Famous People

Frida Kahlo

The Mexican painter who painted her own life: fifty-five of her hundred and forty-three canvases are self-portraits. Born in Coyoacán on 6 July 1907 at 08:30 local time.

Winston Churchill

The British prime minister who took charge in May 1940 and a Nobel laureate in literature. Born at Blenheim Palace on 30 November 1874 at 01:30 Greenwich time.

Carl Gustav Jung

The Swiss psychiatrist behind the collective unconscious and the archetypes, who read astrology as the symbolic language of the psyche. Born at Kesswil on 26 July 1875 at 19:32 local mean time.

Sigmund Freud

The Viennese neurologist who turned the treatment of hysteria into a theory of mental life. Born in Freiberg in Moravia on 6 May 1856 at 18:30 local mean time.

Vincent van Gogh

The painter who took up the brush at twenty-seven and left nine hundred canvases in ten years. Born in Zundert on 30 March 1853 at 11:00 local mean time.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The composer who began writing music at five and left more than six hundred works in thirty-five years. Born in Salzburg on 27 January 1756 at 20:00 local mean time.

Albert Einstein

The physicist whose papers of 1905 and 1915 rewrote the science of space, time and gravity. Born in Ulm on 14 March 1879 at 11:30 local mean time.

Mahatma Gandhi

The leader of Indian independence who devised satyagraha, resistance without violence. Born in Porbandar on 2 October 1869 at 7:11 local mean time.

Indira Gandhi

The first and so far only woman to head the Indian government, daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru. Born in Allahabad on 19 November 1917 at 23:11 Indian Standard Time.

Marilyn Monroe

Norma Jeane Mortenson, who became the defining face of nineteen-fifties Hollywood. Born in Los Angeles on 1 June 1926 at 9:30 in the morning.

Steve Jobs

The founder of Apple, who twice overturned the habits of an entire industry. Born in San Francisco on 24 February 1955 at 19:15 Pacific time.