Debra McCurdy (1957 to 2013) was the mother of actress and author Jennette McCurdy, and she is known almost entirely through her daughter’s 2022 memoir, I’m Glad My Mom Died. She never held a public career of her own. Her story reached millions of readers because Jennette described a childhood shaped by her mother’s unfulfilled … Read more
Megan Marshack (1953 to 2024) was a journalist and broadcast producer who worked for Nelson Rockefeller and was with him when he died of a heart attack on January 26, 1979. That night made her a national mystery figure at 25, yet it covers only a small part of a career that ran through radio, … Read more
Douglas Fairbanks was the man who taught American movies how to jump, swing, and grin through danger. Decades before Indiana Jones cracked a whip or Zorro carved a Z into a wall, Fairbanks was doing his own stunts on camera, and audiences could not get enough of him. Between 1915 and 1934 he built a … Read more
Naoki Urasawa draws his stories the way other people write diaries: daily, by instinct, without knowing the ending until he gets there. Over four decades he has built some of the most acclaimed manga in the medium’s history, including Monster, 20th Century Boys, and Pluto, and he has done it almost entirely without a script … Read more
Corpse Husband is an American musician and former YouTuber, born August 8, 1997, who turned an unusually low voice into one of the most recognizable identities online without ever showing his face. He is 29, and his career ran on a strange engine: the less people saw of him, the bigger he got. If you … Read more
Qimmah Russo turned a basketball career into a fitness business followed by millions of people online. The New York City native runs her own training platform, Q-Flex Fitness, models for major activewear labels, and has picked up a pair of screen credits along the way. Her path is less a story of one viral post … Read more
Gerardo Ortiz has spent close to two decades as one of the most streamed voices in regional Mexican music, and in 2025 his name started showing up in federal court filings instead of just chart data. The corrido singer built his career on story songs about ambition, betrayal and violence. That same year, he found … Read more
Sandra Lee built a career on making home cooking feel achievable, and in 2026 she is worth an estimated $20 to $25 million after two decades of television, cookbooks, and retail products. She is best known as the host of “Semi-Homemade Cooking with Sandra Lee,” the Food Network show that turned a simple formula, 70 … Read more
Mitchell Edwards is the Philadelphia-born actor who spent seven seasons building one of The CW’s most recognizable young-adult characters, Cameron “Cam” Watkins, across All American and its spin-off All American: Homecoming. Off screen, he is also a working musician who has placed his own songs inside the shows he stars in, and an actor now … Read more
Janet Dailey was an American romance novelist who wrote more than 90 books and sold over 300 million copies in nineteen languages. She spent nearly four decades writing stories set across the United States, including the long running Calder family series, before her death in 2013. Quick Facts Category Detail Full Name Janet Anne Haradon … Read more