1848-1930
1894-1974
1978-
Cheryl Crane is the daughter of Hollywood legend Lana Turner. In 1958 when she was just 14 years old she committed murder, stabbing Turner's boyfriend after hearing him threaten to kill her mother.
1943-
Thomas Eakins was a naturalist figure painter, portraitist and sculptor. He is considered one of the most influential artists in U.S. history.
1844-1916
British chemist Rosalind Franklin is best known for her role in the discovery of the structure of DNA ,and for her pioneering use of X-ray diffraction.
1920-1958
Estelle Getty played Sophia Petrillo on The Golden Girls, and was one of television’s most popular comedic actresses of the 1980s.
1923-2008
Anna Harrison was a former First Lady of the United States. She was the wife of ninth President, William Henry Harrison, who died after only one month in office.
1775-1864
1906-1970
Iman is a retired supermodel from the country of Somalia. She's married to rocker David Bowie.
1955-
Henry Knox was a bookstore owner who became a Major General under George Washington during the American Revolution and later Secretary of War.
1750-1806
Stanley Kunitz was an American poet who served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (1974; 2000). He won the Pulitzer Prize for his work Selected Poems 1928-1958 (1958).
1905-2006
Matt LeBlanc is an American actor most famous for his role as Joey Tribbiani on the hit television series, Friends.
1967-
Rita Marley is Bob Marley's widow, and is best known for carrying on her late husband's musical legacy and developing her own career as a solo artist.
1946-
Maxfield Parrish was an American painter and illustrator who was the highest-paid commercial artist in the United States by the 1920s.
1870-1966
Walter Payton was a running back for the Chicago Bears in the National Football League and is in the Football Hall of Fame.
1954-1999
1982-2008
The murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till on August 28, 1955 galvanized the emerging civil rights movement.
1941-1955
1953-