Famous People Biographies

Produced on February 27, 1902, in Salinas, California, John Steinbeck dropped from school and worked as a manual laborer before realizing success as a writer. His 1939 novel, The Grapes of Wrath, concerning the migration of a family in the Oklahoma Dust Bowl to California, won a Pulitzer Prize as ...

Produced in California in 1904, Academy Award-winning director George Stevens became known for his camera techniques and romantic views. He’s recalled to get numerous classic movies, including Shane (1953), The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965).

Produced in 1901 in Budzanw, Poland, Austria Hungary (now Budanov, Ukraine), Lee Strasberg came to America at age 7. In 1931, Strasberg co-founded the Group Theatre, where he directed excellent experimental plays like Men in White (1933). After working in Hollywood (1941–1948), he returned to Nyc to become artistic director ...

The daughter of fugitive slaves, she went on to get an illustrious career as an educator and was proven to be a mentor to a lot of African Americans. She’s considered to function as the oldest of seven kids, which her parents, Henry Irving and Emeline Eliza Patterson, were fugitive slaves. ...

Eliot Ness was created in Chicago, Illinois, on April 19, 1903. Ness joined the Bureau of Prohibition in 1927, assembling a team of Prohibition enforcement employees known as “The Untouchables” to fight the actions of gangster Al Capone. Ness’s profession in law enforcement finished in 1944. Carrying out a stint ...

Many years passed before the mainstream entertainment industry recognized Dandridge’s heritage. Her power to break new ground for African American girls in movie has drawn comparisons between her and baseball great Jackie Robinson. In her youth, Dandridge experienced some problems. She never knew her dad. Her mom, actress Ruby Dandridge, left ...

After whining that he could not locate a great burger in Columbus, Ohio, Dave Thomas started his own restaurant on November 15, 1969: Wendy’s, named after Thomas’s 8-year old daughter. Wendy’s immediately caught on, and within less than a decade, had grown into a 1,000-shop franchise. In 1989, Thomas took ...

Janet Leigh was born in Merced, California, on July 6, 1927. Her first movie was The Romance of Rosy Ridge in 1947. She was cast in several pictures in the late 1940s and early 1950s. In the mid-1960s, she began playing in television movies and minor pictures. She died October ...

Carolyn Bessette Kennedy was born on January 7, 1966, in White Plans, Ny. She studied instruction in school, but worked in public relations to get a club. Declared a trendsetter from the national press, Bessette was frequently equated to her late mother in law, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, due to her ...

Produced in Moscow, Russia on June 9, 1672, Peter the Great was a Russian czar in the late 17th century who’s famous for his wide-ranging reforms in a effort to create Russia as a great country. He created a powerful navy, reorganized his military in accordance with Western standards, secularized ...