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1. Jean Michel Basquiat

Soundtrack | Downtown 81

Jean Michel Basquiat began painting graffiti in New York in 1977. He always signed his works with SAMO, which means "Same Old Shit". His works came to the attention of the American painter Keith Haring, who drew inspiration for his own work from New York graffiti paintings. Basquiat also made ...

2. Albert Anastasia

Albert Anastasia was born February 26, 1903, in Calabria, Italy, famous for its hams and the 'ndrangheta, which was every bit as vicious as the Sicilian Mafia. He was brought to America as a child along with his eight brothers. When he was starting in organized crime, he helped Salvatore Lucania, ...

3. Franklin Bartlett

Self | Twenty-Second Regiment, N.G.S.N.Y.

Franklin Bartlett was born on September 10, 1847 in Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA. He died in 1909.

4. Leonard Bernstein

Soundtrack | New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts

Renowned composer ("West Side Story", "Candide", "On The Town"), conductor, arranger, pianist, educator, author, TV/radio host, educated at the Boston Latin School and Harvard University (BA) with Walter Piston. Edward Burlingame Hill and A. Tillman Merritt. He studied piano with Helen Coates, ...

5. Charles Bonner

Writer | Adam Had Four Sons

Charles Bonner was born on October 14, 1896 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Adam Had Four Sons (1941), The Loretta Young Show (1953) and Lux Video Theatre (1950). He died on March 21, 1965 in the USA.

6. Ed Browning

Actor | Poldark

Ed Browning is known for Poldark (2015), The Green Green Grass (2005) and Honest (2008).

7. Anna Case

Actress | The Hidden Truth

Anna Case was born on October 29, 1889 in Clinton, New Jersey, USA. She was an actress, known for The Hidden Truth (1919), La Fiesta (1926) and Hearst-Pathé News, No. 54 (1917). She was married to Clarence H. Mackay. She died on January 7, 1984 in New York City, New York, USA.

8. Schuyler G. Chapin

Great Performances

Schuyler G. Chapin was born on February 13, 1923 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer, known for Great Performances (1971), Bernstein in London: Verdi's Requiem (1970) and Bernstein on Beethoven: A Celebration in Vienna (1970). He was married to Elizabeth Steinway. He died on March 7,...

9. Edwin P. Christy

Soundtrack | Pistol Packin' Nitwits

10. Kate Claxton

Writer | The Two Orphans

Kate Claxton was born in 1850 in Somerville, New Jersey, USA. She was a writer, known for The Two Orphans (1911). She was married to Charles A. Stevenson and Isadore Lyon. She died on May 5, 1924 in New York City, New York, USA.

11. John Costelloe

Actor | Die Hard 2

John Costelloe was born on November 8, 1961 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Die Hard 2 (1990), Black Rain (1989) and Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993). He died on December 18, 2008 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA.

12. Alan Dale

Actor | Don't Knock the Rock

The man many consider to have possessed the greatest voice ever in popular music, Alan Dale had a career that spanned three decades and 16 record labels. At age 17 he was a big-band vocalist, first with Carmen Cavallaro, then George Paxton. In 1948 he achieved stardom via CBS' musical quiz show ...

13. Fred Ebb

Soundtrack | Chicago

Fred Ebb was born on April 8, 1928 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Chicago (2002), Cabaret (1972) and Shame (2011). He died on September 11, 2004 in New York City, New York, USA.

14. Larry Gallo

Larry Gallo was born on November 3, 1927 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He died on May 16, 1968 in East Meadow, Long Island, New York, USA.

15. Percy Gaunt

Soundtrack | Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men

Percy Gaunt was born in 1853 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Percy died on September 5, 1896 in Palenville, New York, USA.

16. William J. Gaynor

Self | The Gunmen of New York

William J. Gaynor was born on February 2, 1848 in Oriskany, New York, USA. He was married to Augusta C. Mayer. He died on September 10, 1913 in aboard RMS Baltic.

17. Louis Moreau Gottschalk

Soundtrack | Original Sin

Louis Moreau Gottschalk was born on May 8, 1829 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Louis Moreau was a composer, known for Original Sin (2001), Little Women (2019) and The Lovebirds (2020). Louis Moreau died on December 18, 1869 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

18. Gabriel Harrison

Actor | Tian mai zhuan qi

Gabriel Harrison was born on November 17, 1972 in Hong Kong, China. He is an actor, known for The Touch (2002), Hanky Panky (1999) and Violent Cop (2000).

19. William S. Hart

Actor | The Money Corral

A storybook hero, the original screen cowboy, ever forthright and honest, even when (as was often the case) he played a villain, William S. Hart lived for a while in the Dakota Territory, then worked as a postal clerk in New York City. In 1888 he began to study acting. In 1899 he created the role ...

20. Thomas Hastings

Soundtrack | Tänk, om jag gifter mig med prästen

Thomas Hastings was born on October 15, 1784 in Washington, Connecticut, USA. He died in 1872.

21. DeWolf Hopper Sr.

Actor | Don Quixote

Best-known for performing the most popular baseball poem, "Casey at the Bat." Filmed as one of the first talkies, 5 years before The Jazz Singer (1927), Casey at the Bat (1922), was included in Ken Burns' Baseball (1994). Hopper, a fervent New York Giant fan, first performed the then-unknown poem ...

22. Elias Howe

Born on July 9, 1819, in Spencer, Massachusetts, inventor Elias Howe was raised on a farm and received only sporadic schooling. Fascinated from an early age with machinery, he worked at his father's gristmill and sawmill and later became an apprentice at several machine shops. As a teenager he ...

23. Paul Jabara

Soundtrack | Thank God It's Friday

Paul Jabara was born on January 31, 1948 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for Thank God It's Friday (1978), Eraser (1996) and All Good Things (2010). He died on September 29, 1992 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

24. James Weldon Johnson

Soundtrack | Infinite

American poet, novelist and essayist James Weldon Johnson was born in Jacksonville, FL, in 1871. He came from a musically inclined family--his brother was noted composer and songwriter J. Rosamond Johnson--and received his B.A. from Atlanta University and his M.A. from that institution two years ...

25. Florence La Badie

Actress | The Million Dollar Mystery

Early information on Florence La Badie is sketchy. She is thought to have been born in New York City in 1888, and was either taken away from or given up for adoption by her birth mother. Florence was adopted by a married couple named LaBadie, who legally gave the child their last name. Her adoptive...

26. Harriet Laidlaw

Writer | Votes for Women

Harriet Laidlaw is known for Votes for Women (1912). She was previously married to James Leeds Laidlaw.

27. Laura Jean Libbey

Writer | A Poor Girl's Romance

Laura Jean Libbey is known for A Poor Girl's Romance (1926), In a Moment of Temptation (1927) and When Love Grows Cold (1926).

28. Julie Mathilde Lippmann

Writer | The Hoodlum

Julie Mathilde Lippmann was born on June 27, 1864 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. Julie Mathilde was a writer, known for The Hoodlum (1919). Julie Mathilde died on April 10, 1952 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

29. Seth Low

Self | Christening and Launching Kaiser Wilhelm's Yacht 'Meteor'

Seth Low was born on January 18, 1850 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He died on September 17, 1916.

30. John MacKay

Sound_department | The Ringo Bingo Kid

John MacKay is known for The Ringo Bingo Kid (2007).

31. Frank Morgan

Actor | The Wizard of Oz

Jovial, somewhat flamboyant Frank Morgan (born Francis Wuppermann) will forever be remembered as the title character in The Wizard of Oz (1939), but he was a veteran and respected actor long before he played that part, and turned in outstanding performances both before and after that film. One of ...

32. Ralph Morgan

Actor | Strange Interlude

Ralph Morgan was born on July 6, 1883 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Strange Interlude (1932), Rasputin and the Empress (1932) and The Power and the Glory (1933). He was married to Grace Arnold. He died on June 11, 1956 in New York City, New York, USA.

33. Morgan Robertson

Writer | Masters of Men

American short story writer and novelist, was born the son of Andrew Robertson, a ship captain on the Great Lakes, and Amelia (Glassford) Robertson. Morgan went to sea as a cabin boy and was in the merchant service from 1866 to 1877, rising to first mate. Tiring of life at sea, he studied jewelry ...

34. Eli Siegel

Writer | Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana

Eli Siegel is known for Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana (2005).

35. Mary Smith

Actress | The Flower of Faith

Mary Smith is known for The Flower of Faith (1916), When Love Leads (1912) and Literature and Love (1913).

36. Johnny Torrio

Prohibition-era gang boss Johnny Torrio was born Giovanni Torrio in Irsina, Italy. When Johnny was two years old his father died, and his mother left Italy for New York City.

Torrio got his start in the criminal underworld at an early age, working as a bouncer in several Manhattan dives. He ...

37. William H. West

Actor | The Fatal Opal

William H. West was born on July 26, 1860 in Newport, Rhode Island, USA. He was an actor, known for The Fatal Opal (1914), On the Warpath (1911) and Mysteries of the Grand Hotel (1915). He was married to Roumelia G. Morris. He died on August 20, 1915 in Glendale, California, USA.

38. Elliott Carter

Composer | Tiny Galaxy Concert @ Haw Par

Elliott Cook Carter Jr. was a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American Western-classical-music composer who was born in and lived in New York City. He studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the 1930s and then returned to the United States. After a neoclassical phase, he went on to write atonal, ...

39. Rose Hill

Actress | 'Allo 'Allo!

British character actress, best known as Fanny La Fan in the long-running sit-com 'Allo 'Allo. She continued to act until her eighties before spending her final years living at Denville Hall, the actors retirement home in Middlesex.

40. Doris Hare

Actress | On the Buses

Doris Hare was born on March 1, 1905 in Bargoed, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK. She was an actress, known for On the Buses (1969), The Avengers (1961) and Second Best (1994). She was married to John Fraser Roberts. She died on May 30, 2000 in Denville Hall, Northwood, Hillingdon, London, England, UK.

41. Betsy Blair

Actress | Marty

Betsy Blair was born in Cliffside, New Jersey, a child model before finding work as a chorus dancer at the early age of 15. She received her first mini-break on Broadway in "Panama Hattie" in 1940 delivering a single line, but by the next year she had copped the ingénue lead in William Saroyan's "...