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)
David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes
Scottish Judge, Historian, Advocate & Luminary of the Scottish Enlightenment
Dhirendranath Datta
Statesman, Lawyer, Pioneer of the 1948 Bengali Language Movement & Martyr of 1971
Dizzy Gillespie
American Jazz Trumpeter, Composer, Bandleader & Founding Pioneer of Bebop and Afro-Cuban Jazz
Domenico Scarlatti
Italian Baroque Composer, Keyboard Virtuoso & Master of 555 Harpsichord Sonatas
Domitian
Roman Emperor (81–96 AD), Final Ruler of the Flavian Dynasty & Empire-Wide Architectural Builder
Douglass North
Nobel Memorial Prize-winning Economist (1993) & Pioneer of New Institutional Economics
Dragutin Tadijanović
Doyen of Croatian Modernist Poetry, Literary Translator & Academician
Dražen Petrović
Hall of Fame Basketball Legend, EuroLeague Champion & NBA All-NBA Guard ("The Mozart of Basketball")
Dwight D. Eisenhower
34th President of the United States & Five-Star General
Dylan Thomas
World-Renowned Welsh Poet, Playwright, BBC Broadcaster & Author of "Do not go gentle into that good night"
Eddie Daniels
Heroic South African Anti-Apartheid Freedom Fighter, Robben Island Political Prisoner & Nelson Mandela’s Trusted Comrade
Edith Head
Legendary Costume Designer & 8-Time Academy Award Winner
Edmund Kean
Celebrated British Shakespearean Tragedian & Drury Lane Theatre Legend
Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond
Earl of Richmond, Father of King Henry VII and Progenitor of the Royal House of Tudor
Edna St. Vincent Millay
First Woman to Win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Lyrical Poet & Playwright
Edogawa Ranpo
Father of Japanese Detective Fiction, Master of Psychological Mystery & Founder of MWJ