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)
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