Charles Spencer Chaplin was born in London, England on 16 April 1889. In 1908 he joined Fred Karno’s touring stage company with his brother Sydney; Stan Laurel was also a member of the same company. In 1912 the troupe went to perform in America, and Chaplin decided to stay. The following year, producer Mack Sennett […]

Charles John Huffam Dickens was born February 7, 1812 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. Shortly thereafter his family moved to Chatham, and Dickens considered his years there as the happiest of his childhood. In 1822, the family moved to London, where his father worked as a clerk in the navy pay office. Dickens’ family was considered

Frederick Carlton ‘Carl’ Lewis (born July 1, 1961) is an American athlete. He has won 10 Olympic medals, of which 9 are gold, from 1984 to 1996. Also he has won 8 world championship’s gold medals, and 1 bronze, from 1983 to 1993.Although Carl was born in Birmingham, Alabama, he grew up in Willingboro, New

Bryan Adams (born November 5, 1959) is a successful Canadian singer and songwriter. He was born in Kingston, Ontario to British parents, and moved with his parents throughout Europe and the Middle East.Adams was given his first guitar at age ten, bought his first electric guitar at age 12 and at age 14 moved to

Bruce Lee (Lee Hsiao Lung), was born in San Fransisco in November 1940 the son of a famous Chinese opera singer. Bruce moved to Hong Kong when he soon became a child star in the growing Eastern film industry. His first film was ‘The Birth of Mankind’, his last film which was uncompleted at the

Born 2nd December 1981, Kentwood, Louisiana, USA. One of the last teenage superstars of the millennium, Spears enjoyed her breakthrough success at the end of 1998. She appeared in local dance revues and church choirs as a young girl, and at the age of eight auditioned for The Mickey Mouse Club.Although she was too young

Brian Lara was born in Cantaro, Santa Cruz, Trinidad and Tobago. He is 10th in a family of 11 children. His dad Bunty Lara passed away in 1988. His mother Pearl Lara suffered from cancer and died in January 2002. He is also the father of an eight-year-old daughter called Sydney with Trinidadian model Leasel

In 1972, when Borg (born 6 June 1956) was fifteen, he was selected to play for Sweden in the Davis Cup. He defeated Onny Parun of New Zealand to become the youngest player to win a Davis Cup match.Two years later, Borg won the Italian Open and the French Open, the most important clay court

The legendary shehnai player, Ustad Bismillah Khan was one of India’s most celebrated classical musicians. Bismillah Khan has been credited with taking the shehnai from the marriage mandap to the concert hall.Bismillah Khan was born on March 21, 1916 at Dumraon, Bihar.His ancestors were court musicians in the princely state of Dumraon in Bihar.Ustad Bismillah

Pandit Birju Maharaj, internationally renowned Kathak  dancer, was born on 4th February 1937 in an illustrious family of dance masters of the Lucknow gharana. Birju gave Kathak Dance a new dimension by developing his own unique style and popularised this classical dance of North India all over the world. Birju alias Brij Mohan Nath Mishra mastered

Born Billie Jean Moffitt on November 22, 1943 in Long Beach, California, United States she is considered to be one of the greatest tennis players and female athletes in history.In 1965 she married Mr. Lawrence King and since then has been better known under her husband’s family name. Billie Jean King won the triple crown

Bill Gates is one of the most influential people in the world. He is cofounder of the most recognized brands in the computer industry with nearly every desk top computer using at least one software program from Microsoft. According to Forbes magazine Gates is the wealthiest man in the world and has been in the

President Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas, three months after his father died in a traffic accident. When he was four years old, his mother wed Roger Clinton, of Hot Springs, Arkansas. In high school, he took the family name. He excelled as a student and as

Bhagat Singh (28 Sept., 1907-23 March, 1931) was born into a Jat Sikh family to Sardar Kishan Singh and Vidyavati in Khatkar Kalan village near Banga in the Lyallpur district of Punjab. As a child, he was deeply affected by the Jalianwala Bagh Massacre that took place in Punjab in 1919. When Mahatma Gandhi started

On January 17, 1706, Benjamin Franklin was born. He was a native of Massachusetts, born in the harbour town of Boston. Professionally, Franklin was a printer and publisher, but he was also a philosopher, experimenter, inventor, activist, statesman, and ambassador. To sum it up, Ben was a doer.He made a great contribution to public education