Curated playlist
United States Navy sailors
- Humphrey BogartHumphrey Bogart's ashes were buried with a small gold whistle from a bracelet he gave Lauren Bacall.
- Herman MelvilleHerman Melville's death notice misspelled his great novel as "Mobie Dick."
- Jack KerouacJack Kerouac typed On the Road on a 120-foot roll of taped tracing paper. He finished the final draft in 20 days.
- Kirk DouglasKirk Douglas insisted on giving blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo an on-screen credit for Spartacus.
- Phillip FormanJudge Phillip Forman swore in Albert Einstein as an American citizen in 1940. He later did the same for Kurt Godel.
- John ColtraneA San Francisco congregation once worshipped John Coltrane as God incarnate.
- MC HammerMC Hammer started out as an 11-year-old selling baseballs in a parking lot. The Oakland A's owner hired him on the spot.
- William R. LucasMarshall director William R. Lucas retired in 1986 after a commission criticized his role in Challenger.
- Paul NewmanAt the 1995 24 Hours of Daytona, Paul Newman was 70 years and eight days old, and his team won its class. That made him the oldest driver to date on a winning team in a major sanctioned race. Newman was best known as a film star, and he…
- Gene VincentGene Vincent's hit "Be-Bop-a-Lula" was supposed to be the B-side. Radio stations played it over the A-side.
- Charles CullenCharles Cullen told detectives that he had killed as many as 40 patients, and that figure marks only the beginning of the uncertainty around him. Investigators have confirmed at least 29 of those deaths. Researchers who studied his career…
- Gary RidgwayOn the 30th of November 2001, police arrived at the Kenworth truck factory in Renton, Washington, to arrest a spray painter as he was leaving work. The man was Gary Leon Ridgway, born on the 18th of February 1949. For years the press had…
- Joseph James DeAngeloDeputies arrested Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. in the side yard of his Sacramento home on the afternoon of the 24th of April 2018. He was 72 years old, a retired truck mechanic and a former police officer. For more than four decades,…