Billy Corgan – William Patrick Corgan, Jr. Was born on 17 March 1967 in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, U.S.A. Is an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter. Billy Corgan is the vocalist and lead guitarist for alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. Billy Corgan dated Courtney Love prior to her courtship and marriage to Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. In 1993, he married his longtime girlfriend, museum worker Chris Fabian. Corgan has been writing about his life on his Web site detailing everything from the childhood abuse he says he suffered at the hands of his father and stepmother to his very adult battles with depression and other demons.
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Brian Douglas Wilson was born on 20 June, 1942 in Hawthorne, California. Brian is an American musician best known as the lead songwriter, bassist, and singer of the American rock band The Beach Boys. Wilson was also the band’s main producer, composer, and arranger. Psychologically overwhelmed by these failures and by the birth of his first child in 1968, Wilson began to take on a diminished creative role within the Beach Boys. After the failure of “Break Away”, Wilson spent the majority of the following three years in his bedroom sleeping, taking drugs, and overeating. Some of his “new” contributions were remnants of SMiLE (e.g., “Surf’s Up”); those that were genuinely new reflected his depression and growing detachment from the world.
Amy Tan was born 19 February 1952 is an American writer of Chinese descent whose works explore mother-daughter relationships as well as relationships between Chinese American women and their immigrant parents. In 1993, Tan’s adaptation of her most popular fiction work, The Joy Luck Club, became a commercially successful film. Tan believed that her grandmother and her mother suffered from depression. Amy suffered from this as a child because everytime her mother became upset with her present life and surroundings they would move house. On the other hand the constant moving and changing of schools gave her an “excellent training as a budding writer” as it sharpened her skills as a writer.
Richard Alva “Dick” Cavett was born on 19 November, 1936. Dick is an American television talk show host known for his conversational style and in-depth discussion of issues. Dick has openly discussed his bouts with clinical depression in recent years, an illness he has had to deal with since his freshman year at Yale. Dick was the subject of a 1993 video produced by the Depression and Related Affective Disorders Association called A Patient’s Perspective. Dick underwent electroconvulsive therapy to treat his depression. In 1992, he was quoted in People: “In my case, ECT was miraculous. My wife was dubious, but when she came into my room afterward, I sat up and said, ‘Look who’s back among the living.’ It was like a magic wand.”
David Joseph Bohm was on born on 20 December, 1917, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and died on 27 October 1992, in London. David was an American-born quantum physicist who made significant contributions in the fields of theoretical physics, philosophy and neuropsychology, and to the Manhattan Project. Bohm also suffered great distress when forced by McCarthyism to leave his home country in the early ’50s on account of the Marxist views he held at that time. He found refuge in Brazil, but had a hard time far away from home without friends and colleagues, and was subject to bouts of depression.
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