Bob Marley

Listed In: Singers

Birth Year: 1945

Birthplace: Nine Mile, Jamaica

Died: 1981

Bob Marley was a Jamaican singer and songwriter who sold 20 million records in his career. He was the first international star to come from the ‘Third World’ and is considered one of the forerunners of reggae. A fusion of reggae, ska and rocksteady was his music’s hallmark. Marley died due to cancer at the age of 36.

Ronald Reagan

Listed In: Leaders

Birth Year: 1911

Birthplace: Tampico, Illinois, United States

Died: 2004

An actor turned union leader turned politician, Ronald Wilson Reagan served as the 40th president of America. Hailed for his public speaking and communication skills, Reagan is one of the most popular Presidents of USA, mainly due to his ‘America First’ economic policies which led to a decrease in inflation and unemployment rates during his tenure.

Babe Ruth

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1895

Birthplace: Pigtown, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Died: 1948

One of the greatest players in the history of baseball, Babe Ruth played 22 seasons between 1914 and 1935 and set monumental records—including 714 home runs—that took decades to be finally broken. Amongst the most celebrated athletes of the world, he became one of the first five players to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Rick Astley

Listed In: Singers

Birth Year: 1966

Birthplace: Newton-le-Willows

Rick Astley went from being a high-school drop-out and a driver, to becoming a music sensation. He turned into a global phenomenon with his 1987 track Never Gonna Give You Up, which topped charts in 25 countries. Years later, in 2007, the video was part of the viral meme “rickrolling.”

Aaron Burr

Listed In: Leaders

Birth Year: 1756

Birthplace: Newark, New Jersey, United States

Died: 1836

A soldier, lawyer and one of the founding Fathers of America, Aaron Burr rose to become the third Vice president of the United States. His turbulent political career, which included bitter rivalry with Alexander Hamilton, concluded when he mortally wounded Hamilton in a duel and was later charged with treason.

Axl Rose

Listed In: Singers

Birth Year: 1962

Birthplace: Lafayette, Indiana, United States

Rock and Roll Hall of Famer W. Axl Rose, being true to his rebel spirit, fled to Los Angeles on a bus at 17, before he co-founded the legendary hard rock band Guns N' Roses. Working as the lead vocalist/lyricist of the band, he soon became a global sex symbol. 

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1917

Birthplace: Budapest, Hungary

Died: 2016

Zsa Zsa Gabor was a stage actor and also became Miss Hungary before she moved to the U.S. Fans loved her in Moulin Rouge and A Nightmare on Elm Street 3. She was known for her flamboyant lifestyle and her nine marriages, including one to hotelier Conrad Hilton. 

Alice Eve

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1982

Birthplace: London, England

Alice Eve is best known as Molly McCleish from She's Out of My League and as Sophia from the series Entourage. She has also been seen in the series Black Mirror and The Raven. Due to a rare condition, her right eye is green and her left eye is blue.

Charlie Heaton

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1994

Birthplace: Leeds, England

Charlie Heaton is best known for his SAG Award-winning role of Jonathan Byers in the Netflix series Stranger Things. He has previously been part of bands such as Comanechi and Half Loon. He has also appeared in films such as The New Mutants and Shut In and the series Casualty.

Tinashe Kachingwe

Listed In: Singers

Birth Year: 1993

Birthplace: Lexington, Kentucky, United States

Tinashe started as a child actor, appearing as a motion-capture model in The Polar Express and as Robin Wheeler in Out of Jimmy's Head. She later began performing with The Stunners. She has delivered Billboard-charting hits such as 2 On and has collaborated with the likes of Britney Spears.

Natalie Cole

Listed In: Singers

Birth Year: 1950

Birthplace: Los Angeles, California

Died: 2015

R&B and pop singer Natalie Cole, daughter of jazz pianist and singer Nat King Cole, is known for hits such as Inseparable and her cover of Pink Cadillac. The nine-time Grammy-winning artist soared to fame with the album Unforgettable... with Love, which sold more than 7 million copies.

Rip Torn

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1931

Birthplace: Temple, Texas, United States

Died: 2019

Rip Torn is best remembered for his Emmy-winning role of Arthur in The Larry Sanders Show and his Academy Award-nominated role of Marsh Turner in Cross Creek. Fans also loved him as Zed in the Men in Black franchise. He lent his voice to many animated films and video games.

Crystal Reed

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1985

Birthplace: Detroit, Michigan, United States

Crystal Reed soared to fame with her role of Allison Argent in the series Teen Wolf. She also played Sofia Falcone in Gotham and Abby Arcane in Swamp Thing. Some of her notable films are Crush and Skyline. She campaigned for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.

Dominic Sherwood

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1990

Birthplace: Tunbridge Wells, Kent

Height: 5'11" (180 cm)

Mike Farrell

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1939

Birthplace: Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States

Mike Farrell is an American actor known for playing, Captain B.J. Hunnicutt, in the popular war comedy-drama TV series, M*A*S*H. Farrell's journey from being born into a working-class family to becoming a famous Hollywood actor is quite inspiring. Also a political and social activist, Farrell has worked on several activist campaigns. In 2001, he was honored with PETA's Humanitarian Award.

Kathy Najimy

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1957

Birthplace: San Diego, California, United States

Kathy Najimy is best known for her Annie Award-winning voice role as Peggy Hill in King of the Hill. She initially gained fame for the play The Kathy and Mo Show. Fans loved her as Sister Mary Patrick in the Sister Act movies. She supports LGBT and women’s rights.

Nora Fatehi

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1992

Birthplace: Toronto, Canada

Nora Fatehi is a popular figure in the Indian film industry. Although born and raised in Canada. Nora has worked in Malayalam, Telugu, and Hindi language films. She was part of one of the highest-grossing Indian films ever - Baahubali: The Beginning. Apart from appearing in films, she has also made a mark in the TV industry.

Dane DeHaan

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1986

Birthplace: Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States

Dane DeHaan is best known for his award-winning role as Beat Generation member Lucien Carr in Kill Your Darlings. Fans also love him for his roles in Chronicle and The Amazing Spider-Man 2. He also won an Obie Award for his role in the play The Aliens.

Olena Zelenska

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1978

Birthplace: Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine

Tom Brokaw

Listed In: Media Personalities

Birth Year: 1940

Birthplace: Webster, South Dakota, United States

Height: 6'0" (183 cm)

Allison Holker

Listed In: Dancers

Birth Year: 1988

Birthplace: Anoka County, Minnesota, United States

Allison Holker is an American dancer known for appearing in the reality TV dance competition show, So You Think You Can Dance. She has also worked in several concert tours, films, and television series. In 2007, she was adjudged the National Senior Dancer of the Year. In 2013, she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination under the Outstanding Choreography category.

Leon Goretzka

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1995

Birthplace: Bochum, Germany

Height: 6'2" (188 cm)

François Truffaut

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1932

Birthplace: Paris, France

Died: 1984

François Truffaut was a French film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. He is credited to be one of the founders of the French New Wave. Beginning his career in the mid-1950s, he was active in the entertainment industry for close to three decades. His film The 400 Blows is considered a defining film of the French New Wave movement. 

Eva Braun

Listed In: Miscellaneous

Birth Year: 1912

Birthplace: Munich, Germany

Died: 1945

Eva Braun was a long-time companion of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. She was previously Nazi photographer Heinrich Hoffman’s assistant. Hitler and Eva got married just 40 hours before committing suicide together. Eva apparently ingested cyanide, while Hitler shot himself, at the Führerbunker, as the Red Army marched into Berlin.

Amy Robach

Listed In: Media Personalities

Birth Year: 1973

Birthplace: St. Joseph, Michigan, United States

ABC News presenter Amy Robach is known for hosting shows such as 20/20, Good Morning America, the Saturday edition of NBC's Today. She has also hosted shows on MSNBC. She is a breast cancer survivor. She once claimed her story on Jeffrey Epstein was deliberately blocked by ABC.

Michael Pollan

Listed In: Writers

Birth Year: 1955

Birthplace: Long Island, New York, United States

Author and journalist Michael Pollan is best known for his books such as The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food, which talk about the social impact of people’s culinary choices. He has also contributed to The New York Times Magazine and Harper's Magazine, and currently teaches journalism at UCB.

Neri Oxman

Listed In: Architects

Birth Year: 1976

Birthplace: Haifa

Neri Oxman is an American-Israeli designer best known for combining design, computing, biology, and materials engineering into art and architecture. She also serves as a professor at the MIT Media Lab, leading the Mediated Matter research group. Praised as one of the modern-time greats, Oxman was included in ICON's 20 Most Influential Architects to Shape Our Future list in 2009.

Thurl Ravenscroft

Listed In: Singers

Birth Year: 1914

Birthplace: Norfolk

Died: 2005

American actor and bass-singer Thurl Ravenscroft is best-remembered for providing deep bass-voice for breakfast-cereal icon Tony the Tiger for Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes breakfast-cereal for over five-decades and for creating and making popular the catchphrase "They're gr-r-reat!". Other notable works of Ravenscroft includes singing the Christmas song You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch and doing voice-over work and singing for Disney.  

Adam Weishaupt

Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics

Birth Year: 1748

Birthplace: Ingolstadt, Germany

Died: 1830

On a night in 1776, deep within a forest near Ingolstadt, German law professor Adam Weishaupt and four others formed a secret society known as the Illuminati, which was supposed to be a parallel to religion. Since then, many conspiracy theories have held the society responsible for unexplained global events. 

Fabian Forte

Listed In: Singers

Birth Year: 1943

Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Height: 6'0" (183 cm)

Anna Diop

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1988

Birthplace: Dakar, Senegal

Height: 5'8" (173 cm)

Isidor Straus

Listed In: Business People

Birth Year: 1845

Birthplace: Otterberg, Germany

Died: 1912

Gordon Downie

Listed In: Singers

Birth Year: 1964

Birthplace: Amherstview, Canada

Died: 2017

Height: 6'1" (185 cm)

Kevon Looney

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1996

Birthplace: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Height: 6'9" (206 cm)

Thomas C. Durant

Listed In: Business People

Birth Year: 1820

Birthplace: Lee, Massachusetts, United States

Died: 1885

Mamie Van Doren

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1931

Birthplace: Rowena, South Dakota, United States

Mamie Van Doren is an American former model, singer, and actress. Van Doren achieved popularity during the 1950s and is best known for her performance in the 1957 American teen film Untamed Youth. In 2005, she was honored with a Golden Palm Star. She also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Ramon Novarro

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1899

Birthplace: Durango, Mexico

Died: 1968

Ramon Novarro was a Mexican-American actor who went on to become one of the most bankable actors during the 1920s and early-1930s. Promoted as a Latin lover, Ramon Novarro was regarded as a sex symbol in Hollywood. His murder, which took place on October 30, 1968, inspired several works of art like short stories, songs, and TV series.

Nyck de Vries

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1995

Birthplace: Uitwellingerga, Netherlands

Height: 5'6" (168 cm)

Kevin Whately

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1951

Birthplace: Hexham, Northumberland, England

Height: 5'11" (180 cm)

Ida Straus

Listed In: Business People

Birth Year: 1849

Birthplace: Worms, Germany Worms, Germany

Died: 1912

Camilo Cienfuegos

Listed In: Leaders

Birth Year: 1932

Birthplace: Havana

Died: 1959

Camilo Cienfuegos was a Cuban revolutionary who was part of the 1956 Granma expedition alongside Che Guevara and Fidel Castro. He went on to become one of Fidel Castro's top guerrilla commanders and played an important role in winning the Battle of Yaguajay, which earned him the nickname Hero of Yaguajay. Camilo Cienfuegos is revered as a hero in Cuba.

J. E. B. Stuart

Listed In: Leaders

Birth Year: 1833

Birthplace: Patrick County, Virginia, United States

Died: 1864

Aviva Mongillo

Listed In: Singers

Birth Year: 1998

Birthplace: Ontario

Height: 5'5" (165 cm)

David Boyd

Listed In: Singers

Birth Year: 1988

Birthplace: Copenhagen, Denmark

Danish-American singer David Boyd soared to fame as the lead vocalist of the band New Politics. He has impressed his fans with his signature dance move, now known as Boyding. Married to actor Christian Serratos, he has even appeared as a zombie in The Walking Dead, which starred his wife.

Alice Greczyn

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1986

Birthplace: Walnut Creek, California Walnut Creek, California, U.S.

Jermaine Kearse

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1990

Birthplace: Lakewood, Washington, United States

Height: 6'1" (185 cm)

Rickey Thompson

Listed In: Social Media Stars

Birth Year: 1996

Birthplace: Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Height: 6'0" (183 cm)

Mary Leakey

Listed In: Scientists

Birth Year: 1913

Birthplace: London, England

Died: 1996

British paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey had exhibited her interest in drawing and archaeology as a kid. Most of her career was spent working alongside her husband, Louis Leakey. She was in charge of many excavation projects in Kenya. Her discoveries include the first Proconsul skull fossil and 15 new animal species.

Kim Zmeskal

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1976

Birthplace: Houston, Texas, United States

Kim Zmeskal is a retired artistic gymnast. She was the 1991 World All-Around champion and a member of the US team that competed in the 1991 World Championships and won a silver medal. She is also a three-time United States national all-around champion. She is currently a gymnastics coach and co-owns Texas Dreams Gymnastics with her husband, Chris. 

Claudio Arrau

Listed In: Musicians

Birth Year: 1903

Birthplace: Chillán, Chile

Died: 1991