Category: Personalities

Born: August 26, 1910 Died: September 5, 1997 Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, who is popularly known as Mother Teresa, was born in Üsküb, Ottoman Empire on 26 August 1910. She was a Roman Catholic nun of …

Born:12 May 1820 – Died: 13 August 1910 Florence Nightingale, the most respected English nurse, statistician and writer, was born in a wealthy upper-class British family on 12 May 1820 at the Villa Colombaia, near …

Born:12 June 1929 – Died: early March 1945 Even after seven decades of her death, Annelies Marie “Anne” Frank continues to be the strongest voice for the millions of victims of Holocaust. Her diary, which …

Felicity Aston, a 34-year-old British adventurer, is the first woman in human history to ski across the perilously icy continent Antarctica for 59 days alone. She covered 1,084 miles, which is 1,744 kilometers starting from …

16-year-old Dutch teenager Laura Dekker has become the youngest person to sail solo across the world. After circling the globe in her 11.5-metre two-masted ketch, that she started her journey on Jan. 20, 2011; Dekker …

Robin Sharma is a best-seller author, and one of the world’s top premier scholars on leadership and personal development. He is the author of several major books including international bestsellers ‘The Greatness Guide Series’, ‘The …

Dean Karnazes, an American ultramarathon runner, best-selling author of “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All Night Runner” and motivational speaker used to be an ordinary beer-guzzling guy who became sick of dealing with the rat …

Larry Page, an American computer scientist and co-founder of Google Inc, was born in March 26, 1973 in East Lansing, Michigan to a Jewish family. He is the son of Dr. Carl Victor Page who …

Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin, a Russian American computer scientist and Industrialist, was born on August 21, 1973 in Moscow to Russian Jewish parents. He is the son of Michael Brin, a mathematics professor at the University …

Akrit Jaswal Akrit Jaswal, now an 18 year old aspiring physician and surgen, holds the world record of being the youngest physician performing the surgery at the tender age of seven. According to his mother, …

Some say “the world is immeasurably better because of Steve Jobs.” A career spanning over three decades, Mr. Jobs influenced almost every significant aspect of our life raging from computers and mobile to movies and …

Marie Curie (Poland) Born: 7 November 1867 Died: 4 July 1934 Marie Curie was a Polish–French physicist as well as chemist. She was the first female professor at the University of Paris and the first …