David Garrick (19 February 1717 – 20 January 1779) was an English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer who had a profound influence on the theatre in the 18th century. He was also a pupil and friend of Dr Samuel...
Sydney Hughes Greenstreet (27 December 1879 – 18 January 1954) was an English stage and film actor. He is most widely known for his films with Humphrey Bogart and Peter Lorre, notably The Maltese Falcon (1941) and Casablanca (1942).
Gary Mark Gilmore (December 4, 1940 – January 17, 1977) was an American who gained notoriety for demanding that his death sentence for two murders he committed in Utah, be carried out. He became the first person executed...
Carole Lombard (October 6, 1908 – January 16, 1942) was an American actress who is particularly noted for her roles in comedies of the 1930’s. She was the highest-paid star in Hollywood in the late 1930’s,...
Emma, Lady Hamilton (26 April 1765 – 15 January 1815) is best remembered as the mistress of Lord Nelson . She was born Amy Lyon in Ness near Neston in Cheshire, England. She was the daughter of a blacksmith, Henry Lyon, who died...
Jeanette Anna MacDonald (June 18, 1903 – January 14, 1965) was an American singer and actress best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier (Love Me Tonight, The Merry Widow) and Nelson Eddy (Naughty Marietta, Rose-Marie, and Maytime)....
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, DBE (born Miller 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English crime writer of novels, short stories, and plays. She also wrote six romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but she is best remembered for the...
Samuel Colt (July 19, 1814 – January 10, 1862) was an American inventor and industrialist from Hartford, Connecticut, founder of Colt’s Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company (now known as Colt’s Manufacturing Company). When he died in 1862,he was one...
Gabrielle “Coco” Bonheur Chanel (19 August 1883 – 10 January 1971) was a French fashion designer and founder of the Chanel brand. She was the only fashion designer to appear on Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people of...
Theodore “T.R.” Roosevelt, Jr. (October 27, 1858—January 6, 1919) was the 26th President of the United States (1901–1909). He was a leader of the Republican Party and founder of the short-lived Progressive (“Bull Moose”) Party of 1912. Roosevelt...
William Joyce (24 April 1906 – 3 January 1946), nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw, was an Irish-American fascist politician and Nazi propaganda broadcaster to the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He was well known for his broadcasts on the...
Josiah Wedgwood (12 July 1730 – 3 January 1795) was an English potter, founder of the Wedgwood company and credited with the industrialisation of the manufacture of pottery.
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS (3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and was the Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955. He was the first person...
Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, OM, KCIE, PRA, FRIBA (29 March 1869 – 1 January 1944) was a British architect who designed many
Walter Elias “Walt” Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American businessman, animator, producer, director, screenwriter, and voice actor. Along with his brother Roy O. Disney, he co-founded the Walt Disney Productions, which later became one of the...
William Claude Dukenfield (January 29, 1880 – December 25, 1946), better known as W. C. Fields, was an American comedian, actor and writer.
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Francis Albert Augustus Charles Emmanuel) (26 August 1819 – 14 December 1861) was the husband of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He was born in...
Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, KG PC FRS (3 August 1867 – 14 December 1947) was a British Conservative politician, who dominated the government in Great Britain between the two world wars. Three times Prime Minister, he is the only...
William Bligh, FRS, RN (9 September 1754 – 7 December 1817) was an officer of the British Royal Navy and colonial administrator. A mutiny occurred during his command of HMS Bounty in 1789 when Bligh and his loyal men made a...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific composer. He composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. At 17, he...
