Famous Charts
Famous Birth & Death Charts
Birth and death are both fixed moments, so these charts never change. Every figure has a documented birth date and place, and those who have died have a documented death beside it, which is the chart nobody else draws. The rest are alive and have the one. Nothing here is estimated.
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351 figures, starting with W.
W351 figures
- Wagner MouraActor
- Waheeda RehmanActress
- Waheed MuradFilm actor
- Waldemar KrzystekFilm director
- Walerian BorowczykFilm director
- Walker EvansPhotographer
- Wallace BeeryActor
- Wallace CarothersChemist
- Wallace ShawnActor & playwright
- Wallace StevensPoet
- Wallis SimpsonSocialite
- Wally SchirraAstronaut
- Walmor ChagasActor
- Walt BellamyBasketball player
- Walt DisneyAnimator & studio founder
- Walter AlvarezGeologist
- Walter BeckerMusician
- Walter Bedell SmithGeneral
- Walter BenjaminCritic
- Walter BrattainPhysicist
- Walter BrennanActor
- Walter ChryslerIndustrialist
- Walter CraneArtist & illustrator
- Walter CronkiteBroadcast journalist
- Walter CunninghamAstronaut
- Walter GilbertBiochemist
- Walter GropiusArchitect
- Walter HagenGolfer
- Walter HillDirector
- Walter HustonActor
- Walter IsaacsonBiographer
- Walter J. OngPhilosopher
- Walter KohnPhysicist
- Walter KrivitskyIntelligence officer
- Walter KruegerGeneral
- Walter MatthauActor
- Walter MischelPsychologist
- Walter MondalePolitician
- Walter MurchEditor
- Walter PaytonAmerican football player
- Walter RaleighExplorer & courtier
- Walter Rudolf HessPhysiologist
- Walter SallesDirector
- Walter ScottNovelist & poet
- Walter SickertArtist
- Walter SlezakActor
- Walter Sydney AdamsAstronomer
- Walter WinchellJournalist
- Walt FrazierBasketball player
- Walther BothePhysicist
- Walther NernstChemist
- Walton GogginsActor
- Walton WalkerGeneral
- Walt WhitmanPoet
- Wan Chi-keungFootballer
- Wanda RutkiewiczMountaineer
- Wanda SykesComedian
- Wangari MaathaiEnvironmentalist
- Wang BaoqiangActor
- Wang BingFilm director
- Wang FeifeiSinger
- Wang GangActor
- Wang JingchunActor
- Wang JunkaiSinger
- Wang KaiActor
- Wang LeehomSinger & songwriter
- Wang QianyuanActor
- Wang ShuArchitect
- Wang XueqiActor
- Wang YiboActor
- Wang YijinSinger
- Wang ZhiwenActor
- Wanya MorrisSinger
- Ward BondActor
- Warner BaxterActor
- Warren BeattyActor & director
- Warren BuffettBusinessman & investor
- Warren ClarkeActor
- Warren EllisMusician
- Warren G. Harding29th U.S. President
- Warren MitchellActor
- Warren ZevonSinger
- Warwick DavisActor
- Washington AllstonPainter
- Washington IrvingWriter
- Wasim AkramCricketer
- Wassily KandinskyPainter
- Wassily LeontiefEconomist
- Waylon JenningsCountry musician
- Wayne AllwineVoice actor
- Wayne BradyComedian
- Wayne GretzkyIce hockey player
- Wayne McGregorChoreographer
- Wayne RooneyFootballer & football manager
- Wayne ShorterJazz saxophonist & composer
- W. B. YeatsPoet & dramatist
- W. C. FieldsComedian
- W. Earl BrownActor
- W. E. B. Du BoisSociologist & activist
- Wei ZongwanActor
- Wendelin WernerMathematician
- Wendell BerryWriter
- Wendell CoreyActor
- Wendell Meredith StanleyBiochemist
- Wendie RenardFootballer
- Wendy BarrieActress
- Wendy B. LawrenceAstronaut
- Wendy FreedmanAstronomer
- Wendy HillerActress
- Wendy MakkenaActress
- Wendy WassersteinPlaywright
- Wendy WilliamsMedia personality
- Wen JunhuiSinger
- Wen ZhangActor
- Werner ArberMicrobiologist
- Werner ForssmannPhysician
- Werner HeisenbergPhysicist
- Werner HerzogDirector
- Werner SchünemannActor
- Werner von SiemensEngineer & industrialist
- Wernher von BraunRocket engineer
- Wes AndersonFilmmaker
- Wes BentleyActor
- Wes ChathamActor
- Wes CravenDirector
- Wesley ClarkGeneral
- Wesley MorrisJournalist
- Wesley SneijderAssociation football player
- Wes MoorePolitician
- Wes UnseldBasketball player
- WevertonFootballer
- Weyes BloodSinger
- W. G. SebaldWriter
- W. H. AudenPoet
- Whitfield DiffieCryptographer
- Whitley StrieberWriter
- Whitney CummingsComedian
- Whitney HoustonSinger & actress
- Whoopi GoldbergComedian & actress
- Wiktor BiegańskiActor
- Wiktor GrodeckiFilm writer
- Wilbur WrightAviation pioneer
- Wilder PenfieldNeurosurgeon
- Wiley PostAviator
- Wilford BrimleyActor
- Wilfred OwenPoet
- Wilhelm FurtwänglerConductor
- Wilhelm GrimmFolklorist
- Wilhelm IIGerman Emperor
- Wilhelm OstwaldChemist
- Wilhelm PfefferBotanist
- Wilhelm RöntgenPhysicist
- Wilhelm WienPhysicist
- Wilkie CollinsNovelist
- Willa CatherNovelist
- Willa FitzgeraldActress
- Willa HollandActress
- Willard BoylePhysicist
- Willard LibbyChemist
- Will ArnettActor
- Will ChampionDrummer
- Will DurantHistorian
- Will EisnerCartoonist
- Willem-AlexanderKing of the Netherlands
- Willem DafoeActor
- Willem de KooningPainter
- Willem EinthovenPhysiologist
- Willem Jacob LuytenAstronomer
- Will FerrellComedian
- Will HurdPolitician
- Will.i.amRapper & producer
- William-Adolphe BouguereauPainter
- William Alfred FowlerPhysicist
- William AthertonActor
- William BaldwinActor
- William BaumolEconomist
- William BeecheyPainter
- William BlakePoet & artist
- William B. LenoirAstronaut
- William BoothPreacher & reformer
- William Carlos WilliamsPoet & physician
- William CastleDirector
- William C. CampbellBiochemist
- William ChambersArchitect
- William ChristopherActor
- William ClarkExplorer
- William C. McCoolAstronaut
- William ConradActor & director
- William Crawford GorgasPhysician
- William Daniel PhillipsPhysicist
- William DanielsActor
- William David CoolidgePhysicist
- William Dean HowellsAuthor
- William DemarestActor
- William DevaneActor
- William E. MoernerChemist
- William E. ThorntonAstronaut
- William EttyPainter
- William F. AlbrightArchaeologist
- William FaulknerNovelist
- William F. Buckley Jr.Writer
- William FichtnerActor
- William ForsytheChoreographer
- William Frederick FisherAstronaut
- William FriedkinDirector
- William G. GregoryAstronaut
- William GiauqueChemist
- William GibsonNovelist
- William G. KaelinPhysician
- William GladstoneBritish Prime Minister
- William GoldingNovelist
- William GoldmanWriter
- William Grant StillComposer
- William HannaAnimator
- William HartnellActor
- William HarveyPhysician
- William HazlittEssayist
- William Healey DallMalacologist
- William Henry BraggPhysicist
- William Henry Harrison9th U.S. President
- William Henry WelchPhysician
- William HerschelAstronomer & composer
- William H. GassWriter
- William HogarthPainter & engraver
- William HoldenActor
- William Holman HuntPainter
- William Howard RussellWar correspondent
- William Howard SteinBiochemist
- William Howard Taft27th U.S. President & Chief Justice
- William H. SimpsonGeneral
- William HungSinger
- William HurtActor
- Williamina FlemingAstronomer
- William IngePlaywright
- William JamesPhilosopher & psychologist
- William J. BrennanSupreme Court justice
- William J. CaseyIntelligence officer
- William J. DonovanSoldier
- William KahanMathematician
- William KleinPhotographer
- William LabovLinguist
- William Lamb, 2nd Viscount MelbournePrime minister
- William LevyActor
- William LipscombChemist
- William McDougallPsychologist
- William McIlvanneyNovelist
- William McKinley25th U.S. President
- William Merritt ChasePainter
- William MorrisDesigner & writer
- William Morris DavisGeographer
- William MoseleyActor
- William NicholsonPainter
- William NordhausEconomist
- William O. DouglasSupreme Court justice
- William OrpenArtist
- William PatersonFounding father
- William Pitt the YoungerBritish Prime Minister
- William P. MurphyPhysician
- William PogueAstronaut
- William Powell FrithPainter
- William, Prince of WalesPrince
- William, Prince of WalesPrince of Wales
- William RamsayChemist
- William Randolph HearstNewspaper publisher
- William R. DaySupreme Court justice
- William RenshawTennis player
- William SaroyanNovelist
- William S. BurroughsNovelist
- William ShakespearePlaywright and poet
- William ShatnerActor
- William ShepherdAstronaut
- William ShockleyPhysicist
- William S. McArthurAstronaut
- William Standish KnowlesChemist
- William StyronNovelist
- William SwainsonNaturalist
- William Tecumseh ShermanUnion general
- William TempleArchbishop
- William ThurstonMathematician
- William TrevorWriter
- William WestmorelandGeneral
- William WhewellPhilosopher
- William WilberforcePolitician & abolitionist
- William WordsworthPoet
- Willie AamesActor
- Willie DixonBlues musician
- Willie FungActor
- Willie MaysBaseball player
- Willie NelsonSinger & songwriter
- Willi MünzenbergPolitical organiser
- Willis LambPhysicist
- Willis ReedBasketball player
- Will Keith KelloggBusinessman
- Willow SmithSinger
- Will PoulterActor
- Will SmithActor & rapper
- Willy BrandtGerman Chancellor
- Wilma RudolphSprinter
- Wilmer ValderramaActor
- Wilson BethelActor
- Wilson CruzActor
- Wilson KipketerRunner
- Wilt ChamberlainBasketball player
- Wim HofAthlete
- Wim WendersDirector
- Winnie HarlowModel
- Winona RyderActress
- Winslow HomerPainter
- Winston ChurchillBritish Prime Minister
- Winston E. ScottAstronaut
- Wisława SzymborskaPoet
- Witold LesiewiczFilm director
- Witold LeszczyńskiFilm director
- Witold LutosławskiComposer
- Witold PileckiResistance officer
- Wiz KhalifaRapper
- WizkidSinger
- Władysław PasikowskiFilm director
- Władysław ReymontNovelist
- Wojciech HasFilm director
- Wojciech MarczewskiFilm director
- Wojciech SmarzowskiScreenwriter
- Wole SoyinkaPlaywright & poet
- Wolfgang Amadeus MozartComposer
- Wolfgang FlürMusician & former member of Kraftwerk
- Wolfgang KetterlePhysicist
- Wolfgang KöhlerPsychologist
- Wolfgang PaulPhysicist
- Wolfgang PauliPhysicist
- Wolfgang TillmansPhotographer
- Wong Kar-waiFilmmaker
- Woodrow Wilson28th U.S. President
- Woody AllenDirector
- Woody GuthrieFolk musician
- Woody HarrelsonActor
- Woody HermanBandleader
- Woody ShawMusician
- WooziSinger
- W. S. GilbertDramatist & librettist
- W. S. MerwinPoet
- W. Somerset MaughamNovelist & playwright
- Wubbo OckelsAstronaut
- Wu JingActor
- Wu MaActor
- Wunmi MosakuActress
- Wu TianmingFilm director
- Wyatt EarpLawman
- Wyclef JeanRapper
- Wyndham LewisPainter & writer
- Wynton KellyJazz pianist
- Wynton MarsalisTrumpeter & composer
