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Officers of the Legion of Honour
- Bob DylanOn the 24th of May 1941, Robert Allen Zimmerman entered the world at St. Mary's Hospital in Duluth, Minnesota. His parents ran a furniture and appliance…
- Steven SpielbergSteven Allan Spielberg was born on the 18th of December 1946, in Cincinnati, Ohio. His mother Leah Adler ran a kosher dairy restaurant and played concert…
- T. S. EliotThomas Stearns Eliot was born on the 26th of September 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri. He lived at a house on Locust Street for his first sixteen years before…
- David LynchDavid Keith Lynch was born at St. Patrick's Hospital in Missoula, Montana, on the 20th of January 1946. His father worked as a USDA research scientist and…
- Jules VerneJules Gabriel Verne was born on the 8th of February 1828 on Île Feydeau in Nantes. This small artificial island sat within the river Loire before it was…
- Pierre-Auguste RenoirPierre-Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France, on the 25th of February 1841. His father Léonard Renoir worked as a tailor with modest means.
- J. Robert OppenheimerJulius Robert Oppenheimer was born on the 22nd of April 1904, in New York City to Ella Friedman and Julius Seligmann Oppenheimer.
- Victor HugoVictor-Marie Hugo was born on the 26th of February 1802 in Besançon, a city in eastern France. His father Joseph Léopold Sigisbert Hugo served as a general…
- Robert Falcon ScottRobert Falcon Scott was born on the 6th of June 1868 in Stoke Damerel, near Devonport. He entered the Royal Navy as a thirteen-year-old cadet aboard the…
- Francis Ford CoppolaFrancis Ford Coppola was born on the 7th of April 1939 in Detroit, Michigan. His father Carmine worked as a flautist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra…
- Thomas EdisonIn 1862, a fifteen-year-old Thomas Edison stood on the tracks near Port Huron, Michigan. He watched a runaway train approach three children who could not…
- Laurence OlivierLaurence Kerr Olivier was born on the 22nd of May 1907 in Dorking, Surrey. He entered the world as the youngest child of Reverend Gerard Kerr Olivier and…
- Joseph StiglitzJoseph Eugene Stiglitz was born on the 9th of February, 1943 in Gary, Indiana. He grew up in a Jewish family where his mother Charlotte worked as a…
- Didier DeschampsDidier Claude Deschamps arrived in Bayonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques on the 15th of October 1968. He began his athletic life playing rugby for Biarritz Olympique…
- Gustave MoreauGustave Moreau was born on the 6th of April 1826 in Paris into a cultured, upper-middle-class family. His father Louis Jean Marie Moreu worked as an…
- Zinedine ZidaneZinedine Yazid Zidane was born on the 23rd of June 1972 in La Castellane, a neighbourhood in the 16th arrondissement of Marseille.
- Just FontaineJust Louis Fontaine arrived in the world on the 18th of August 1933 within the borders of French Morocco. His father hailed from France while his mother came…
- Georges DumézilGeorges Dumézil was born in Paris on the 4th of March 1898. His father Jean Dumézil served as a highly educated general in the French Army.
- Valeri PolyakovValeri Vladimirovich Polyakov was born in the city of Tula on the 27th of April 1942. He entered the world under the name Valeri Ivanovich Korshunov before…
- François GérardFrançois Pascal Simon Gérard entered the world on the 4th of May 1770 in Rome. His father held a post within the house of the French ambassador there.
- Louis ViscontiLouis Tullius Joachim Visconti entered the world on the 11th of February 1791 in Rome. His father Ennio Quirino Visconti served as a curator of antiquities…
- Arsène WengerArsène Charles Ernest Wenger was born on the 22nd of October 1949 in Strasbourg, the youngest of three children. His father Alphonse managed a local village…
- Michel PlatiniMichel François Platini was born on the 21st of June 1955 in the small town of Jœuf, Meurthe-et-Moselle. His parents were Aldo and Anna Platini, both of…