Category: World’s Notable Icons

Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian mathematician, and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University, has become the first woman on earth to be honored with the Fields Medal, acclaimed as the ‘Nobel Prize of mathematics’, for …

How can there be any relation among three different streams of education – Indian classical music, Sanskrit and mathematics? Well, Manjul Bhargava, the winner of the Fields Medal, widely acclaimed as the ‘Nobel Prize of …

British-born American actress Elizabeth Taylor (popular as Liz Taylor) has been enlisted in Forbes’ annual list of Top-Earning Dead Celebrities with an estimated $210 million earning in 2011. She died the same year on 23rd …

Born: On June 3, 1743 in Bologna Died: In 1788 in Bologna Italian scientist Lucia Galeazzi was born on June 3, 1743 in Bologna to a renowned anatomist Domenico Gusmano and Paola Mini. From the …

Born: 1098 Died: 1179 Hildegard of Bingen, who is also known as Sibyl of the Rhine and Saint Hildegard, is widely regarded as ‘the most significant historical figure of the Middle Ages’ and ‘the greatest …

Born: On January 19, 1808 in Athol, Massachusetts Died: On May 14, 1887 in Boston, Massachusetts Lysander Spooner was an American legal theorist, entrepreneur, Unitarian abolitionist, political philosopher, advocate of the labor movement and individualist …

Born: 16 November 1922 in Azinhaga, Portugal Died: 18 June 2010 José de Sousa Saramago was a renowned Portuguese poet, novelist, journalist and the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998. He was …

Born: February 1818 Died: February 20, 1895 Frederick Douglass, an American orator, social reformer, writer as well as statesman, is known as a true rags to riches story of 19th century America. He rose to …

Born: 31 October 1711 Died: 20 February 1778 Laura Maria Caterina Bassi was an Italian child prodigy, scientist, mathematician and the first ever woman to be honored with an official teaching position at a university …

Terry McMillan, an American author, was born on 18th October 1951 in Port Huron, Michigan. In 1986, she completed her BA in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley. Her passion for writing came at …

Born on 27 April 1945 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as Frederick August Kittel, August Wilson was one of the most influential writers in American theatre. His father Frederick Kittel was a German immigrant and mother Daisy …

James Weldon Johnson, an American author, diplomat, politician, critic, journalist, educator, poet, anthologist, lawyer, songwriter, and early civil rights activist, was born on 17th June 1871, Jacksonville, Fla., U.S and died in June 26, 1938, …