Harry Kane

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1993

Birthplace: Walthamstow, United Kingdom

A brilliant striker known for his impressive ability to score goals, Harry Kane is an English football player who leads the national team of England and also plays for Premier League club, Tottenham Hotspur. Harry Kane has been named the Premier League Player of the Month six times and received the Golden Boot twice.

Jackie Kennedy

Listed In: Miscellaneous

Birth Year: 1929

Birthplace: Southampton, New York, United States

Died: 1994

Jackie Kennedy was a literature editor, photographer, and socialite who was once married to the former American President John F. Kennedy. She became the First Lady of the United States when her husband became the president. She was known for her iconic fashion style. She is considered one of the most popular and recognizable First Ladies in American history.

Soulja Boy

Listed In: Singers

Birth Year: 1990

Birthplace: Chicago

Soulja Boy is best known for his Billboard Hot 100-topping track Crank That. Named to the 2010 Forbes list of Hip-Hop Cash Kings, he revolutionized the art of promoting music through social media, especially through YouTube. He is part of a deal with the World Poker Fund.

Terry Fox

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1958

Birthplace: Winnipeg, Canada

Died: 1981

Terry Fox was a popular cancer research activist and humanitarian. Despite suffering from cancer and having lost one of his legs to cancer, he embarked on a cross-country run to raise money for cancer research. Although he died at the age of 22, his efforts resulted in a worldwide legacy and gave rise to the annual Terry Fox Run.

Manu Ginóbili

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1977

Birthplace: Bahía Blanca, Argentina

Argentine-Italian former basketball player Manu Ginóbili became one of two players in history to have won the EuroLeague title, the NBA championship, and an Olympic gold medal. The four-time NBA champion has had a 23-season stint with the NBA team San Antonio Spurs. He is also an Italian League champion.

Elizabeth Berkley

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1972

Birthplace: Farmington Hills, Michigan, United States

Elizabeth Berkley is an American actress best known for playing Jessie Spano in the television sitcom series Saved by the Bell. After having started her career as a teenaged model, Berkley has come a long way in the entertainment industry. Also a humanitarian, Berkley published a self-help book titled Ask-Elizabeth in order to help girls throughout the country.

Beatrix Potter

Listed In: Writers

Birth Year: 1866

Birthplace: Kensington

Died: 1943

Born into an affluent English family, Beatrix Potter grew up amidst nature and developed a love for animals. She grew up to be a natural scientist, conservationist, and illustrator, and is best remembered for her children's books such as The Tale of Peter Rabbit, which featured animals.

Lori Loughlin

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1964

Birthplace: Queens, New York, United States

Actress and producer, Lori Loughlin, has been active in the entertainment world for over four decades. Beginning her career as a print model at the age of 11, she started acting as a teenager. With time, she moved on to play more mature roles. In 2020, she was sentenced to two months in prison after she pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud.

Richard Wright (Musician)

Listed In: Musicians

Birth Year: 1943

Birthplace: Hatch End, Middlesex, England

Died: 2008

Richard Wright was an English musician. He is credited with co-founding the popular band ,Pink Floyd, for which he also served as a vocalist and keyboardist. Wright contributed immensely to the success of Pink Floyd and his distinctive keyboard playing was a key component of the music produced by the band.

John David Washington

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1984

Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, United States

Son of famous actor, Denzel Washington, John David Washington is a former professional footballer who played in the NFL Europe and the United Football League (UFL). He co-produced a film, The Book of Eli, and rose to fame as an actor with HBO drama series, Ballers. He later starred in critically acclaimed films, such as BlacKkKlansman and Tenet.

Robert Hooke

Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics

Birth Year: 1635

Birthplace: Freshwater, Isle of Wight

Died: 1703

Scientist Robert Hooke, also called England's Leonardo, initially gained recognition as an architect, conducting surveys following the Great Fire of London. He also taught geometry and was part of the Royal Society. He assisted Robert Boyle and eventually developed his own microscope, thus becoming the first to visualize micro-organisms.

Georgia Engel

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1948

Birthplace: Washington, D.C., United States

Died: 2019

Georgia Engel is best remembered for her Emmy-nominated performances as Georgette Franklin Baxter in The Mary Tyler Moore Show and as Pat MacDougall in Everybody Loves Raymond. She voiced Bobbie in the Open Season franchise. A Christian Science believer, she did not consult any physician and died of unknown causes.

Sally Struthers

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1947

Birthplace: Portland, Oregon, United States

Sally Struthers is an American actress best known for playing Gloria Stivic in the popular sitcom television series All in the Family, for which she received a couple of Emmy Awards. Also a well-known activist, Struthers has been working towards improving the lives of impoverished children as part of her work as a spokesperson for the child development organization, ChildFund.

Dana White

Listed In: Business People

Birth Year: 1969

Birthplace: Manchester, Connecticut, United States

Height: 5'11" (180 cm)

Marcel Duchamp

Listed In: Artists & Painters

Birth Year: 1887

Birthplace: Blainville-Crevon, France

Died: 1968

French-American painter and sculptor Marcel Duchamp is remembered for his association with movements such as Cubism and Dadaism. A significant figure in conceptual art, he was against art that was meant to just cater to the eyes. He was also a skilled chess player and carved his own chess set.

Pedro

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1987

Birthplace: Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain

Height: 5'7" (170 cm)

Cain Velasquez

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1982

Birthplace: Salinas, California, United States

Wrestler and MMA fighter Caín Velasquez is a two-time UFC Heavyweight Champion. He is known for his signature fighting style, known as swarming, which involves moving forward to allow little room to opponents. He was released from his contract with WWE owing to budget constraints due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Kate Bolduan

Listed In: Media Personalities

Birth Year: 1983

Birthplace: Goshen, Indiana, United States

The youngest morning show anchor on any major TV network, Kate Bolduan is an eminent American broadcast journalist for CNN. She covered the 2016 U.S Presidntial campaign for a global audience, as the anchor of CNN international program called State of America with Kate Bolduan.

Peter Cullen

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1941

Birthplace: Montreal, Québec, Canada

Height: 5'8" (173 cm)

Nelly Korda

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1998

Birthplace: Bradenton, Florida, United States

Height: 5'10" (178 cm)

Karl Popper

Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics

Birth Year: 1902

Birthplace: Vienna, Austria

Died: 1994

Austrian-British philosopher and academic Sir Karl Popper is remembered as one of the most prominent philosophers of the 20th century. He rejected the inductivist scientific method and advocated for the empirical falsification, detailing falsifiability in his book Logik der Forschung. He was also a supporter of liberal democracy. 

Sir Garfield Sobers

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1936

Birthplace: Bridgetown, Barbados

Sir Garfield Sobers is a former cricket player who represented the West Indies cricket team during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. Renowned for his all-round abilities, Sobers is regarded as the greatest all-rounder of all time. He is also considered one of the greatest cricketers ever. In 2009, he was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.

Juan Guaidó

Listed In: Leaders

Birth Year: 1983

Birthplace: La Guaira, Venezuela

Juan Guaidó is a Venezuelan politician who proclaimed himself the acting president of Venezuela with the support of the National Assembly. Since 2019, Guaidó has been influential in the ongoing Venezuelan presidential crisis, which started when the National Assembly refused to recognize Nicolas Maduro's inauguration to a second presidential term. In 2019, Guaidó was named in the Time 100 list.

Jim Davis

Listed In: Media Personalities

Birth Year: 1945

Birthplace: Marion, Indiana, United States

Famous American cartoonist, Jim Davis is best known for his various comic strips such as U.S. Acres. He is the creator of Garfield which became one of the world's most widely syndicated comic strips. Davis wrote and co-wrote all of the Garfield TV specials for CBS. He is also the founder and president of Paws, Inc., a full-service licensing studio.

Adrien Broner

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1989

Birthplace: Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Adrien Broner is an American boxer. Regarded as one of the best light-welterweight boxers of his generation, Broner has held several world championships in various weight classes, such as super featherweight, lightweight, light welterweight, and welterweight. He is also known for his crazy antics inside and outside the ring.

Michael Carrick

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1981

Birthplace: Wallsend, England

Height: 6'2" (188 cm)

Doug Collins

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1951

Birthplace: Christopher, Illinois, United States

Once a popular basketball player for the NBA team Philadelphia 76ers, Doug Collins later turned to coaching. He was part of the controversial Munich Olympics game that the US lost to Soviet Union and thus won a silver. Apart from the 76ers, he has also managed teams such as the Chicago Bulls.

Joe E. Brown

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1891

Birthplace: Holgate, Ohio, United States

Died: 1973

Height: 5'7" (170 cm)

Dick Ebersol

Listed In: Business People

Birth Year: 1947

Birthplace: Torrington, Connecticut, United States

Height: 6'2" (188 cm)

Vida Blue

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1949

Birthplace: Mansfield, Louisiana, United States

Zach Parise

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1984

Birthplace: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Height: 5'11" (180 cm)

Dustin Milligan

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1985

Birthplace: Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada

Height: 5'10" (178 cm)

Albert Namatjira

Listed In: Artists & Painters

Birth Year: 1902

Birthplace: Hermannsburg

Died: 1959

Born Elea, Albert Namatjira was rechristened after converting to Christianity. The Australian aboriginal painter, known for his watercolor paintings, couldn’t build a house in Alice Springs because of his aboriginal origin, leading to public outrage, which eventually led the government to make him and his wife full citizens.

Spencer Boldman

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1992

Birthplace: Dallas, Texas, U.S.

Height: 6'2" (188 cm)

Nicole Narain

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1974

Birthplace: Aurora, Illinois, USA

Height: 5'4" (163 cm)

Steve Morse

Listed In: Musicians

Birth Year: 1954

Birthplace: Hamilton

Lauren Lindsey Donzis

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 2004

Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, United States

Alice Dixson

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1969

Birthplace: Coral Gables, Florida, United States

Alice Dixson is a Filipino-American model, actress, and former beauty queen. Dixson, who represented the Philippines at the Miss International beauty pageant in 1986, became a household name the following year when she appeared in Palmolive soap TV advertisement. Alice Dixson has also won many awards as an actress including the Gawad Tanglaw Film Acting Award.

Ali Krieger

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1984

Birthplace: Dumfries, Virginia, United States

Height: 5'6" (168 cm)

Stefanie Küster

Listed In: Fashion

Birth Year: 1979

Birthplace: Asunción, Paraguay

Stefanie Küster is a German dancer and model. In the 2000s, Küster achieved popularity for her relationship with Dieter Bohlen, who is 25 years her senior. She then went on to appear in magazines like Playboy and also featured in several music videos.

Nolan Gerard Funk

Listed In: Singers

Birth Year: 1986

Birthplace: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Height: 6'2" (188 cm)

Riccardo Muti

Listed In: Musicians

Birth Year: 1941

Birthplace: Naples, Italy

Chris Samuels

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1977

Birthplace: Mobile, Alabama, United States

Height: 6'5" (196 cm)

Ludwig Feuerbach

Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics

Birth Year: 1804

Birthplace: Landshut, Germany

Died: 1872

Ludwig Feuerbach was a German philosopher and anthropologist. He is best remembered for his work, The Essence of Christianity, which strongly influenced generations of future thinkers like Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, Friedrich Engels, and Sigmund Freud among others. Ludwig Feuerbach advocated atheism and his thought was influential in the progression of historical materialism.

Luis Aragonés

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1938

Birthplace: Madrid

Died: 2014

Height: 5'11" (180 cm)

DeMeco Ryans

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1984

Birthplace: Bessemer, Alabama, United States

Height: 6'1" (185 cm)

Günther Quandt

Listed In: Business People

Birth Year: 1881

Birthplace: Pritzwalk, Germany

Died: 1954

Jacques Piccard

Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics

Birth Year: 1922

Birthplace: Brussels

Died: 2008

Oceanic engineer Jacques Piccard is remembered for his revolutionary inventions such as the mesoscaphe and the bathyscaphe, which he had built for under-sea exploration. The son of renowned engineer and explorer Auguste Piccard, he was initially an economics teacher but later began collaborating with his father on various inventions.

Bud Luckey

Listed In: Musicians

Birth Year: 1934

Birthplace: Billings, Montana, USA

Died: 2018

Marty Brennaman

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1942

Birthplace: Portsmouth, Virginia, United States