1
Thomas Edison
(Inventor of Phonograph, Motion Picture Camera and Early Version of the Electric Light Bulb)
400
93
Listed In: Inventors & Discoverers
Birthdate: February 11, 1847
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Milan, Ohio, United States
Died: 1931
2
Colin Powell
(The First African-American Secretary of State)
85
58
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: April 5, 1937
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Harlem, New York, United States
Died: 2021
3
Charles Babbage
(Father of the computer)
70
15
Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: December 26, 1791
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: London, England
Died: 1871
4
Gwen Verdon
(Actress and Dancer Known for Her Work in the Musicals: ‘Damn Yankees’, ‘Sweet Charity’, and ‘Chicago’)
38
1
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: January 13, 1925
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Culver City, California, United States
Died: 2000
Height: 5'4" (163 cm)
5
Julie London
(Singer, Actress)
32
4
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: September 26, 1926
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Santa Rosa, California, United States
Died: 2000
6
Jon-Erik Hexum
(Actor)
24
4
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: November 5, 1957
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Englewood, New Jersey, United States
Died: 1984
Height: 6'1" (185 cm)
7
Lauri Törni
(Finnish Army Officer Who Fought Under Three Flags in the Winter War and the Continuation War)
35
5
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: May 28, 1919
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Viipuri, Finland
Died: 1965
8
Dee Dee Warwick
(Singer)
16
2
Listed In: Singers
Birthdate: September 25, 1942
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Newark, New Jersey, United States
Died: 2008
9
Henry Travers
(Best Known for His Role as ‘Clarence Odbody’ in the Film ‘It's a Wonderful Life’)
18
1
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: March 5, 1874
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Prudhoe, Northumberland, England
Died: 1965
Height: 5'5" (165 cm)
10
Charles M. Schwab
(American Steel Magnate & Businessman)
58
24
Listed In: Business People
Birthdate: February 18, 1862
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Williamsburg, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: 1939
11
Antonio Meucci
(Inventor of voice-communication apparatus)
20
3
Listed In: Inventors & Discoverers
Birthdate: April 13, 1808
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Florence
Died: 1889
12
Elizabeth Arden
(Canadian-American Businesswoman)
13
2
Listed In: Business People
Birthdate: December 31, 1878
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Woodbridge, Ontario, Canada
Died: 1966
13
Claudine Auger
(Actress best known for her role as a Bond girl, Dominique)
6
0
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: April 26, 1941
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Paris, France
Died: 2019
Height: 5'8" (173 cm)
14
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
(Politician)
6
3
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: October 20, 1784
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Westminster, Middlesex, England
Died: 1865
15
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
(Father of Modern Neuroscience)
21
1
Listed In: Physicians
Birthdate: May 1, 1852
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Petilla de Aragón, Navarre, Spain
Died: 1934
16
Charles Gounod
(French Composer Best Known for His Operas: ‘Faust’ and ‘Roméo et Juliette’)
11
2
17
Alan Coren
(Writer)
5
2
Listed In: Media Personalities
Birthdate: June 27, 1938
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Paddington
Died: 2007
18
Bess Truman
(Former First Lady of the United States)
5
3
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: February 13, 1885
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Independence, Missouri, United States
Died: 1982
19
Alfred Binet
(Psychologist, Educationist)
5
2
Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics
Birthdate: July 8, 1857
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Nice
Died: 1911
20
Margaret Tudor
(Queen Consort of Scotland)
9
8
Listed In: Historical Personalities
Birthdate: November 28, 1489
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Westminster Palace, London, Middlesex, Kingdom of England
Died: 1541
21
Timothy Conigrave
(actor,writer)
3
0
22
Kam Fong Chun
(Actor, Police officer)
3
0
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: May 27, 1918
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Kalihi - Palama, Hawaii, United States
Died: 2002
Height: 6'2" (188 cm)
23
José Ortega y Gasset
(Spanish Philosopher and Essayist)
2
0
24
Al Lettieri
(Actor)
2
1
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: February 24, 1928
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: New York, United States
Died: 1975
25
Leo Strauss
(German-American Political Philosopher Known for His Work: ‘Persecution and the Art of Writing’ and ‘Thoughts on Machiavelli’)
4
3
Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics
Birthdate: September 20, 1899
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Kirchhain, Germany
Died: 1973
26
S.S. Kresge
(Businessman)
1
0
Listed In: Business People
Birthdate: July 31, 1867
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Allentown, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died: 1966
27
Nancy Dickerson
(American journalist)
3
1
Listed In: Media Personalities
Birthdate: January 19, 1927
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Wauwatosa, Wisconsin Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, United States
Died: 1997
28
Mark V. Hurd
(Businessperson)
0
0
Listed In: Business People
Birthdate: January 1, 1957
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Manhattan, New York, U.S.
Died: 2019
29
Ayub Bachchu
(Guitarist)
8
2
Listed In: Singers
Birthdate: August 16, 1962
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Chattogram, Bangladesh
Died: 2018
30
Bill King
(Sports Announcer)
3
0
Listed In: Media Personalities
Birthdate: October 6, 1927
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Bloomington, Illinois, United States
Died: 2005
31
Phil Chess
(Record producer)
1
0
32
Thomas S. Foley
(49th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (1989-95))
2
2
Listed In: Lawyers & Judges
Birthdate: March 6, 1929
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Spokane, Washington, United States
Died: 2013
33
Hanns-Martin Schleyer
3
2
34
Eamonn Campbell
(Musician)
1
0
Listed In: Musicians
Birthdate: November 29, 1946
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland
Died: 2017
35
Lois Kibbee
(Actress, Screenwriter)
1
0
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: July 13, 1922
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Wheeling, West Virginia, United States
Died: 1993
Height: 6'0" (183 cm)
36
Nino Rešić
(Singer)
1
0
Listed In: Singers
Birthdate: January 22, 1964
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Kozarska Dubica, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Died: 2007
37
Francis P. Blair
(Journalist)
0
0
Listed In: Media Personalities
Birthdate: April 12, 1791
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Abingdon, Virginia, United States
Died: 1876
38
Walt Kelly
(Comics artist, Character animator, Reporter, Poet, Journalist)
1
1
Listed In: Media Personalities
Birthdate: August 25, 1913
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Philadelphia
Died: 1973
39
Nancy Spero
(Visual Artist)
1
0
Listed In: Artists & Painters
Birthdate: August 24, 1926
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Died: 2009
40
Jacob Jordaens
(Former Flemish painter known for his history paintings, genre scenes and portraits)
1
1
Listed In: Artists & Painters
Birthdate: May 19, 1593
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Antwerp, Belgium
Died: 1678
41
Norman Corwin
(Writer)
1
0
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: May 3, 1910
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Died: 2011
42
Anna Russell
(Singer)
2
1
Listed In: Singers
Birthdate: December 27, 1911
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: London, England
Died: 2006
43
Roberto Goizueta
(Businessman)
0
0
Listed In: Business People
Birthdate: November 18, 1931
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Havana, Cuba
Died: 1997
44
Philipp Franz von Siebold
(German Physician and Botanist Known for Pioneering Western Medicine in Japan)
0
0
Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: February 17, 1796
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Würzburg, Germany
Died: 1866
45
Al-Suyūṭī
(Egyptian Sunni Ascetic Polymath)
1
1
Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics
Birthdate: October 3, 1445
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Cairo, Egypt
Died: 1505
46
Agrippina the Elder
(Noblewomen)
0
0
47
Allan Stanley
(Ice hockey player)
1
0
Listed In: Sportspersons
Birthdate: March 1, 1926
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Timmins, Ontario, Canada
Died: 2013
Height: 6'2" (188 cm)
48
Xie Jin
(Chinese Film Director)
1
0
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: November 21, 1923
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Shangyu District, Shaoxing, China
Died: 2008
49
Lottie Mwale
(Zambian Light Heavyweight-Class Boxer)
3
0
50
Frank Woolley
(English Professional Cricketer)
1
0
Listed In: Sportspersons
Birthdate: May 27, 1887
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Tonbridge, Kent, England
Died: 1978
