Napoleon Bonaparte was a military general who became the first emperor of France and whose drive for military expansion changed the world.
1769-1821
A talented, troubled grunge performer, Kurt Cobain became a rock legend with his band Nirvana in the 1990s and committed suicide at his Seattle home in 1994.
1967-1994
1928-1978
Tobacco heiress Doris Duke was the only child of American tobacco baron, James Duke. When she was born, the press called her the "million dollar baby."
1912-1993
Amelia Earhart was the first female pilot to fly across the Atlantic and the first person to have flown both oceans. Her mysterious disappearance occurred in 1937.
1897-1939
Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar's ambition and ruthlessness made him one of the wealthiest, most powerful, and most violent criminals of all-time.
1949-1993
Zoologist Dian Fossey was one of the foremost primate researchers in the world who for 18 years studied of a group of gorillas in Rwanda.
1932-1985
1913-1975
Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway disappeared during a trip to Aruba in 2005.
1986-
Harry Houdini's grand illusions and daring, spectacular escape acts made him one of the most famous magicians of all time.
1874-1926
1949-1984
John F. Kennedy was 35th president of the United States. He achieved the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty and the Alliance for Progress, and was assassinated in 1963.
1917-1963
Brandon Lee was an action film star and the son of actor Bruce Lee. His untimely death was caused by a prop gun accident and the set of the film The Crow.
1965-1993
Bruce Lee was an actor, film producer and director, and the martial arts expert who founded the Jeet Kune Doe martial arts system.
1940-1973
1774-1809
Actress Marilyn Monroe overcame a difficult childhood to become of the world's biggest and most enduring sex symbols. She died of a drug overdose in 1962.
1926-1962
1466-1520
American short-story writer, poet, critic, and editor Edgar Allan Poe is famous for his tales and poems of horror and mystery such as The Raven.
1809-1849
JonBenet Ramsey was a six-year-old beauty queen who was found murdered in her parents' Boulder, Colorado, home on December 26, 1996.
1990-1996
1914-1959
Emperor Haile Selassie I worked to modernize Ethiopia for several decades before famine and political opposition forced him from office in 1974.
1892-1975
A hip-hop legend, with explicit and violent lyrics, Tupac Shakur embroiled a feud between East Coast and West Coast rappers.
1971-1996
1946-1974
Football player Pat Tillman enlisted in the U.S. Army in 2002. He was killed in action in 2004, and the exact circumstances of his death are still in question.
1976-2004
Natalie Wood was a U.S. film actresses who at nine appeared in Miracle on 34th Street and as an adult starred in West Side Story.
1938-1981
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq was Pakistani chief of Army staff, chief martial-law administrator, and president of Pakistan (1978–88).
1924-1988