Famous Personalities & Cultural Icons
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Icons Remembered & Celebrated Today
Jeff Goldblum
Christopher Lloyd
Bob Odenkirk
Clinton Davisson
Jibanananda Das
Ye Jianying
Hachiro Kasuga
Paul Cézanne
All Personalities (268 listed)
Tarkan
World Music Award-Winning Turkish Pop Superstar, Singer-Songwriter & Cultural Icon
Terry McMillan
Groundbreaking Bestselling African American Novelist & Screenwriter (*Waiting to Exhale*, *How Stella Got Her Groove Back*)
The Báb
Iranian Religious Reformer, Mystic Prophet, Founder of Bábism & Herald of the Baháʼí Faith
Thomas Edison
Prolific American Inventor, Industrialist & Founder of Modern Industrial Research
Thomas Love Peacock
English Satirical Novelist, Poet & Official of the East India Company, Close Friend and Collaborator of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Thomas Sankara
President of Burkina Faso, Pan-African Revolutionary & Reformer
Timothy Leary
American Clinical Psychologist, Harvard Researcher & 1960s Counterculture Icon
Tom Petty
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Musician, Singer-Songwriter & Frontman of The Heartbreakers and Traveling Wilburys
Tyler Posey
American Actor & Musician, Celebrated Worldwide as Scott McCall in MTV's Teen Wolf Series
Umberto Boccioni
Italian Futurist Painter, Sculptor & Creator of "Unique Forms of Continuity in Space"
Ursula K. Le Guin
Visionary American Author, Literary Pioneer of Speculative Fiction, Hugo & Nebula Laureate
Vaiben Louis Solomon
21st Premier of South Australia, Founding Father of Australian Federation & Constitutional Drafter
Viggo Mortensen
Three-Time Academy Award-Nominated Actor, Author, Poet & Star of "The Lord of the Rings" (Aragorn)
Vinicius de Moraes
Brazilian Lyricist, Poet, Diplomat & Co-Creator of Bossa Nova (The Girl from Ipanema)
Virender Sehwag
Legendary Indian Aggressive Opening Batsman, Two-Time Test Triple Centurion (309 & 319) & 2011 World Cup Winner