Madeleine Albright became the first woman to represent the U.S. in regards to foreign affairs as the secretary of state.
1937-
American photographer Richard Avedon was best known for his work in the fashion world and for his minimalist, large-scale character-revealing portraits.
1923-2004
Children's book writer Frank Baum created the popular Wizard of Oz series. Ruth Plumly Thompson continued to write the series after his death.
1856-1919
Veronica Campbell-Brown is the youngest Jamaican woman to win an Olympic medal. At the 2012 Olympic Games, she became a six-time Olympic medalist.
1982-
Film actor Joseph Cotten was a member of Orson Welles Mercury Theater radio ensemble. He also appeared in the movie Citizen Kane.
1905-1994
1943-
French physicist Pierre Curie was of founding fathers of modern physics and is best known for being a pioneer in radioactive studies.
1859-1906
1948-
Alice Faye was a Broadway actress and chorus girl who played the mother of Shirley Temple in several films.
1915-1998
1930-
Since co-founding Essence magazine, Edward T. Lewis has become one of the most successful and respected magazine publishers in the country.
1940-
NFL linebacker Ray Lewis is a two-time Defensive Player of the Year, Super Bowl MVP and played his entire 17-year career with the Baltimore Ravens.
1975-
Andy Murray is a three-time Grand Slam runner-up. He lost to rival Roger Federer at Wimbledon in 2012, but beat Federer at the 2012 Summer Olympics for the singles gold medal.
1987-
Actor Chazz Palminteri starred opposite Robert De Niro in the 1993 film adaptation of A Bronx Tale, and performed in Woody Allen’s Bullets Over Broadway (1994).
1952-
Mina Stevens was an astronomer who was a pioneer in the classification of stellar spectra.
1857-1911
American economist Paul Samuelson is best known as a founder of neo-Keynesian economics and for being the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Economics.
1915-2009
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1926-
Jamie Lynn-Sigler is an American actress best known for her role as Meadow Soprano on the HBO series The Sopranos.
1981-
Emmitt Smith was a running back with the Dallas Cowboys. In 2002, he broke Walter Payton's rushing record to become the leading rusher in NFL history.
1969-
1817-1905
1860-1914