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Real-world deceased characters

Actors Edward Andrews • Fatty Arbuckle • Fred Astaire • Lucille Ball • Vilma Bánky • Frances Bavier • Milton Berle • Bill Bixby • Humphrey Bogart • Ray Bolger • Sonny Bono • John Wilkes Booth • Shirley Booth • David Bowie • X. Brands • Yul Brynner • James Cagney • Eddie Cantor • Carol Channing • Charlie Chaplin • Maurice Chevalier • James Coburn • James Coco • Joseph Cotten • Bing Crosby • Bob Cummings • Rodney Dangerfield • Sammy Davis, Jr. • William Demarest • David Doyle • Margaret Dumont • Jimmy Durante • Chris Farley • Zelda Fitzgerald • Norman Fell • W. C. Fields • Larry Fine • Joe Flynn • Tennessee Ernie Ford • Bob Fosse • Clark Gable • Greta Garbo • Judy Garland • John Gielgud • Lillian Gish • Freeman Gosden • Betty Grable • Cary Grant • Arsenio Hall • Rex Harrison • Gabby Hayes • Isaac Hayes • Rita Hayworth • Audrey Hepburn • Charlton Heston • Curly Howard • Leslie Howard • Moe Howard • Shemp Howard • Rock Hudson • Boris Karloff • Danny Kaye • Buster Keaton • Grace Kelly • Deborah Kerr • Eartha Kitt • Ernie Kovacs • Hedy Lamarr • Michael Landon • Lillie Langtry • Peter Lawford • Tony Lip • Jack Lord • Paul Lynde • Karl Malden • Marcel Marceau • E. G. Marshall • Dean Martin • Chico Marx • Groucho Marx • Harpo Marx • Walter Matthau • John McGiver • Steve McQueen • Ray Milland • Marilyn Monroe • Dudley Moore • Agnes Moorehead • Audie Murphy • Anthony Newley • Leonard Nimoy • Laurence Olivier • Alice Pearce • Clara Peller • Anthony Perkins • Markie Post • Tyrone Power • Maudie Prickett • Richard Pryor • George Raft • Sally Rand • Martha Raye • Donna Reed • Charles Nelson Reilly • Rin Tin Tin • Joan Rivers • Edward G. Robinson • Will Rogers • Cesar Romero • Jane Russell • Debralee Scott • George C. Scott • Tupac Shakur • Reta Shaw • Allan Sherman • Frank Sinatra • Brett Somers • Jimmy Stewart • Lana Turner • Ben Turpin • Peter Ustinov • Lupe Vélez • John Wayne • Orson Welles • James Westerfield Animators and cartoonists Tex Avery • Milton Caniff • V. T. Hamlin • Harvey Kurtzman • Bill Mauldin • Joe Shuster Artists Alexander Calder • Mary Cassatt • Paul Cézanne • Leonardo da Vinci • Salvador Dalí • Marcel Duchamp • Albrecht Dürer • M. C. Escher • Zelda Fitzgerald • Hans Holbein • Frida Kahlo • Paul Klee • René Magritte • Michelangelo • Claude Monet • Grandma Moses • LeRoy Neiman • Georgia O'Keeffe • Pablo Picasso • Raphael • Diego Rivera • Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec • Joseph Turner • Vincent van Gogh • Andrea del Verrocchio • Andy Warhol • Grant Wood Authors, poets and writers Douglas Adams • Hans Christian Andersen • Isaac Asimov • Jane Austen • James Baldwin • Alfred Bester • William F. Buckley • Albert Camus • Lewis Carroll • Willa Cather • Geoffrey Chaucer • Agatha Christie • E. E. Cummings • Honoré de Balzac • Simone de Beauvoir • Robbie Burns • Charles Dickens • Emily Dickinson • Joan Didion • Walt Disney • Fyodor Dostoevsky • P. D. Eastman • Nora Ephron • William Faulkner • Zelda Fitzgerald • Anne Frank • Robert Frost • W.S. Gilbert • Allen Ginsberg • Jacob Grimm • Wilhelm Grimm • Lillian Hellman • Ernest Hemingway • Homer • Gerard Manley Hopkins • L. Ron Hubbard • Shirley Jackson • James Joyce • Franz Kafka • Helen Keller • Jack Kerouac • Francis Scott Key • Rudyard Kipling • Niccolò Machiavelli • Herman Melville • Margaret Mitchell • Toni Morrison • Pablo Neruda • Mary Norton • Boris Pasternak • Sylvia Plath • Edgar Allan Poe • Chaim Potok • Alexander Pushkin • Ayn Rand • Barry Sadler • J. D. Salinger • Sappho of Lesbos • Jean-Paul Sartre • Mary Shelley • Isaac Bashevis Singer • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn • Susan Sontag • Gertrude Stein • John Steinbeck • Robert Louis Stevenson • Hunter S. Thompson • Leo Tolstoy • Ivan Turgenev • Mark Twain • Sun Tzu • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • Kurt Vonnegut • David Foster Wallace • H. G. Wells • Walt Whitman • Oscar Wilde • Laura Ingalls Wilder • Virginia Woolf • Frank Lloyd Wright • Émile Zola Business people P. T. Barnum • Charlie Bluhdorn • Billy Carter • Toussaint Charbonneau • Henry Ford • J. Paul Getty • Samuel Hill • Steve Jobs • John D. Rockefeller • John D. Rockefeller Jr. • Kermit Roosevelt • Colonel Sanders • Oskar Schindler Comedians and humorists Erma Bombeck • Lenny Bruce • Eddie Cantor • Carol Channing • Hans Conried • Jimmy Durante • Chris Farley • W. C. Fields • Larry Fine • Freeman Gosden • Arsenio Hall • Bob Hope • Curly Howard • Moe Howard • Shemp Howard • Danny Kaye • Buster Keaton • Ernie Kovacs • Paul Lynde • Dick Martin • Chico Marx • Groucho Marx • Harpo Marx • Minnie Pearl • Richard Pryor • Charles Nelson Reilly • Allan Sherman • Ben Turpin Criminals Ma Barker • Clyde Barrow • Billy the Kid • Osama bin Laden • Blackbeard • John Wilkes Booth • Lizzie Borden • Al Capone • Albert DeSalvo • John Dillinger • Guy Fawkes • Jack the Ripper • Lee Harvey Oswald • Bonnie Parker • Jack Ruby • John Flammang Schrank • Joe Valachi Directors, producers and writers Ingmar Bergman • Betty Comden • Walt Disney • Dodi Fayed • Bob Fosse • Alfred Hitchcock • Leslie Howard • Stanley Kubrick • Joshua Logan • Jack Lord • David O. Selznick • Allan Sherman • Frank Tashlin • Orson Welles Lawyers Roy Cohn • Clarence Darrow • Samuel Hill • John F. Kennedy, Jr. • Janet Reno • Francis Scott Key • Roger Sherman Military Idi Amin • Benedict Arnold • Attila the Hun • Robert Baden-Powell • William Bligh • Simón Bolívar • Napoleon Bonaparte • Federico Borrell García • Che Guevara • Crazy Horse • Abner Doubleday • Hannibal • Genghis Khan • Robert E. Lee • Charles Lindbergh • Horatio Nelson • George S. Patton • Chief Pontiac • Paul Revere • Barry Sadler • Hideki Tojo • Sun Tzu • William Wallace • Earl Woods Musicians Cannonball Adderley • Louis Armstrong • Fred Astaire • Johann Sebastian Bach • Ludwig van Beethoven • Irving Berlin • The Big Bopper • Eubie Blake • John Bonham • Sonny Bono • David Bowie • Eddie Cantor • Carol Channing • Maurice Chevalier • Frédéric Chopin • Kurt Cobain • John Coltrane • Bing Crosby • Sammy Davis, Jr. • Miles Davis • Jimmy Durante • Tennessee Ernie Ford • Aretha Franklin • Judy Garland • Dizzy Gillespie • Benny Goodman • Betty Grable • Roy Hargrove • Joseph Haydn • Isaac Hayes • Jimi Hendrix • Billie Holiday • Buddy Holly • Danny Kaye • Eartha Kitt • John Lennon • Liberace • Dean Martin • Freddie Mercury • Carmen Miranda • Thelonious Monk • Lee Morgan • Jim Morrison • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart • Harry Nilsson • Charlie Parker • Tom Petty • Cole Porter • Elvis Presley • Prince • Sergei Rachmaninoff • Maurice Ravel • Rodgers and Hammerstein • Jane Russell • Barry Sadler • Antonio Salieri • Adolphe Sax • Franz Schubert • Tupac Shakur • Allan Sherman • Don Shirley • Zoot Sims • Frank Sinatra • Arthur Sullivan • Sun Ra • McCoy Tyner • Rudy Vallée • Luther Vandross • Sarah Vaughan • Sid Vicious • Antonio Vivaldi • Muddy Waters • Gerald Wilson Playwrights William Congreve • Arthur Miller • Alexander Pushkin • George Bernard Shaw • William Shakespeare • Neil Simon • Oscar Wilde • Tennessee Williams Politicians Bella Abzug • Abigail Adams • Sam Adams • Spiro Agnew • Idi Amin • Mark Antony • Fulgencio Batista • Menachem Begin • Simón Bolívar • Sonny Bono • Eva Braun • Marcus Junius Brutus • Warren E. Burger • Aaron Burr • Jimmy Carter • Julius Caesar • Caligula • Samuel Chase • Winston Churchill • Schuyler Colfax • Davy Crockett • John W. Davis • Moshe Dayan • Thomas E. Dewey • Mamie Eisenhower • Benjamin Franklin • Mahatma Gandhi • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Hermann Göring • John Hancock • Florence Harding • Charles Evans Hughes • Estes Kefauver • Bobby Kennedy • Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. • Ruhollah Khomeini • Nikita Khrushchev • Vladimir Lenin • Mary Lincoln • Huey Long • John A. Macdonald • Niccolò Machiavelli • Dolley Madison • Nelson Mandela • John Marshall • Joe McCarthy • Ida Saxton McKinley • Robert McNamara • Golda Meir • Slobodan Milošević • Benito Mussolini • Nero • Huey P. Newton • Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis • Lord Palmerston • Pontius Pilate • William Pitt • Pol Pot • Janet Reno • Eleanor Roosevelt • Roger Sherman • Louis St. Laurent • Joseph Stalin • Adlai Stevenson I • Adlai Stevenson II • Nellie Taft • U Thant • Otto von Bismarck • Sir Francis Walsingham • Earl Warren • Martha Washington • William Windom • Mao Zedong Presidents of the USA John Adams • John Quincy Adams • Chester A. Arthur • James Buchanan • Grover Cleveland • Calvin Coolidge • Dwight D. Eisenhower • Millard Fillmore • James A. Garfield • Ulysses S. Grant • Warren G. Harding • Benjamin Harrison • William Henry Harrison • Rutherford B. Hayes • Herbert Hoover • Andrew Jackson • Thomas Jefferson • Andrew Johnson • Lyndon B. Johnson • John F. Kennedy • Abraham Lincoln • James Madison • William McKinley • James Monroe • Franklin Pierce • James K. Polk • Ronald Reagan • Franklin D. Roosevelt • Theodore Roosevelt • William Howard Taft • Zachary Taylor • Harry S. Truman • John Tyler • Martin Van Buren • George Washington • Woodrow Wilson Religious figures Ambrose of Milan • Thomas Aquinas • St. Augustine of Hippo • St. Barnabus • Saint Bartholomew • Gautama Buddha • Saint Eleutherius • Aloysius Gonzaga • Hillel • Ignatius of Loyola • Joan of Arc • Pope John Paul II • John the Baptist • Saint Joseph • Judas • Saint Lucian • Martin Luther • Mary Magdalene • Virgin Mary • Thomas More • Moses • St. Peter • Alfonso Petrucci • Samuel • St. Sebastian • Zeno of Verona Royalty Alexander the Great • Anne of Cleves • Marie Antoinette • Anne Boleyn • Charlemagne • Cleopatra • King David • Princess Diana • Princess Grace of Monaco • Queen Elizabeth I • King Francis I • King George III • Haakon IV of Norway • Henry V • Henry VI • Henry VII • Henry VIII • Herod the Great • Jezebel • Joseph II • Macbeth • Queen Mary I • Louis Mountbatten • Napoleon III • Richard III • Haile Selassie I • Jane Seymour • Queen Victoria • Kaiser Wilhelm II Scientists and inventors Charles Babbage • Alexander Graham Bell • Katherine Blodgett • Niels Bohr • George Boole • George Washington Carver • Nicolaus Copernicus • Alexander Cummings • James Cummings • Marie Curie • Pierre Curie • Leonardo da Vinci • Charles Darwin • Thomas Edison • Albert Einstein • Henry Ford • Benjamin Franklin • Rosalind Franklin • Sigmund Freud • Galileo Galilei • Elisha Gray • Stephen Hawking • Frederick Ives • Hedy Lamarr • Ada Lovelace • Guglielmo Marconi • A. J. P. Martin • J. Earl McLeod • Margaret Mead • Lise Meitner • Maria Montessori • Samuel Morse • Isaac Newton • Alfred Nobel • J. Robert Oppenheimer • Linus Pauling • Joseph Pedott • Pythagoras • Srinivasa Ramanujan • Jesse W. Reno • Carl Sagan • Adolphe Sax • B. F. Skinner • Smith Brothers • Nikola Tesla • James Watt • Eli Whitney • William Hyde Wollaston • Orville Wright • Wilbur Wright Sports Cap Anson • Juan Belmonte • Mordecai Brown • Ty Cobb • James J. Corbett • Jim Creighton • Joe DiMaggio • Eddie Gaedel • Lou Gehrig • Edwin Gourdin • Woody Hayes • Pinky Higgins • Ben Hogan • Harry Hooper • Steve Howe • Carl Hubbell • Shoeless Joe Jackson • Napoleon Lajoie • Sonny Liston • Vince Lombardi • Connie Mack • Mickey Mantle • Bronco Nagurski • Paavo Nurmi • Mel Ott • Jesse Owens • Jackie Robinson • Knute Rockne • Babe Ruth • Seabiscuit • Secretariat • Warren Spahn • Gabby Street • Pie Traynor • Honus Wagner • Ted Williams • Babe Didrikson Zaharias Other Ralph Abernathy • Susan B. Anthony • Simeon ben Eleazar • Barnacle Bill • Crazy Horse • Diane Arbus • André Bazin • Roy Bean • William Bligh • Howard Carter • Fletcher Christian • César Chávez • Julia Child • William Clark • Christopher Columbus • William Dawes • Diogenes • Karl Friedrich Louis Dobermann • Dolly • Amelia Earhart • Roger Ebert • Leif Erikson • Bobby Fischer • Samuel Gompers • Will Harridge • Toyotomi Hideyoshi • Him • Duncan Hines • Hippocrates • J. Edgar Hoover • Bess Houdini • Harry Houdini • David Hume • Peter Jennings • Emmett Kelly • Martin Luther King Jr. • Evel Knievel • Dorothea Lange • Meriwether Lewis • Shari Lewis • Charles Lindbergh • Maimonides • Ferdinand Magellan • James Marshall • Marshall McLuhan • George Meany • Robert Mills • Robert Moses • Lucretia Mott • Edward R. Murrow • Friedrich Nietzsche • Florence Nightingale • Nostradamus • Annie Oakley • Rosa Parks • I. M. Pei • Pauline Pfeiffer • Pocahontas • Walter Raleigh • Bass Reeves • Hadley Richardson • Betsy Ross • Sacagawea • Albert Schweitzer • Jerry Siegel • Socrates • Nancy Spungen • Ed Sullivan • John Sutter • Harriet Tubman • Lao Tzu • Sander Vanocur • Emiliano Zapata