Famous Personalities & Cultural Icons
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Icons Remembered & Celebrated Today
Ursula K. Le Guin
Dizzy Gillespie
Carrie Fisher
Ronald McNair
Jack Kerouac
Ben Bradlee
Horatio Nelson
Sir Bobby Charlton
All Personalities (268 listed)
Dannii Minogue
Australian Pop Icon, Logie Award-Winning Actress, Fashion Designer & International TV Judge
David Campese
Australian Rugby Union Immortal, 1991 Rugby World Cup Champion & All-Time Greatest Winger
Debinha
Brazilian International Football Superstar, Two-Time Copa América Femenina Champion & NWSL Icon
Deepak Chopra
World-Renowned Integrative Physician, Neuro-Endocrinologist & Bestselling Author
Dizzy Gillespie
American Jazz Trumpeter, Composer, Bandleader & Founding Pioneer of Bebop and Afro-Cuban Jazz
Dr. Muhammad Yunus
Economist, Social Entrepreneur & Nobel Peace Laureate
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
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
Elon Musk
Tech Entrepreneur, Engineer & Industrial Designer
Eminem
15-Time Grammy & Academy Award-Winning Hip-Hop Legend & Songwriter
Ernest Rutherford
"Father of Nuclear Physics", Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (1908) & Discoverer of the Atomic Nucleus & Proton
Eudóxia Maria Froehlich
Brazilian Zoologist, Biodiversity Academic & World Authority on Neotropical Land Planarians
Evander Holyfield
Four-Time World Heavyweight Champion & Undisputed Cruiserweight Champion
Evangelista Torricelli
Italian Physicist, Mathematician & Inventor of the Barometer