Business and Inventions

Chris Hughes

American entrepreneur who co-founded and served as spokesman for the online social directory and networking site Facebook

1983

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

American actor, filmmaker, singer, and entrepreneur

1981

François LEGAULT

Quebecois politician and businessman, 32nd Premier of Quebec

1957

Ambrose BURNSIDE

American soldier, railroad executive, inventor, industrialist, and politician from Rhode Island

1824 - 1881

Pierre LE MOYNE D'IBERVILLE

French soldier, ship captain, explorer, colonial administrator, knight of the order of Saint-Louis, adventurer, privateer, trader, member of Compagnies Franches de la Marine and founder of the French colony of Louisiana in New France

1661 - 1706

Matthieu PIGASSE

French investment banker, media proprietor and investor

1968

XUXA

Brazilian television host, film actress, singer, model and businesswoman

1963

Jeanne Alexandrine Pommery

French Champagne producer

1819 - 1890

Champagne PERRIER-JOUËT

Founder of Perrier-Jouët

1786 - 1854

Johann Joseph KRUG

Founder of Krug champagne

1800 - 1866

Arsène SAUPIQUET

French industrialist

1849 - 1915

Jean BOIRON

French pharmacist

1906 - 1996

Gilbert TRIGANO

French businessman

1920 - 2001

Don LEWIS

American missing person who disappeared on the morning of August 18, 1997, after leaving his home in Tampa, Florida

1938 - 2002

Georges BOUTON

French toymaker and engineer who with fellow Frenchman Jules-Albert de Dion founded the De Dion-Bouton company

1847 - 1938

René PANHARD

French engineer, merchant and a pioneer of the automobile industry in France

1841 - 1908

Georges LISSAC

French businessman

1894 - 1969

Thomas KEAN

American businessman, academic administrator and politician who served as the 48th Governor of New Jersey

1935

Paloma PICASSO

French and Spanish fashion designer and businesswoman

1949

Burt BASKIN

American businessman who co-founded the Baskin-Robbins ice cream parlor chain in 1946 with business partner and brother-in-law Irv Robbins

1913 - 1967

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