Giacomo Manzù
Italian sculptor & professor born in 1908.
Swami Vivekananda
Indian Hindu monk credited with making Hinduism a major world religion during the late 19th century.
Jules Supervielle
Franco-Uruguayan poet & writer, born in 1884, & nominated three times for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Mao Zedong
Chinese communist revolutionary & founding father & ruler of the People’s Republic of China (1949-76).
Carolyn Bessette
American publicist & wife of John F. Kennedy, Jr. born in 1966. The couple died in a plane crash in 1999.
Pope Sixtus V
Italian head of the Catholic Church born in 1521. Significant figure of the Counter-Reformation.
Linda Lovelace
American actor & author, known for her coerced role in the pornographic film, Deep Throat.
Lorenzo de’ Medici
Italian statesman & de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic & powerful patron of Renaissance culture in Italy.
Boris Karloff
English actor known for roles in horror films incl. Frankenstein’s monster in Frankenstein & its sequels.
Margaret Mead
American cultural anthropologist who influenced the sexual revolution of the 1960s.