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Lionel Aldridge - professional football player
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Parveen Babi - Indian actress
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Syd Barrett - British musician, founding member of Pink Floyd
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Buddy Bolden - pioneering jazz musician
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Clara Bow - Hollywood flapper actress and "It Girl" of the 1920s
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Camille Claudel - French sculptor of the 19th century
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Philip K. Dick - American sci-fi author
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Eduard Einstein - son of Albert Einstein
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Will Elliott - Australian writer
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Roky Erickson - rock musician, founder of The 13th Floor Elevators
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Zelda Fitzgerald - wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald; writer, dancer and artist
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Vincent van Gogh - visual artist/painter (with schizophrenia and/or bipolar)
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Andy Goram - Scottish football/soccer player
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Jim Gordon - drummer, member of Derek and the Dominos
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Peter Green - guitarist, founder of Fleetwood Mac
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Darrell Hammond - comedian, actor on Saturday Night Live
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Tom Harrell - successful Jazz Musician
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John Hinckley, Jr., American failed assassin.
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Adèle Hugo - Daughter of French writer Victor Hugo; her story is told in the film The Story of Adele H.
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Daniel Johnston - musician
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Veronica Lake - Hollywood actress of the 1940s
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Ash Lieb - Artist, comedian and writer
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Mary Todd Lincoln - Wife of Abraham Lincoln and First Lady of the United States
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Rufus May - clinical psychologist
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Joe Meek - pioneering English record producer and songwriter
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William Chester Minor - contributed to Oxford English dictionary
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Bob Mosley - rock musician, member of Moby Grape
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John Nash - economist/mathematician/Nobel Memorial Prize winner in Economic Sciences in year 1994 (along with John Harsanyi and Reinhard Selten)
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Vaslav Nijinsky - ballet dancer, choreographer
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John Ogdon - English pianist and composer
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Jeremy Oxley - Musician and member of Australian band the Sunnyboys.
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Khieu Ponnary - Wife of Pol Pot.
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Katherine Routledge - British archaeologist
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Elyn Saks - law professor/schizophrenia writer/researcher
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Ingo Schwichtenberg - drummer of power metal band Helloween, committed suicide at 29 years of age by throwing himself in front of a subway train due to increasing schizophrenic episodes after being fired from the band
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Alexander "Skip" Spence - rock musician, cofounder of Moby Grape
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Gene Tierney - American actress
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Louis Wain - artist
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Wesley Willis - Musician and artist.
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Brian Wilson - Musician and member of The Beach Boys
It's more common than you think..., see if you recognize any of these names...
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