The artist was quick to injure people with his tongue and sword.

Don’t fret, Robert Pattinson. People didn’t want Michael Keaton as the caped crusader, either.

The civil rights leader realized the power in Gandhi's approach to standing up to oppression with "truth-force."

Ronald Reagan saw the great statesman as an enemy bent on spreading communism, and Margaret Thatcher said he had "a closed mind" in newly released documents.

His death came less than a year after India gained its independence.

Gandhi was assassinated by Nathuram Godse while walking to a prayer meeting in 1948.

An enslaved woman named Joice Heth launched P.T. Barnum’s career, but she didn’t get any billing in his movie.