Tonya Harding is an American figure skater who ruined her future in the sport when she was implicated in the attack on fellow skater Nancy Kerrigan at the 1994 Olympic trials.

River Phoenix was an Academy Award nominee and promising young actor who died at the young age of 23 from a drug overdose.

Award-winning children's book writer Beverly Cleary created such classics as 'Henry Huggins,' 'Ramona the Pest' and 'The Mouse and the Motorcycle.'

Chief Joseph was a Nez Perce chief who, faced with settlement by whites of tribal lands in Oregon, led his followers in a dramatic effort to escape to Canada.