Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose is known for working with Albert Einstein on the Bose-Einstein Condensate and as namesake of the boson, or “God particle.”
1894-1974
Dancer and choreographer Maurice Béjart founded Switzerland's Béjart Ballet Lausanne, known for his 2000 version of The Nutcracker.
1927-2007
1921-1998
1449-1492
Writer and critic E.M. Forster is the author of Howards End, A Passage to India and A Room With a View.
1879-1970
Hank Greenberg became one of Major League Baseball's first Jewish super stars, while playing for the Detroit Tigers.
1911-1986
As director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover had rabid anti-Communist and anti-subversive views and used unconventional tactics to monitor related activity.
1895-1972
1923-1999
Actor Frank Langella portrayed Richard Nixon in the Broadway and film version of Frost/Nixon. He won a Tony Award and an Oscar nomination.
1938-
1929-
1618-1682
Elin Nordegren is the former wife of Tiger Woods, and mother to his two children.
1980-
1933-1967
Silversmith Paul Revere took part in the Boston Tea Party and famously alerted the Lexington Minutemen about the approach of the British in 1775.
1735-1818
According to legend, Betsy Ross made the first American flag. Despite a lack of credible evidence to support this, she remains an icon of American history.
1752-1836
1892-1948
With his landmark novel Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger was an influential 20th-century American writer.
1919-2010
1944-
Verne Troyer first came to fame as Mini-Me in the popular 1999 comedy Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me with Mike Myers.
1969-
Anthony Wayne was an American general and U.S. Representative best known for winning the Battle of Fallen Timbers which removed Native American claims to Ohio and the surrounding area.
1745-1796