Icons of History are the Movers and Shakers of the world highlighting the visionaries and trailblazers who shaped the world with their remarkable contributions.
Read time ca. 3 minutes Harry Houdini was one of the greatest magicians and escape artists in history, and as he was born
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Read time ca. 4 minutes Joan of Arc, born in Domrémy, France, around 1412, emerged as a pivotal figure in the Hundred Years’
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Read time ca. 3 minutes Zabel Yesayan was an important Armenian writer who was born on 4 February 1878, in the historic neighborhood
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Read time ca. 4 minutes Victor Emmanuel II, born on 14 March 1820, in Turin, Italy, was a prominent figure who was destined
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Read time ca. 3 mins Violet Jessop, born on 2 October 1887, in Bahía Blanca, Argentina, was an extraordinary woman whose life became
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Read time ca. 8 minutes Vladimir Lenin was a revolutionary leader and political theorist who played a central role in the establishment of
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Read time ca. 3 minutes Robert Leroy Johnson was born in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, on 8 May 1911, which back then was a very
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Read time ca. 2 minutes Ivana Kobilca was born on 20 December 1861, in the city of Ljubljana which was then part of
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Read time ca. 3 minutes Thomas Sankara was a revolutionary leader who was born on 21 December 1949 in the city of Yako,
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Read time ca. 3 minutes Tetsu Nakamura was a physician, philanthropist, and humanitarian whose extraordinary work transcended borders, and as he was born
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Read time ca. 4 minutes Al Capone who is known to be one of the most notorious American gangsters that became a symbol
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Read time ca. 6 minutes Mahsa Amini, born on 22 September 1999, in Saqqez, Kurdistan Province, Iran, grew up in a region known
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