People

Keisha Castle-Hughes

March 24, 1990 • Donnybrook, Western Australia Actress Growing up in New Zealand, Keisha Castle-Hughes dreamed of someday be...

Fidel Castro

Born: August 13, 1926 Birán, Oriente Province, Cuba Cuban revolutionary and prime minister Fidel Castro is the Cuban prime minister and first secretary...

Willa Cather

Born: December 7, 1873 Winchester, Virginia Died: April 24, 1947 New York, New York American author The American auth...

Edwin E. Catmull

President of Pixar Animation Studios Born March 31, 1945, in Parkersburg, WV; married Susan; children: five. Education: University of Utah, B.S. (computer ...

Roberto Cavalli

Fashion designer Born November 15, 1940, in Florence, Italy; son of Giorgio (a mine surveyor) and Marcella (a tailor; maiden name, Rossi) Cavalli; married Silvanella Giannon...

Henry Cavendish

Born: October 10, 1731 Nice, France Died: February 24, 1810 London, England English physicist and chemist The English...

Jim Caviezel

Actor Born James Patrick Caviezel, September 26, 1968, in Mount Vernon, WA; son of James (a chiropractor) and Maggie Caviezel; married Kerri Browitt (a teacher), c. 1996. ...

Susie Sumner Revels Cayton

Susie Sumner Revels Cayton (1870–1943) was one of just a handful of black women working in American journalism at the turn of the twentieth century. For several years Cayton served...

Celine

Consumer goods

Celine is a French luxury fashion house founded in 1945 by designer Céline Vipiana. The headquarters are located at 16 rue Vivienne in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris a

50 Cent

July 6, 1976 • Queens, New York Rap musician The rapper known as 50 Cent is living proof that hip-hop is as much a lifestyle as it is a...

Centrica

Industry and Production

Centrica plc is a British multinational energy and services company with its headquarters in Windsor, Berkshire. Its principal activity is the supply of electricity and&n

Miguel De Cervantes

Born: c. 1547 Alcalá de Henares, Spain Died: April 23, 1616 Madrid, Spain Spanish author and novelist Spanish author ...

Marc Chagall

Born: July 7, 1887 Vitebsk, Russia Died: March 28, 1985 Maritimes, France Russian painter and artist Russian painter ...

Wilt Chamberlain

Born: August 21, 1936 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Died: October 12, 1999 Los Angeles, California African American basketball player ...

Jackie Chan

Hong Kong martial arts film star Jackie Chan (born 1954) is one of the most recognizable cinematic personalities in the world. His mixture of literally death-defying stunts and gen...

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Born: October 19, 1910 Lahore, India (now part of Pakistan) Died: August 21, 1995 Chicago, Illinois Indian-born American astrophysic...

STV TV Channel

Advertising and media

STV is a Scottish free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the STV Group. It is made up of the Central Scotland and Northern Scotland Channel

Disney Channel

Advertising and media

Disney Channel is an American pay television channel that serves as the flagship property of Disney Branded Television, a unit of the Disney Entertainment 

W Channel

Advertising and media

W is a British free-to-air television channel owned by BBC Studios. It originally launched on 7 October 2008 as Watch and until 2022 was a pay television channe

Elaine L. Chao

U.S. Secretary of Labor Born March 26, 1953, in Taiwan; daughter of James (owner of a shipping firm) and Ruth Chao; married Mitch McConnell (a U.S. senator), 1993; children:...