Memorials & famous biographies

American actor, a prominent figure in the Golden Age of Hollywood and a courageous HIV/AIDS activist

American socialite whose marriage intention to Prince Edward led to his abdication as King of the United Kingdom

Award-winning American actress known for her roles in film and television, and as the first wife of Ronald Reagan

American biochemist who discovered the Calvin cycle and received the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research on carbon dioxide assimilation in plants

Nobel Prize-winning American theoretical physicist who developed the theory for critical phenomena in connection with phase transitions and pioneered using computers for studying particle physics

American physicist who co-discovered the J/ψ meson and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1976

American actor known for his intense portrayal of sensitive young men and a four-time Academy Award nominee

American stage and film actress who won an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Tony, celebrated for roles in 'Hud,' 'The Day the Earth Stood Still,' and 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'

American biologist, naturalist, and writer known for developing the field of sociobiology and his extensive work on ants

American novelist and essayist who connected the Beat Generation with the hippies, most famous for 'One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest'

Danish nuclear physicist and Nobel laureate who discovered the connection between collective and particle motion in atomic nuclei, contributing significantly to the understanding of their non-spherical geometry

American feminist writer and activist who sparked the second wave of American feminism with The Feminine Mystique and co-founded NOW

American astronomer and telescope maker best known for discovering Pluto in 1930, the first detection of what would later be recognized as the Kuiper belt

American and Irish filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor celebrated for directing 37 feature films, earning two Academy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards

American stand-up comedian, actor, director, and television host known for Full House and America's Funniest Home Videos

American filmmaker known for directing subversive and satirical films with overlapping dialogue and ensemble casts

American industrialist and inventor who established Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company and made the mass production of revolvers commercially viable

American scholar, computer scientist, economist, and psychologist known for pioneering research into decision-making, bounded rationality, and satisficing, and a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

American engineer and inventor widely credited with developing the world's first commercially successful steamboat, the North River Steamboat

American actor whose career spanned nearly nine decades, known for his roles in over 300 films and as a top box-office star in the late 1930s and early 1940s, embodying the American self-image through the Andy Hardy films

American actress and international sex symbol known for her roles in films like Fantastic Voyage, One Million Years B.C., and Legally Blonde

American physical chemist who developed radiocarbon dating, revolutionizing archaeology and palaeontology

American serial killer and sex offender known as the Milwaukee Cannibal who killed and dismembered seventeen men and boys between 1978 and 1991

American politician, writer, and horticulturist who served as the 33rd Vice President of the United States and twice as a cabinet secretary