Alan Rickman

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1946

Birthplace: Hammersmith, London, England

Died: 2016

One of the most admired British actors, Alan Rickman gained global recognition for his work on stage and screen. The late actor excelled at portraying villainous characters especially in movies like Die Hard, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny. Other notable works of the versatile actor include Harry Potter film series and Truly, Madly, Deeply.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1979

Birthplace: Waco, Texas, United States

Considered a popular sex symbol, Jennifer Love Hewitt serves as an icon to an entire generation; a famous magazine stated that every girl wanted to emulate her, while boys had posters of her on their wall. Apart from being a popular actress, she is also a successful singer, having released studio albums, such as BareNaked.

Jordan Peele

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1979

Birthplace: New York, United States

Height: 5'7" (170 cm)

Nina Simone

Listed In: Singers

Birth Year: 1933

Birthplace: Tryon, North Carolina, United States

Died: 2003

Widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Nina Simone was a pioneering recording artist whose career was characterized by improvisational genius and fits of outrage. Nina continues to be an important musician and has influenced several artists like Elton John, Adele, David Bowie, Madonna, and Aretha Franklin. She was also a civil rights activist.

Kelsey Grammer

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1955

Birthplace: Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands

One of the longest performing actors in a series, Kelsey Grammer is most noted for his two-decade long portrayal of Dr.Frasier Crane in the global hit series, Cheers, and its spin-off, Fraiser. From performing in Broadway productions of Shakespearean dramas to voice acting for beloved children’s animations, The Simpsons, and Toy Story 2, Grammer has proved his versatility and talent.

Rue McClanahan

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1934

Birthplace: Healdton, Oklahoma, United States

Died: 2010

Rue McClanahan was an actress and comedian. Apart from being an actress, McClanahan was also an animal welfare advocate and one of the first celebrity patrons of the popular animal rights organization, PETA. She also supported nonprofit organizations, such as Alley Cat Allies. A woman ahead of her time, Rue McClanahan was a supporter of same-sex marriage and gay rights.

Katie McGrath

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1983

Birthplace: Ashford, Ireland

Katie McGrath is an Irish actress known for playing important roles in popular TV series like Merlin, Dracula, Supergirl, and Frontier. Her journey from being a wardrobe assistant on the set of a television series titled The Tudors to becoming an actress after being advised to try her hand at acting is quite inspirational.

Mélanie Laurent

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1983

Birthplace: Paris, France

French actor Mélanie Laurent shot to fame with her Étoiles d'Or-winning role in Dikkenek and her César Award-winning performance in Don't Worry, I'm Fine. She made her Hollywood debut with Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, and was also seen in Now You See Me. She has also released a music album.

Ashley Greene

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1987

Birthplace: Jacksonville, Florida, United States

Ashley Greene is an American actress best known for portraying Alice Cullen in The Twilight Saga. Also known for her good looks, Greene has been featured on magazines like the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition. She has also been honored by PETA for supporting Avon's no testing on animals’ policy.

Tyne Daly

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1946

Birthplace: Madison, Wisconsin

Tyne Daly won four of her six Emmys for her portrayal of Mary Beth Lacey in Cagney & Lacey. She is known for her roles in Judging Amy and Christy, too. She is also a Tony-winning stage actor, known for her works in the Broadway productions Gypsy and Rabbit Hole. 

Joe Alwyn

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1991

Birthplace: London, England, United Kingdom

Joe Alwyn is an English actor, best known for his performance in films like Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk and Harriet. Since 2016, he has been in a relationship with Taylor Swift whose studio albums, such as Reputation, Lover, and Folklore, have songs dedicated to Joe Alwyn.

Corbin Bleu

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1989

Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Corbin Bleu, who appeared in television commercials right at the age of two is an American actor, dancer and singer who starred in the movies Catch That Kid, Jump In and Free Style. He is also a film producer, songwriter and dancer who finished runner-up in the Dancing with the Stars show aired on ABC. He is associated with 'Do Somethin'g organisation.

Hayley Orrantia

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1994

Birthplace: Arlington, Texas, United States

Actress, singer, and songwriter Hayley Orrantia became internationally famous following her role in the comedy series The Goldbergs. Interested in acting and singing from childhood, she began professionally training at the age of 12. She began acting when she was 17 and started her singing career simultaneously. She is an ambassador for the Texas Music Project.

Charlotte Church

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1986

Birthplace: Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales

Charlotte Church is a Welsh actress, singer-songwriter, political activist, and television presenter. She achieved popularity after hosting her own chat show for Channel 4, The Charlotte Church Show. As a recording artist, Church has won many awards, including a Hollywood Reporters Young Star Award and Classical BRIT Award. She has also published an autobiography named Voice of an Angel.  

William Petersen

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1953

Birthplace: Evanston, Illinois, United States

William Petersen is best known for his SAG Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated role of Gil Grissom in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and also earned three Emmy nominations for producing the show. He has also appeared in the film To Live and Die in L.A. and is an avid stage actor.

William Baldwin

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1963

Birthplace: Massapequa, New York, United States

William Baldwin, the third-oldest of the four Baldwin brothers of Hollywood, was a wrestler in his varsity days. He gained fame with his roles in films such as Sliver and Flatliners. He also played major roles in the TV film The Craigslist Killer and the series Parenthood and Northern Rescue.

Chuck Palahniuk

Listed In: Writers

Birth Year: 1962

Birthplace: Pasco, Washington, United States

Freelance journalist and author Chuck Palahniuk specializes in what he calls transgressional fiction. His popular novel Fight Club was adapted into a film starring Brad Pitt and also won awards such as the Oregon Book Award for Best Novel. Though critics call his books nihilistic, he himself calls them romantic.

Mark Kelly

Listed In: Leaders

Birth Year: 1964

Birthplace: Orange, New Jersey, United States

Mark Kelly is a businessman, politician, retired U.S. Navy captain, and former astronaut. He is the current junior US Senator from Arizona. As a naval aviator, he played a major role during the Gulf War where he flew combat missions after which he was chosen as a NASA Space Shuttle pilot. In 2008, he commanded the Space Shuttle mission STS-124.

Douglas Bader

Listed In: Miscellaneous

Birth Year: 1910

Birthplace: London, England, United Kingdom

Died: 1982

Sir Douglas Bader was a RAF pilot during World War II. Although he lost both his legs in an aerobatics accident in 1931, he recovered and rejoined the RAF. Following the war, he joined the oil industry. The film and book Reach for the Sky details his life.

Tituss Burgess

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1979

Birthplace: Athens, Georgia, United States

Scott Kelly

Listed In: Miscellaneous

Birth Year: 1964

Birthplace: City of Orange, New Jersey, United States

Scott Kelly is an American engineer, retired naval aviator, and astronaut. He is credited with commanding the International Space Station on three Expeditions. Scott Kelly is the recipient of several awards and honors, such as the NASA Distinguished Service Medal and National Defense Service Medal.

W. H. Auden

Listed In: Writers

Birth Year: 1907

Birthplace: York, England, United Kingdom

Died: 1973

W. H. Auden was an Anglo-American poet. His poetry was noted for its technical achievement and versatility. He wrote poems on love, political and social themes, and cultural and psychological themes. Throughout his career, Auden was both influential and controversial. His personal life also attracted attention as he had sexual relationships with men, which was unusual at the time.

Anthony Daniels

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1946

Birthplace: Salisbury, Wiltshire, England

Best known as C-3PO from the Star Wars film franchise, Anthony Daniels remains the only actor to have appeared in all films, shows, video games, and spin-offs of the franchise. Ironically, he hated science-fiction movies in his youth and had walked out of the theater while watching 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Martinus Gunnarsen

Listed In: Singers

Birth Year: 2002

Birthplace: lverum, Norway

Martinus Gunnarsen is a Norwegian singer and one-half of the famous pop duo, Marcus & Martinus. Along with his twin brother Marcus, Martinus has released three successful studio albums to date. All their albums peaked at number one on VG-lista, a Norwegian record chart. In 2018, the brothers won the MAD Video Music Award under the Best International Act category.

Metawin Opas-iamkajorn

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1999

Birthplace: Bangkok, Thailand

Height: 6'1" (185 cm)

Chespirito

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1929

Birthplace: Mexico City, Mexico

Died: 2014

Mexican comedian Roberto Gómez Bolaños became a cultural icon with his show Chespirito, which also starred him as the titular character and thus made him adopt Chespirito as his stage name later. He was a boxer before venturing into entertainment and had even dropped out of an engineering course.

Kim Coates

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1958

Birthplace: Saskatoon, Canada

Canadian-American actor Kim Coates is best known as Alexander "Tig" Trager from the series Sons of Anarchy. He also played Stanley Kowalski in the Broadway play A Streetcar Named Desire and appeared as Macbeth at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. He is also associated with the non-profit One Heart Source.

John Lewis

Listed In: Leaders

Birth Year: 1940

Birthplace: Alabama, United States

Died: 2020

Popularly known as one of the Big Six—leaders of six important civil rights organizations who masterminded the Great March on Washington in 1963—John Lewis played an important role in the civil rights movement that eventually ended racial segregation in the US. Also a statesman, Lewis was honored with many awards, such as the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Anais Nin

Listed In: Writers

Birth Year: 1903

Birthplace: Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris, France

Died: 1977

French-Cuban-American diarist, essayist, and novelist Anais Nin wrote several volumes of journals, erotica, novels, critical studies, essays, and short stories. Her journals and diaries are among her most studied works. She had a deep interest in psychoanalysis and studied it extensively with René Allendy and Otto Rank. Critics consider her one of the finest writers of female erotica.

Ann Sheridan

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1915

Birthplace: Denton, Texas, USA

Died: 1967

Height: 5'5" (165 cm)

Christopher Atkins

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1961

Birthplace: Rye, New York, United States

Height: 5'10" (178 cm)

Abhijit Banerjee

Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics

Birth Year: 1961

Birthplace: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Born to economics professor parents, Abhijit Banerjee grew up in India before he moved to the U.S. to study at Harvard. He later taught at Harvard and Princeton and is now associated with MIT. His studies on the ways of reducing world poverty won him a Nobel Prize.

Floor Jansen

Listed In: Singers

Birth Year: 1981

Birthplace: Goirle, Netherlands

Floor Jansen is a Dutch singer best known for her association with the Finnish band Nightwish. She is also widely known for her role in the popular TV program Beste Zangers. In 2018, she was honored with the Buma Rocks! Export prize. In 2020, Floor Jansen won the Popprijs at the Noorderslag festival.

Aunjanue L. Ellis

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1969

Birthplace: San Francisco, California, United States

Height: 5'9" (175 cm)

Kang Ha-neul

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1990

Birthplace: Busan, South Korea

South Korean actor Kang Ha-neul soared to fame with his roles in series such as The Heirs, Angel Eyes, and Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo, and films such as Mourning Grave, Twenty, and Midnight Runners. He was named to the Forbes Korea Power Celebrity list in 2020.

Barbara Jordan

Listed In: Activists

Birth Year: 1936

Birthplace: Houston

Died: 1996

Mary Chapin Carpenter

Listed In: Musicians

Birth Year: 1958

Birthplace: Princeton, New Jersey, United States

Chunkz

Listed In: YouTubers

Birth Year: 1996

Birthplace: England

English YouTuber and musician Amin Mohamed, better known as Chunkz, soared to fame as a member of the YouTube collaborative group Beta Squad. He has also co-hosted The Aphetor Games and #SaturdaySocial. He has also worked on a voice app and released tracks such as Clean Up.

Gary Lockwood

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1937

Birthplace: Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California, United States

Height: 6'2" (188 cm)

Eoin Macken

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1983

Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland

Height: 5'11" (180 cm)

Sam Peckinpah

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1925

Birthplace: Fresno, California, United States

Died: 1984

Height: 5'9" (175 cm)

Marcus Gunnarsen

Listed In: Singers

Birth Year: 2002

Birthplace: Trofors, Norway

Marcus Gunnarsen is one half of the Norwegian pop-duo M&M, the other half being his twin brother, Martinus. They participated in and won the eleventh season of Melodi Grand Prix Junior in 2012. Their debut studio album Hei peaked at number 1 on the Norwegian Albums Chart. The twins have also appeared in a few TV shows and films. 

John Henry Newman

Listed In: Writers

Birth Year: 1801

Birthplace: London, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland United Kingdom

Died: 1890

An important figure in the English religious history, John Henry Newman was a nineteenth century theologian, scholar and poet. Famed for leading the Oxford movement in the Church of England, he later switched to the Roman Catholic Church, eventually becoming the Cardinal Deacon of St. George in Velabro.  Also an influential educator and writer, he was canonized in October 2019.

Tricia Nixon Cox

Listed In: Miscellaneous

Birth Year: 1946

Birthplace: Whittier, California

Tricia Nixon Cox is the daughter of Richard and Pat Nixon. Although she wasn’t involved in politics during her father's presidential reign, Cox accompanied Nixon on various state trips around the world. Cox, who likes to maintain a low profile, serves on the boards of several medical research institutions, apart from serving on the board of the Richard Nixon Foundation.

Jung Joon-young

Listed In: Singers

Birth Year: 1989

Birthplace: Seoul, South Korea

Jung Joon-young is a former singer-songwriter, actor, and television personality. He became one of the most popular South Korean entertainers before being caught up in the Jung Joon-young KakaoTalk chatrooms scandal, which was part of the Burning Sun scandal. The sex scandal forced him to retire and he was sentenced to six years in prison in 2019.

Wendy

Listed In: Singers

Birth Year: 1994

Birthplace: Seoul, South Korea

Height: 5'3" (160 cm)

Erma Bombeck

Listed In: Writers

Birth Year: 1927

Birthplace: Bellbrook, Ohio, United States

Died: 1996

Daniel Ek

Listed In: Business People

Birth Year: 1983

Birthplace: Stockholm, Sweden

Daniel Ek is a Swedish technologist and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Spotify. He is the current CEO of the popular music streaming service. In 2017, he was named by Billboard magazine as the most powerful person in the music industry. 

John Rawls

Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics

Birth Year: 1921

Birthplace: Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Died: 2002

The Schock Prize and National Humanities Medal-winning American moral and political philosopher John Bordley Rawls is often counted among the most influential political philosophers of the twentieth-century. Notable books of Rawls, where he elucidated his theory of justice and which has influenced a variety of thinkers, includes A Theory of Justice and Political Liberalism.

Jake Steinfeld

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1958

Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Height: 5'11" (180 cm)