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People with mood disorders
- Henry VIIIHenry VIII once dressed all in yellow, with a white feather in his bonnet, the day after he learned that Catherine of Aragon had died.
- Marilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson on the 1st of June 1926, in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, at a city hospital.
- Winston ChurchillWinston Churchill was born on the 30th of November 1874 inside Blenheim Palace, the ancestral home his family had held for generations in Oxfordshire.
- Tom HardyTom Hardy walked into a modelling competition in 1998 at 21 years old and walked out with a contract. That is not how most serious actors begin.
- Gwyneth PaltrowGwyneth Kate Paltrow was born on the 27th of September 1972 into a family already at home in Hollywood: her mother, Blythe Danner, was a stage and screen…
- Philip V of SpainPhilip V of Spain holds a record no other Spanish monarch has matched: he ruled for 45 years, 9 months, and 8 days, longer than any king or queen in the…
- Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson was touched by Queen Anne on the 30th of March 1712, when he was barely two years old, in a ritual meant to cure the scrofula scarring his…
- Buzz AldrinBuzz Aldrin set foot on the Moon at 03:15:16 on the 21st of July 1969 (UTC), nineteen minutes after Neil Armstrong first touched the surface.
- Hideaki AnnoHideaki Anno was born in Ube, Yamaguchi, the son of Fumiko and Takuya Anno, and the world of Japanese animation would eventually pivot on decisions he made…
- Robin WilliamsRobin McLaurin Williams was voted "Most Likely Not to Succeed" by his high school classmates in 1969. Within a decade, he was on the cover of Time magazine…
- James Dallas Egbert IIIJames Dallas Egbert III entered the world on the 29th of October 1962 in Dayton, Ohio. He grew up in Huber Heights, a suburb of that city.
- Jonathan DavisJonathan Howsmon Davis was born in Bakersfield, California, on the 18th of January 1971. His childhood began with severe asthma that forced him into the…
- Mark David ChapmanMark David Chapman stood outside the Dakota apartment building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan for most of the day on the 8th of December 1980, talking…