BIOGRAPHY

Musician and actor Jon Bon Jovi is best known as the lead singer and founder of the rock band Bon Jovi.

Mary Church Terrell was a charter member of the NAACP and an early advocate for civil rights and the suffrage movement.

Barbara Stanwyck was an American actress who had a 60-year career in film and television, best known for her strong female roles in films, such as Double Indemnity.

Actor Maya Hawke has followed in the steps of her Hollywood heavyweight parents, Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman. She is best known for her role on the TV show Stranger Things.

East Coast rapper Nas made it big with albums ‘Illmatic’ (1994), ‘It Was Written’ (1996) and ‘Stillmatic’ (2001).

Lyle Menendez and his younger brother, Erik, are serving life in prison for murdering their parents in 1989.

Musical rebel Waylon Jennings is best remembered for helping to popularize the grittier and more rock-influenced genre known as outlaw country music.

Rapper Wiz Khalifa is known for such songs as “Say Yeah,” “Black and Yellow” and “See You Again.”

Viewed as the “King of Ragtime,” Scott Joplin was the foremost composer of the genre in the early 20th century, known for works like “The Maple Leaf Rag” and “The Entertainer.”

Richard Burton was a highly regarded Welsh actor of stage and screen. He earned seven Oscar nominations and was married twice to actress Elizabeth Taylor.