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 (1060 listed)
Diego Maradona
Football Legend & World Cup Champion
Dileep
Leading Malayalam Film Actor, Producer, Mimicry Artist & Box Office Superstar
Dizzy Gillespie
American Jazz Trumpeter, Composer, Bandleader & Founding Pioneer of Bebop and Afro-Cuban Jazz
Dmitri Sychev
Russian International Striker, Russian Footballer of the Year & UEFA Euro 2008 Bronze Medalist
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish Action Cinema Superstar (Ivan Drago in Rocky IV, The Expendables) & Chemical Engineer
Domenico Scarlatti
Italian Baroque Composer, Keyboard Virtuoso & Master of 555 Harpsichord Sonatas
Dominick Dunne
Investigative Journalist & Bestselling Author
Domitian
Roman Emperor (81–96 AD), Final Ruler of the Flavian Dynasty & Empire-Wide Architectural Builder
Donny Robinson
Olympic BMX Racing Bronze Medalist (Beijing 2008) & UCI World Champion
Douglass North
Nobel Memorial Prize-winning Economist (1993) & Pioneer of New Institutional Economics
Dr. Muhammad Yunus
Economist, Social Entrepreneur & Nobel Peace Laureate
Dragutin Tadijanović
Doyen of Croatian Modernist Poetry, Literary Translator & Academician
Drake
Global Hip-Hop Icon, 5-Time Grammy Award Winner & Best-Selling Music Artist of the Streaming Era
Dražen Petrović
Hall of Fame Basketball Legend, EuroLeague Champion & NBA All-NBA Guard ("The Mozart of Basketball")
Duns Scotus
Scottish Franciscan Friar, High Scholastic Philosopher & Theologian
Dwight D. Eisenhower
34th President of the United States & Five-Star General