Famous Personalities & Cultural Icons
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Icons Remembered & Celebrated Today
Emma Stone
Ethan Hawke
John Philip Sousa
Charles Dow
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
King Gustavus Adolphus
Heinrich Schütz
All Personalities (1084 listed)
Matthias Jabs
Legendary German Hard Rock Lead Guitarist, Songwriter & Virtuoso Pillar of Scorpions
Max Linder
Pioneer of Silent Screen Comedy, Film Director, Actor & Profound Influence on Charlie Chaplin
Max Stirner
Radical German Philosopher, Seminal Thinker of Individualist Anarchism, Egoism & Nihilism
May Calamawy
Actress & Filmmaker
Meghna Malik
Actress & Theatre Artist
Mehmed V
Ottoman Sultan & Caliph
Melba Moore
Tony-Winning Singer, Actress & Broadway Pioneer
Michael Collins
NASA Astronaut, Apollo 11 Command Module Pilot & Air Force General
Michael Crichton
Bestselling Author, Physician, Screenwriter & Creator of Jurassic Park and ER
Michael S. Dukakis
Longest-Serving Governor of Massachusetts (12 Years) & 1988 US Democratic Presidential Nominee
Michael Wacha
Major League Baseball Pitcher, All-Star & NLCS MVP
Midori Gotō
World-Renowned Japanese Virtuoso Concert Violinist, Avery Fisher Prize Laureate & UN Messenger of Peace
Miguel Ángel Asturias
1967 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Pioneer of Magical Realism & Social Justice Novelist
Mike Ditka
Pro Football Hall of Fame Tight End & Legendary Super Bowl XX Championship Head Coach of the Chicago Bears
Mikhail Artsybashev
Naturalist Russian Novelist, Dramatist & Author of Sanin
Mikhail Tal
8th World Chess Champion & Grandmaster ('The Magician from Riga')