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)
Mahmud of Ghazni
First Sultan of History, Ruler of the Ghaznavid Empire & Medieval Military Strategist
Mahn Ba Khaing
Burmese Karen Political Leader, Independence Hero, Pre-Independence Minister of Industry and Labor & National Martyr
Marco Simoncelli
2008 250cc World Motorcycle Champion, MotoGP Icon & MotoGP Legend Hall of Famer ("Super Sic")
Marcus Junius Brutus
Roman Politician, Stoic Philosopher, Defender of the Republic & Leading Assassin of Julius Caesar
Margaret Thatcher
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom & Stateswoman
Marie Antoinette
Queen of France and Navarre & Historical Monarch of the Ancien Régime
Marie Curie
Physicist, Chemist & Pioneer in Radioactivity
Martin de Porres
First Black Saint of the Americas, Dominican Lay Brother & Patron of Social Justice
Martin Luther King Jr.
Civil Rights Leader, Baptist Minister & Nobel Laureate
Matangini Hazra
Iconic Bengali Revolutionary, Freedom Fighter & Martyr of the Quit India Movement ("Gandhi Buri")
Matilda of Flanders
Queen of England & Duchess of Normandy
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
Mehmed V
Ottoman Sultan & Caliph
Michael Crichton
Bestselling Author, Physician, Screenwriter & Creator of Jurassic Park and ER
Miguel Ángel Asturias
1967 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Pioneer of Magical Realism & Social Justice Novelist