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Keira Knightley11 minKeira Knightley stood on a plank for two days during filming and refused the offer of a stunt double to jump off. She was twenty years old, earning a global reputation inside the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, and already beginning to…
Kurt Vonnegut13 minKurt Vonnegut survived the firebombing of Dresden by hiding in a meat locker three stories underground, surrounded by hanging cadavers. "It was cool there," he said. "When we came up the city was gone... They burnt the whole damn town…
Roman Polanski17 minRoman Polanski was born on the 18th of August 1933 in interbellum Paris, the child of two agnostics from very different worlds. His mother was raised Catholic despite having a Jewish father. His father was a Jewish painter and sculptor…
Emma Thompson11 minEmma Thompson holds a distinction that no one else in Hollywood history has matched: she has won Academy Awards for both acting and writing. In 1993, she sat in the same Oscar ceremony with two nominations in two different acting…
Salman Rushdie13 minSalman Rushdie was born on the 19th of June 1947 in Bombay, in British India, into a world on the verge of shattering and remaking itself. Two months later, the British Raj ended, India gained independence, and the subcontinent was…
Xi Jinping15 minXi Jinping was born on the 15th of June 1953 in Beijing, the son of a Communist Party revolutionary who would later be imprisoned by the very system he had helped build. That family history - the purges, the cave houses, the failed…
Claude Lévi-Strauss15 minClaude Lévi-Strauss died on the 30th of October 2009, at the age of 100, and for four days the world did not know. When French President Nicolas Sarkozy finally spoke, he called Lévi-Strauss "one of the greatest ethnologists of all time."…
Claude Shannon15 minClaude Elwood Shannon was born on the 30th of April 1916, in a hospital in Petoskey, Michigan, and by the time he died on the 24th of February 2001, he had done something almost no individual in history can claim: he invented an entirely…
Stephen Hawking13 minStephen Hawking spent his final years communicating at roughly one word per minute, twitching a single cheek muscle to select letters from a screen. Yet from that near-total stillness he produced papers on black hole entropy, co-developed…
Richard B. Spencer10 minRichard Bertrand Spencer was born on the 11th of May, 1978, in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of an ophthalmologist and an heiress to Louisiana cotton farms. He grew up in the Preston Hollow neighborhood of Dallas, attended St. Mark's…