEPS
Glenway Wescott
Novelist
11-Apr-1901 22-Feb-1987 The Pilgrim Hawk
James E. West
Politician
28-Mar-1951 22-Jul-2006 Former Mayor of Spokane
Edvard Westermarck
Anthropologist
20-Nov-1862 3-Sep-1939 The Origin & Development of Moral Ideas
James Whale
Film Director
22-Jul-1889 29-May-1957 Frankenstein
Edmund White
Author
13-Jan-1940 The Joy of Gay Sex
Patrick White
Novelist
28-May-1912 30-Sep-1990 Riders in the Chariot
T. H. White
Author
29-May-1906 17-Jan-1964 The Once and Future King
Walt Whitman
Poet
31-May-1819 26-Mar-1892 Leaves of Grass
Thornton Wilder
Novelist
17-Apr-1897 7-Dec-1975 The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Kenneth Williams
Actor
22-Feb-1926 15-Apr-1988 Carry on...
Tennessee Williams
Playwright
26-Mar-1911 25-Feb-1983 The Glass Menagerie
Kevin Williamson
Screenwriter
14-Mar-1965 Scream
Angus Wilson
Novelist
11-Aug-1913 31-May-1991 Hemlock and After
Lanford Wilson
Playwright
13-Apr-1937 The Hot L Baltimore
Johann Winckelmann
Archaeologist
9-Dec-1717 8-Jun-1768 Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums
Paul Winfield
Actor
22-May-1941 7-Mar-2004 ****** Jim in the 1974 Huckleberry Finn
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosopher
26-Apr-1889 29-Apr-1951 Destroyed metaphysics
B. D. Wong
Actor
24-Oct-1960 Oz, Law & Order: SVU
Monty Woolley
Actor
17-Aug-1888 6-May-1963 The Man Who Came to Dinner
Cornell Woolrich
Novelist
4-Dec-1903 25-Sep-1968 The Bride Wore Black
Huang Yong
Criminal
c. 1974 26-Dec-2003 Prolific Chinese serial killer
Will Young
Singer
20-Jan-1979 UK Pop Idol winner
Franco Zeffirelli
Film Director
12-Feb-1923 Many a Shakespeare movie
COULD BE MORE THAT JUST THE ONES THAT FOR SURE OUR GAY, HERE'S THE BI-SEXUALS..........
Kathy Acker
Author
18-Apr-1947 30-Nov-1997 Blood and Guts in High School
Adrian
Fashion Designer
3-Mar-1903 13-Sep-1959 Head of wardrobe for Cecil B. DeMille
Alexander the Great
Royalty
Jul-356 BC 10-Jun-323 BC World conqueror
Joseph Alsop
Journalist
11-Oct-1910 28-Aug-1989 Matter of Fact
Hans Christian Andersen
Author
2-Apr-1805 4-Aug-1875 Danish master of the fairy tale
Louis Aragon
Poet
3-Oct-1897 24-Dec-1982 Communistic French poet
Giorgio Armani
Fashion Designer
11-Jul-1934 Perfected the '80s power suit
Billie Joe Armstrong
Musician
17-Feb-1972 Frontman for Green Day
Juli Ashton
Pornstar
5-Oct-1969 Butt Detective
Richard Avedon
Photographer
13-May-1923 1-Oct-2004 Photographer of the human predicament
Melanie B
Musician
29-May-1975 Scary Spice
Robert Baden-Powell
Military
22-Feb-1857 8-Jan-1941 Founder of the Boy Scout movement
Joan Baez
Singer/Songwriter
9-Jan-1941 Protesty folk singer
Josephine Baker
Dancer
3-Jun-1906 12-Apr-1975 Sensual dancer turned WWII spy
Jim Bakker
Religion
2-Jan-1939 Adulterous and bisexual TV evangelist
Bonny Lee Bakley
Victim
7-Jun-1956 4-May-2001 Baretta's wife, got whacked
Tallulah Bankhead
Actor
31-Jan-1902 12-Dec-1968 Lifeboat
Brianna Banks
Pornstar
21-May-1978 Little White Chicks Big Black Monster ***** #6
Nathaniel Bar-Jonah
Criminal
15-Feb-1957 Cannibal child killer, serving 130 years
Shane Barbi
Model
2-Apr-1963 One of the Barbi twins
Sia Barbi
Model
2-Apr-1963 One of the Barbi twins
Drew Barrymore
Actor
22-Feb-1975 Flashed David Letterman for his birthday
Elizabeth Báthory
Royalty
Aug-1560 21-Aug-1614 Hungary's infamous Bloody Lady
Simone de Beauvoir
Activist
9-Jan-1908 14-Apr-1986 The Second Sex
William Thomas Beckford
Author
1-Oct-1760 2-May-1844 History of the Caliph Vatheck
Ruth Benedict
Anthropologist
5-Jun-1887 17-Sep-1948 Anthropologist, Patterns of Culture
Eric Bentley
Critic
14-Sep-1916 The Life of the Drama
Helmut Berger
Actor
29-May-1944 Ludwig
Sandra Bernhard
Comic
6-Jun-1955 Fat-lipped pal of Madonna
Leonard Bernstein
Conductor
25-Aug-1918 14-Oct-1990 Conductor, New York Philharmonic
Marc Blitzstein
Composer
2-Mar-1905 22-Jan-1964 The Cradle Will Rock
Marc Bolan
Musician
30-Sep-1947 16-Sep-1977 Frontman of band T-Rex
David Bowie
Musician
8-Jan-1947 Ziggy Stardust
Marlon Brando
Actor
03-Apr-1924 1-Jul-2004 Very big actor
Susie Bright
Columnist
25-Mar-1958 Sexpert, porn critic
Harold Brodkey
Novelist
25-Oct-1930 26-Jan-1996 Stories in an Almost Classical Mode
Brigid Brophy
Author
12-Jun-1929 7-Aug-1995 Black Ship to Hell
Julie Burchill
Journalist
3-Jul-1959 Co-founder of Modern Review
Pete Burns
Singer/Songwriter
5-Aug-1959 Dead or Alive
William S. Burroughs
Author
5-Feb-1914 2-Aug-1997 Naked Lunch
Saffron Burrows
Actor
22-Oct-1972 Deep Blue Sea
Richard Burton
Actor
10-Nov-1925 5-Aug-1984 Nineteen Eighty Four
Spring Byington
Actor
17-Oct-1886 7-Sep-1971 You Can't Take it With You
Lord Byron
Poet
22-Jan-1788 19-Apr-1824 English romantic poet
Crazy Cabbie
Radio Personality
10-Dec-1968 Part of the Howard Stern menagerie
Julius Caesar
Head of State
13-Jul-100 BC 15-Mar-44 BC Roman Dictator 45 BC until 44 BC
Pat Califia
Author
8-Mar-1954 FTM transgendered sex writer
Mary Carey
Pornstar
15-Jun-1980 Porn star, ran for California Governor
Nell Carter
Actor
13-Sep-1948 23-Jan-2003 Housekeeper on Gimme A Break
Lisa Carver
Author
c. 1968 Rollerderby, Suckdog
Neal Cassady
Author
8-Feb-1926 4-Feb-1968 The Holy Goof
Catullus
Poet
c. 84 BC c. 54 BC Ancient Roman poet
Marilyn Chambers
Pornstar
22-Apr-1952 Behind the Green Door
Bruce Chatwin
Author
13-May-1940 18-Jan-1989 In Patagonia
John Cheever
Author
27-May-1912 18-Jun-1982 The Enormous Radio
Cher
Singer
20-May-1946 Plastic surgery diva
Margaret Cho
Comic
5-Dec-1968 Loud-mouthed standup comic
Annabel Chong
Pornstar
22-May-1972 Held the world gangbang record (251 humps)
Christina of Sweden
Royalty
8-Dec-1626 16-Apr-1689 Crossdressing Queen of Sweden 1632-54
Kurt Cobain
Musician
20-Feb-1967 5-Apr-1994 Lead singer of Nirvana
Jean Cocteau
Poet
5-Jul-1889 11-Oct-1963 La Belle et la Bête
Colette
Novelist
28-Jan-1873 3-Aug-1954 Gigi
Juan Corona
Criminal
1934 Serial killer serving 25 life sentences
Henry Cowell
Composer
11-Mar-1897 10-Dec-1965 New Musical Resources
Joan Crawford
Actor
23-Mar-1905 10-May-1977 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Aleister Crowley
Religion
12-Oct-1875 1-Dec-1947 Wickedest man in the world
Countee Cullen
Poet
30-May-1903 9-Jan-1946 Harlem Renaissance poet
Alan Cumming
Actor
27-Jan-1965 Nightcrawler in X-Men
Adrianne Curry
Model
6-Aug-1982 America's Next Top Model
H. D.
Poet
10-Sep-1886 27-Sep-1961 Imagist poet, Sea Garden
Salvador Dali
Painter
11-May-1904 23-Jan-1989 Surrealist painter
Joe Dallesandro
Actor
31-Dec-1948 Took a walk on the wild side
Lili Damita
Actor
19-Jul-1901 21-Mar-1994 The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Dame Darcy
Cartoonist
11-Jun-1971 Meat Cake, Suckdog
Ram Dass
Religion
5-Apr-1931 Be Here Now
Dave Davies
Musician
3-Feb-1947 The Kinks
Libby Davies
Politician
27-Feb-1953 Canadian NDP House Leader
Brad Davis
Actor
6-Nov-1949 8-Sep-1991 Midnight Express
Marquis de Sade
Author
2-Jun-1740 2-Dec-1814 120 Days of Sodom
James Dean
Actor
8-Feb-1931 30-Sep-1955 Lived fast, died young
Albert Dekker
Actor
20-Dec-1905 5-May-1968 The Wild Bunch
Samuel R. Delany
Author
1-Apr-1942 Triton
Alain Delon
Actor
8-Nov-1935 Le Samouraï
Sandy Dennis
Actor
27-Apr-1937 2-Mar-1992 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Jewel De'Nyle
Pornstar
5-Aug-1977 Bend Over and Say Ahh 3
Andy Dick
Comic
21-Dec-1965 Matthew from NewsRadio
Janice Dickinson
Model
15-Feb-1955 1970s supermodel
Marlene Dietrich
Actor
27-Dec-1901 6-May-1992 The Blue Angel
Ani DiFranco
Musician
23-Sep-1970 Bisexual folk/punk icon
Barry Diller
Business
2-Feb-1942 CEO of USA Interactive Corp.
Betty Dodson
Author
24-Aug-1929 Sex for One
Pete Doherty
Musician
12-Mar-1979 Ex-frontman for The Libertines
Ducky DooLittle
Author
3-Jun-1970 Crackpot sexologist
Daphne Du Maurier
Author
13-May-1907 19-May-1989 Rebecca
Isadora Duncan
Dancer
27-May-1877 14-Sep-1927 Mother of modern dance
Marc Dutroux
Criminal
6-Nov-1956 Child murderer
Clea DuVall
Actor
25-Sep-1977 Carnivale
King Edward II
Royalty
25-Apr-1284 11-Oct-1327 King of England 1307-27
Sergei Eisenstein
Film Director
23-Jan-1898 11-Feb-1948 Alexander Nevsky
Elagabalus
Royalty
204 AD 222 AD Roman Emperor, 218-222 AD
Edward Elgar
Composer
2-Jun-1857 23-Feb-1934 Pomp and Circumstance
Linda Ellerbee
Journalist
15-Aug-1944 "And so it goes."
Eve Ensler
Playwright
25-May-1953 The Vagina Monologues
Dan Farmer
Computer Programmer
? Cowrote SATAN security auditing tool
Perry Farrell
Musician
29-Mar-1959 Gangly lead singer of Jane's Addiction
Brenda Fassie
Singer
1964 9-May-2004 South African pop diva
Frances Faye
Singer
4-Nov-1912 8-Nov-1991 Out, Lesbian nightclub singer
Jeanna Fine
Pornstar
29-Sep-1964 Sleeping Booty
Leonor Fini
Painter
30-Aug-1908 18-Jan-1996 Surrealist painter, sex kitten
Althea Flynt
Relative
6-Nov-1953 27-Jun-1987 Larry Flynt's dead wife
Malcolm Forbes
Business
19-Aug-1919 24-Feb-1990 Forbes magazine publisher, Faberge collector
John Ford
Film Director
1-Feb-1894 31-Aug-1973 How Green Was My Valley
Kay Francis
Actor
13-Jan-1905 26-Aug-1968 Trouble in Paradise
Dawn Fraser
Swimmer/Diver
4-Sep-1937 Olympic gold medal swimmer
Nelly Furtado
Musician
2-Dec-1978 Whoa, Nelly!
John Wayne Gacy
Criminal
17-Mar-1942 10-May-1994 Twenty-eight boys in his crawlspace
Greta Garbo
Actor
18-Sep-1905 15-Apr-1990 Vanted to be alone
David Garnett
Novelist
9-Mar-1892 17-Feb-1981 Lady into Fox
Will Geer
Actor
9-Mar-1902 22-Apr-1978 Zebulon Walton in The Waltons
Ashlyn Gere
Pornstar
14-Sep-1967 Get It In Gere, Club Head
André Gide
Author
22-Nov-1869 19-Feb-1951 Le Voyage d'Urien
Eric Gill
Typographer
22-Feb-1882 17-Nov-1940 Typographer, Gill Sans
Thea Gill
Actor
? Lindsay on Queer as Folk
Jake Goldenflame
Author
? Overcoming Sexual Terrorism
Paul Goodman
Anarchist
9-Sep-1911 2-Aug-1972 Growing Up Absurd
Edmund Goulding
Film Director
20-Mar-1891 24-Dec-1959 Grand Hotel
Cary Grant
Actor
18-Jan-1904 29-Nov-1986 Father Goose
Edvard Grieg
Composer
15-Jun-1843 4-Sep-1907 Norway's greatest composer
Merv Griffin
Talk Show Host
6-Jul-1925 The Merv Griffin Show
Alec Guinness
Actor
2-Apr-1914 5-Aug-2000 Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars
Gustav V
Royalty
16-Jun-1858 29-Oct-1950 King of Sweden, 1907-50
Marilyn Hacker
Poet
27-Nov-1942 Presentation Piece
Hadrian
Royalty
24-Jan-76 AD 10-Jul-138 AD Roman Emperor, 117-138 AD
Linda Hamilton
Actor
26-Sep-1956 Terminator
Sarah Jane Hamilton
Pornstar
15-Apr-1971 I *** From A Land Down Under
Kathleen Hanna
Musician
12-Nov-1969 Riot Grrrl extraordinaire
Lorraine Hansberry
Playwright
19-May-1930 12-Jan-1965 A Raisin in the Sun
Joseph Hansen
Author
19-Jul-1923 24-Nov-2004 Dave Brandstetter detective series
Debbie Harry
Musician
1-Jul-1945 Singer for Blondie
Veronica Hart
Pornstar
27-Oct-1956 Latex, Wanda Whips Wall Street
Nina Hartley
Pornstar
11-Mar-1959 Little Bill's slutty wife in Boogie Nights
Domino Harvey
Relative
7-Aug-1969 27-Jun-2005 Laurence Harvey's daughter
Jenna Haze
Pornstar
22-Feb-1982 *** Dumpsters
Anne Heche
Actor
25-May-1969 Ex-lover of Ellen DeGeneres
Nona Hendryx
Musician
18-Aug-1945 Soul vocalist, Labelle songwriter
Elmer Wayne Henley
Criminal
9-May-1956 Kidnapped, tortured, murdered 27 boys
Josephine Herbst
Novelist
5-Mar-1892 28-Jan-1969 Pity Is Not Enough
Patricia Highsmith
Novelist
19-Jan-1921 4-Feb-1995 Strangers on a Train
Paris Hilton
Socialite
17-Feb-1981 Unexpected porno actress
Billie Holiday
Singer
7-Apr-1915 17-Jul-1959 Singer with a haunting voice
Xaviera Hollander
Author
15-Jun-1943 The Happy Hooker
Laurel Holloman
Actor
23-May-1971 Tina Kennard on The L Word
John Holmes
Pornstar
8-Aug-1944 13-Mar-1988 Life-support system for a 10-inch penis
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Judge
8-Mar-1841 6-Mar-1935 U.S. Supreme Court Justice 1902-32
Karla Homolka
Criminal
4-May-1970 Husband/wife serial killer team
James C. Hormel
Diplomat
1-Jan-1933 US Ambassador to Luxembourg, 1999-2001
Michael Huffington
Government
3-Sep-1947 Congressman from California, 1993-95
Heather Hunter
Pornstar
1-Oct-1969 Too Big For His Bitches
Trina Schart Hyman
Artist
8-Apr-1939 19-Nov-2004 Children's book illustrator
Janis Ian
Musician
7-Apr-1951 Society's Child
Patricia Ireland
Activist
19-Oct-1945 NOW president, 1991-2001
Mick Jagger
Singer/Songwriter
26-Jul-1943 Lead singer of the Rolling Stones
Jenna Jameson
Pornstar
9-Apr-1974 Got naked with Howard Stern in Private Parts
Emil Jannings
Actor
23-Jul-1884 3-Jan-1950 The Last Command
Van Johnson
Actor
25-Aug-1916 The Caine Mutiny
Angelina Jolie
Actor
4-Jun-1975 Tomb Raider
Grace Jones
Singer/Songwriter
19-May-1952 Slave to the Rhythm
Jim Jones
Religion
13-May-1931 18-Nov-1978 Led mass People's Temple suicide
Janis Joplin
Singer
19-Jan-1943 4-Oct-1970 Ball and Chain (Piece of My Heart)
June Jordan
Poet
9-Jul-1936 14-Jun-2002 Who Look At Me
Frida Kahlo
Painter
6-Jul-1907 13-Jul-1954 Unibrowed Mexican painter
Lloyd Kaufman
Film Director
30-Dec-1945 The Toxic Avenger
Danny Kaye
Actor
18-Jan-1913 3-Mar-1987 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Jill Kelly
Pornstar
1-Feb-1971 Assoholic, Breast Strokes, Dickochet
Jack Kerouac
Novelist
12-Mar-1922 21-Oct-1969 On The Road
John Maynard Keynes
Economist
5-Jun-1883 21-Apr-1946 Economist advocated deficit necessity
Billie Jean King
Tennis
22-Nov-1943 Defeated Bobby Riggs in '73 Battle of the Sexes
Dave Kopay
Football
28-Jun-1942 The Dave Kopay Story
Nancy Kulp
Actor
28-Aug-1921 3-Feb-1991 Miss Jane Hathaway on Beverly Hillbillies
Chasey Lain
Pornstar
7-Dec-1971 ***, Food, Lodging
Hedy Lamarr
Actor
9-Nov-1913 19-Jan-2000 Actress, invented frequency hopping
Adrian Lamo
Criminal
Feb-1981 Homeless hacker
D. H. Lawrence
Novelist
11-Sep-1885 2-Mar-1930 Lady Chatterley's Lover
Gertrude Lawrence
Actor
4-Jul-1898 6-Sep-1952 British and Broadway theatre star
Gypsy Rose Lee
Dancer
9-Feb-1911 26-Apr-1970 Terpsichorean ecdysiast
Miko Lee
Pornstar
30-Mar-1977 Asses Galore 16
Lung Leg
Actor
? That girl on the cover of EVOL
Bai Ling
Actor
10-Oct-1970 Anna and the King
Lucy Liu
Actor
2-Dec-1968 Ling on Ally McBeal
Kristanna Loken
Actor
8-Oct-1979 Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Rebecca Loos
TV Personality
19-Jun-1977 Snogged David Beckham
Traci Lords
Pornstar
7-May-1968 We Love You, Traci
Louis XIII
Royalty
27-Sep-1601 14-May-1643 King of France, 1610-43
Henry Lee Lucas
Criminal
23-Aug-1936 12-Mar-2001 Serial killer, served a life sentence in Texas
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Composer
28-Nov-1632 22-Mar-1687 Founder of French opera
Amber Lynn
Pornstar
3-Sep-1963 Lifestyles of the Blonde and Dirty
Madonna
Singer/Songwriter
16-Aug-1958 Truth or Dare
Marjorie Main
Actor
24-Feb-1890 10-Apr-1975 Ma and Pa Kettle
Camryn Manheim
Actor
8-Mar-1961 Wake Up I'm Fat
Thomas Mann
Novelist
6-Jun-1875 12-Aug-1955 Buddenbrooks
Ethel Mannin
Novelist
6-Oct-1900 1984 Confessions
Katherine Mansfield
Author
14-Oct-1888 9-Jan-1923 Bliss
Charles Manson
Criminal
12-Nov-1934 Helter Skelter
Robert Mapplethorpe
Photographer
4-Nov-1946 9-Mar-1989 Erotic photographer
Drea de Matteo
Actor
19-Jan-1972 Adriana on The Sopranos
W. Somerset Maugham
Novelist
25-Jan-1874 16-Dec-1965 Of Human Bondage
Norma McCorvey
Activist
22-Sep-1947 Jane Roe, of Roe v. Wade
Carson McCullers
Author
19-Feb-1917 29-Sep-1967 The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Margaret Mead
Anthropologist
16-Dec-1901 15-Nov-1978 Coming of Age in Samoa
Armin Meiwes
Criminal
1961 German cannibal
Herman Melville
Author
1-Aug-1819 28-Sep-1891 Moby Dick
Freddie Mercury
Singer/Songwriter
5-Sep-1946 24-Nov-1991 Lead singer, Queen
Ethel Merman
Singer
16-Jan-1908 15-Feb-1984 Jumbo-sized singer and actress
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Poet
22-Feb-1892 19-Oct-1950 Renascence
Kate Millett
Activist
14-Sep-1934 Sexual Politics
Sal Mineo
Actor
10-Jan-1939 12-Feb-1976 Dies in Rebel Without A Cause
Vincente Minnelli
Film Director
28-Feb-1903 25-Jul-1986 The Courtship of Eddie's Father
Carmen Miranda
Dancer
9-Feb-1909 5-Aug-1955 The lady in the tutti-frutti hat
Yukio Mishima
Author
14-Jan-1925 25-Nov-1970 The Sea of Fertility
Gabriela Mistral
Poet
7-Apr-1889 10-Jan-1957 Desolación
Sharon Mitchell
Pornstar
18-Jan-1952 Starship Intercourse
Brian Molko
Musician
10-Dec-1972 Frontman of Placebo
Alanis Morissette
Singer
1-Jun-1974 Jagged Little Pill
Jason Mraz
Musician
23-Jun-1977 Curbside Prophet
Megan Mullally
Actor
12-Nov-1958 Karen Walker on Will & Grace
Misty Mundae
Actor
16-Oct-1979 Spiderbabe
Eddie Murphy
Comic
3-Apr-1961 Beverly Hills Cop
Kathy Najimy
Actor
6-Feb-1957 Voice of Peggy on King of the Hill
Dave Navarro
Guitarist
7-Jun-1967 Guitarist for Jane's Addiction
Me'Shell NdegéOcello
Singer
29-Aug-1969 Eclectic R&B singer and bassist
Franco Nero
Actor
23-Nov-1941 Dragged coffin in Django
Charles Ng
Criminal
24-Dec-1960 On death row in California
Anaïs Nin
Author
21-Feb-1903 14-Jan-1977 Diary of Anaïs Nin
Cynthia Nixon
Actor
9-Apr-1966 Miranda (the redhead) on Sex and the City
Peter North
Pornstar
11-May-1957 Johnny Come Greatly
Laura Nyro
Songwriter
18-Oct-1947 8-Apr-1997 New York songwriter
Richard O'Brien
Actor
25-Mar-1942 The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Sinead O'Connor
Musician
8-Dec-1966 Pop star ripped up Pope picture
Paul O'Grady
Comic
14-Jun-1955 British drag queen
Georgia O'Keeffe
Painter
15-Nov-1887 6-Mar-1986 American abstract and landscape painter
Titus Oates
Criminal
15-Sep-1649 12-Jul-1705 Popish Plot
Conor Oberst
Singer/Songwriter
15-Feb-1980 Emo cloud responsible for Bright Eyes
Laurence Olivier
Actor
22-May-1907 11-Jul-1989 Nazi dentist in The Marathon Man
Clifford Olson
Criminal
1-Jan-1940 Killed 11 youths in British Columbia
William of Orange
Royalty
14-Nov-1650 8-Mar-1702 Conquered England, Scotland, Ireland
Camille Paglia
Author
2-Apr-1947 Self-described feminist
Estelle Parsons
Actor
20-Nov-1927 Character and TV actress
Tera Patrick
Pornstar
25-Jul-1976 Nuttin' Hunnies
Barbara Payton
Actor
16-Nov-1927 8-May-1967 Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
Anthony Perkins
Actor
4-Apr-1932 12-Sep-1992 Psycho
Michael Peterson
Author
23-Oct-1943 The Staircase
Katharine Philips
Poet
1-Jan-1631 22-Jun-1664 Letters of Orinda to Poliarchus
Pink
Singer/Songwriter
8-Sep-1979 Can't Take Me Home
Dana Plato
Actor
7-Nov-1964 9-May-1999 Kimberly on Diff'rent Strokes
Michael Portillo
Politician
26-May-1953 Conservative British pol
Tyrone Power
Actor
5-May-1913 15-Nov-1958 Witness for the Prosecution
Moana Pozzi
Pornstar
27-Apr-1961 15-Sep-1994 Backdoor Summer 2
Lisa Marie Presley
Relative
1-Feb-1968 Daughter of Elvis Presley
Ma Rainey
Singer
26-Apr-1886 22-Dec-1939 The mother of the blues
Dack Rambo
Actor
13-Nov-1941 21-Mar-1994 Jack Ewing on Dallas
Suze Randall
Photographer
? Fetish/porn photographer
James Earl Ray
Assassin
10-Mar-1928 23-Apr-1998 Killed Martin Luther King
Johnnie Ray
Musician
10-Jan-1927 24-Feb-1990 Cry/The Little White Cloud That Cried
Nicholas Ray
Film Director
7-Aug-1911 16-Jun-1979 Rebel Without a Cause
Gene Raymond
Actor
13-Aug-1908 2-May-1998 Red Dust
Michael Redgrave
Actor
20-Mar-1908 21-Mar-1985 Mourning Becomes Electra
Lou Reed
Musician
2-Mar-1942 Velvet Underground frontman
Paul Reubens
Actor
27-Aug-1952 Pee-wee Herman
Adrienne Rich
Poet
16-May-1929 An Atlas of the Difficult World
King Richard the Lionheart
Head of State
8-Sep-1157 6-Apr-1199 King of England, 1189-99
Little Richard
Musician
5-Dec-1932 Tutti Frutti
Tony Richardson
Film Director
5-Jun-1928 14-Nov-1991 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Rainer Maria Rilke
Poet
04-Dec-1875 29-Dec-1926 Duino Elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus
Vanessa del Rio
Pornstar
31-Mar-1952 Deep Inside Vanessa del Rio
Michelle Rodriguez
Actor
12-Jul-1978 Girlfight, Resident Evil
Dayton Leroy Rogers
Criminal
30-Sep-1953 Serial killer, on death row in Oregon
Eleanor Roosevelt
First Lady
11-Oct-1884 7-Nov-1962 First Lady under FDR
Muriel Rukeyser
Poet
15-Dec-1913 12-Feb-1980 The Book of the Dead
Sappho
Poet
fl. c. 610 BC fl. c. 580 BC The Tenth Muse
Siegfried Sassoon
Poet
8-Sep-1886 1-Sep-1967 War Poems
Savannah
Pornstar
9-Oct-1970 11-Jul-1994 Saturday Night Beaver
Jessica Savitch
Journalist
1-Feb-1947 24-Oct-1983 Newscaster drowned with VP of NY Post
Randolph Scott
Actor
23-Jan-1898 2-Mar-1987 Ride the High Country
Seka
Pornstar
15-Apr-1954 Blonde Fire, Inside Seka
Arthur Shawcross
Criminal
6-Jun-1945 Genesee River Killer
Pete Shelley
Musician
17-Apr-1955 Buzzcocks singer
Douglas Sirk
Film Director
26-Apr-1897 14-Jan-1987 Written on the Wind
Ione Skye
Actor
4-Sep-1971 Say Anything
Anna Nicole Smith
Model
28-Nov-1967 8-Feb-2007 Addled golddigger
Bessie Smith
Singer
15-Apr-1894 26-Sep-1937 Empress of the Blues
Socrates
Philosopher
469 BC 399 BC Developer of the Socratic Method
Valerie Solanas
Activist
9-Apr-1936 26-Apr-1988 Shot Andy Warhol
Susan Sontag
Author
16-Jan-1933 28-Dec-2004 Novelist, critic, intellectual
Richard Speck
Criminal
6-Dec-1941 5-Dec-1991 Killed eight student nurses
Georgina Spelvin
Pornstar
3-Jan-1936 Devil in Miss Jones
Stephen Spender
Poet
28-Feb-1909 16-Jul-1995 The Destructive Element
Dusty Springfield
Singer
16-Apr-1939 2-Mar-1999 Son of a Preacher Man
John Stagliano
Pornstar
29-Nov-1950 Adventures of Buttman
Krystal Steal
Pornstar
29-Nov-1982 Krystal Method
Tabitha Stevens
Pornstar
16-Feb-1970 San Fernando Jones & the Temple of Poon
Michael Stipe
Musician
4-Jan-1960 Lead singer of R.E.M.
Jeff Stryker
Pornstar
21-Aug-1962 "Straight" star of gay porn
Jacqueline Susann
Novelist
20-Aug-1918 21-Sep-1974 Valley of the Dolls
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Poet
5-Apr-1837 10-Apr-1909 Masochist Victorian poet
John Addington Symonds
Critic
5-Oct-1840 19-Apr-1893 Renaissance in Italy
Kobe Tai
Pornstar
15-Jan-1972 Hawaiian Blast
Mika Tan
Pornstar
27-Nov-1977 Lady Fellatio #2: Desperately Seeking Semen
William Desmond Taylor
Film Director
26-Apr-1872 1-Feb-1922 Early Hollywood director, murdered
Sunset Thomas
Pornstar
19-Feb-1972 The Gulp of Mexico
Wallace Thurman
Author
16-Aug-1902 22-Dec-1934 The Blacker the Berry
Tiberius
Royalty
16-Nov-42 BC 16-Mar-37 AD Roman Emperor, 14-37 AD
Pete Townshend
Guitarist
19-May-1945 Lead guitarist for The Who
Tommy Tune
Dancer
28-Feb-1939 6'6" Broadway dancer
Nikki Tyler
Pornstar
4-Dec-1972 Inscrewtible, Carnal Instincts, Porcupussy
Tina Tyler
Pornstar
16-Jul-1965 Devil in Miss Jones #6
Rudolph Valentino
Actor
06-May-1895 23-Aug-1926 Latin lover of the silent film era
Ville Valo
Singer
22-Nov-1976 Frontman for Finnish band HIM
Tsar Vasily III
Royalty
25-Mar-1479 3-Dec-1533 Tsar of Russia, 1505-33
Conrad Veidt
Actor
22-Jan-1893 3-Apr-1943 Maj. Strasser in Casablanca
Paul Verlaine
Poet
30-Mar-1844 8-Jan-1896 Leader of symbolist poetry movement
Baldur von Schirach
Government
9-Mar-1907 8-Aug-1974 Hitler-Jugend, Gauleiter of Vienna
Alice Walker
Author
9-Feb-1944 The Color Purple
Kim Walther
TV Personality
26-Jul-1977 Anna Nicole Smith's dykey assistant
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Author
6-Dec-1893 1-May-1978 Lolly Willowes
Alec Waugh
Author
8-Jul-1898 3-Sep-1981 The Loom of Youth
Tori Welles
Pornstar
17-Jun-1967 Girligan's Island
Jann Wenner
Business
7-Jan-1946 Publisher of Rolling Stone magazine
Jane Wiedlin
Musician
20-May-1958 Guitarist / vocalist for The Go-Go's
Michael Wigglesworth
Poet
18-Oct-1631 10-Jun-1705 The Day of Doom
Gina Wild
Pornstar
16-Dec-1970 German pornstar
Oscar Wilde
Playwright
16-Oct-1854 30-Nov-1900 The Picture of Dorian Gray
John Wilmot
Poet
1-Apr-1647 26-Jul-1680 Sodom, or the Quintessence of Debauchery
John Wojtowicz
Criminal
c. 1945 Bank robber inspired Dog Day Afternoon
Max Wright
Actor
2-Aug-1943 The dad on ALF
Aileen Wuornos
Criminal
29-Feb-1956 9-Oct-2002 Notorious serial killer
Babe Zaharias
Golf
26-Jun-1914 27-Sep-1956 Best female athlete of all time
SO WHO FROM THE LIST DO YOU LIKE OR DISLIKE?????