Actress and singer Judy Garland was the star of many classic musical films, and was known for her tremendous talent and troubled life.

Lindsay Lohan is under fire for telling a British newspaper that women who speak out in the #MeToo movement look weak. Although she noted she’s “supportive of women” and “everyone goes through their own experiences,” Lohan called women who make allegations "attention-seekers."

As prime minister, Sir Winston Churchill rallied the British people during WWII, and led his country from the brink of defeat to victory.

Actor Charlie Sheen, star of such films as 'Platoon' and of TV's 'Two and a Half Men,' is probably as well known for his acting as he is for his more recent "tiger-blood" fueled meltdown. In November 2015, he revealed he was HIV-positive.

A short story by Ernest Hemingway has been published for the first time nearly six decades after his suicide. “A Room on the Garden Side” is about an American writer named Robert, very likely based on the author himself, just after Allied soldiers freed Paris from the Nazis in 1944.

Boris Yeltsin was the first freely elected President of Russia. He voluntarily resigned from the post after nine years, leaving the job to Putin.

Baseball icon Babe Ruth set numerous records as a pitcher and slugging outfielder. He was among the first five players inducted into the sport's Hall of Fame.

William Faulkner was a Nobel Prize–winning novelist of the American South who wrote challenging prose and created the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. He is best known for such novels as 'The Sound and the Fury' and 'As I Lay Dying.'

Vincent van Gogh is considered the greatest Dutch painter after Rembrandt, although he remained poor and virtually unknown throughout his life.

American short-story writer and novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald is known for his turbulent personal life and his famous novel 'The Great Gatsby.'

Andre the Giant was a professional wrestler with the WWF (now the WWE). He was 6' 11" tall and weighed 500 pounds. He also acted in the film The Princess Bride.

Jack Kerouac was an American writer best known for the novel On the Road, which became an American classic, pioneering the Beat Generation in the 1950s.

Truman Capote was a trailblazing writer of Southern descent known for the works Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood, among others.

Counterculture icon Hunter S. Thompson was an American journalist best known for writing 1971's 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' and creating 'Gonzo journalism.'

Calamity Jane was a woman of the Wild West renowned for her sharp-shooting, whiskey swilling, and cross-dressing ways – but also for her kindness towards others.

Irish soccer player George Best starred for Manchester United and was named European Footballer of the Year in 1968, before a hard-partying lifestyle took its toll on his career and health.

Writer Dylan Thomas is best known for the poem "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" and the play Under Milk Wood. He's also known for his heavy drinking, which led to his untimely death.

American writer, poet and critic Edgar Allan Poe is famous for his tales and poems of horror and mystery, including "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Raven."

Actor Kiefer Sutherland, son of Donald Sutherland, appeared in numerous coming-of-age films throughout the 1980s, including Stand by Me and The Lost Boys.

American singer-songwriter Tom Waits is known for his musical tales of bohemians, drifters and misfits and for his stylistic blend of blues, folk and jazz.

Dorothy Parker was the sharpest wit of the Algonquin Round Table, as well as a master of short fiction and a blacklisted screenwriter.

Modest Mussorgsky was a 19th century Russian composer. His most famous works include "Night on Bald Mountain," "Boris Godunov" and "Pictures at an Exhibition."

Jack London was a 19th century American author and journalist, best known for the adventure novels White Fang and The Call of the Wild.

Irish actor Richard Harris is best known for his performances as King Arthur in Broadway's Camelot and Albus Dumbledore in the first two Harry Potter films.