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Post by onlymark on Nov 9, 2012 14:40:36 GMT
And war criminal.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2012 15:46:38 GMT
Karen Black - American actress who seemed to be in every movie made in the 1970's before she faded
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 9, 2012 16:04:31 GMT
Léopold, 13th Duke of Arenberg -- head of an aristocratic lineage in Belgium
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Post by bjd on Nov 9, 2012 16:20:13 GMT
Leonardo da Vinci -- Painter
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 9, 2012 16:36:17 GMT
Vincent van Gogh -- Dutch painter
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2012 18:36:21 GMT
Vince Vance of Vince Vance and the Valiants, prominent 1960'0-70's New Orleans Rock n' Roll band. (am hoping Bixa has a mouthful of coffee or tea when reads this!!! ;D ;D ;D)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2012 18:53:32 GMT
Abel Gance - French filmmaker whose masterpiece was "Napoléon," presented in polyvision in 1927 -- a triple screen three times wider than any other movie, decades before the invention of Cinerama or Imax.
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Post by bjd on Nov 9, 2012 19:50:40 GMT
Pierre Abelard -- medieval French philosopher and teacher, known for his romance with Heloise.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2012 20:06:46 GMT
Jean-Paul Belmondo -- French actor famous for his action movies and now partially paralyzed at the end of his life
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Post by auntieannie on Nov 9, 2012 21:57:56 GMT
Alexander Graham Bell - credited with inventing "the telephone"
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2012 17:07:13 GMT
Lex Luthor - arch enemy of Superman
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Post by onlymark on Nov 10, 2012 18:37:19 GMT
Hortense Bonaparte - Queen Consort of Holland, was the stepdaughter of Emperor Napoleon I.
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Post by bjd on Nov 10, 2012 19:35:44 GMT
Horace Walpole 18th century English politician and man of letters
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Post by auntieannie on Nov 11, 2012 17:13:01 GMT
Pol Pot - Cambodian tyrant
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2012 17:54:22 GMT
Guillaume Apollinaire - French poet even though he was born a Polish citizen of the Russian Empire. Until his naturalisation in 1916, his birth name was Wilhelm Albert Wodzimierz Apolinary de Kostrowicki.
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Post by bjd on Nov 11, 2012 19:33:40 GMT
Linda Lovelace -- screen name for Linda Boreman, best known for the porn movie Deep Throat
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2012 20:21:56 GMT
(I am always fascinated how every now and then you have to keep looking back and forth over the name to find the three letters while other times they just pop out at you.)
Karl Rove - political consultant and senior advisor to President George W. Bush
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Post by htmb on Nov 12, 2012 3:18:53 GMT
Carl Reiner American actor, film director, producer, writer, and comedian.
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Post by onlymark on Nov 12, 2012 4:21:45 GMT
Tine Hribar - is a Slovenian philosopher and public intellectual, notable for his interpretations of Heidegger and his role in the democratization of Slovenia between 1988 and 1990, known as the Slovenian Spring.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2012 5:30:13 GMT
John Barry - British composer famous for 12 James Bond sountracks, as well as Midnight Cowboy, Out of Africa and Dances with Wolves.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2012 12:57:26 GMT
Jean Harlow, American actress of the 1930's
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Post by htmb on Nov 12, 2012 13:49:36 GMT
Harvey Fierstein - American actor and playwright
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Post by auntieannie on Nov 12, 2012 14:13:31 GMT
Harvey Keitel - actor
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Post by htmb on Nov 12, 2012 14:55:19 GMT
Marvin Gaye, born Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr., was an American singer-songwriter and musician.
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Post by bjd on Nov 12, 2012 15:28:37 GMT
Bobby Vinton - American singer in the 1960s.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2012 15:46:16 GMT
Leonardo Da Vinci - Italian painter and inventor
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Post by htmb on Nov 12, 2012 16:12:25 GMT
Vince Vaughn - American actor who I find quite annoying.
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Post by auntieannie on Nov 12, 2012 19:14:21 GMT
(St) Vincent de Paul - French priest born 1581, canonised in 1737. Founder of several congregations.
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Post by bjd on Nov 12, 2012 20:04:05 GMT
Paul McCartney -- an ex-Beatle
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Post by htmb on Nov 12, 2012 21:04:46 GMT
Jimmy Carter former U.S. president.
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