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Louise BROOKS
American film actress and dancer
1906 - 1985 -
Christine McVie
English musician, and the vocalist and keyboardist of Fleetwood Mac
1943 - 2022 -
Roy ORBISON
American singer, songwriter, and musician
1936 - 1988 -
Maurice TILLET
French professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, The French Angel
1903 - 1954 -
Rudy GIULIANI
American attorney, cybersecurity advisor, and politician who served as the 107th Mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001
1944 -
Diane Baker
American actress, producer and educator
1938 -
Sean CONNERY
Scottish actor
1930 - 2020 -
Jim HENSON
American puppeteer, animator, cartoonist, actor, inventor, filmmaker, and screenwriter who achieved worldwide notice as the creator of The Muppets
1936 - 1990 -
Nellie BLY
American journalist, industrialist, inventor, and charity worker who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days
1864 - 1922 -
Rosa PARKS
American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott
1913 - 2005 -
Elie WIESEL
Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor
1928 - 2016 -
Jack LONDON
American novelist, journalist, and social activist
1876 - 1916 -
Joan BAEZ
American singer, songwriter, musician and activist
1941 -
PAPE FRANCOIS (POPE FRANCIS)
Head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State
1936 -
Nikola TESLA
Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist
1856 - 1943 -
Robert BADEN-POWELL
British Army officer, writer, founder and first Chief Scout of the world-wide Scout Movement, and founder, with his sister Agnes, of the world-wide Girl Guide / Girl Scout Movement
1857 - 1941 -
Malcolm X
African American Muslim minister, and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement
1925 - 1965 -
Fidel CASTRO
Cuban revolutionary and politician who served as Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and President from 1976 to 2008
1926 - 2016 -
Jane RUSSELL
American film actress and one of Hollywood's leading sex symbols in the 1940s and 1950s
1921 - 2011 -
Jane GOODALL
English primatologist and anthropologist
1934