John Kennedy

Amelia Earhart

First woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross, which she was awarded as the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. She set many other records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, a women's pilots' organization.

Earhart disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean during an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight in 1937. Intense public fascination with her life, career and disappearance continues to this day.

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Fidel Castro

Aging dictator of Cuba, one of the few remaining Communist countries

Martin Scorsese

Finally wins an Oscar for Best Director after directing among others:

• The Departed
• The Aviator
• Gangs of New York
• Casino
• Cape Fear
• Goodfellas
• Last Temptation of Christ
• The Color of Money
• Raging Bull
• The Last Waltz
• Taxi Driver
  

Princess Di

Camilla Parker Bowles

Prince Charles long-time partner, now his second wife. Considering to be one of the reasons for the breakup of his marriage to Princess Diana