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 (1084 listed)
Roy Lichtenstein
Pioneering American Pop Artist, Painter, Sculptor & Creator of "Whaam!" and "Drowning Girl"
Ruby Dee
Legendary American Actress, Poet, Playwright, Civil Rights Activist & SAG Lifetime Honoree
Ruth Gordon
Academy Award-Winning Actress, Playwright & Screenwriter
Ruth Handler
Business Icon, Co-Founder of Mattel & Creator of the Worldwide Phenomenon Barbie Doll
Ryan Adams
Prolific American Singer-Songwriter & Alt-Country Pioneer (Whiskeytown, Gold)
Ryan Reynolds
Hollywood Megastar, Producer, Entrepreneur & Golden Globe Nominee ("Deadpool")
Sachin Dev Burman (S. D. Burman)
Immortal Indian/Bengali Music Director, Composer & Playback Singer
Sadashiv Amrapurkar
Celebrated National Award & Filmfare-Winning Actor (Ardh Satya, Sadak) & Social Activist
Sailesh Dey
Bengali Playwright, Novelist & Theatre Director
Saint Malachy
Archbishop of Armagh & Reformer
Sally Field
Two-Time Academy Award-Winning American Actress & Director
Sam Raimi
Visionary Film Director & Producer (Original Spider-Man Trilogy, The Evil Dead)
Sam Rockwell
Academy Award-winning Character Actor & Screen Icon
Sam Shepard
Pulitzer Prize-winning Playwright, Oscar-nominated Actor & Theater Icon
Samora Machel
Founding Father & First President of Independent Mozambique, Anti-Colonial Revolutionary & Pan-African Hero