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Renowned for his extraordinary powers of deduction, attention to detail, and eccentric personality, Sherlock Holmes is celebrated as the world’s…

Andrew Carnegie’s life reads like the blueprint of the American dream. Rising from a Scottish weaver’s cottage to become one…

Across more than seven decades of musical innovation, Quincy Jones has shaped the sound of the modern world. Composer, arranger,…

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stands among the most influential literary figures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Best…

Josephine Baker was more than a glittering star of the stage. She was a cultural icon, a freedom fighter, a…

Carl Gustav Jung was born on 26 July 1875 in Kesswil, Switzerland. He became one of the most influential figures…

Grace Brewster Murray Hopper was born on 9 December 1906 in New York City, United States. She became one of…

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was born on 2 February 1882 in Rathgar, a suburb of Dublin, Ireland. He became one…

Leon Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronstein on 7 November 1879 in Yanovka, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire, now part of…

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech was born on 11 May 1904 in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain. He would become…

Helen Adams Keller was born on 27 June 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama, United States. She became one of the most…

Natalie Wood was born Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko on 20 July 1938 in San Francisco, California, United States. She became one…

Frank Patrick Herbert was born on 8 October 1920 in Tacoma, Washington, United States. He became one of the most…

Lucille Désirée Ball was born on 6 August 1911 in Jamestown, New York, United States. She became one of the…

Henry John Deutschendorf Jr., known to the world as John Denver, was born on 31 December 1943 in Roswell, New…

Margaretha Geertruida Zelle, better known to the world as Mata Hari, was born on 7 August 1876 in Leeuwarden, Netherlands.…