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 (184 listed)
Oscar Wilde
Irish Poet, Playwright, Wit & Author of The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Yanes
Celebrated Venezuelan Journalist, Chronicler, Author & Pioneer of Television Journalism
Pablo Casals
Legendary Master Cellist, Conductor, Composer & Universal Humanitarian
Paul Allen
Co-Founder of Microsoft, Tech Visionary, Investor & Philanthropist
Paul Cézanne
French Post-Impressionist Master Painter ("The Father of Modern Art")
Paul Dirac
1933 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Theoretical Physicist, Predictor of Antimatter & Creator of the Dirac Equation
Peter Boyle
Emmy Award-Winning American Character Actor (*Young Frankenstein*, *Taxi Driver*, *Everybody Loves Raymond*)
Peter Tosh
Reggae Pioneer, Co-Founder of The Wailers, Grammy Award Winner & Rastafari Human Rights Icon
Pierre Trudeau
15th Prime Minister of Canada, Architect of Canadian Official Bilingualism & Father of the 1982 Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Pope John Paul I
263rd Pope of the Catholic Church & Sovereign of Vatican City
Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
Philosopher, Social Reformer, Founder of Ananda Marga, Author of PROUT & Composer of Prabhat Samgiita
Puyi
The Last Emperor of China & Final Sovereign of the Qing Dynasty
Rabindranath Tagore
Poet, Polymath & Nobel Laureate
Rita Hayworth
Iconic Golden Age Hollywood Actress, Dancer, Glamour Legend & Star of Gilda
Robert Jordan
Master American Epic Fantasy Author & Creator of The Wheel of Time Series
Ronald McNair
American Physicist, Laser Pioneer, 5th-Degree Black Belt & Heroic NASA Challenger Astronaut