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Here's a list of who has atteneded previous FDPBs. We've had a few repeated characters, but that's okay with us, because everyone has a different interpretation of their famous dead people.
Akbar the Great, Mogul emperor of India, died 1605 Marie Antoinette, French queen, executed 1793 Armand, vampire, from Interview With the Vampire Desi Arnaz (as Ricky Ricardo), musician and actor, died 1986 Jane Austen, writer, died 1817 Lucille Ball (as Lucy Ricardo), actress and comedian, died 1989 Clyde Barrow, notorious outlaw and partner of Bonnie Parker, shot by the police 1934 John Belushi, comedian, overdosed 1982 Ingrid Bergman (as Ilsa in Casablanca), actress, died 1982 Mr. Blonde, from Reservoir Dogs Bloodletting With Leaches, medical procedure, passed out of popularity 1700s (hopefully) Humphrey Bogart (as Rick in Casablanca), actor, throat cancer 1957 John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln's assassin, killed 1865 Lizzie Borden (circa 1892 during the murders), murderess, died 1927 Mr. & Mrs. Borden, victims, murdered 1892 Cesare Borgia, poisioner/politician, died 1507 Brian of Nazareth from Monty Python's Life of Brian Louise Brooks, actress and "It Girl," heart attack 1985 Ted Bundy, serial killer, electrocuted 1989 Madame Butterfly, tragic lover, from the opera of the same name Julius Caesar, politician, murdered 44 BC Calamity Jane, cowgirl, died 1903 Maria Callas, opera singer, died 1977 Manny Calaveras, skeletal star of the Grim Fandango video game Al Capone, gangster, died 1947 Karen Carpenter, pop singer, anorexia 1983 Catwoman, villain, died eight times in Batman Returns Chivalry, noble concept, died out around the 1700s, possibly earlier Jesus Christ, savior, crucified 33 AD Claudia, child vampire, from Interview With the Vampire Cleopatra, queen of Egypt, suicide 30 BC Patsy Cline, country singer, plane crash 1963 Kurt Cobain, rock musician, suicide 1994 Columbia, a groupie, from The Rocky Horror Picture Show Joan Crawford, actress, cancer 1977 Pierre & Marie Curie, scientists, died 1906 & 1934 Cyberpunk, elite hacker subculture, died due to overexposure in the 1990s D'Artangnon, musketeer, from The Three Musketeers Jeffrey Dahmer, cannibal and serial killer, killed by fellow prisoners 1994 Data, android, from Star Trek: The Next Generation, died briefly in several episodes James Dean, actor, car crash 1955 John Denver, country/pop singer, plane crash 1997 Desdemona (with pillow that suffocated her), wife/victim, from Othello Charles Dickens, novelist, died 1870 Marlene Dietrich, actress, died 1992 Divine, comic transvestite actor, died 1988 The Dot-Com Bubble, over-optimistic stocks and business trend, burst sometime late in 2000 Isadora Duncan, modern dancer, accidentally strangled by her own scarf 1927 Amelia Earhart, pilot, missing/presumed dead 1937 Education, killed by lack of funding, political correctness, and modern media "Mama" Cass Elliot, singer with the Mamas & the Papas, rumored to have choked on a baloney sandwich 1974 Eloise, abbess and letter-writer to Abélard, died 1162 Douglas Fairbanks, actor, heart attack 1939 Dr. John Faustus (circa 1200s), devil-dealer, from The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Dr. Faustus Feudalism, economic system, died out in Europe around the time of the Renaissance Saint Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscans order and patron of animals, died 1226 Frankenstein's Monster, creation, from Frankenstein Bride of Frankenstein, mate, from the movie of the same name Elizabeth Frankenstein (with her heart ripped out), sister/wife/victim, from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Eva Gabor, actress, died 1995 Indira Gandhi, politician, assassinated 1984 Greta Garbo, actress, died 1990 Judy Garland (as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz), actress, overdosed 1969 King George III of England, died insane 1820 Saint George (with a dragon), patron saint of England, martyred 303 Queen Gertrude, mother of Hamlet/wife of Hamlet's uncle, from Hamlet God, supreme diety, pronounced dead by Friedrich Nietzsche in 1882 Sara Goody (as burnt at the stake), suspected witch, from The Crucible Jane Grey, Queen of England for nine days, beheaded 1553 Che Guevara, South American and Cuban revolutionary, assassinated 1967 Clarissa Harlowe, victim of ravishment, from Clarissa George Harrison (circa the Rishikesh period), the shy Beatle, cancer 2001 Miss Havisham, jilted bride, from Great Expectations Heaven's Gate web programmer, part of mass suicide 1997 King Henry V of England, died 1422 Jim Henson, puppeteer, pneumonia 1990 Jimmy Hoffa (with cement shoes), union leader, disappeared/presumed dead 1975 Buddy Holly, rock/pop musician, plane crash 1959 John Holmes, porn star, AIDS 1988 Sherlock Holmes, detective, from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novels Shannon Hoon, rock singer for Blind Melon, overdosed 1995 Harry Houdini, magician, ruptured appendix 1926 Joan of Arc, French martyr, burnt at the stake 1431 Reverend Jim Jones, People's Temple cult leader, drank his own Kool-Aid 1978 Janice Joplin, rock singer, overdosed 1970 Winnie Ruth Judd, the Trunk Murderess of 1931, died 1998 Raul Julia, actor, stroke 1994 Frida Kahlo, Mexican surrealist painter, died 1954 Polly Klaas, little girl, murdered 1993 Grace Kelly, actress/Princess of Monaco, car crash 1982 Mary Kelly, final victim of Jack the Ripper, 1888 George "Machine Gun" Kelly, gangster, died 1950 Sam Kinison, comedian, died 1992 Klytemnestra (with ax), adulterer/murderess, from The Agamemnon Major Kong, bomb rider, from Dr. Strangelove Timothy Leary, psychadelic prophet, cancer 1997 Brandon Lee (as The Crow from the movie of the same name), actor, accidentally killed on the set 1993 Robert E. Lee, Confederate Army general, died 1870 Vivien Leigh (as Scarlett in mourning from Gone With the Wind), actress, tuberculosis 1967 Lennie Small, simple-minded drifter, from Of Mice and Men John Lennon, rock musician, assassinated 1980 Vladimir Lenin, communist/politician, died 1924 Wladziu Valentino Liberace, flamboyant pianist, died 1987 Abraham Lincoln, United States president, assassinated 1865 Catherine Linton (as a ghost), from Wuthering Heights Lestat de Lioncourt, vampire, from Interview With the Vampire H. P. Lovecraft, horror writer, died 1937 Myrna Loy (as Nora Charles from the Thin Man movies), actress, died 1993 Ludwig I of Bavaria, German ruler, died 1868 Bela Lugosi, actor, heart attack 1956 Lady Macbeth, political spouse, from Macbeth Bob Marley, reggae musician, cancer 1981 Billy Martin (with horrible facial injuries), Oakland A's manager, car crash 1989 Dean Martin, Rat Pack singer, died 1995 Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, Grateful Dead rocker, died 1973 Medusa, Greek mythological monster, slain by Perseus Freddie Mercury, rock/pop singer, AIDS 1991 Carmen Miranda (as the Lady With the Tutti-Frutti Hat), exotic singer/dancer/actress, heart attack 1955 Marilyn Monroe, actress/sex symbol, overdosed 1962 John D. Morgan (as police officer), from Terminator 2 Morgan Le Fay, sorceress, from the tales of King Arthur and the Round Table Jim Morrison, rock musician, overdosed 1971 Pamela Morrison, self-described ornament, overdosed 1974 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, musician/composer, died 1791 Constanze Mozart, devoted wife, died 1842 Karl Mundstock, the original BayCon Dead Guy, died briefly in 1995 Captain Nemo, explorer, from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher, died 1900 Florence Nightingale, British nurse, died 1910 Anäis Nin, sensual diarist, died 1977 Richard Nixon, United States president, stroke 1994 O'Leary's Cow, started Great Chicago Fire, burnt 1871 Annie Oakley, cowgirl, died 1926 Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (circa 1963 at JFK's murder), political spouse, died 1994 Bonnie Parker, notorious outlaw and partner of Clyde Barrow, shot by the police 1934 Dorothy Parker, writer, died 1967 Persephone, Greek goddess of spring who spends a season in the underworld each year River Phoenix, actor, overdosed 1993 Pocahontas, Native American, died 1617 Dr. John Poldori, writer/Byron's doctor, died 1821 James and Lily Potter, wizards and parents of Harry, from the Harry Potter series William Powell (as Nick Charles from the Thin Man movies), actor, died 1984 Elvis Presley, pop singer/"the King," overdosed 1977 Privacy, died thanks to the Internet in the 1990s, if it had ever truly existed Don Quixote, tilter at windmills, from the Spanish romance of the same name Joey Ramone, punk rocker, cancer 2001 Rasputin, Russian monk, murdered 1916 Red Shirt / Ensign Smith, one killed off in every episode of the original Star Trek Randy Rhodes, rocker/Ozzy Osbourne sidekick, plane crash 1982 King Richard "Lionheart" I of England, died 1199 Romance (tuxedo clad with a knife in the heart), died ?, possibly never existed Rosie the Riveter, World War II icon, retired after the war Russian Communism (in red and black dress with traditional fur hat), fell 1991 Marquis de Sade, erotic writer, died 1814 Antonio Salieri, composer/rival of Mozart, died 1825 Salome, seductive dancer, from The Bible Sappho, lesbian poet, died 600s BC Max Schreck (as Nosferatu from the movie of the same name), actor, heart attack 1936 Selena, Tejano singer, murdered by her fan club's president 1995 Percy Bysshe Shelley (dripping wet with seaweed and fish), poet, drowned 1822 Bobby Simone, police officer from NYPD Blue Nicole Brown Simpson (with viciously slashed neck), ex-wife/victim of O.J. Simpson, murdered 1994 Edward Smith (with life preserver), captain of the Titanic, went down with the ship 1912 Frank Sinatra, Rat Pack singer, died 1998 Spock, Vulcan, from Star Trek, died in The Wrath of Khan movie Nancy Spungen, girlfriend/victim of Sid Vicious, murdered 1978 Roman Strauss, famous composer, from Dead Again Joe Strummer, co-founder and guitarist of the Clash, died 2002 Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, beheaded 1587 Gloria Swanson, actress, died 1983 Sharon Tate, actress, murdered by the Manson Family 1969 Captain George Taylor, lost astronaut in Planet of the Apes Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, consort of Ludwig I of Bavaria, died 1854 Thelma & Louise, feminists, from the movie of the same name Uncas, Indian guide, from The Last of the Mohicans Darth Vader, politician, from the Star Wars movies Ritchie Valens, rock/pop singer, plane crash 1959 Diego de la Vega, Sr. (with the tortoise that startled his horse and lead to Vega's death) from Zorro Sid Vicious, punk rocker, suicide 1979 Sir William Wallace, Scottish leader, executed 1305 Mae West (in 1880s gown from My Little Chickadee), actress, cancer 1980 What a Way to Go, a book about the funerals of famous people The Wicked Witch of the East, villain, crushed by falling house, from The Wizard of Oz The Wicked Witch of the West, villain, melted by water in The Wizard of Oz Oscar Wilde, writer, died 1900 The Witch/Evil Queen (as creepy crone), poisoner, from Snow White Anna May Wong, the first Chinese-American movie star, died 196 Edward D. Wood Jr., tacky film maker, heart failure 1978 Natalie Wood, actress, drowned 1981
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