James Beard was a chef, television personality and food writer who many consider the father of American-style gourmet cooking.
At the Summer Games in London, Ashton Eaton—the youngest to member of the U.S. decathlon team that year, at age 24—took home the decathlon gold medal.
Douglas C Engelbart is a pioneer in the design of interactive computer environments and the inventor of the mouse.
Matt Groening is a cartoonist and creator of The Simpsons, the longest-running entertainment series in prime time television.
Naturalist Terri Irwin is well-known as the widow of wildlife expert Steve Irwin. The couple co-hosted the Animal Planet show The Crocodile Hunter.
Chief Joseph was a Nez Percé chief who, faced with settlement by whites of tribal lands in Oregon, led his followers in a dramatic effort to escape to Canada.
Republican U.S. Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers is best known for being the highest ranking Republican female in the House of Representatives.
River Phoenix was an Academy Award nominee and promising young actor who died at the young age of 23 from a drug overdose.
Steve Prefontaine is best known as the runner who once held the U.S. record in every long-distance event. He died in a car crash in 1974 at age 24.