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Following is a partial list of some successful & famous bipolar people!
January
• Virginia Woolf - novelist - January 25, 1882
February
• Axl Rose - rock singer - February 6, 1962
March
• Robert Lowell - poet - March 1, 1917
• Charley Pride - country-western singer - March 18, 1938
May
• Rosemary Clooney - singer - May 23, 1928.
September
• Linda Hamilton - actress - September 26, 1956
October
• Sting - musician, actor - October 2, 1951
• Margot Kidder - actress - October 17, 1948
• Jean-Claude Van Damme - actor - October 18, 1960
• Jeannie C. Riley - country-western singer - October 19, 1945
• Carrie Fisher - actress/writer - October 21, 1956
• Sylvia Plath - poet/author - October 27, 1932
November
• Larry Flynt - publisher, activist - November 1, 1942
• Vivien Leigh - actress - November 5, 1913
• Jonathan Winters - comedian, actor - November 11, 1925
• Burgess Meredith - actor - November 16, 1907
• Dick Cavett - actor, author, host - November 19, 1936
• Ben Stiller - actor, director, writer, comedian - November 30, 1965
December
• Connie Francis - singer, actress - December 12, 1938
• Patty Duke - actress - December 14, 1946
This is just a partial list...I'm searching.