Stan Laurel was an English comedic actor, movie director and writer who was one-half of the famous duo Laurel and Hardy. With Oliver Hardy, Laurel appeared in over 100 films, beginning in the 1920s silent film era.

Lily Collins is a British-American actress who has starred in films such as 'The Blind Side,' 'Mirror Mirror' and Netflix's 'To the Bone.'

Reality television star Kate Gosselin starred on TLC's Jon and Kate Plus 8, and went through a very public divorce as a result of the show's success.

Donald Glover is the star and creator of the television comedy 'Atlanta' and also raps under the name Childish Gambino.

Jordan Peele is an actor, director and writer known for his work on Comedy Central's 'Key & Peele' and his blockbuster hit horror film 'Get Out.'

Coretta Scott King was an American civil rights activist and the wife of 1960s civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

Emily Dickinson was a reclusive American poet. Unrecognized in her own time, Dickinson is known posthumously for her innovative use of form and syntax.

Margaret Fuller is best known for feminist writing and literary criticism in 19th century America.

Jane Austen was a Georgian era author, best known for her social commentary in novels including 'Sense and Sensibility,' 'Pride and Prejudice,' and 'Emma.'

Emmy Award-winning British actress Jane Seymour starred on the dramatic TV series Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman, and was in the James Bond film Live and Let Die.

Leonardo DiCaprio optioned Walter Isaacson's new biography on Leonardo Da Vinci, and the film has just secured a screenwriter: John Logan, who wrote ‘Skyfall’ and ‘Spectre.’ The film, produced by Paramount and Appian Way, will star DiCaprio in the title role.

Aziz Ansari skipped the 2018 SAG awards and there was a notable lack of applause when his name was announced. The actor is facing backlash following a controversial anonymous essay by a woman who accused him of sexual coercion, a claim he denies and others have called a “bad date.”

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson hosted NOVA ScienceNow and makes media appearances to encourage science and space exploration.

Toni Morrison is a Nobel Prize- and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist. Among her best known novels are 'The Bluest Eye,' 'Song of Solomon,' 'Beloved' and 'A Mercy.'

James Baldwin was an essayist, playwright, novelist and voice of the American Civil Rights movement known for works including 'Notes of a Native Son,' 'Nobody Knows My Name" and 'The Fire Next Time.'

Tony-winning director Ivo van Hove has just opened a stage adaptation of Ayn Rand’s breakthrough novel, “The Fountainhead” (1943), at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Fans of Rand’s vision of free-market fundamentalism include Paul Ryan, Rand Paul and President Trump.

Humor writer and radio personality Garrison Keillor hosted the program 'A Prairie Home Companion' and tells stories about the fictional town Lake Wobegon.

Golden Globe winner Lena Dunham is best known for writing, directing, producing and acting in Girls, the original series she created for HBO.

Author Voltaire wrote the satirical novella Candide and, despite controversy during his lifetime, is widely considered one of France's greatest Enlightenment writers.

Known as 'The Grand Dame of Dish,' Liz Smith was a syndicated American gossip columnist who's career spanned over three decades. She worked for publications such as 'The Daily News,' 'Newsday,' 'The New York Post' and 'Cosmopolitan.'

Eccentric millionaire John du Pont killed Olympic wrestler Dave Schultz at the Foxcatcher Farm estate in January 1996.

Aviator Charles Lindbergh became famous for making the first solo transatlantic airplane flight in 1927.

Henry Rollins first found fame as the lead singer of Black Flag and the Rollins Band in the 1980s and '90s.

Nelson Mandela became the first black president of South Africa in 1994, serving until 1999. A symbol of global peacemaking, he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.