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Talisa Soto

Brooklyn-born Talisa Soto was a groundbreaking Puerto Rican model for international fashion magazines in the late 1980s. She turned that into a movie career, most notably as a "Bond girl" in 1989's…

Carol Burnett Biography

Carol Burnettcomedienne, actressBorn: 4/26/1933Birthplace: San Antonio, Texas Emmy Award-winning television, film and stage comedienne. She starred in the Carol Burnett Show (1967–78) and appeared…

George Gervin Biography

George GervinBorn: April 27, 1952Basketball G/F joined the ABA in 1972 and came to the NBA with San Antonio in 1976; a five-time NBA all-star; led the league in scoring four times; scored 26,…

Tim Duncan

Tim DuncanBorn: Apr. 25, 1976Basketball This 7-foot shot-blocker and shot-maker is a 2-time NBA Finals MVP (1999, 2003); 2-time NBA MVP (2002-03); 1997 College Player of the Year at Wake…

Melanie Griffith

Melanie Griffith is famous for movies such as Something Wild (1986) and Working Girl (1988, with Harrison Ford), and for her high-profile marriages to actors Don Johnson and Antonio Banderas.…

Frédéric Dard 2000 Deaths

Frédéric DardAge: 78 prolific novelist known for his racy detective fiction. He wrote nearly 300 books, 150 of which featured Paris police superintendent San Antonio. More than 200 million…

Richard Avedon 2004 Deaths

Richard AvedonAge: 81 fashion and portrait photographer who captured his subjects at their most dramatic. Both experimental and stark, his work is known for its uncompromising realism. He was…

Robert Johnson

Name at birth: Robert SpencerRobert Johnson was an influential Mississippi blues singer and songwriter who supposedly sold his soul to Satan "at the crossroads" in exchange for his remarkable talent…

Oscar Hijuelos

Oscar Hijuelos was the Cuban-American writer who won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction with his 1990 novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. His parents were Cuban immigrants to New York City, where…

Mamie Eisenhower

Name at birth: Marie Geneva DoudThe wife of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Mamie Eisenhower was First Lady of the United States from 1953 to 1961. The daughter of a wealthy meatpacker, Mamie grew up…