composer, musician, director, actorBorn: 5/14/1952Birthplace: Dumbarton, Scotland A video and performance artist and the leader of the influential '80s rock group the Talking Heads, he turned to…
The original Olympic Games were celebrated as a religious festival from 776 B.C. until 393 A.D., when Roman emperor Theodosius I banned all pagan festivals (the Olympics celebrated the Greek god…
queen of CushBorn: late first century B.C. Amanirenas presided over the kingdom of Meroë, the capital of the Cushite dynasty, in northeast Africa. When Roman emperor Augustus levied a tax on the…
film producerDied: 7 November 2008Best Known as: British-born Academy Award-winning film producer Birthplace: London, England John Daly was a British-born movie…
director, screenwriterBorn: 3/16/1940Birthplace: Parma, Italy Known for his strong visual style, he established himself at the age of 24 with the political drama Before the Revolution (1964). He…
Songhai emperorBorn: 1464 FSunni Ali Ber was the first great leader of Africa’s Songhai Empire. Like other Songhais, as a young man Sunni Ali had been enlisted in the army of the Malian Empire,…
actorBorn: 8/2/1932Birthplace: Connemara, Ireland O'Toole has earned a string of 7 Oscar nominations and often plays visionary, otherworldly characters. Following an eminent career with the Royal…
actorBorn: 6/13/1943Birthplace: Leeds, England Formerly an extra for the Royal Shakespeare Company, McDowell secured stardom in the lead role of Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971). His…
