Paul Revere

Listed In: Leaders

Birth Year: 1735

Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Died: 1818

Paul Revere was a silversmith from Boston and a Patriot in the American Revolution who is remembered for alerting his fellow Patriots, during a midnight ride, about the approaching British forces prior to the battles of Lexington and Concord. He remains immortalized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem Paul Revere's Ride.

Colin Morgan

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1986

Birthplace: Armagh, Northern Ireland

Colin Morgan is best known for his multiple-award-winning performance in Merlin. He made waves with his theater performances and has also narrated several audiobooks and documentaries. He was seen in the series Humans and The Fall, and the movies Benjamin and Island. He hates social media and practices ethical consumerism.

Morris Chestnut

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1969

Birthplace: Cerritos, California, United States

Actor Morris Chestnut is best known for his role in the film Boyz n the Hood. Beginning his career as a young man, he appeared in a few TV shows before venturing into films. He steadily evolved as an actor and went on to co-star alongside major actors in big-budget films. He has co-authored a book on health and fitness.

J. D. Salinger

Listed In: Writers

Birth Year: 1919

Birthplace: Manhattan, New York, United States

Died: 2010

J. D. Salinger is best remembered for his controversial novel The Catcher in the Rye, which was banned in many school libraries due to its sexual content. His other notable works include the anthology Nine Stories and the novella Hapworth. He spent much of his life in seclusion. 

Angourie Rice

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 2001

Birthplace: Perth, Australia

Height: 5'3" (160 cm)

That Poppy

Listed In: Musicians

Birth Year: 1995

Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Dana Andrews

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1909

Birthplace: Collins, Mississippi, United States

Died: 1992

Dana Andrews was an American actor who achieved popularity during the 1940s. His film career declined in the 1950s, partly due to alcoholism, which he eventually overcame by working with the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence. Later in his life, he started focusing on his real estate business. He died of pneumonia and congestive heart failure in 1992.

Eiichiro Oda

Listed In: Artists & Painters

Birth Year: 1975

Birthplace: Kumamoto, Kumamoto Prefecture

Eiichiro Oda is a Japanese manga artist best known as the creator of the series One Piece. The series is both the best-selling manga and the best-selling comic series of all time. He decided to become a manga artist as a child and began working as an assistant manga artist as a teenager, quickly gaining fame and fortune. 

Charlie Munger

Listed In: Business People

Birth Year: 1924

Birthplace: Omaha, Nebraska, United States

Died: 2023

Charlie Munger is an American businessman, investor, architectural designer, and former real estate attorney. Over the years, he has played an important role as the vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway. A well-known philanthropist, Charlie Munger has donated millions of dollars to universities and schools.

E. M. Forster

Listed In: Writers

Birth Year: 1879

Birthplace: Marylebone, London, United Kingdom

Died: 1970

Best known for his iconic novels Howard’s End and A Passage to India, British author E. M. Forster dealt with themes such as class division and gender. Born in England and educated at Cambridge, he had also spent some time as a secretary to Maharaja Tukojirao III of India.

Jerry Yan

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1977

Birthplace: Taoyuan City, Taiwan

Jerry Yan is a Taiwanese actor and model best known for playing Dao Ming Si in the popular Taiwanese drama Meteor Garden and its sequel Meteor Garden II. Also renowned for his singing skills, Jerry is a former member of a boy band named F4. Over the years, Jerry Yan has won several awards, such as Mnet Asian Music Award.

Derrick Thomas

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1967

Birthplace: Miami, Florida, USA

Died: 2000

Height: 6'3" (190 cm)

Hamza Bendelladj

Listed In: Engineers

Birth Year: 1988

Birthplace: Tizi Ouzou, Algeria

Stepan Bandera

Listed In: Leaders

Birth Year: 1909

Birthplace: Staryi Uhryniv, Ukraine

Died: 1959

Noor Inayat Khan

Listed In: Miscellaneous

Birth Year: 1914

Birthplace: Moscow, Russia

Died: 1944

Noor Inayat Khan was a British spy who served in a secret British World War II organization called Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the war. She was also the first female radio operator to be sent into occupied France from the UK to aid the French Resistance. She was subsequently caught and executed at a Nazi concentration camp.

Lilian Thuram

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1972

Birthplace: Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe, France

French former footballer Lilian Thuram, who is now a renowned author, with books on racism such as White Thinking to his credit. His 142 appearances for the French national team made him the most capped player of his country, while he was part of the 1998 FIFA World Cup-winning squad.

Frank Langella

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1938

Birthplace: Bayonne, New Jersey, United States

Frank Langella is an actor most revered in the American theatre industry where he has won four Tony Awards. He then replicated his success in the film and TV industry, appearing in popular movies and TV series. His memoir, Dropped Names, attracted critical appreciation, with some even calling it a celebration of sluttiness as a noble way of life.

Anand Kumar

Listed In: Miscellaneous

Birth Year: 1973

Birthplace: Patna, Bihar, India

Anand Kumar is an Indian educator who teaches mathematics. He is renowned for his educational program called Super 30, which selects 30 economically underprivileged candidates and trains them for IIT-JEE, potentially giving them an opportunity to get into the Indian Institutes of Technology. His life and career inspired the film Super 30, in which Anand Kumar's character was played by Hrithik Roshan.

Paolo Guerrero

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1984

Birthplace: Lima, Peru

Height: 6'1" (185 cm)

Gary Johnson

Listed In: Leaders

Birth Year: 1953

Birthplace: Minot, North Dakota, United States

Height: 6'2" (188 cm)

Elin Nordegren

Listed In: Fashion

Birth Year: 1980

Birthplace: Stockholm, Sweden

Elin Nordegren, former wife of golfer Tiger Woods, initially worked as a model, appearing on the cover of Cafe Sport. She met Tiger while working as a nanny for golfer Jesper Parnevik. In 2010, following a massive cheating scandal and her divorce from Tiger, Elin received $100 million as settlement.

Davor Šuker

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1968

Birthplace: Osijek, Croatia

Legendary Croatian former footballer Davor Šuker has also headed the Croatian Football Federation as its president. His illustrious career saw him spend successful stints at both Real Madrid and Arsenal. He was also part of the 1998 FIFA World Cup third place-winning Croatian squad and remains Croatia’s all-time top goal-scorer.

Grandmaster Flash

Listed In: Singers

Birth Year: 1958

Birthplace: Barbados, British West Indies [now Barbados]

Diamond White

Listed In: Singers

Birth Year: 1999

Birthplace: Los Angeles, California

Height: 5'2" (157 cm)

Jonas Armstrong

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1981

Birthplace: Dublin, Republic of Ireland

While he gained fame as the titular character in BBC’s Robin Hood, Irish-born actor Jonas Armstrong also broke his foot while filming a fight scene for the series. Blessed with a penchant for mastering different accents, he has bagged plum roles in series such as Ripper Street and The Drowning.

Rocky Graziano

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1919

Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Died: 1990

Height: 5'7" (170 cm)

Sophie McShera

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1985

Birthplace: Bradford, West Yorkshire, England

Height: 5'3" (160 cm)

Chiune Sugihara

Listed In: Miscellaneous

Birth Year: 1900

Birthplace: Kozuchi Town (now Mino, Gifu Prefecture), Japan

Died: 1986

Chiune Sugihara was a Japanese diplomat best remembered for helping thousands of Jews flee Europe during the Second World War. He did so by issuing transit visas to the Jews, enabling them to travel through Japanese territory. Sugihara helped the Jews despite knowing that he was risking the lives of his family and his job. 

Anthony Wayne

Listed In: Leaders

Birth Year: 1745

Birthplace: Easttown Township, Pennsylvania, United States

Died: 1796

Carole Landis

Listed In: Writers

Birth Year: 1919

Birthplace: Fairchild, Wisconsin, USA

Died: 1948

Height: 5'7" (170 cm)

Alfred Stieglitz

Listed In: Photographers

Birth Year: 1864

Birthplace: Hoboken

Died: 1946

Satyendra Nath Bose

Listed In: Scientists

Birth Year: 1894

Birthplace: Kolkata, India

Died: 1974

Best known for working with Albert Einstein to form Bose–Einstein statistics, Indian scientist Satyendra Nath Bose was a master of quantum mechanics. He played the esraj, loved poetry, and had mastered quite a few languages. The Padma Vibhushan winner was also made a Fellow of The Royal Society.

Sergei Korolev

Listed In: Engineers

Birth Year: 1907

Birthplace: Zhytomyr, Ukraine

Died: 1966

Sergei Korolev was a Soviet spacecraft designer and rocket engineer who played an important role during the Space Race between the Soviet Union and the United States of America in the 1950s and 1960s. He was largely responsible for developing the R-7 Rocket and launching Yuri Gagarin into space. Sergei Korolev also launched Belka, Strelka, and Laika into space.

Neil Connery

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1938

Birthplace: Edinburgh, Scotland

Died: 2021

Neil Connery, younger brother of legendary actor Sean Connery, made his movie debut with the film O.K. Connery, also known as Operation Kid Brother, which was modeled on James Bond films. He was also part of the Hong Kong film Aces Go Places 3, a secret agent comedy.

Stanley Kamel

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1943

Birthplace: South River, New Jersey, United States

Died: 2008

Huldrych Zwingli

Listed In: Miscellaneous

Birth Year: 1484

Birthplace: Wildhaus, Switzerland

Died: 1531

Huldrych Zwingli was a Swiss pastor who played an important role in the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland. Also a well-known scholar and humanist, Zwingli was popular with the masses. Although he is remembered as a stern reformer, he had a great sense of humor; he often used puns, satiric fables, and spoofing in his writings.

Jack Wilshere

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1992

Birthplace: Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England

Height: 5'8" (173 cm)

Pierre de Coubertin

Listed In: Miscellaneous

Birth Year: 1863

Birthplace: Paris

Died: 1937

Pierre de Coubertin was a French historian and educator. Credited with founding the International Olympic Committee, Coubertin is often referred to as the father of the modern Olympic Games. Also an important contributor to the sport of rugby union, Coubertin was inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame in 2007. 

Manuel Roxas

Listed In: Leaders

Birth Year: 1892

Birthplace: Roxas City, Philippines

Died: 1948

Manuel Roxas was a Filipino politician who served as the president of the Philippines from 1946 to 1948. He also served as the first president of the Third Philippine Republic after the USA relinquished its supremacy over the Philippines. Regarded as an important politician in the history of the Philippines, Roxas is depicted on the 100 Peso banknote. 

Basil L. Plumley

Listed In: Leaders

Birth Year: 1920

Birthplace: Shady Spring, West Virginia, United States

Died: 2012

Xavier Cugat

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1900

Birthplace: Girona, Catalonia, Spain

Died: 1990

Xavier Cugat was a Spanish musician and bandleader. He studied classical violin as a child and began working in silent films to support his family. He grew up to become a successful musician and played a leading role in the spread of Latin music. Besides music, he was also a cartoonist and a restaurateur. He was married five times. 

Golda Rosheuvel

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1972

Birthplace: Guyana

Meryl Davis

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1987

Birthplace: Royal Oak, Michigan, United States

Height: 5'3" (160 cm)

Shane Carruth

Listed In: Musicians

Birth Year: 1972

Birthplace: Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, United States

Height: 5'9" (175 cm)

Hank Greenberg

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1911

Birthplace: Greenwich Village, New York, United States

Died: 1986

Height: 6'4" (193 cm)

Wilhelm Canaris

Listed In: Leaders

Birth Year: 1877

Birthplace: Germany

Died: 1945

While Wilhelm Canaris became one of Hitler’s most trusted secret agents, he was actually supplying information to Britain all along. He went down in history as a man who was hanged twice for treason, first as part of torture for a few moments, and then for good.

Fernando Tatis

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1975

Birthplace: San Pedro De Macoris, Dominican Republic

Height: 6'3" (190 cm)

Jimmy Hart

Listed In: Musicians

Birth Year: 1943

Birthplace: Jackson, Mississippi, United States

Known to his fans as The Mouth of the South, Jimmy Hart is a popular wrestling manage who works for WWE. As a teenager, he had joined the 60s’ band The Gentrys, which released the Billboard-charting track Keep on Dancing. He has also been the man behind many wrestlers’ entrance themes.

Darius Slay

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1991

Birthplace: Brunswick, Georgia, United States

Height: 6'0" (183 cm)

Mohammad Nabi

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1985

Birthplace: Logar, Afghanistan

Height: 6'0" (183 cm)