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Susan Hallock Dey (born December 10, 1952) is a retired American actress, known for her television roles as Laurie Partridge on the sitcom The Partridge Family from 1970 to 1974, and as Grace Van Owen ...
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Danny Edward Lloyd (born October 13, 1972) is an American former teacher and child actor best known for his role as Danny Torrance in the horror film The Shining (1980), an adaptation of Stephen King's ...
American journalist and magazine editor (1928–2021)
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Richard Brockway Stolley (October 3, 1928 – June 16, 2021) was an American journalist and magazine editor. He's most well known for his work at Life magazine, which he joined in 1953. He subsequently held ...
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Scott Douglas "Scooter" Altman (born August 15, 1959) is a retired United States Navy Captain and naval aviator, engineer, test pilot and former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of four Space Shuttle m ...
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Ethyl Eichelberger (born James Roy Eichelberger, July 17, 1945 – August 12, 1990) was an Obie award-winning American drag performer, playwright, and actor. He became an influential figure in experimental ...
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Everett McKinley Dirksen (January 4, 1896 – September 7, 1969) was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, he represented Illinois in the United States House of Representatives and the ...
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Seth Kinman (September 29, 1815 – February 24, 1888) was an early settler of Humboldt County, California, a hunter based in Fort Humboldt, a famous chair maker, and a nationally recognized entertainer ...
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Thomas Johnson Pickett, Sr. (March 17, 1821 – December 24, 1891) was an American politician from Kentucky. Trained at a young age as a typesetter, Pickett founded a number of papers throughout Illinois ...
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Liz Brunner is an American journalist, an award-winning television news anchor and reporter, and the CEO of Brunner Communications. With more than 25 years of media experience, Brunner’s career path took ...
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Sarah J. Smith (born January 23, 1945) is an American politician. She was a member of the Alaska Legislature in the 1970s and 1980s, and the mayor of Juneau, Alaska, from 2000 to 2003. She later worked ...
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Charles Jesse Jones, known as Buffalo Jones (January 31, 1844 – October 1, 1919), was an American frontiersman, farmer, rancher, hunter, and conservationist who cofounded Garden City in the U.S. state ...
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Jerald D. Slack (born February 14, 1936 – May 18, 2024) was a retired major general in the United States Air National Guard and former Adjutant General of Wisconsin.
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Eric Monti (December 6, 1917 – February 1, 2009) was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.
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John Giles Adams (December 2, 1792 – May 14, 1832) was a cavalry officer in the Illinois Militia during the Black Hawk War of 1832. He was born in Nashville, Tennessee and came to Illinois in 1828, ev ...
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Aaron Hackett Conrow (June 19, 1824 – August 15, 1865) was a Confederate Congressman and soldier during the American Civil War. He was murdered by bandits after moving to Mexico after the war's end ...
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Thomas Emil Homerin (born 1955 in Pekin, Illinois) is an American scholar of religion. Homerin is one of the most notable scholars of religion in the United States and widely publishes, including books ...
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Sol Bloom (March 9, 1870 – March 7, 1949) was an Orthodox Jewish American politician from New York who began his career as an entertainment impresario and sheet music publisher in Chicago. He served f ...
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Erik Keith Brann (born Rick Davis; August 11, 1950 – July 25, 2003), also known as Erik Braunn, was an American guitarist with the 1960s acid rock band Iron Butterfly. He is featured on the band's greatest ...