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Kirk Douglas
American actor (1916–2020)
Oliver Stone
American film director, screenwriter, and producer (born 1946)
Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)

Arno Allan Penzias
German-born American physicist
Gore Vidal
American writer (1925–2012)
Ed Asner
American actor (1929–2021)
William Wyler
Swiss-German-American director and producer (1902–1981)
Sidney Lumet
American director, producer and screenwriter (1924–2011)
Harvey Keitel
American actor
Peter Falk
American actor (1927–2011)
Eli Wallach
American actor (1915–2014)
Cesar Romero
American actor (1907–1994)
Rod Steiger
American actor (1925–2002)
Edward G. Robinson
Romanian-American actor (1893-1973)
Bea Arthur
American actress and comedienne (1922–2009)

Frank Abagnale
Frank William Abagnale Jr. is an American-French security consultant, author, and convicted felon whose documented crimes consist primarily of check fraud and petty theft targeting individuals and small businesses. Beginning in the late 1970s, Abagnale claimed a far more dramatic criminal past involving long-term impersonations of a Pan American World Airways pilot, a Georgia hospital physician, and a Louisiana assistant attorney general, among other roles. These claims formed the basis of his 1980 autobiography, Catch Me If You Can, co-written with Stan Redding. The book inspired the film of the same name, directed by Steven Spielberg in 2002, in which Abagnale was portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio.
Richard Rorty
American philosopher (1931–2007)
David Petraeus
U.S. Army general and public official (born 1952)
Telly Savalas
American film and television actor and singer (1922–1994)
Alex Haley
American biographer, screenwriter, and novelist (1921–1992)
Stanley Kramer
American film director and producer (1913-2001)
Eileen Collins
Astronaut and United States Air Force pilot
Neil Simon
American playwright, writer, academic (1927-2018)
E. L. Doctorow
novelist, editor, professor (1931-2015)

Ed Wood
American screenwriter, director, producer, actor, author, and film editor
Timothy McVeigh
American domestic anti-government terrorist (1968–2001)
Martin Balsam
American actor (1919–1996)

Jerry Springer
American television personality and politician (1944–2023)
Robert Vaughn
American actor (1932–2016)
George Segal
American actor (1934–2021)

Josef von Sternberg
Austrian-American film director (1894-1969)

Daniel Keyes
American author

Ira Levin
American novelist, playwright (1929–2007)

Edwin Howard Armstrong
American electrical engineer and inventor (1890–1954)

Abe Vigoda
American actor (1921–2016)

Ralph Waite
American actor (1928–2014)

Irwin Shaw
American writer (1913–1984)

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
American artist, writer and activist (1919–2021)

Jacque Fresco
American futurist and self-described social engineer

Elmer Bernstein
American composer and conductor (1922-2004)
Lenny Bruce
American comedian and social critic (1925–1966)

Michael P. Anderson
astronaut, scientist (1959-2003)

James Whitmore
American actor (1921–2009)
William Peter Blatty
American writer and filmmaker (1928-2017)

Mark W. Clark
United States Army general (1896–1984)
Harold Robbins
American novelist (1916–1997)
Rod Serling
American screenwriter (1924–1975)

Tito Puente
American musician (1923-2000)
Mako
Japanese-American actor (1933-2006)
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
American couple executed for spying for the Soviet Union

Ed Lauter
American film and television actor (1938-2013)

Judd Hirsch
American actor

Tab Hunter
Tab Hunter was an American actor, singer, film producer, and author. Known for his blond hair and clean-cut good looks, Hunter starred in more than forty films. During the 1950s and 1960s, Hunter was a Hollywood heartthrob, acting in numerous roles and appearing on the covers of hundreds of magazines. His notable screen credits include Battle Cry (1955), The Girl He Left Behind (1956), Gunman's Walk (1958), Damn Yankees (1958), Polyester (1981), and Lust in the Dust (1985). Hunter also had a music career in the late 1950s; in 1957, he released the no. 1 hit single "Young Love". Hunter's 2005 autobiography, Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star, was a New York Times bestseller.

Peter Benchley
American author (1940–2006)
Red Auerbach
American basketball coach (1917–2006)
Robert Mulligan
American director (1925-2008)

Lex Barker
American actor (1919–1973)

James Forrestal
United States Navy officer and civil servant, Undersecretary of the Navy (1892-1949)

William P. Rogers
American politician (1913–2001)
William Shepherd
American astronaut