People

Amalia García

Governor and political party leader Born Amelia García Medina, October 6, 1951, in Zacatecas City, Mexico; daughter of Francisco García Estrada (a politician) and Concepción...

Judy Garland

Born: June 10, 1922 Grand Rapids, Minnesota Died: June 21, 1969 London, England American actress and singer Judy Garl...

Marcus Garvey

Born: August 17, 1887 St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica Died: June 10, 1940 London, England Jamaican activist and African nationalist ...

Bill Gates

Born: October 28, 1955 Seattle, Washington American businessman, chief executive officer, and software developer Microsoft cofounder and chief executiv...

Paul Gauguin

Born: June 7, 1848 Paris, France Died: May 8, 1903 Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia French artist, painter, and sculptor ...

Charles de Gaulle

Born: November 23, 1890 Lille, France Died: November 9, 1970 Colombey-les-Deux-Églises, France French premier, general, and presiden...

Karl Friedrich Gauss

Born: April 30, 1777 Brunswick, Germany Died: February 23, 1855 Göttingen, Germany German mathematician The German ma...

Frank Gehry

February 28, 1929 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada Architect Over the years many adjectives have been used to describe Frank Gehry's creation...

Hans Geiger

Born: September 30, 1882 Neustadt an-der-Haardt, Germany Died: September 24, 1945 Potsdam, Germany German experimental physicist ...

Theodor Geisel

Born: March 2, 1904 Springfield, Massachusetts Died: September 24, 1991 La Jolla, California American children's book author and ill...

Martha Gellhorn

American journalist Martha Gellhorn (1908–1998) was one of the first female war correspondents ever and one of the best American war reporters of the twentieth century. Instead of ...

Legal & General

Financial services

Legal & General is a British multinational financial services and asset management company headquartered in London, England. Its products and services include in

Julie Gerberding

August 22, 1955 • Estelline, South Dakota Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Julie Gerberding is a physician and an expert ...

Julie Gerberding

Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Born Julie Louise Gerberding, August 22, 1955, in Estelline, SD; married David Rose (a computer software engineer); chil...

J. Paul Getty

Born: December 15, 1892 Minneapolis, Minnesota Died: June 6, 1976 London, England American businessman J. Paul Getty ...

Stan Getz

Of the great instrumental soloists who emerged from the revolution in jazz styles that grew in the years after World War II, tenor saxophonist Stan Getz (1927–1991) was perhaps the...

Carlos Ghosn

Brazilian-born executive Carlos Ghosn (born 1954) has become known as one of the automobile industry's great turnaround artists. Dubbed "le cost killer" and "the destroye...

Kahlil Gibran

Born: January 6, 1883 Besharri, Lebanon Died: April 10, 1931 New York, New York Lebanese poet, author, and artist Leb...

Althea Gibson

Born: August 25, 1927 Silver, South Carolina African American tennis player Althea Gibson is noted not only for her exceptional abilities as a tennis ...

Althea Gibson

Born August 25, 1927, in Silver, SC; died of respiratory failure, September 28, 2003, in East Orange, NJ. Professional tennis player. Althea Gibson broke the color barrier in the world of ...