Born: June 2, 1922Golf
won the Hartford Open in 1967 with a final-round 64, becoming the first Black player to win a PGA event; won the PGA Seniors Championship in 1975; amassed over $1…
Born: Oct. 12, 1970Football QB and Basketball G first Heisman winner to play for national champs (Florida St. in 1993) since Tony Dorsett in 1976; won Sullivan Award (1993); 3-year starter for FSU…
(Carlos Irwin Esteves)actorBorn: 9/3/1965Birthplace: New York, New York Though he has worked with big name directors and actors, Sheen has had difficulty building a cohesive career. Having worked…
virtuoso jazz guitaristBorn: 9/16/1925Birthplace: Chuckatuck, Virginia virtuoso jazz guitarist widely credited with bringing Latin America's bossa nova to the United States. His collaboration with…
Charlie Wilson's adventures in governance, womanizing, and shipping guns to Afghan rebels were so colorful that Hollywood made a movie out of them. Charlie Wilson's War (2007), based on the 2003…
Charlie Chaplin was a superstar of silent comedies and one of the great icons of 20th-century film. Charlie Chaplin had a rotten childhood but got an early start in the entertainment business,…
Charlie Brown is the wishy-washy child hero of the newspaper comic strip Peanuts. Charlie Brown is a lovable loser who dreams of hitting the game-winning home run but usually strikes out. He first…
Burly, bearded, and cowboy-hatted, Charlie Daniels was a popular Southern rocker and country music artist who reached his greatest fame with "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" in 1979.The Country Music…
(Encyclopedia) Christian, Charlie (Charles Henry Christian), 1916–42, African-American jazz guitarist, b. Bonham, Tex. The son of a singer-guitarist father and pianist mother, he grew up in Oklahoma…
(Encyclopedia) Chaplin, Charlie (Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin), 1889–1977, English film actor, director, producer, writer, and composer, b. London. Chaplin began on the music-hall stage and then…
