Famous Personalities & Cultural Icons
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Icons Remembered & Celebrated Today
Art Garfunkel
Sam Rockwell
Eugene V. Debs
Ida Tarbell
Christiaan Eijkman
All Personalities (537 listed)
Hara Takashi
10th Prime Minister of Japan ("Commoner Prime Minister") & Political Reformer
Harlow Shapley
Astronomer & Astrophysicist
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American Film Actress & Inventor of Frequency-Hopping Spread Spectrum Technology
Heinrich Schütz
German Early Baroque Composer & Organist
Heinrich von Kleist
Seminal German Romantic Playwright, Novelist & Poet Behind Michael Kohlhaas and The Broken Jug
Helen Reddy
Legendary Australian Singer, "Queen of 1970s Pop", Global Feminist Anthem Creator ("I Am Woman") & Grammy Winner
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
Prussian Field Marshal, Chief of the Prussian and German Great General Staff & Modern Military Strategist
Henri Bergson
Nobel Prize in Literature Laureate, Leading French Philosopher & Metaphysician
Henri de Saint-Simon
Visionary French Social Philosopher, Pioneer Sociologist & Founder of Saint-Simonianism
Henri Matisse
Master of Modern Art, Leader of Fauvism & Monumental Colorist of the 20th Century
Henrik Schück
Literary Historian & Academician
Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor
Holy Roman Emperor, King of Germany, Italy & Burgundy (Salian Dynasty)
Herbert Austin
British Automotive Pioneer, Industrialist & Founder of the Austin Motor Company
Herbert Hoover
31st President of the United States (1929–1933), Mining Engineer & Humanitarian Relief Director
Herman J. Mankiewicz
Academy Award-Winning American Screenwriter & Journalist (Citizen Kane)
Hermann Broch
Modernist Novelist, Essayist, Philosopher & Author of The Sleepwalkers