Quoteikon Authors and Bio's

The Quoteikon Authors is our curated list of famous and infamous people. Click on the author and read quotes and an alternative bio written about each person.

Abigail Van Buren
Occupation: Advice columnist
Date of Birth: 4th July 1918
Place of Birth: Sioux City, Iowa, U.S.
Abraham Lincoln
Occupation: Politician, statesman and 16th president of the U.S.
Date of Birth: 12th February 1809
Place of Birth: Sinking Spring Farm, Kentucky, U.S.
Abraham Maslow
Occupation: Psychology professor
Date of Birth: 1st April 1908
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, U.S.
Adolf Hitler
Occupation: Soldier, politician, author and Führer of the Third Reich
Date of Birth: 20th April 1889
Place of Birth: Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary
Adrian Boult
Occupation: Conductor
Date of Birth: 8th April 1889
Place of Birth: Chester, Cheshire, England
Adrian Durham
Occupation: Radio broadcaster and football journalist
Date of Birth: 13th May 1969
Place of Birth: Peterborough, England
Albert Einstein
Occupation: Theoretical physicist
Date of Birth: 14th March 1879
Place of Birth: Ulm, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire
Alcide de Gasperi
Occupation: Politician and Italian prime minister
Date of Birth: 3rd April 1881
Place of Birth: Pieve Tesino, Tyrol, Austria-Hungary
Aldous Huxley
Occupation: Writer and philosopher
Date of Birth: 26th July 1894
Place of Birth: Godalming, Surrey, England
Alexandre Dumas
Occupation: Novelist and playwright
Date of Birth: 24th July 1802
Place of Birth: Villers-Cotterêts, Aisne, First French Republic
Alfred Nobel
Occupation: Chemist and inventor
Date of Birth: 21st October 1833
Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden
Alfred North Whitehead
Occupation: Philosopher and mathematician
Date of Birth: 15th February 1861
Place of Birth: Ramsgate, England
Allen Allensworth
Occupation: Slave, soldier and chaplain
Date of Birth: 7th April 1842
Place of Birth: Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.
Ambrose Burnside
Occupation: General and governor
Date of Birth: 23rd May 1824
Place of Birth: Liberty, Indiana, U.S.
Amitabh Bachchan
Occupation: Bollywood actor
Date of Birth: 11th October 1942
Place of Birth: Allahabad, United Provinces, British India
Anthony Casso
Occupation: Mafioso
Date of Birth: 21st May 1940
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Antonio Vivaldi
Occupation: Composer and virtuoso violinist
Date of Birth: 4th March 1678
Place of Birth: Venice, Republic of Venice
Aristotle
Occupation: Philosopher, scientist and educator
Date of Birth: 384 BC
Place of Birth: Stagira, Chalcide, Northern Greece
Arthur Balfour
Occupation: Politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom
Date of Birth: 25th July 1848
Place of Birth: East Lothian, Scotland
Arthur Griffith
Occupation: Politician and President of Dáil Éireann
Date of Birth: 31st March 1871
Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland
Arthur Schopenhauer
Occupation: Philosopher and author
Date of Birth: 22nd February 1788
Place of Birth: Danzig, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Audrey Hepburn
Occupation: Actress and humanitarian
Date of Birth: 4th May 1929
Place of Birth: Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium
Augusto Roa Bastos
Occupation: Soldier, writer and journalist
Date of Birth: 13th June 1917
Place of Birth: Asunción, Paraguay
Ayn Rand
Occupation: Writer and philosopher
Date of Birth: 2nd February 1905
Place of Birth: St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
Babe Ruth
Occupation: Professional baseball player
Date of Birth: 6th February 1895
Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Benazir Bhutto
Occupation: Politician, Prime Minister and Stateswoman
Date of Birth: 21st June 1953
Place of Birth: Karachi, Sind, Dominion of Pakistan
Benito Juárez
Occupation: Politician and 26th president of Mexico
Date of Birth: 21st March 1806
Place of Birth: San Pablo Guelatao, Oaxaca, New Spain
Benito Mussolini
Occupation: Journalist, politician, prime minister and dictator
Date of Birth: 29th July 1883
Place of Birth: Predappio, Kingdom of Italy
Benjamin Disraeli
Occupation: Politician, novelist, Prime Minister and Statesman
Date of Birth: 21st December 1804
Place of Birth: Bloomsbury, Middlesex, England
Bertrand Russell
Occupation: Philosopher, mathematician and historian
Date of Birth: 18th May 1872
Place of Birth: Trellech, Monmouthshire, United Kingdom
Bette Davis
Occupation: Actress
Date of Birth: 5th April 1908
Place of Birth: Lowell, Massachusetts, U.S.
Bill Bojangles Robinson
Occupation: Dancer and actor
Date of Birth: 25th May 1878
Place of Birth: Richmond, Virginia, U.S.
Billie Holiday
Occupation: Singer and songwriter
Date of Birth: 7th April 1915
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Billy Wilder
Occupation: Director and screenwriter
Date of Birth: 22nd June 1906
Place of Birth: Sucha, Austria-Hungary
Bing Crosby
Occupation: Singer and actor
Date of Birth: 3rd May 1903
Place of Birth: Tacoma, Washington, U.S.
Birgit Nilsson
Occupation: Soprano operatic singer
Date of Birth: 17th May 1918
Place of Birth: Västra Karup, Skåne, Sweden
Blaise Pascal
Occupation: Mathematician, physicist and philosopher
Date of Birth: 19th June 1623
Place of Birth: Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne, France
Blanche K. Bruce
Occupation: Plantation owner and politician
Date of Birth: 1st March 1841
Place of Birth: Farmville, Virginia, U.S.
Bob Denard
Occupation: Soldier of fortune
Date of Birth: 29th April 1929
Place of Birth: Bordeaux, France
Bob Hope
Occupation: Actor, comedian and singer
Date of Birth: 29th May 1903
Place of Birth: Well Hall, Eltham, London, England
Brendan Behan
Occupation: Poet, novelist, and playwright
Date of Birth: 9th February 1923
Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland
Brian Clough
Occupation: Footballer and football manager
Date of Birth: 21st March 1935
Place of Birth: Middlesbrough, England
Brian Jones
Occupation: Musician, singer and songwriter
Date of Birth: 28th February 1942
Place of Birth: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England
Brigitte Bardot
Occupation: Actress and animal rights activist
Date of Birth: 28th September 1934
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Burt Bacharach
Occupation: Composer and musician
Date of Birth: 12th May 1928
Place of Birth: Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
Butterfly McQueen
Occupation: Dancer and actress
Date of Birth: 7th January 1911
Place of Birth: Tampa, Florida, U.S.
Carl Bernstein
Occupation: Investigative journalist and author
Date of Birth: 14th February 1944
Place of Birth: Washington, D.C., U.S.
Carly Simon
Occupation: Singer, songwriter and author
Date of Birth: 25th June 1945
Place of Birth: Bronx, New York City, U.S.
Carol Potter
Occupation: Actress
Date of Birth: 21st May 1948
Place of Birth: New York City, U.S.
Charlemagne
Occupation: Roman Emperor and king of the Franks
Date of Birth: 2nd April 742
Place of Birth: Frankish Kingdom
Charles Aznavour
Occupation: Singer, songwriter, actor and diplomat
Date of Birth: 22nd May 1924
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Charles Babbage
Occupation: Mathematician and inventor
Date of Birth: 26th December 1791
Place of Birth: Southwark, London, U.K.
Charles Barry
Occupation: Architect
Date of Birth: 23rd May 1795
Place of Birth: Westminster, London
Charles Baudelaire
Occupation: Poet, author and critic
Date of Birth: 9th April 1821
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Charles Darwin
Occupation: Author, biologist, naturalist and geologist
Date of Birth: 12th February 1809
Place of Birth: Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England
Charles de Gaulle
Occupation: Soldier, resistance leader and French president
Date of Birth: 22nd November 1890
Place of Birth: Lille, France
Charles Dickens
Occupation: Writer, novelist and social reformer
Date of Birth: 7th February 1812
Place of Birth: Landport, Hampshire, England
Charles Stewart Parnell
Occupation: Irish nationalist politician
Date of Birth: 27th June 1846
Place of Birth: Avondale, County Wicklow, Ireland
Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Occupation: Author and political activist
Date of Birth: 20th June 1858
Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Che Guevara
Occupation: Revolutionary, doctor and author
Date of Birth: 14th June 1928
Place of Birth: Rosario, Santa Fe province, Argentina
Chiang Kai-shek
Occupation: Revolutionary and military leader
Date of Birth: 31st October 1887
Place of Birth: Fenghua, Zhejiang, Qing dynasty China
Christopher Columbus
Occupation: Explorer, navigator and colonist
Date of Birth: 31st October 1451
Place of Birth: Genoa, Republic of Genoa
Cicely Tyson
Occupation: Actress and model
Date of Birth: 19th December 1924
Place of Birth: Harlem, New York City, U.S.
Clark Gable
Occupation: Actor
Date of Birth: 1st February 1901
Place of Birth: Cadiz, Ohio, U.S.
Clark L Hull
Occupation: Psychologist and author
Date of Birth: 24th May 1884
Place of Birth: Akron, New York, U.S.
Claude Monet
Occupation: Artist and painter
Date of Birth: 14th November 1840
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Coco Chanel
Occupation: Fashion designer
Date of Birth: 19th August 1883
Place of Birth: Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France
Confucius
Occupation: Philosopher
Date of Birth: 28th September 551 BC
Place of Birth: Zou, Lu, Zhou Kingdom
Daniel F Malan
Occupation: Politician and prime minister
Date of Birth: 22nd May 1874
Place of Birth: Riebeek-Wes, Cape Colony
Dante Alighieri
Occupation: Poet and philosopher
Date of Birth: 21st May 1265
Place of Birth: Florence, Republic of Florence
Darryl McDaniels
Occupation: Rapper and music producer
Date of Birth: 31st May 1964
Place of Birth: Harlem, New York, U.S.
David Frost
Occupation: Television host and journalist
Date of Birth: 7th April 1939
Place of Birth: Tenterden, Kent, England
David Lloyd George
Occupation: Lawyer, politician and prime minister
Date of Birth: 17th January 1863
Place of Birth: Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester, Lancashire, England
Dean Martin
Occupation: Actor, singer and comedian
Date of Birth: 7th June 1917
Place of Birth: Steubenville, Ohio, U.S.
Dennis Weaver
Occupation: Actor and environmentalist
Date of Birth: 4th June 1924
Place of Birth: Joplin, Missouri, U.S.
Diana Dors
Occupation: Actress and model
Date of Birth: 23rd October 1931
Place of Birth: Swindon, Wiltshire, England
Diana Ross
Occupation: Singer and actress
Date of Birth: 26th March 1944
Place of Birth: Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Didier Drogba
Occupation: Professional footballer
Date of Birth: 11th March 1978
Place of Birth: Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Ding Ling
Occupation: Writer and author
Date of Birth: 12th October 1904
Place of Birth: Linli, Hunan, China
Dirk Bogarde
Occupation: Actor, author and novelist
Date of Birth: 28th March 1921
Place of Birth: West Hampstead, London, England
Dizzy Dean
Occupation: Baseball player and sportscaster
Date of Birth: 16th January 1910
Place of Birth: Lucas, Arkansas, U.S.
Dolly Parton
Occupation: Singer, songwriter and actress
Date of Birth: 19th January 1946
Place of Birth: Pittman Center, Tennessee, U.S.
Donald Trump
Occupation: Real estate executive and 45th U.S. president
Date of Birth: 14th June 1946
Place of Birth: Queens, New York City, U.S.
Doris Day
Occupation: Singer, actress and animal activist
Date of Birth: 3rd April 1922
Place of Birth: Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
Douglas MacArthur
Occupation: Soldier and general of the U.S. army
Date of Birth: 26th January 1880
Place of Birth: Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S.
Drew Barrymore
Occupation: Actress, author and producer
Date of Birth: 22nd February 1975
Place of Birth: Culver City, California, U.S.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Occupation: General and 34th president of the U.S.
Date of Birth: 14th October 1890
Place of Birth: Denison, Texas, U.S.
Dylan Thomas
Occupation: Poet and writer
Date of Birth: 27th October 1914
Place of Birth: Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom
Eamon de Valera
Occupation: Politician, prime minister and president of Ireland
Date of Birth: 14th October 1882
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, U.S.
Edgar Allan Poe
Occupation: Poet and short story writer
Date of Birth: 19th January 1809
Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Edith Piaf
Occupation: Singer and actress
Date of Birth: 19th December 1915
Place of Birth: Belleville, Paris, France
Edward De Vere
Occupation: Poet and playwright
Date of Birth: 12th April 1550
Place of Birth: Hedingham Castle, Essex, England
Edward Lear
Occupation: Artist, author, illustrator and poet
Date of Birth: 12th May 1812
Place of Birth: Holloway, Middlesex, England
Edwin Henry Landseer
Occupation: Artist, painter and sculptor
Date of Birth: 7th March 1802
Place of Birth: London, England
Elizabeth Taylor
Occupation: Actress
Date of Birth: 27th February 1932
Place of Birth: London, England, U.K.
Ella Fitzgerald
Occupation: Jazz singer
Date of Birth: 25th April 1917
Place of Birth: Newport News, Virginia, U.S.
Ellen DeGeneres
Occupation: Comedienne, talk show host and producer
Date of Birth: 26th January 1958
Place of Birth: Metairie, Louisiana, U.S.
Elon Musk
Occupation: Entrepreneur and Inventor
Date of Birth: 28th June 1971
Place of Birth: Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa
Elvis Presley
Occupation: Singer, actor and king
Date of Birth: 8th January 1935
Place of Birth: Tupelo, Mississippi, U.S.
Emil Cioran
Occupation: Philosopher and author
Date of Birth: 8th April 1911
Place of Birth: Resinár, Austria-Hungary
Emile Zola
Occupation: Novelist and playwright
Date of Birth: 2nd April 1840
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Emilio Aguinaldo
Occupation: Military leader, politician and president
Date of Birth: 22nd March 1869
Place of Birth: Kawit, Cavite, Philippines
Eric Clapton
Occupation: Singer, songwriter and guitarist
Date of Birth: 30th March 1945
Place of Birth: Ripley, Surrey, England
Erich Fromm
Occupation: Psychologist and philosopher
Date of Birth: 23rd March 1900
Place of Birth: Frankfurt am Main, German Empire
Ernest Hemingway
Occupation: Novelist and short-story writer
Date of Birth: 21st July 1899
Place of Birth: Oak Park, Illinois, U.S.
Ernest Lawson
Occupation: Artist and landscape painter
Date of Birth: 22nd March 1873
Place of Birth: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Errol Flynn
Occupation: Actor and philanderer
Date of Birth: 20th June 1909
Place of Birth: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Eva Peron
Occupation: Actress and politician
Date of Birth: 7th May 1919
Place of Birth: Los Toldos, Argentina
Evo Morales
Occupation: Union leader, politician and president
Date of Birth: 26th October 1959
Place of Birth: Isallawi, Sullka, Bolivia
Farrah Fawcett
Occupation: Actress, model, and artist
Date of Birth: 2nd February 1947
Place of Birth: Corpus Christi, Texas, U.S.
Federico Garcia Lorca
Occupation: Poet and playwright
Date of Birth: 5th June 1898
Place of Birth: Granada, Andalusia, Spain
Ferdinand Marcos
Occupation: Politician and 10th President of the Philippines
Date of Birth: 11th September 1917
Place of Birth: Sarrat, Ilocos Norte, Philippine Islands
Ferenc Puskás
Occupation: Footballer, coach and manager
Date of Birth: 2nd April 1927
Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary
Fidel Castro
Occupation: Revolutionary leader
Date of Birth: 13th August 1926
Place of Birth: Birán, Cuba
Florence Nightingale
Occupation: Nurse and statistician
Date of Birth: 12th May 1820
Place of Birth: Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany
Francis Bacon
Occupation: Philosopher and Lord Chancellor
Date of Birth: 22nd January 1561
Place of Birth: The Strand, London, England
Francisco de Paula Santander
Occupation: Freedom fighter, president and statesman
Date of Birth: 2nd April 1792
Place of Birth: Rosario de Cúcuta, New Granada
Francisco Goya
Occupation: Artist and painter
Date of Birth: 30th March 1746
Place of Birth: Fuendetodos, Spain
Francis Crick
Occupation: Physicist and neuroscientist
Date of Birth: 8th June 1916
Place of Birth: Weston Favell, Northamptonshire, England
Francis Ford Coppola
Occupation: Movie director, producer and screenwriter
Date of Birth: 7th April 1939
Place of Birth: Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Francis Galton
Occupation: Sociologist, psychologist and anthropologist
Date of Birth: 16th February 1822
Place of Birth: Sparkbrook, Birmingham, England
Franklin D Roosevelt
Occupation: Politician and 32nd U.S. President
Date of Birth: 30th January 1882
Place of Birth: Hyde Park, New York, U.S.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Occupation: Architect and designer
Date of Birth: 8th June 1867
Place of Birth: Richland Center, Wisconsin, U.S.
Frank Sinatra
Occupation: Singer, actor and producer
Date of Birth: 12th December 1915
Place of Birth: Hoboken, New Jersey, U.S.
Franz Liszt
Occupation: Composer and pianist
Date of Birth: 22nd October 1811
Place of Birth: Doborján, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire
Franz Kafka
Occupation: Novelist and short story writer
Date of Birth: 3rd July 1883
Place of Birth: Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic)
Fred Astaire
Occupation: Dancer, actor and singer
Date of Birth: 10th May 1899, Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
Place of Birth: 22nd June 1987, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Frédéric Chopin
Occupation: Composer and pianist
Date of Birth: 1st March 1810
Place of Birth: Żelazowa Wola, Mazowsze, Duchy of Warsaw
Frederik Willem De Klerk
Occupation: Politician and president
Date of Birth: 18th March 1936
Place of Birth: Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa
Friedrich Nietzsche
Occupation: Philosopher and author
Date of Birth: 15th October 1844
Place of Birth: Röcken, Province of Saxony, Kingdom of Prussia
Galileo Galilei
Occupation: Mathematician, astronomer and philosopher
Date of Birth: 15th February 1564
Place of Birth: Pisa, Duchy of Florence
Gary Player
Occupation: Golfer
Date of Birth: 1st November 1935
Place of Birth: Johannesburg, South Africa
George Bernard Shaw
Occupation: Critic, playwright and author
Date of Birth: 26th July 1856
Place of Birth: Portobello, Dublin, Ireland
George Formby
Occupation: Singer, musician and actor
Date of Birth: 26th May 1904
Place of Birth: Wigan Lancashire U.K.
George III
Occupation: Monarch, King of Great Britain
Date of Birth: 4th June 1738
Place of Birth: Norfolk House, London
George Orwell
Occupation: Novelist and polemic journalist
Date of Birth: 25th June 1903
Place of Birth: Motihari, Bihar, British India
Georges Pompidou
Occupation: Banker, politician, prime minister and president
Date of Birth: 5th July 1911
Place of Birth: Montboudif, France
George Stephenson
Occupation: Engineer and inventor
Date of Birth: 9th June 1781
Place of Birth: Wylam, Northumberland, England
George Washington
Occupation: Farmer, revolutionary and President
Date of Birth: 22nd February 1732
Place of Birth: Popes Creek, Virginia, British America
Giacomo Casanova
Occupation: Author, philanderer and spy
Date of Birth: 2nd April 1725
Place of Birth: Venice, Republic of Venice
Gina Lollobrigida
Occupation: Actress and sculptor
Date of Birth: 4th July 1927
Place of Birth: Subiaco, Italy
Giorgio Armani
Occupation: Fashion designer
Date of Birth: 11th July 1934
Place of Birth: Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Giovanni Morassutti
Occupation: Actor, theatre director and cultural entrepreneur
Date of Birth: 15th March 1980
Place of Birth: Padua, Italy
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Occupation: General, nationalist and freedom fighter
Date of Birth: 4th July 1807
Place of Birth: Nice, First French Empire
Giuseppe Verdi
Occupation: Opera composer
Date of Birth: 10th October 1813
Place of Birth: Le Roncole, Taro, French Empire
Guru Nanak
Occupation: Founder of the Sikh religion
Date of Birth: 29th November 1469
Place of Birth: Rāi Bhoi Kī Talvaṇḍī
Gustave Courbet
Occupation: Artist, painter and sculptor
Date of Birth: 10th June 1819
Place of Birth: Ornans, Doubs, Kingdom of France
Gustav Kirchhoff
Occupation: Physicist
Date of Birth: 12th March 1824
Place of Birth: Königsberg, Kingdom of Prussia
Gustav Klimt
Occupation: Artist and painter
Date of Birth: 14th July 1862
Place of Birth: Baumgarten, Austrian Empire
Gustav Mahler
Occupation: Composer and conductor
Date of Birth: 7th July 1860
Place of Birth: Kalischt, Bohemia, Austrian Empire
Gwendolyn Brooks
Occupation: Poet, teacher and author
Date of Birth: 7th June 1917
Place of Birth: Topeka, Kansas, U.S.
Haile Selassie
Occupation: Regent and emperor
Date of Birth: 23rd July 1892
Place of Birth: Ejersa Goro, Ethiopian Empire
Hal Needham
Occupation: Stuntman, actor, screenwriter and director
Date of Birth: 6th March 1931
Place of Birth: Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
Hans Christian Andersen
Occupation: Author, poet and novelist
Date of Birth: 2nd April 1805
Place of Birth: Odense, Funen, Kingdom of Denmark
Harold Macmillan
Occupation: Soldier, politician and prime minister
Date of Birth: 10th February 1894
Place of Birth: Belgravia, London, England
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Occupation: Author
Date of Birth: 14th June 1811
Place of Birth: Litchfield, Connecticut, U.S.
Harrison Ford
Occupation: Actor and movie producer
Date of Birth: 13th July 1942
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Harry S Truman
Occupation: Politician and 33rd president of the United States
Date of Birth: 8th May 1884
Place of Birth: Lamar, Missouri, U.S.
Heinrich Himmler
Occupation: Reichsführer of the SS
Date of Birth: 7th October 1900
Place of Birth: Munich, Bavaria, German Empire
Helen Mirren
Occupation: Actress
Date of Birth: 26th July 1945
Place of Birth: Chiswick, London, England
Henry Addington
Occupation: Politician and prime minister
Date of Birth: 30th May 1757
Place of Birth: Holborn, Middlesex, England
Henry Cowell
Occupation: Pianist and composer
Date of Birth: 11th March 1897
Place of Birth: Menlo Park, California, U.S.
Henry Ford
Occupation: Industrialist and car maker
Date of Birth: 30th July 1863
Place of Birth: Greenfield Township, Michigan, U.S.
Henry Kissinger
Occupation: Politician and diplomat
Date of Birth: 27th May 1923
Place of Birth: Fürth, Germany
Henry Raeburn
Occupation: Artist and painter
Date of Birth: 4th March 1756
Place of Birth: Stockbridge, Edinburgh, Scotland
Hermann Göring
Occupation: Commander In Chief Of The Luftwaffe
Date of Birth: 12th January 1893
Place of Birth: Rosenheim, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire
Hernan Cortes
Occupation: Conquistador and Governor
Date of Birth: 1485
Place of Birth: Medellín, Extremadura, Castile
Ho Chi Minh
Occupation: Revolutionary and 1st President of Vietnam
Date of Birth: 19th May 1890
Place of Birth: Kim Liên, Nghệ An Province, French Indochina
Horatio Nelson
Occupation: British Royal Navy Officer
Date of Birth: 29th September 1758
Place of Birth: Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, England
Hugo Chavez
Occupation: Soldier, politician and president
Date of Birth: 28th July 1954
Place of Birth: Sabaneta, Venezuela
Humphrey Bogart
Occupation: Actor and cultural icon
Date of Birth: 25th December 1899
Place of Birth: New York City, U.S.
Ian McEwan
Occupation: Novelist and screenwriter
Date of Birth: 21st June 1948
Place of Birth: Aldershot, England
Ian Smith
Occupation: WW2 pilot and 8th Prime Minister of Rhodesia
Date of Birth: 8th April 1919
Place of Birth: Selukwe, Southern Rhodesia
Ice Cube
Occupation: Rapper, actor, producer and screenwriter
Date of Birth: 15th June 1969
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Idi Amin
Occupation: Soldier and Ugandan dictator
Date of Birth: 17th May 1925
Place of Birth: Koboko, Uganda
Igor Stravinsky
Occupation: Composer, conductor and pianist
Date of Birth: 17th June 1882
Place of Birth: Oranienbaum, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Ilie Nastase
Occupation: Tennis player
Date of Birth: 19th July 1946
Place of Birth: Bucharest, Romania
Imelda Marcos
Occupation: Politician and first lady of the Philippines
Date of Birth: 2nd July 1929
Place of Birth: Manila, Philippines
Immanuel Kant
Occupation: Philosopher
Date of Birth: 22nd April 1724
Place of Birth: Königsberg, Kingdom of Prussia
Imran Khan
Occupation: Cricketer and Prime Minister
Date of Birth: 5th October 1952
Place of Birth: Lahore, Pakistan
Indira Gandhi
Occupation: Politician and 3rd Indian Prime Minister
Date of Birth: 19th November 1917
Place of Birth: Allahabad, British India
Ingmar Bergman
Occupation: Filmmaker, director and screenwriter
Date of Birth: 14th July 1918
Place of Birth: Uppsala, Sweden
Ingrid Bergman
Occupation: Actress
Date of Birth: 29th August 1915
Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden
Irving Berlin
Occupation: Composer and songwriter
Date of Birth: 11th May 1888
Place of Birth: Tolochin, Russian Empire
Isaac Babel
Occupation: Journalist, writer and playwright
Date of Birth: 13th July 1894
Place of Birth: Odessa, Russian Empire
Isaac Newton
Occupation: Physicist, mathematician and astronomer
Date of Birth: 4th January 1643
Place of Birth: Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England
Isabella Rossellini
Occupation: Actress, model and author
Date of Birth: 18th June 1952
Place of Birth: Lazio, Rome, Italy
Isaiah Berlin
Occupation: Historian, political theorist and philosopher
Date of Birth: 6th June 1909
Place of Birth: Riga, Russian Empire
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Occupation: Engineer
Date of Birth: 9th April 1806
Place of Birth: Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Ivor Novello
Occupation: Actor, composer and playwright
Date of Birth: 15th January 1893
Place of Birth: Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales
Iwan Bloch
Occupation: Dermatologist, psychiatrist, sexologist and author
Date of Birth: 8th April 1872
Place of Birth: Delmenhorst, Grand Ducal Oldenburg, Germany
Jack Lemmon
Occupation: Actor and musician
Date of Birth: 8th February 1925
Place of Birth: Newton, Massachusetts, U.S.
James Cagney
Occupation: Actor and dancer
Date of Birth: 17th July 1899
Place of Birth: New York City, U.S.
James Dean
Occupation: Actor and cultural icon
Date of Birth: 8th February 1931
Place of Birth: Marion, Indiana, U.S.
James Joyce
Occupation: Novelist and poet
Date of Birth: 2nd February 1882
Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland
James Keir Hardie
Occupation: Politician and first leader of the Labour Party
Date of Birth: 15th August 1856
Place of Birth: Newhouse, Lanarkshire, Scotland
James Parkinson
Occupation: Surgeon, geologist and social and political activist
Date of Birth: 11th April 1755
Place of Birth: Shoreditch, London, England
Jane Bolin
Occupation: Attorney and judge
Date of Birth: 11th April 1908
Place of Birth: Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S.
Jason Miller
Occupation: Playwright, character actor and director
Date of Birth: 22nd April 1939
Place of Birth: Long Island City, New York, U.S.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Occupation: Freedom fighter, statesman and prime minister
Date of Birth: 14th November 1889
Place of Birth: Allahabad, India
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Occupation: Philosopher
Date of Birth: 28th June 1712
Place of Birth: Grand Rue, Geneva, Republic of Geneva
Jean Moulin
Occupation: Prefect and WW2 resistance leader
Date of Birth: 20th June 1899
Place of Birth: Béziers, Languedoc, France
Jimmy Boyle
Occupation: Author, artist and sculptor
Date of Birth: 17th May 1944
Place of Birth: Gorbals, Glasgow, Scotland
Jo Ann Robinson
Occupation: Teacher and civil rights activist
Date of Birth: 17th April 1912
Place of Birth: Culloden, Georgia U.S.
Joey Gallo
Occupation: Self employed gangster
Date of Birth: 7th April 1929
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Occupation: Poet, novelist, playwright, natural philosopher, diplomat, scientist & statesman
Date of Birth: 28th August 1749
Place of Birth: Free Imperial City of Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire
John Constable
Occupation: Artist and painter
Date of Birth: 11th June 1776
Place of Birth: East Bergholt, Suffolk, East Anglia, England
John F. Kennedy
Occupation: 35th President of the U.S.
Date of Birth: 29th May 1917
Place of Birth: Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S.
John Keats
Occupation: Poet
Date of Birth: 31st October 1795
Place of Birth: Moorgate, London, England
John Lennon
Occupation: Singer, musician and peace activist
Date of Birth: 9th October 1940
Place of Birth: Liverpool, England
Johns Hopkins
Occupation: Investor and Philanthropist
Date of Birth: 19th May 1795
Place of Birth: Anne Arundel County, Maryland, U.S.
John Wayne
Occupation: Actor
Date of Birth: 26th May 1907
Place of Birth: Winterset, Iowa, U.S.
Jose Marti
Occupation: Poet, writer, philosopher and revolutionary leader
Date of Birth: 28th January 1853
Place of Birth: La Habana, Captaincy General of Cuba, Spanish Empire
Joseph Goebbels
Occupation: Reich Minister of Propaganda
Date of Birth: 29th October 1897
Place of Birth: Rheydt, Rhine Province, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
Joseph Peter Grace
Occupation: CEO and industrialist
Date of Birth: 25th May 1913
Place of Birth: Manhasset, New York, U.S.
Joseph Stalin
Occupation: Supreme leader of the Soviet Union
Date of Birth: 18th December 1878
Place of Birth: Gori, Tiflis Governorate, Caucasus Viceroyalty, Russian Empire
Judy Garland
Occupation: Actress, singer and dancer
Date of Birth: 10th June 1922
Place of Birth: Grand Rapids, Minnesota, U.S.
Kabir
Occupation: Mystic poet
Date of Birth: 1440
Place of Birth: Varanasi, Jaunpur, India
Karen Carpenter
Occupation: Singer and musician
Date of Birth: 2nd March 1950
Place of Birth: New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Karl Jaspers
Occupation: Psychiatrist and Philosopher
Date of Birth: 23rd February 1883
Place of Birth: Oldenburg, German Empire
Karl Lagerfeld
Occupation: Fashion designer, artist and photographer
Date of Birth: 10th September 1933
Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany
Karl Marx
Occupation: Philosopher and political theorist
Date of Birth: 5th May 1818
Place of Birth: Trier, Kingdom of Prussia
Karl Popper
Occupation: Scientific Philosopher
Date of Birth: 28th July 1902
Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Katharine Hepburn
Occupation: Actress
Date of Birth: 12th May 1907
Place of Birth: Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.
Kathe Kollwitz
Occupation: Artist, painter and sculptress
Date of Birth: 8th July 1867
Place of Birth: Königsberg, Prussia
Katherine Dunham
Occupation: Dancer, choreographer and author
Date of Birth: 22nd June 1909
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Occupation: Rebel poet
Date of Birth: 24th May 1899
Place of Birth: Churulia village, Asansol, Bengal Presidency, British India
Keith Moon
Occupation: Drummer, songwriter and actor
Date of Birth: 23rd August 1946
Place of Birth: Wembley, London U.K.
Keith Relf
Occupation: Singer, songwriter and musician
Date of Birth: 22nd March 1943
Place of Birth: Richmond, Surrey, England
Kelly Monaco
Occupation: Model and actress
Date of Birth: 23rd May 1976
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Kenny Rogers
Occupation: Singer, songwriter and actor
Date of Birth: 21st August 1938
Place of Birth: Houston, Texas, U.S.
Kevin Spacey
Occupation: Actor and producer
Date of Birth: 26th July 1959
Place of Birth: South Orange, New Jersey, U.S.
Kim Jong Il
Occupation: Supreme Leader of North Korea
Date of Birth: 16th February 1941
Place of Birth: Vyatskoye, Soviet Union
Kim Philby
Occupation: British spy and Soviet double agent
Date of Birth: 1st January 1912
Place of Birth: Ambala, Punjab, British India
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Occupation: Entrepreneur and founder of Biocon
Date of Birth: 23rd March 1953
Place of Birth: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Knute Rockne
Occupation: American football coach
Date of Birth: 4th March 1888
Place of Birth: Voss, Norway
Kwame Nkrumah
Occupation: First Prime Minister of Ghana
Date of Birth: 21st September 1909
Place of Birth: Nkroful, Gold Coast
Lala Lajpat Rai
Occupation: Author, politician and freedom fighter
Date of Birth: 28th January 1865
Place of Birth: Dhudike, Punjab, British India
Lana Turner
Occupation: Actress
Date of Birth: 8th February 1921
Place of Birth: Wallace, Idaho, U.S.
Lauren Bacall
Occupation: Actor and model
Date of Birth: 16th September 1924
Place of Birth: The Bronx, New York City, U.S.
Laurence Olivier
Occupation: Actor and director
Date of Birth: 22nd May 1907
Place of Birth: Dorking, Surrey, England
Lavrentiy Beria
Occupation: Soviet politician and chief of the secret police
Date of Birth: 29th March 1899
Place of Birth: Merkheuli, Sukhum Okrug, Russian Empire
Lech Kaczynski
Occupation: Polish politician and and former president
Date of Birth: 18th June 1949
Place of Birth: Warsaw, Poland
Lee Kuan Yew
Occupation: 1st Prime Minister of Singapore
Date of Birth: 16th September 1923
Place of Birth: Singapore, Straits Settlements
Lena Horne
Occupation: Singer, dancer and actress
Date of Birth: 30th June 1917
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Leonardo da Vinci
Occupation: Artist, engineer, sculptor and inventor
Date of Birth: 15th April 1452
Place of Birth: Vinci, Republic of Florence
Leonid Brezhnev
Occupation: Politician and fifth leader of the Soviet Union
Date of Birth: 19th December 1906
Place of Birth: Kamenskoye, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire
Leon Trotsky
Occupation: Revolutionary and political theorist
Date of Birth: 7th November 1879
Place of Birth: Yanovka, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire
Leo Sayer
Occupation: Singer, songwriter and musician
Date of Birth: 21st May 1948
Place of Birth: Shoreham On Sea, Sussex, England
Leo Tolstoy
Occupation: Novelist, author and short story writer
Date of Birth: 9th September 1828
Place of Birth: Yasnaya Polyana, Tula Governorate, Russian Empire
Les Paul
Occupation: Musician, songwriter and inventor
Date of Birth: 9th June 1915
Place of Birth: Waukesha, Wisconsin, U.S.
Liam Neeson
Occupation: Actor
Date of Birth: 7th June 1952
Place of Birth: Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Liberace
Occupation: Pianist, singer and showman
Date of Birth: 16th May 1919
Place of Birth: West Allis, Wisconsin, U.S.
Lillian Hellman
Occupation: Playwright and screenwriter
Date of Birth: 20th June 1905
Place of Birth: New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Little Richard
Occupation: Singer, songwriter and pianist
Date of Birth: 5th December 1932
Place of Birth: Macon, Georgia, U.S.
Liza Minnelli
Occupation: Actress, singer and dancer
Date of Birth: 12th March 1946
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Lord Byron
Occupation: Poet, peer and philanderer
Date of Birth: 22nd January 1788
Place of Birth: London, England
Lorenzo de' Medici
Occupation: Florentine Statesman
Date of Birth: 1st January 1449
Place of Birth: Florence, Republic of Florence
Louis Armstrong
Occupation: Composer, singer and musician
Date of Birth: 4th August 1901
Place of Birth: New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Louis Pasteur
Occupation: Microbiologist and chemist
Date of Birth: 27th December 1822
Place of Birth: Dole, France
Louis XVI
Occupation: The King Of France
Date of Birth: 23rd August 1754
Place of Birth: Palace of Versailles, France
Lucille Clifton
Occupation: Poet and writer
Date of Birth: 27th June 1936
Place of Birth: Depew, New York, U.S.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Occupation: Composer and pianist
Date of Birth: 16th December 1770
Place of Birth: Bonn, Holy Roman Empire
Luigi Pirandello
Occupation: Playwright, novelist and poet
Date of Birth: 28th June 1867
Place of Birth: Girgenti, Sicily, Italy
Luis Walter Alvarez
Occupation: Physicist and professor
Date of Birth: 13th June 1911
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, U.S.
Mahathir Mohamad
Occupation: 4th and 7th Malaysian Prime Minister
Date of Birth: 10th July 1925
Place of Birth: Alor Setar, Kedah, British Malaya
Mahatma Gandhi
Occupation: Lawyer, Politician, Activist and Writer
Date of Birth: 2nd October 1869
Place of Birth: Porbandar, Bombay Presidency, British India
Mao Zedong
Occupation: Revolutionary and Chinese communist leader
Date of Birth: 26th December 1893
Place of Birth: Shaoshan, Hunan, Qing Empire
Marc Chagall
Occupation: Artist and painter
Date of Birth: 6th July 1887
Place of Birth: Liozna, Vitebsk, Russian Empire
Marco Polo
Occupation: Merchant, explorer and writer
Date of Birth: 15th September 1254
Place of Birth: Venice, Republic of Venice
Marian Wright Edelman
Occupation: Lawyer and childrens rights activist
Date of Birth: 6th June 1939
Place of Birth: Bennettsville, South Carolina, U.S.
Marilyn Monroe
Occupation: Actress, singer and model
Date of Birth: 1st June 1926
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Mark Twain
Occupation: Author, publisher and lecturer
Date of Birth: 30th November 1835
Place of Birth: Florida, Missouri, U.S.
Marquis de Sade
Occupation: Writer, philosopher and philanderer
Date of Birth: 2nd June 1740
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Martha Stewart
Occupation: Businesswoman, writer and television personality
Date of Birth: 3rd August 1941
Place of Birth: Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S.
Martha Washington
Occupation: Plantation owner and first lady of the U.S.
Date of Birth: 13th June 1731
Place of Birth: Chestnut Grove, Virginia U.S.
Martin Bormann
Occupation: Private Secretary to Adolf Hitler
Date of Birth: 17th June 1900
Place of Birth: Wegeleben, Prussia, German Empire
Martin Luther King Jr
Occupation: Church minister and leader of the civil rights movement
Date of Birth: 15th January 1929
Place of Birth: Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Martin Sheen
Occupation: Actor and activist
Date of Birth: 3rd August 1940
Place of Birth: Dayton, Ohio, U.S.
Mary White Ovington
Occupation: Journalist, author, Social and political activist
Date of Birth: 11th April 1865
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Matthew C Perry
Occupation: Naval officer and Commodore of the United States Navy
Date of Birth: 10th April 1794
Place of Birth: Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.
Mel Blanc
Occupation: Actor, voice actor and comedian
Date of Birth: 30th May 1908
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, U.S.
Michael Caine
Occupation: Actor, producer and author
Date of Birth: 14th March 1933
Place of Birth: Rotherhithe, London, England
Michael Collins
Occupation: Soldier and revolutionary leader
Date of Birth: 16th October 1890
Place of Birth: Sam's Cross, County Cork, Ireland
Michelangelo
Occupation: Sculptor, painter, architect and poet
Date of Birth: 6th March 1475
Place of Birth: Caprese, Arezzo, Republic of Florence
Michio Kaku
Occupation: Theoretical physicist, author and professor
Date of Birth: 24th January 1947
Place of Birth: San Jose, California, U.S.
Mickey Spillane
Occupation: Novelist and actor
Date of Birth: 9th March 1918
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, U.S.
Mike Tyson
Occupation: Boxer and world champion
Date of Birth: 30th June 1966
Place of Birth: Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Occupation: The last Shah of Iran
Date of Birth: 26th October 1919
Place of Birth: Tehran, Persia
Montgomery Clift
Occupation: Actor
Date of Birth: 17th October 1920
Place of Birth: Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
Morgan Freeman
Occupation: Actor and producer
Date of Birth: 1st June 1937
Place of Birth: Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
Muammar al-Gaddafi
Occupation: Revolutionary leader and dictator of Libya
Date of Birth: 7th June 1942
Place of Birth: Qasr Abu Hadi, Italian Libya
Muhammad Ali
Occupation: Boxer and world champion
Date of Birth: 17th January 1942
Place of Birth: Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Occupation: Soldier, founder and first President of Turkey
Date of Birth: 19th May 1881
Place of Birth: Salonica, Salonica Vilayet, Ottoman Empire
Nancy Astor
Occupation: Politician & 1st sitting female MP
Date of Birth: 19th May 1879
Place of Birth: Danville, Virginia, U.S.
Nancy Wilson
Occupation: Singer, songwriter and musician
Date of Birth: 16th March 1954
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, U.S.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Occupation: Emperor and military general
Date of Birth: 15th August 1769
Place of Birth: Ajaccio, Corsica, France
Napoleon Hill
Occupation: Author, journalist, salesman and lecturer
Date of Birth: 26th October 1883
Place of Birth: Pound, Virginia, U.S.
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Occupation: Plantation owner, slave trader and soldier
Date of Birth: 13th July 1821
Place of Birth: Chapel Hill, Tennessee, U.S.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Occupation: Novelist and writer
Date of Birth: 4th July 1804
Place of Birth: Salem, Massachusetts, U.S.
Neil Diamond
Occupation: Singer, songwriter, musician and actor
Date of Birth: 24th January 1941
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Nelson Mandela
Occupation: Lawyer, activist and politician
Date of Birth: 18th July 1918
Place of Birth: Mvezo, Cape Province, South Africa
Nelson Rockefeller
Occupation: Businessman and politician
Date of Birth: 8th July 1908
Place of Birth: Bar Harbor, Maine, U.S.
Nero
Occupation: 5th Emperor of Rome
Date of Birth: 15th December 37 AD
Place of Birth: Antium, Italia
Niccolò Machiavelli
Occupation: Diplomat, political theorist and philosopher
Date of Birth: 3rd May 1469
Place of Birth: Florence, Republic of Florence
Niccolò Paganini
Occupation: Virtuoso violinist and composer
Date of Birth: 27th October 1782
Place of Birth: Genoa, Republic of Genoa
Nicholas II
Occupation: Tsar and emperor of Russia
Date of Birth: 18th May 1868
Place of Birth: Alexander Palace, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Nicholas Murray Butler
Occupation: Philosopher and president of Columbia University
Date of Birth: 2nd April 1862
Place of Birth: Elizabeth, New Jersey, U.S.
Nicolaus Copernicus
Occupation: Canon, astronomer and mathematician
Date of Birth: 19th February 1473
Place of Birth: Toruń, Prussia (Now Poland)
Nikita Khrushchev
Occupation: Soviet statesman and cold war leader of USSR
Date of Birth: 15th April 1894
Place of Birth: Kalinovka, Kursk Governorate, Russian Empire
Nikki Giovanni
Occupation: Poet, writer and professor
Date of Birth: 7th June 1943
Place of Birth: Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Occupation: Composer and Educator
Date of Birth: 18th March 1844
Place of Birth: Tikhvin, Leningrad Oblast, Russian Empire
Nikola Tesla
Occupation: Physicist and inventor
Date of Birth: 10th July 1856
Place of Birth: Smiljan, Austrian Empire (now Croatia)
Noam Chomsky
Occupation: Linguist, Philosopher and Author
Date of Birth: 7th December 1928
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Noël Coward
Occupation: Playwright, composer and actor
Date of Birth: 16th December 1899
Place of Birth: Teddington, Middlesex, England, UK
Nostradamus
Occupation: Physician, author, astrologer and seer
Date of Birth: 14th December 1503
Place of Birth: Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Provence, France
Octavio Paz
Occupation: Poet and diplomat
Date of Birth: 31st March 1914
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Mexico
O.J. Simpson
Occupation: American footballer and actor
Date of Birth: 9th July 1947
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California
Oliver Reed
Occupation: Actor
Date of Birth: 13th February 1938
Place of Birth: Wimbledon, London, England
Olivia De Havilland
Occupation: Actress and writer
Date of Birth: 1st July 1916
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Omar Sharif
Occupation: Actor
Date of Birth: 10th April 1932
Place of Birth: Alexandria, Egypt
Oprah Winfrey
Occupation: Talk show host, actress and producer
Date of Birth: 29th January 1954
Place of Birth: Kosciusko, Mississippi, U.S.
Orlando Bloom
Occupation: Actor
Date of Birth: 13th January 1977
Place of Birth: Canterbury, Kent, England
Orson Welles
Occupation: Actor
Date of Birth: 6th May 1915
Place of Birth: Kenosha, Wisconsin, U.S.
Oscar Hammerstein II
Occupation: Librettist and theatrical producer
Date of Birth: 12th July 1895
Place of Birth: New York City, U.S.
Oscar Wilde
Occupation: Author, playwright and poet
Date of Birth: 16th October 1854
Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland
Otto Von Bismarck
Occupation: Prussian president and Chancellor of the German Empire
Date of Birth: 1st April 1815
Place of Birth: Schönhausen, Province of Saxony, Prussia
Ovid
Occupation: Poet
Date of Birth: Born: 20 March 43 BC
Place of Birth: Sulmo, Italy, Roman Republic
Pablo Picasso
Occupation: Artist and painter
Date of Birth: 25th October 1881
Place of Birth: Málaga, Spain
Pancho Villa
Occupation: Bandit, soldier and revolutionary
Date of Birth: 5th June 1878
Place of Birth: San Juan del Rio, Durango, Mexico
Pat Boone
Occupation: Singer, composer and actor
Date of Birth: 1st June 1934
Place of Birth: Jacksonville, Florida, U.S.
Patrick Lichfield
Occupation: Photographer
Date of Birth: 25th April 1939
Place of Birth: Chelsea, London, England
Pattie Boyd
Occupation: Model, photographer and author
Date of Birth: 17th March 1944
Place of Birth: Taunton, Somerset, United Kingdom
Paul Cézanne
Occupation: Artist and painter
Date of Birth: 19th January 1839
Place of Birth: Aix-en-Provence, France
Paul Engle
Occupation: Poet and Educator
Date of Birth: 12th October 1908
Place of Birth: Cedar Rapids, Iowa, U.S.
Paulette Goddard
Occupation: Actress and model
Date of Birth: 3rd June 1910
Place of Birth: Whitestone Landing, Queens, New York, U.S.
Paul Gauguin
Occupation: Artist and painter
Date of Birth: 7th June 1848
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Paul Newman
Occupation: Actor, director, race car driver and philanthropist
Date of Birth: 26th January 1925
Place of Birth: Shaker Heights, Ohio, U.S.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Occupation: Poet, dramatist and novelist
Date of Birth: 4th August 1792
Place of Birth: Field Place, Warnham, West Sussex, England, UK
Peter Carl Faberge
Occupation: Jeweller
Date of Birth: 30th May 1846
Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Peter Lorre
Occupation: Actor
Date of Birth: 26th June 1904
Place of Birth: Rózsahegy, Austria-Hungary
Peter Paul Rubens
Occupation: Artist, painter and diplomat
Date of Birth: 28th June 1577
Place of Birth: Siegen, Nassau-Dillenburg, Holy Roman Empire
Peter The Great
Occupation: Tsar and Emperor of Russia
Date of Birth: 9th June 1672
Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia
Philip Michael Thomas
Occupation: Actor and singer
Date of Birth: 26th May 1949
Place of Birth: Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
Plato
Occupation: Philosopher
Date of Birth: 428 BC
Place of Birth: Athens, Greece
Plutarch
Occupation: Biographer and Philosopher
Date of Birth: AD 46
Place of Birth: Chaeronea, Boeotia
Pol Pot
Occupation: Revolutionary and dictator
Date of Birth: 19th May 1925
Place of Birth: Prek Sbauv, Kampong Thom, Cambodia
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Occupation: Composer
Date of Birth: 7th May 1840
Place of Birth: Votkinsk, Vyatka Governorate, Russian Empire
Pythagoras
Occupation: Philosopher and Mathematician
Date of Birth: 570 BC
Place of Birth: Samos
Qian Xuan
Occupation: Artist, poet and painter
Date of Birth: 1235
Place of Birth: Wuxing, Zhejiang Province, China
Qi Baishi
Occupation: Artist, painter and poet
Date of Birth: 1st January 1864
Place of Birth: Xiangtan, Hunan, China
Queen Cleopatra VII
Occupation: Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt
Date of Birth: 69 BC
Place of Birth: Alexandria, Egypt
Queen Elizabeth I
Occupation: Queen of England
Date of Birth: 7th September 1533
Place of Birth: Greenwich Palace, Greenwich, England
Queen Latifah
Occupation: Singer, songwriter, actress, TV host and producer
Date of Birth: 18th March 1970
Place of Birth: Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
Queen Rania Of Jordan
Occupation: Queen, author, and peoples advocate
Date of Birth: 31st August 1970
Place of Birth: Kuwait City, Kuwait
Queen Rani Of Jhansi
Occupation: Queen and rebel leader
Date of Birth: 19th November 1828
Place of Birth: Varanasi, India
Quentin Crisp
Occupation: Actor, writer, raconteur and artists model
Date of Birth: 25th December 1908
Place of Birth: Sutton, Surrey, England
Quentin Tarantino
Occupation: Director and screenwriter
Date of Birth: 27th March 1963
Place of Birth: Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.
Quincy Jones
Occupation: Record producer, composer and musician
Date of Birth: 14th March 1933
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Rabindranath Tagore
Occupation: Poet, composer, writer, philosopher and painter
Date of Birth: 7th May 1861
Place of Birth: Calcutta, British India
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Occupation: Writer and philosopher
Date of Birth: 25th May 1803
Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Ram Mohan Roy
Occupation: Reformist
Date of Birth: 22nd May 1772
Place of Birth: Radhanagar, Bengal, British India
Ramsay MacDonald
Occupation: Politician and Prime Minister
Date of Birth: 12th October 1866
Place of Birth: Lossiemouth, Morayshire, Scotland, UK
Raquel Welch
Occupation: Actress and Model
Date of Birth: 5th September 1940
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Raul Alfonsin
Occupation: Lawyer, politician and president of Argentina
Date of Birth: 12th March 1927
Place of Birth: Chascomús, Argentina
Rembrandt
Occupation: Artist and painter
Date of Birth: 15th July 1606
Place of Birth: Leiden, Dutch Republic
René Descartes
Occupation: Mathematician and Philosopher
Date of Birth: 31st March 1596
Place of Birth: La Haye en Touraine, Touraine, Kingdom of France
Richard Nixon
Occupation: Politician and 37th president of the U.S.
Date of Birth: 9th January 1913
Place of Birth: Yorba Linda, California, U.S.
Richard Strauss
Occupation: Composer and conductor
Date of Birth: 11th June 1864
Place of Birth: Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria
Ringo Starr
Occupation: Drummer, singer and actor
Date of Birth: 7th July 1940
Place of Birth: Dingle, Liverpool, U.K.
Robert Burns
Occupation: Farmer and Poet
Date of Birth: 25th January 1759
Place of Birth: Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland
Robert Durst
Occupation: Real estate
Date of Birth: 12th April 1943
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, U.S.
Robert Falcon Scott
Occupation: Naval officer and polar explorer
Date of Birth: 6th June 1868
Place of Birth: Plymouth, Devon, England
Robert L Johnson
Occupation: Businessman
Date of Birth: 8th April 1946
Place of Birth: Hickory, Mississippi, U.S.
Robert Mugabe
Occupation: Revolutionary, politician, prime minister and president
Date of Birth: 21st February 1924
Place of Birth: Kutama, Southern Rhodesia
Robert The Bruce
Occupation: Rebel leader and King Of Scotland
Date of Birth: 11th July 1274
Place of Birth: Turnberry Castle, Ayrshire, Scotland
Roger Bacon
Occupation: Friar and philosophical polymath
Date of Birth: c. 1219
Place of Birth: Ilchester, Somerset, England
Ruben Gonzalez
Occupation: Musician
Date of Birth: 26th May 1919
Place of Birth: Santa Clara, Cuba
Rudyard Kipling
Occupation: Journalist, author and poet
Date of Birth: 30th December 1865
Place of Birth: Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India
Rumi
Occupation: Poet, philosopher and theologian
Date of Birth: 30th September 1207
Place of Birth: Balkh, Persia
Salvador Dali
Occupation: Artist and painter
Date of Birth: 11th May 1904
Place of Birth: Figueres, Catalonia, Spain
Samuel Beckett
Occupation: Novelist, playwright and poet
Date of Birth: 13th April 1906
Place of Birth: Foxrock, Dublin, Ireland
Seneca
Occupation: Roman Stoic philosopher
Date of Birth: 4BC
Place of Birth: Corduba, Hispania Baetica
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Occupation: Composer, virtuoso pianist and conductor
Date of Birth: 1st April 1873
Place of Birth: Semyonovo, Novgorod Governorate, Russian Empire
Sigmund Freud
Occupation: Neurologist, psychoanalyst and author
Date of Birth: 6th May 1856
Place of Birth: Freiberg, Moravia, Austrian Empire
Simon Bolivar
Occupation: Soldier, revolutionary, politician and president
Date of Birth: 24th July 1783
Place of Birth: Caracas, Captaincy General of Venezuela, Spanish Empire
Sirhan Sirhan
Occupation: Stable boy, jockey and assassin
Date of Birth: 19th March 1944
Place of Birth: Jerusalem, Palestine (now Israel)
Sirimavo Bandaranike
Occupation: Politician and prime minister
Date of Birth: 17th April 1916
Place of Birth: Ratnapura, British Colony of Ceylon
Socrates
Occupation: Philosopher and educator
Date of Birth: c. 470 BC
Place of Birth: Deme Alopece, Athens
Sophocles
Occupation: Tragedian Playwright and Poet
Date of Birth: c. 496 BC
Place of Birth: Colonus, Attica
Søren Kierkegaard
Occupation: Philosopher and Theologian
Date of Birth: 5th May 1813
Place of Birth: Copenhagen, Denmark, Denmark-Norway
Spencer Dryden
Occupation: Musician and drummer
Date of Birth: 7th April 1938
Place of Birth: New York, U.S.
Stan Laurel
Occupation: Actor, comedian, writer and director
Date of Birth: 16th June 1890
Place of Birth: Ulverston, Lancashire, England
Stanley Baldwin
Occupation: Industrialist, politician and prime minister
Date of Birth: 3rd August 1867
Place of Birth: Bewdley, Worcestershire, England
Steve McQueen
Occupation: Actor
Date of Birth: 24th March 1930
Place of Birth: Beech Grove, Indiana, U.S.
Sugar Minott
Occupation: Singer, songwriter and record producer
Date of Birth: 25th May 1956
Place of Birth: Kingston, Jamaica
Sukarno
Occupation: Freedom fighter and president of Indonesia
Date of Birth: 6th June 1901
Place of Birth: Surabaya, East Java, Dutch East Indies
Sun Yat-sen
Occupation: Revolutionary and the Father of the Republic of China
Date of Birth: 12th November 1866
Place of Birth: Cuiheng, Guangdong, Qing Dynasty
Susan Hayward
Occupation: Actress and singer
Date of Birth: 30th June 1917
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Suzanne Lenglen
Occupation: Tennis Player
Date of Birth: 24th May 1899
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Tallulah Bankhead
Occupation: Actress of stage and screen
Date of Birth: 31st January 1902
Place of Birth: Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.
Terry Crews
Occupation: American footballer, artist and actor
Date of Birth: 30th July 1968
Place of Birth: Flint, Michigan, U.S.
Thabo Mbeki
Occupation: 2nd president of South Africa
Date of Birth: 18th June 1942
Place of Birth: Idutywa, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Theodore Roosevelt
Occupation: Statesman, president and conservationist
Date of Birth: 27th October 1858
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, U.S.
Thomas Arne
Occupation: Composer and musician
Date of Birth: 12th March 1710
Place of Birth: Covent Garden, London, England
Thomas Eakins
Occupation: Artist, painter and educator
Date of Birth: 25th July 1844
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Thomas Gainsborough
Occupation: Artist and Painter
Date of Birth: 14th May 1727
Place of Birth: Sudbury, Suffolk, England
Thomas Hardy
Occupation: Novelist and poet
Date of Birth: 2nd June 1840
Place of Birth: Stinsford, Dorset, England
Thomas Henry Huxley
Occupation: Biologist and Anthropologist
Date of Birth: 4th May 1825
Place of Birth: Ealing, London, Middlesex, England
Thomas Hobbes
Occupation: Philosopher
Date of Birth: 5th April 1588
Place of Birth: Westport, Malmesbury, Wiltshire, England
Thomas Jefferson
Occupation: Lawyer, politician and president
Date of Birth: 13th April 1743
Place of Birth: Shadwell, Colony of Virginia, British America
Thomas Mann
Occupation: Novelist and short story writer
Date of Birth: 6th June 1875
Place of Birth: Lübeck, German Empire
Tina Turner
Occupation: Singer, songwriter, dancer and actress
Date of Birth: 26th November 1939
Place of Birth: Nutbush, Tennessee, U.S.
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Occupation: Warrior, statesman and shogun
Date of Birth: 31st January 1543
Place of Birth: Okazaki Castle, Mikawa (now Okazaki, Japan)
Tony Bennett
Occupation: Singer and Painter
Date of Birth: 3rd August 1926
Place of Birth: Astoria, Queens, New York, U.S.
Tony Bouza
Occupation: Police officer and author
Date of Birth: 10th April 1928
Place of Birth: Ferrol, Spain
Tony Curtis
Occupation: Actor
Date of Birth: 3rd June 1925
Place of Birth: The Bronx, New York City, U.S.
Ugo Foscolo
Occupation: Patriot, poet, soldier and writer
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Place of Birth: Zakynthos, Ionian Islands, Republic of Venice
Uhuru Kenyatta
Occupation: Politician, president and statesman
Date of Birth: 26th October 1961
Place of Birth: Nairobi, Kenya Colony
Ulysses S. Grant
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Date of Birth: 27th April 1822
Place of Birth: Point Pleasant, Ohio, U.S.
Uma Thurman
Occupation: Actress and model
Date of Birth: 29th April 1970
Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
U Ne Win
Occupation: Political and military leader
Date of Birth: 24th May 1911
Place of Birth: Paungdale, Pegu Province, Lower Burma, British India
Upton Sinclair
Occupation: Author and novelist
Date of Birth: 20th September 1878
Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Uri Geller
Occupation: Illusionist and psychic
Date of Birth: 20th December 1946
Place of Birth: Tel Aviv, Palestine (now Israel)
Ursula Andress
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Usain Bolt
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Place of Birth: Sherwood Content, Jamaica
Usha Uthup
Occupation: Singer and actress
Date of Birth: 7th November 1947
Place of Birth: Bombay, Bombay State, India
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Occupation: Singer, songwriter and actor
Date of Birth: 14th October 1978
Place of Birth: Dallas, Texas, U.S.
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Date of Birth: 5th October 1936
Place of Birth: Prague, Czechoslovakia
Valentina Tereshkova
Occupation: Cosmonaut who was the first woman in space
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Place of Birth: Bolshoye Maslennikovo, Soviet Union
Vera Wang
Occupation: Fashion designer
Date of Birth: 27th March 1949
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, U.S.
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Occupation: Statesman, president and businessman
Date of Birth: 2nd July 1942
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Mexico
Victor Hugo
Occupation: Poet, novelist, dramatist and politician
Date of Birth: 26th February 1802
Place of Birth: Besançon, France
Vigdis Finnbogadottir
Occupation: Academic and president of Iceland
Date of Birth: 15th April 1930
Place of Birth: Reykjavík, Iceland
Viktor Yushchenko
Occupation: Banker, prime minister and president
Date of Birth: 23rd February 1954
Place of Birth: Khoruzhivka, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine, Soviet Union
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Occupation: Artist and painter
Date of Birth: 30th March 1853
Place of Birth: Zundert, Netherlands
Vladimir Horowitz
Occupation: Classical pianist
Date of Birth: 1st October 1903
Place of Birth: Kiev, Russian Empire
Vladimir Lenin
Occupation: Revolutionary, politician and political leader
Date of Birth: 22nd April 1870
Place of Birth: Simbirsk, Russian Empire
Vladimir Putin
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Date of Birth: 7th October 1952
Place of Birth: Leningrad, Soviet Union
Vojislav Kostunica
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Date of Birth: 24th March 1944
Place of Birth: Belgrade, German occupied Serbia
Voltaire
Occupation: Writer and philosopher
Date of Birth: 21st November 1694
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Wallis Simpson
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Walter Raleigh
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Wangari Maathai
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Wilfred Owen
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Wilhelm Liebknecht
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William James
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William Monroe Trotter
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William Shakespeare
Occupation: Playwright, poet and actor
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Place of Birth: Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire, Kingdom of England
William Wordsworth
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Date of Birth: 7th April 1770
Place of Birth: Cockermouth, Cumberland, England
Winston Churchill
Occupation: Soldier, correspondent and Prime Minister
Date of Birth: 30th November 1874
Place of Birth: Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England
Wolfe Tone
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Date of Birth: 20th June 1763
Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Date of Birth: 27th January 1756
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Xaviera Hollander
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Xenocrates
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Date of Birth: 396BC
Place of Birth: Chalcedon, Classical Greece
Xenophanes
Occupation: Poet, philosopher and social critic
Date of Birth: 560 BC
Place of Birth: Colophon, Ancient Greece (now Turkey)
Xenophon
Occupation: Soldier, philosopher and historian
Date of Birth: 431 BC
Place of Birth: Erchia, Ancient Greece
Xi Jinping
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Date of Birth: 15th June 1953
Place of Birth: Beijing, China
Xi Yu Lin
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Date of Birth: 25th February 1996
Place of Birth: Guangzhou, China
Xun Kuang
Occupation: Confucian philosopher
Date of Birth: 310BC
Place of Birth: State of Zhao, China
Xu Zhimo
Occupation: Poet and literary translator
Date of Birth: 15th January 1897
Place of Birth: Haining, Zhejiang province, China
Yakov Borisovich Zeldovich
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Date of Birth: 8th March 1914
Place of Birth: Minsk, Russian Empire
Yasmin Le Bon
Occupation: Model and designer
Date of Birth: 29th October 1964
Place of Birth: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
Yasser Arafat
Occupation: 1st President of the Palestinian National Authority
Date of Birth: 24th August 1929
Place of Birth: Cairo, Egypt
Yasunari Kawabata
Occupation: Novelist and short story writer
Date of Birth: 11th June 1899
Place of Birth: Osaka, Japan
Yogi Berra
Occupation: Baseball player, manager and coach
Date of Birth: 12th May 1925
Place of Birth: St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Yoko Ono
Occupation: Musician, poet and artist
Date of Birth: 18th February 1933
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Yo-Yo Ma
Occupation: Musician and cellist
Date of Birth: 7th October 1955
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Yul Brynner
Occupation: Actor
Date of Birth: 11th July 1920
Place of Birth: Vladivostok, Primorskaya Oblast, Far Eastern Republic
Yuri Gagarin
Occupation: Pilot and cosmonaut
Date of Birth: 9th March 1934
Place of Birth: Klushino, Gzhatskiy Rayon, Zapadnaya Oblast, Soviet Union
Yves Saint Laurent
Occupation: Fashion designer
Date of Birth: 1st August 1936
Place of Birth: Oran, French Algeria
Zachary Taylor
Occupation: Soldier and 12th U.S. president
Date of Birth: 24th November 1784
Place of Birth: Barboursville, Virginia, U.S.
Zach Galifianakis
Occupation: Actor, writer and comedian
Date of Birth: 1st October 1969
Place of Birth: Wilkesboro, North Carolina, U.S.
Zeppo Marx
Occupation: Actor, comedian and inventor
Date of Birth: 25th February 1901
Place of Birth: Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
Zhang Ziyi
Occupation: Actress, dancer and model
Date of Birth: 9th February 1979
Place of Birth: Beijing, China
Zhao Ziyang
Occupation: 3rd Premier of the People's Republic of China
Date of Birth: 17th October 1919
Place of Birth: Hua County, Henan, China
Zhou Xun
Occupation: Actress and singer
Date of Birth: 18th October 1974
Place of Birth: Quzhou, Zhejiang, China
Zhu Yuanzhang
Occupation: Soldier, founder and 1st emperor of the Ming Dynasty
Date of Birth: 21st October 1328
Place of Birth: Haozhou, Henan Jiangbei, Yuan Empire
Zinedine Zidane
Occupation: Footballer and football manager
Date of Birth: 23rd June 1972
Place of Birth: Marseille, France
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Occupation: Footballer
Date of Birth: 3rd October 1981
Place of Birth: Malmö, Sweden
Zoe Wanamaker
Occupation: Actress
Date of Birth: 13th May 1949
Place of Birth: New York City, U.S.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Occupation: Actress and socialite
Date of Birth: 6th February 1917
Place of Birth: Budapest, Austria Hungary