Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.
It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.
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Joshua Barney, Soldier (1759) |
Hanns Eisler, Composer (1898) |
Pau Gasol, Athlete (1980) |
Bill Haley, Musician (1925) |
Curtis Jackson, Musician (1975) |
Wojciech Jaruzelski, Leader (1923) |
John Paul Jones, Soldier (1747) |
Frida Kahlo, Artist (1907) |
Mickey Kaus, Journalist (1951) |
Buddy Ebsen, Actor (2003) |
Janos Kadar, Statesman (1989) |