(Gian Roberto Calvini)banker, financierBorn: 1920Birthplace: Milan, Italy Having worked his way up through Banco Ambrosiano, he became its chairman in 1975. A Bank of Italy report in 1978 found…
financierBorn: 1783Birthplace: Lisburn, Ireland Having grown up on a farm in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, he moved to Baltimore and began working in a produce business. He later founded Robert…
actorBorn: 4/18/1956Birthplace: Biloxi, Mississippi Older brother of actress Julia Roberts, Eric Roberts appeared on the stage as a child and starred in the 1989 Broadway production of Burn This.…
actor, director, acting teacherBorn: 3/16/1909Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York A founding member of the Group Theater (1931) and of the Actors Studio (1947), Lewis was a successful Broadway director…
rock musicianBorn: 1/19/1949Birthplace: Batley, England Veteran of a number of British rock groups including, Palmer joined forces with members of Duran Duran to form Power Station (1984–86) before…
musician, singer, song writerBorn: 8/20/1948Birthplace: West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England Robert Plant's voice helped establish Led Zeppelin as one of rock's legendary bands. Plant started…
Born: 1924Birthplace: St. Louis, Mo. Fused silica optical waveguide—The inventors, Maurer, Keck, and Schultz. designed and produced the first optical fiber with light loss during transmission low…
Born: 1921 Birthplace: Piedmont, Mo. Polypropylene and high-density polyethylene (HDPE)—While working for the Phillips Petroleum Company, Banks and Hogan developed two of the world's most commonly…
Born: 1937 HIV Isolation and Identification. Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier both discovered HIV, determining that the virus was the cause of AIDS, and making it more possible to control the…
