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Muhammad Ali was a three-time heavyweight boxing champion with an impressive 56-win record. He was also known for his public stance against the Vietnam War.

TV and rap star Drake is best known in Canada for playing wheelchair-bound Jimmy Brooks on ‘Degrassi: The Next Generation,’ and for hit songs like “Take Care,” “One Dance” and “Hotline Bling.”

NFL coach Bill Belichick is widely considered one of the best coaches in football history after leading the New England Patriots to six Super Bowl wins.

Boxer Rubin Carter was twice wrongly convicted of a triple murder and imprisoned for nearly two decades. His convictions were overturned in 1985 and he dedicated the rest of his life advocating for the wrongly convicted.

Patricia Bath invented the Laserphaco Probe for cataract treatment and became the first Black female doctor to receive a medical patent.

William S. Burroughs was a Beat Generation writer known for his startling, nontraditional accounts of drug culture, most famously in the book ‘Naked Lunch.’

Mark Twain, the writer, adventurer and wily social critic born Samuel Clemens, wrote the novels ‘Adventures of Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.’

American pop singer Katy Perry is known for hits like ‘I Kissed a Girl,’ ‘Teenage Dream,’ ‘Firework’ and ‘Dark Horse.’

A trailblazing player in the Negro Leagues, baseball pitcher Satchel Paige also became the oldest rookie in Major League history and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1971.