04/05/1916 - 06/12/2003
Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an American actor.
One of 20th Century Fox's most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s, Peck continued to play important roles well into the 1980s. His notable performances i...
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07/19/1940 - 11/15/2009
Dennis Cole (July 19, 1940 – November 15, 2009) was an American film and television actor.
Che Guevara (Ernesto Guevara)
06/14/1928 - 10/09/1967
Ernesto "Che" Guevara, commonly known as El Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, intellectual, guerrilla leader, diplomat, military theorist, and major figure of the Cuban Revolution. Since his de...
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05/21/1972 - 03/09/1997
Christopher George Latore Wallace (May 21, 1972 – March 9, 1997) was an American rapper. He was popularly known as Biggie Smalls (after a character in the 1975 film Let's Do It Again), Big Poppa, Frank White (after the main character of...
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06/25/1924 - 04/09/2011
Sidney Lumet (June 25, 1924 – April 9, 2011) was an American director, producer and screenwriter with over 50 films to his name. He was nominated for the Academy Award as Best Director for 12 Angry Men (1957), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Netwo...
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05/13/1914 - 04/12/1981
Joseph Louis Barrow (May 13, 1914 – April 12, 1981), better known as Joe Louis, was the world heavyweight boxing champion from 1937 to 1949. He is considered to be one of the greatest heavyweights of all time. Nicknamed the Brown Bomber, Lou...
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10/04/1822 - 01/17/1893
Rutherford Birchard Hayes (October 4, 1822 – January 17, 1893) was the 19th President of the United States (1877-1881). As president, he oversaw the end of Reconstruction and the United States' entry into the Second Industrial Revolution...
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04/28/1758 - 07/04/1831
James Monroe (April 28, 1758 – July 4, 1831) was the fifth President of the United States (1817–1825). Monroe was the last president who was a Founding Father of the United States. Monroe is most noted for his proclamation of the...
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10/16/1854 - 11/30/1900
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Tod...
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10/02/1869 - 01/30/1948
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi as the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement. He pioneered satyagraha. This is defined as resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, a philosophy firmly...
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06/22/1947 - 02/24/2006
Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African-American women in the field.
Max McNab (Maxwell Douglas McNab )
07/21/1924 - 09/02/2007
Maxwell Douglas McNab (June 21, 1924 – September 2, 2007) was a Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and NHL general manager.
03/16/1916 - 03/02/2004
Carlotta Mercedes McCambridge (March 16, 1916 – March 2, 2004) was an American actress. Orson Welles called her "the world's greatest living radio actress.
10/18/1939 - 11/24/1963
Lee Harvey Oswald was, according to four government investigations, the assassin of President of the United States John F. Kennedy, by firearm in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963.