Business and Inventions

Brian Epstein

British music entrepreneur who managed the Beatles from 1962 until his death in 1967

1934 - 1967

Victoria Beckham

English singer, fashion designer and television personality

1974

Olivia Newton-John

British-Australian singer, songwriter, actress, entrepreneur, and activist

1948 - 2022

Elizabeth HURLEY

English actress, businesswoman and model

1965

John CADBURY

English proprietor and founder of Cadbury, the chocolate business based in Birmingham, England

1801 - 1889

James HENNESSY

French producer of cognac

1923 - 1995

Richard WALLACE

English art collector

1818 - 1890

Bernie ECCLESTONE

British business magnate, former chief executive of the Formula One Group

1930

Elihu YALE

British merchant, slave trader, President of the East India Company settlement in Fort St. George, at Madras, and a benefactor of the Collegiate School in the Colony of Connecticut, which in 1718 was renamed Yale College in his honor

1649 - 1721

Max Mosley

British businessman, lawyer and racing driver

1940 - 2021

Robert MILLER

American-born British billionaire, entrepreneur, co-founder of DFS (Duty Free Shops), and sailing champion

1933

John HAWKINS

English naval commander and administrator

1532 - 1595

Francis GALTON

English Victorian polymath, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician

1822 - 1911