Gordon Ramsay

Listed In: Food Experts

Birth Year: 1966

Birthplace: Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland

A celebrated chef and restaurateur, British national Gordon Ramsay is also a writer and television personality. His TV shows about competitive cookery and food is quite popular. The Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, in Chelsea, is his signature restaurant. Known for his bluntness, short temper and strict manner, Ramsay has historically expressed a dislike for vegetarianism and veganism.

Can Yaman

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1989

Birthplace: Istanbul, Turkey

Height: 6'2" (188 cm)

Alfre Woodard

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1952

Birthplace: Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States

Alfre Woodard is an American actress. Considered one of the most accomplished and versatile actresses of her generation, Woodard was named in The New York Times' The 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century list in 2020. Also a political activist, Woodard is credited with founding Artists for a New South Africa, which aims at advancing equality in South Africa.

Parker Posey

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1968

Birthplace: Baltimore

Parker Posey, also known as the “Queen of the Indies,” is best known for her work with Christopher Guest in his mockumentaries such as Waiting for Guffman and A Mighty Wind. Audiences also loved her in the series Lost in Space and Hell on Heels: The Battle of Mary Kay.

SZA

Listed In: Singers

Birth Year: 1989

Birthplace: St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Solána Imani Rowe, popularly known as SZA, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. While SZA's music incorporates elements of hip hop, soul, cloud rap, and chillwave, her songs revolve around themes of abandonment, nostalgia, and sexuality. A recipient of BMI Awards and NAACP Image Awards, SZA has also received nominations for an Academy Award and nine Grammy Awards.

Minnie Riperton

Listed In: Singers

Birth Year: 1947

Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, United States

Died: 1979

Tech N9ne

Listed In: Singers

Birth Year: 1971

Birthplace: Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Rapper Aaron Dontez Yates, better known as Tech N9ne, formed the record label Strange Music with Travis O'Guin. His stage name was inspired by a TEC-9 semi-automatic handgun gifted to him by rapper Black Walt. His music has been featured in video games, TV shows, and films.

Bram Stoker

Listed In: Writers

Birth Year: 1847

Birthplace: Clontarf, Dublin, Ireland

Died: 1912

Irish author Bram Stoker wrote the iconic Gothic novel Dracula, which has inspired scores of movies over the years. The Victorian-era author also served as the personal assistant of actor Sir Henry Irving and managed the Lyceum Theatre, which was owned by Irving. He had also written many short stories.

David Muir

Listed In: Media Personalities

Birth Year: 1973

Birthplace: Syracuse, New York

Multiple Emmy- and Edward R. Murrow Award-winning anchor David Muir is best known as a co-host of 20/20 and ABC's World News. His coverage of the 9/11 attacks earned him a National Headliner Award. One of the most-watched U.S. journalists, he was named to People's 2014 Sexiest Men Alive list. 

Bonnie Raitt

Listed In: Musicians

Birth Year: 1949

Birthplace: Burbank, California, United States

Bonnie Raitt is a singer-songwriter, guitarist, and activist. Despite little commercial success at the beginning of her career, Raitt remained persistent until she had her first major hit in 1989. She has been named in Rolling Stone magazine's 100 Greatest Singers of All Time and 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time lists. She also supports organizations like Little Kids Rock.

Masashi Kishimoto

Listed In: Artists & Painters

Birth Year: 1974

Birthplace: Nagi, Okayama Prefecture

Japanese manga artist Masashi Kishimoto is best known for creating the manga series Naruto for the Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine. The series eventually led to several anime, video games, and movies, such as Boruto: Naruto the Movie and The Last: Naruto the Movie, supervised by Kishimoto. 

Courtney Thorne-Smith

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1967

Birthplace: San Francisco, California, United States

Courtney Thorne-Smith is best known for her performances as Alison Parker in Melrose Place, as Georgia Thomas in Ally McBeal, and as Lyndsey McElroy in Two and a Half Men. She has also written a novel named Outside In and has been a spokesperson for the Atkins diet.

Tara Reid

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1975

Birthplace: Wyckoff, New Jersey, United States

Tara Reid is best known as Vicky from the American Pie movies and Bunny Lebowski from The Big Lebowski. Fans also loved her as April in the TV film Sharknado and its sequels. She appeared in her own travel show, Taradise, and in the eighth season of Celebrity Big Brother.

Esther Rolle

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1920

Birthplace: Pompano Beach, Florida, United States

Died: 1998

Height: 5'7" (170 cm)

Jessica Lowndes

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1988

Birthplace: Vancouver, Canada

Height: 5'4" (163 cm)

Daniel Middleton

Listed In: YouTubers

Birth Year: 1991

Birthplace: Aldershot, Hampshire, England

Daniel Middleton is a British gamer and YouTuber. He is best known for his interesting video game commentaries. Some of his most favorite video games include Pokémon, Roblox, and Minecraft. In 2015, Daniel Middleton was named among the world's most popular YouTubers by viewership. He has also received several Kids' Choice Awards.  

Gretchen Mol

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1972

Birthplace: Deep River, Connecticut, United States

Kazuo Ishiguro

Listed In: Writers

Birth Year: 1954

Birthplace: Nagasaki, Japan

Nobel Prize-winning British-Asian author Sir Kazuo Ishiguro also won the Man Booker Prize for the novel The Remains of the Day. Time named his Never Let Me Go the best novel of 2005. He has also penned several screenplays and songs, and is known for his signature first-person narrative style.

Jack Osbourne

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1985

Birthplace: London, England

Jack Osbourne, son of legendary heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne, gained fame with the reality show The Osbournes. He is a fitness enthusiast and a travel reporter, and has hosted shows such as Saving Planet Earth and Jack Osbourne: Adrenaline Junkie. In 2012, he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. 

Martha Gellhorn

Listed In: Writers

Birth Year: 1908

Birthplace: St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Died: 1998

Dania Ramirez

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1979

Birthplace: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Dominican-American actor Dania Ramirez is best known as Maya Herrera from Heroes, Blanca from The Sopranos, and Alex from Entourage. She has also appeared in films such as X-Men: The Last Stand and series such as Once Upon a Time. A model, too, she has appeared on various magazine covers.

Margaret Mitchell

Listed In: Writers

Birth Year: 1900

Birthplace: Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Died: 1949

Christiaan Barnard

Listed In: Physicians

Birth Year: 1922

Birthplace: Beaufort West, South Africa

Died: 2001

Born to a preacher father of modest means, Christiaan Barnard completed his medical school on scholarships. In December 1967, he revolutionized medical science by performing the first human heart transplant by transplanting 25-year-old accident victim Denise Darvall’s heart into 53-year-old chronic heart patient grocer Louis Washkansky.

Michael Nyqvist

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1960

Birthplace: Stockholm, Sweden

Died: 2017

Swedish actor Michael Nyqvist is best remembered as Daniel Daréus from the Academy Award for Foreign Language Film-nominated movie As It Is in Heaven. He also played significant roles in the series Beck and Millennium, and the film Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. He died of lung cancer at 56.

Aaron Swartz

Listed In: Business People

Birth Year: 1986

Birthplace: Chicago

Died: 2013

Aaron Swartz was an internet hacktivist, best remembered for creating the web feed RSS, Markdown, and Creative Commons. He also worked with Reddit and founded Demand Progress, which supports internet freedom. He was later charged with computer fraud after breaking into a system at MIT and eventually died by suicide.

Norman Lloyd

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1914

Birthplace: Jersey City, New Jersey, United States

Died: 2021

Norman Lloyd is known for his long association with Alfred Hitchcock, especially as a producer of the anthology series Alfred Hitchcock Presents. He appeared as Mr. Nolan in Dead Poets Society and as Dr. Daniel Auschlander in St. Elsewhere. He has also appeared in several Cavalcade of America radio plays.

Bobby Bowden

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1929

Birthplace: Birmingham, Alabama

Died: 2021

Dorothy Day

Listed In: Activists

Birth Year: 1897

Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Died: 1980

Dorothy Day was an American social activist, journalist, and anarchist. She is best remembered for co-founding the Catholic Worker Movement along with French activist Peter Maurin. She also co-founded a newspaper called Catholic Worker and served as its editor between 1933 and 1980. In 2001, Dorothy Day was made an inductee of the National Women's Hall of Fame.

Lauren Alaina

Listed In: Singers

Birth Year: 1994

Birthplace: Rossville, Georgia, U.S.

Darla Hood

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1931

Birthplace: Leedey, Oklahoma, United States

Died: 1979

Height: 5'1" (155 cm)

Jade Pettyjohn

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 2000

Birthplace: Los Angeles, CA

Little Fires Everywhere fame Jade Pettyjohn performed in children's song and dance troupe before making her way into films and television. She was also a part of the crime drama thriller series Big Sky. 

Mary Hart

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1950

Birthplace: Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA

Height: 5'5" (165 cm)

Jayne Marie Mansfield

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1950

Birthplace: Dallas, Texas, USA

Christie Hefner

Listed In: Business People

Birth Year: 1952

Birthplace: Wilmette, Illinois, United States

Jasmine Thompson

Listed In: Singers

Birth Year: 2000

Birthplace: London, England

Morley Safer

Listed In: Media Personalities

Birth Year: 1931

Birthplace: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Died: 2016

Morley Safer was a Canadian-American journalist and correspondent for CBS News. He is best remembered for his tenure on the popular television news broadcast 60 Minutes. Safer is credited with contributing to the success of 60 Minutes, which is the most profitable and most-watched program in television history. During his 60-year career, Morley Safer received several awards including 12 Emmys.

Patti Page

Listed In: Musicians

Birth Year: 1927

Birthplace: Claremore, Oklahoma, United States

Died: 2013

Height: 5'4" (163 cm)

Rickie Lee Jones

Listed In: Musicians

Birth Year: 1954

Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Edmond Halley

Listed In: Scientists

Birth Year: 1656

Birthplace: Haggerston, London, England

Died: 1742

Edmond Halley was an English astronomer and mathematician who was mainly concerned with practical applications of science. He abandoned college education to travel to St. Helena. He published catalogue of 341 southern stars with telescopically determined locations. Known for his wide range of interest, he helped Newton to publish his magnum opus,  Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica. He used Newton's Law of Motion to compute periodicty of Halley’s Comet.

Ken Dodd

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1927

Birthplace: Knotty Ash, Liverpool, England

Died: 2018

Primarily known for his stand-up comedies, Ken Dodd was also a celebrated actor and singer. Working mainly as a solo comedian, he became noted for his rapid delivery of one liner jokes, often interspersed with songs. Over his long career spanning more than six decades, he had also appeared in numerous television productions and had released many hit albums.

Kaniehtiio Horn

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1986

Birthplace: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Kaniehtiio Horn is a Canadian actress best known for her portrayal of Kayleigh in the television film Moccasin Flats: Redemption, for which she received a Gemini Award nomination. Although she focused on water polo and swimming as a teenager, Horn went on to become an actress. She is also known for voicing a couple of video game characters.

Alain Delon

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1935

Birthplace: Sceaux, France

Died: 2024

Alain Delon is a French actor, screenwriter, singer, filmmaker, and businessman. One of the most prominent actors and sex symbols in Europe during the 1960s and 1970s, Delon achieved critical acclaim for his performance in films like Rocco and His Brothers. In 1985, he was honored with the prestigious César Award for his portrayal of Robert Avranches in Our Story.

Sam Bradford

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1987

Birthplace: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States

Height: 6'4" (193 cm)

Leif Garrett

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1961

Birthplace: Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States

Height: 5'8" (173 cm)

Keith Lee

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1984

Birthplace: Wichita Falls, Texas, United States

Height: 6'2" (188 cm)

George Dantzig

Listed In: Scientists

Birth Year: 1914

Birthplace: Portland, Oregon, United States

Died: 2005

Mathematician George Dantzig, known for his research on linear programming, was the first to develop the simplex method. The National Medal of Science winner was the son of mathematician and linguist Tobias Dantzig. He was associated with RAND Corporation and also taught computer science and operations research at Stanford.

Virna Lisi

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1936

Birthplace: Ancona, Italy

Died: 2014

Height: 5'5" (165 cm)

Julian of Norwich

Listed In: Miscellaneous

Birth Year: 1342

Birthplace: Norwich, England

Died: 1416

Jenny Boyd

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1947

Birthplace: Guildford, Surrey, England, UK

Height: 5'5" (165 cm)

Matthew Rhys

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1974

Birthplace: Cardiff, Wales

His work in two television dramas—as a KGB sleeper agent, Philip Jennings in The Americans and a gay lawyer, Kevin Walker in Brothers & Sisters—turned Welsh actor, Matthew Rhys Evans into a well-known name. Earlier, the Primetime Emmy Award winner actor studied at London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and gained recognition with the movie, Titus.