Famous Personalities & Cultural Icons
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Icons Remembered & Celebrated Today
Burt Lancaster
David Schwimmer
James K. Polk
Warren G. Harding
Eva Cassidy
James Thurber
George Bernard Shaw
All Personalities (482 listed)
Tom Petty
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Musician, Singer-Songwriter & Frontman of The Heartbreakers and Traveling Wilburys
Tripti Mitra
Doyen of Modern Indian Theatre, Leading Figure of IPTA and Bohurupee & Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellow
Tycho Brahe
Renaissance Danish Astronomical Titan, Alchemist & Pioneer of Empirical Observational Science
Umberto Boccioni
Italian Futurist Painter, Sculptor & Creator of "Unique Forms of Continuity in Space"
Ursula K. Le Guin
Visionary American Author, Literary Pioneer of Speculative Fiction, Hugo & Nebula Laureate
Uwe Seeler
Legendary German Striker, 4x FIFA World Cup Star & Honorary Citizen of Hamburg
Vaiben Louis Solomon
21st Premier of South Australia, Founding Father of Australian Federation & Constitutional Drafter
Victor Trumper
Legendary Test Cricketer
Vinicius de Moraes
Brazilian Lyricist, Poet, Diplomat & Co-Creator of Bossa Nova (The Girl from Ipanema)
Vivien Leigh
Two-Time Academy Award-winning Actress (Scarlett O'Hara & Blanche DuBois)
W. G. Grace
"The Father of Modern Cricket", Victorian Sporting Icon & Medical Doctor
Wacław Sierpiński
Renowned Polish Mathematician, Pioneer of Set Theory, Topology & Number Theory
Walker Evans
Preeminent American Documentary Photographer (FSA) & Co-Author of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Walter Cronkite
Legendary CBS Evening News Anchor & "The Most Trusted Man in America"
Walter Gieseking
Virtuoso Classical Pianist & Definitive Interpreter of Debussy and Ravel