1 9 3 6 – 1 9 8 9 Abbott “Abbie” Hoffman was a US left-wing political activist, and founder of the Yippies (Youth International…
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Abigail became the undisputed Number One female sex symbol in Australia during the 1970s, primarily as a result of her playing Bev Houghton in the…
During the 1950s and 1960s fascination with the Abominable Snowman (or Yeti) reached fever pitch. The Himalayan half-man, half-ape joined the Loch Ness Monster and the…
This English-born Australian entrepreneur was chair of the Bond Corporation from 1969 until 1990 during the years when its aggressive takeover strategy gave the company…
Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home served as British Prime Minister for one year from October 1963 to October 1964. He became famous for a series of records:…
1 9 2 6 – 1 9 9 7 US poet and political activist. His reputation as a visionary, overtly political poet was established by Howl (1956),…
Allen Klein was born in Newark on 18 December 1931 and spent several years in an orphanage after his mother’s death during his infancy. He…
Andy Warhol, the high priest of Pop Art, presented everyday images, from soup cans to celebrity photos, as high art, in repetitious silkscreen reproductions. His preoccupation…
It was the crime that shocked Australia – pretty 26-year-old nursing sister Anita Lorraine Cobby was found brutally murdered in a field at Prospect, in…
Born in Sweden on 28 April 1941, Ann-Margret Olsson and her mother moved to Illinois five years later to join her father, an electrician who…
Born on 22 October 1942, Annette Funicello became an overnight sensation in 1955 when she first appeared on a new afternoon TV show, at the…
1 9 4 0 – 2 0 2 4 Anne Avril Nightingale was born in Osterley, Middlesex, England, on 1 April 1940. She became a fan…
1 9 0 7 – 1 9 8 3 Anthony Frederick Blunt was born in Bournemouth, England in 1907 and educated at Marlborough School and…
Sir Anthony Eden succeeded Winston Churchill as Prime Minister in April 1955. Having been a brilliant Foreign Secretary, he was seen as the natural and promising heir.…
1 9 1 8 – 1 9 8 1 Muhammad Anwar es-Sadat was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as president from 1970 to…
1 9 2 8 – 2 0 1 4 One of the most deeply polarising figures in Israeli history, Ariel Sharon served as the country’s…
Born in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, Arthur Scargill became a miner on leaving school and was soon a trade union and political activist in the Young…
Astrid Kirchherr is best known for her striking photos of The Beatles taken during their first stay in Hamburg, which were later reproduced around the world. Ironically,…
“Ding Dong, Avon Calling” The most successful door-to-door makeup enterprise in history, Avon has been bringing front door service to housewives since 1886. The company…
Trained as a Muslim theologian, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini became the arch-prophet of Islamic fundamentalism in Iran. Bitterly opposed to the Westernised regime of Shah Mohammed…