John Cena

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1977

Birthplace: West Newbury, Massachusetts, United States

One of the biggest WWE stars of all time, John Cena has bagged 25 championships, with 16 reigns as a world champion since his professional career began two decades back. Apart from wrestling, Cena has also carved a career as an actor and rapper. His significant projects include films The Marine, Trainwreck and Sisters and rap album You Can't See Me.

William Shakespeare

Listed In: Writers

Birth Year: 1564

Birthplace: Stratford-upon-Avon, England

Died: 1616

English playwright, poet, and actor William Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language. He is also often called England's national poet. Many of his works have been translated into other languages and his plays continue to be produced till day. Popular during his lifetime, he acquired an iconic status after his death.

Gigi Hadid

Listed In: Fashion

Birth Year: 1995

Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, United States

Named International Model of the Year by the British Fashion Council in 2016, fashion model Gigi Hadid has made several appearances on international Vogue magazine covers. The daughter of a former model, she began her career as a toddler. She made her mark in her teenage yeaars and continues to be a popular model.

Shirley Temple

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1928

Birthplace: Santa Monica, California, United States

Died: 2014

After starting her film career at the age of three, Shirley Temple went on to become Hollywood's highest-grossing child actress from 1935 to 1938. She is the epitome of popular child stars who lose their charm as they grow up. Despite failing as an adult actress, she is ranked 18th in the greatest female screen legends of Classic Hollywood list.

Valerie Bertinelli

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1960

Birthplace: Wilmington, Delaware, United States

Valerie Bertinelli, better known as Melanie Moretti from the sitcom Hot in Cleveland and Gloria from Touched by an Angel, has also appeared as a host on several culinary shows on Food Network. Her role as Barbara Cooper Royer in One Day at a Time earned her a Golden Globe.

Roy Orbison

Listed In: Singers

Birth Year: 1936

Birthplace: Vernon, Texas, United States

Died: 1988

Six-time Grammy-winner Texan rocker Roy Orbison gained fame with songs such as Oh, Pretty Woman and Drove All Night. His shyness and stage fright made him dye his hair black and wear sunglasses. The "Caruso of Rock" was part of the Traveling Wilburys, along with legends such as Bob Dylan.

Dev Patel

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1990

Birthplace: London, England, United Kingdom

British national of Indian descent, Dev Patel is best known for playing the lead in the 2008 British film Slumdog Millionaire. The film bagged the Best Film Oscar. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The Man Who Knew Infinity and Hotel Mumbai are some of his other notable films. He received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for 2016 film, Lion.

Lee Majors

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1939

Birthplace: Wyandotte, Michigan, United States

Lee Majors is an American actor known for his performance in TV series like The Six Million Dollar Man and The Fall Guy. Majors is credited with inspiring the popular song Midnight Train to Georgia. He serves as an inspiration to orphans around the world as he established himself in Hollywood after he was orphaned at the age of one.

George Lopez

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1961

Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, United States

George Lopez is an American actor and comedian. Lopez is best known for discussing race and ethnic relations in his stand-up comedy routine. His contributions to the Latino community have earned him several awards. In 2005, he was named in Time magazine's The 25 Most Influential Hispanics in America list. Also a humanitarian, George Lopez heads his own charity.

Hervé Villechaize

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1943

Birthplace: Paris, France

Died: 1993

French-American actor Hervé Villechaize is best remembered for playing the evil henchman in the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun. Born with dwarfism, he was bullied at school for his condition. After initially working as an artist, painter and photographer, he ventured into acting. He was popular and much loved by the audience.

Sandra Dee

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1942

Birthplace: Bayonne, New Jersey, United States

Died: 2005

Sandra Dee started her career as a child model and then became a teen idol with films such as Gidget and Imitation of Life. She won a Golden Globe for the film Until They Sail. She suffered from anorexia nervosa and eventually died of a kidney ailment at age 62.

James Buchanan

Listed In: Leaders

Birth Year: 1791

Birthplace: Cove Gap, Pennsylvania, United States

Died: 1868

James Buchanan was a prominent American lawyer who served as the 15th president of the United States. He is often criticized for failing to address the issue of slavery and is consistently ranked among America's worst presidents. His life and work inspired the 2019 film Raising Buchanan in which he was played by René Auberjonois.

Max Planck

Listed In: Scientists

Birth Year: 1858

Birthplace: Kiel, Germany

Died: 1947

German theoretical physicist Max Planck is remembered for originating the quantum theory of physics, which earned him the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics. He laid down concepts such as the Planck constant and the Planck postulate. The Kaiser Wilhelm Society was later renamed Max Planck Society in his honor.

Joyce DeWitt

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1949

Birthplace: Wheeling, West Virginia, United States

Three’s Company being her best-known television series, Joyce DeWitt has been a regular on the small screen since her debut in Baretta. The seasoned American actress, who also appeared in plays including Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, co-produced a television film. She has hosted a number of charity programmes. She was caught on the wrong side of the law when she was arrested for drunken driving in California in 2009.

Prince Louis of Cambridge

Listed In: Miscellaneous

Birth Year: 2018

Birthplace: Paddington, London, England

Prince Louis of Cambridge is the second son of Catherine and Prince William. One of the members of the British royal family, Louis is behind his grandfather, father, brother, and sister in the line of succession to the throne; he is the first British prince to be ranked behind a sister after the enactment of the Perth Agreement. 

Sergei Prokofiev

Listed In: Musicians

Birth Year: 1891

Birthplace: Krasne, Ukraine

Died: 1953

Sergei Prokofiev was a Russian Soviet pianist, composer, and conductor. Renowned for creating masterpieces across various genres, Prokofiev is widely considered one of the 20th century's major composers. Many other composers like Arthur Honegger have called Prokofiev the greatest contemporary musician of all time. An open pianists' competition, which is held every year in Ukraine, is named after Sergei Prokofiev.

Jaime King

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1979

Birthplace: Omaha, Nebraska, United States

Height: 5'9" (175 cm)

Kal Penn

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1977

Birthplace: Montclair, New Jersey, United States

Kal Penn is an actor and former White House staff member. Apart from being a popular American actor of Indian origin, Kal Penn has also contributed as a visiting lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has taught courses, such as 'Images of Asian Americans in the Media'.

Vladimir Nabokov

Listed In: Writers

Birth Year: 1899

Birthplace: Saint Petersburg, Russia

Died: 1977

Russian author Vladimir Nabokov, also known by his pen name, Vladimir Sirin, is best remembered for his controversial novel Lolita. His other works include the novel Pale Fire and his memoir, Speak, Memory. He was also an entomologist, specializing in lepidoptery. He also liked composing chess problems.

Jan Hooks

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1957

Birthplace: Decatur, Georgia, United States

Died: 2014

Jan Hooks is best remembered for her stint on Saturday Night Live, where she played characters such as Candy Sweeney. Fans also loved her in Designing Women and 3rd Rock from the Sun. She was initially part of the comedy troupe The Groundlings and voiced Manjula Nahasapeemapetilon in The Simpsons.

J. M. W. Turner

Listed In: Artists & Painters

Birth Year: 1775

Birthplace: London, England

Died: 1851

J. M. W. Turner was an English printmaker, painter, and watercolorist best remembered for his imaginative landscapes and expressive colorizations. Intensely reclusive and eccentric throughout his life, Turner lived in poor health and squalor for the last few years of his life. He was portrayed by actor Timothy Spall in the 2014 biographical film, Mr. Turner.

Jesse Lee Soffer

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1984

Birthplace: Ossining, New York, United States

Jesse Lee Soffer is an American actor best known for playing Will Munson in the popular TV soap opera As the World Turns, for which he won three Emmy Award nominations. He has also been playing the important role of Jay Halstead in the TV series, Chicago Fire, and its spin-off show, Chicago P.D., in which he performs his own stunts.

Chloe Kim

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 2000

Birthplace: Long Beach, California, United States

At 17, Chloe Kim was the youngest female snowboarder to win an Olympic gold. The four-time X Games gold-winning athlete was also the first female to win two snowboarding golds at the Winter Youth Olympic Games. She also competed on The Masked Singer and was named to Time 100.

Vivian Liberto

Listed In: Miscellaneous

Birth Year: 1934

Birthplace: San Antonio, Texas, United States

Died: 2005

Vivian Liberto was an American author and homemaker. She started hogging the limelight after marrying singer and actor, Johnny Cas,h with whom she had four daughters, including Rosanne Cash, who went on to become a singer-songwriter. Vivian Liberto’s 2007 book I Walked the Line formed the basis of the documentary movie My Darling Vivian, which was directed by Matt Riddlehoover.

Halston

Listed In: Fashion

Birth Year: 1932

Birthplace: Des Moines, Iowa, United States

Died: 1990

Designer Halston began his career designing hats for American milliner Lilly Daché. He is primarily remembered for pioneering cashmere, or Ultrasued, in the mid-1970s. Known for his party-loving personality, he popularized the halter dress for women. He was also known for his homosexual relationship with Victor Hugo.

Angel Locsin

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1985

Birthplace: Santa Maria, Philippines

Scouted by an agent at a mall, Angel Locsin began her career with the Philippine series Click and then gained recognition with Mulawin and Darna. Named to Forbes’s list of Asian Heroes of Philanthropy, she was prompt in raising funds to help COVID-19 front-liners in her country. 

Steve Clark

Listed In: Musicians

Birth Year: 1960

Birthplace: Hillsborough, Sheffield, England

Died: 1991

Joanna Krupa

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1979

Birthplace: Warsaw, Poland

Apart from gracing the Maxim Hot 100 list, the Dancing with the Stars and The Real Housewives of Miami star Joanna Krupa also works actively for PETA. Now a mother, she was also in the news when at 35, she had decided to freeze her eggs.

Lester B. Pearson

Listed In: Leaders

Birth Year: 1897

Birthplace: Newtonbrook, Toronto, Canada

Died: 1972

Lester B. Pearson was a Canadian statesman, scholar, diplomat, and soldier. He is best remembered for organizing the first United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) in an attempt to resolve the Suez Canal Crisis, for which he was honored with the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957. From 1963 to 1968, Lester B. Pearson served as the prime minister of Canada.

Melina Kanakaredes

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1967

Birthplace: Akron, Ohio, United States

Height: 5'7" (170 cm)

John Oliver

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1977

Birthplace: Erdington, Birmingham, England

John Oliver is a British comedian, political commentator, and TV host whose work in the American talk show, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, has influenced the US culture, policymaking, and legislation since 2014; the influence has been called the John Oliver effect. Also a philanthropist, Oliver forgave a medical debt of over $15 million owed by over 9,000 people.

John Schneider

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1962

Birthplace: San Francisco, California, United States

Tony Atlas

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1954

Birthplace: Roanoke, Virginia, United States

Height: 6'2" (188 cm)

Anne Buydens

Listed In: Miscellaneous

Birth Year: 1919

Birthplace: Hanover, Germany

Died: 2021

Anne Buydens is a philanthropist and film producer. She is best known for her 65-year-marriage with American actor Kirk Douglas. A cancer survivor, Anne Buydens works towards raising money for cancer research. She is credited with establishing Research for Women's Cancers, which raised money to help set up a research facility in Los Angeles.

Ray Tomlinson

Listed In: Engineers

Birth Year: 1941

Birthplace: Amsterdam, New York, U.S.

Died: 2016

Magnús Ver Magnússon

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1963

Birthplace: Egilsstaðir, Iceland

Retired Icelandic powerlifter Magnús Ver Magnússon not only won the World’s Strongest Man contest 4 times but has also been Europe's Strongest Man twice and Iceland's Strongest Man 8 times. He owns a gym, has launched a strongman competition, and judges powerlifting and strongman contests, too.

Warren Spahn

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1921

Birthplace: Buffalo

Died: 2003

Height: 6'0" (183 cm)

Jennifer Ashton

Listed In: Physicians

Birth Year: 1969

Birthplace: George Air Force Base

Lady Gabriella Windsor

Listed In: Media Personalities

Birth Year: 1981

Birthplace: St Mary's Hospital, London, England

Lady Gabriella Windsor is an English writer and one of the members of the British royal family. A freelance journalist, Lady Gabriella contributes immensely to several publications, including The London Magazine. A humanist, she also works closely with the nonprofit organization Playing for Change Foundation where she is a board director.

James Russo

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1953

Birthplace: New York City, New York, USA

Height: 5'10" (178 cm)

Tony Esposito

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1943

Birthplace: Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada

Died: 2021

Height: 5'11" (180 cm)

Lee Miller

Listed In: Photographers

Birth Year: 1907

Birthplace: Poughkeepsie, New York, United States

Died: 1977

Craig Sheffer

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1960

Birthplace: York, Pennsylvania, USA

Height: 6'2" (188 cm)

Granville Woods

Listed In: Engineers

Birth Year: 1856

Birthplace: Columbus, Ohio, United States

Died: 1910

Granville Woods was 10 when he began working at a machine shop, while continuing his studies at a night school. He grew up to become a steam locomotive engineer and earned the nickname the Black Edison for his countless inventions, most of which were related to electrical systems for railways.

Sonya Smith

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1972

Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Height: 5'10" (178 cm)

Arash

Listed In: Singers

Birth Year: 1977

Birthplace: Tehran, Iran

Height: 5'9" (175 cm)

Stephen Douglas

Listed In: Leaders

Birth Year: 1813

Birthplace: Brandon, Vermont, United States

Died: 1861

Simone Simon

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1911

Birthplace: Marseille, France

Died: 2005

Height: 5'2" (157 cm)

Rachel Skarsten

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1985

Birthplace: Toronto, Canada

Height: 5'10" (178 cm)

Jim Stynes

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1966

Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland

Died: 2012

Irish footballer Jim Stynes was initially skilled in Gaelic football but later deviated to Australian rules football. While his memoir, My Journey, detailed his battle with cancer, he had also written self-help books with Dr. Jon Carnegie. He had also co-founded The Reach Foundation, a non-profit for young people.