We cannot find any historically significant people with the first name Renata.
Archives: Historical Baby Names
Krystal
Krystal
We cannot find any historically significant people with the first name Krystal.
Saniya
Saniya
We cannot find any historically significant people with the first name Saniya.
Amina
Amina
We cannot find any historically significant people with the first name Amina.
Paulina
Paulina
We cannot find any historically significant people with the first name Paulina.
Diamond
Diamond
We cannot find any historically significant people with the first name Diamond.
Sonia Sotomayor (25 Jun 1954 – Present)
Sonia Sotomayor (25 Jun 1954 – Present)
Sonia Sotomayor is noteworthy as the first Hispanic-American to serve on the nation’s highest court as Supreme Court Justice of the United States (not to mention she’s only the third female). Born in New York City (the Bronx) into a Puerto Rican family, Sotomayor would graduate first from Princeton University and then from Yale Law School. The first President George H.W. Bush nominated Sonia to the U.S. District Court, and then President Bill Clinton nominated her to the U.S. Court of Appeals. In 2009, President Barack Obama made history when he nominated Sonia Sotomayor as America’s first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice. Not too shabby for a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx.
Audriana
Audriana
We cannot find any historically significant people with the first name Audriana.
Bing Crosby (3 May 1903 – 14 Oct 1977)
Bing Crosby (3 May 1903 – 14 Oct 1977)
Bing Crosby was one of the most famous singers of the twentieth century, as well as being a beloved movie, radio and television star. Born Harry Lillis Crosby in Tacoma and raised in Spokane, Washington, Crosby acquired his nickname, “Bingâ€, from a popular cartoon character of the day. Singing in a trio called “The Rhythm Boys†in the early twenties, Bing Crosby soon enough broke out on his own with that trademark bass-baritone to become one of the best-selling recording artists of his time. In addition, he contributed valuable financial backing toward innovations in the recording field, achieving landmark technical advances. His movie roles were hugely successful, and he won the 1944 Academy Award for Best Actor as Father O’Malley in Going My Way. Thousands flocked to enjoy his and Bob Hope’s famous Road series of movies. Bing Crosby was equally successful in the formats of radio and television well after many men would have retired. He was an avid sportsman as well, particularly with regard to golf and to thoroughbred horse racing. Bing Crosby’s first marriage to the actress Dixie Lee produced four sons (one of whom wrote a not-very-flattering book about him); his second marriage to the much younger actress, Kathryn Grant, gave him two more sons and a daughter. Bing Crosby died of a massive heart attack on a Spanish golf course, after having played 18 holes of golf. That somehow seems appropriate.
Rudolph Valentino (6 May 1895 – 23 Aug 1926)
Rudolph Valentino (6 May 1895 – 23 Aug 1926)
Rudolph Valentino was an extraordinarily popular heart throb of the silent movie era of the 1920s, an Italian born sex symbol who starred in such well known films as The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse , The Sheik and Blood and Sand. Women swooned over him, men envied him and mothers adored him. His startling and unexpected death at the age of 31 of complications after an appendectomy was a shock to his fans; his New York funeral drew an estimated throng of 100,000 people to the streets, many in hysterics. Rudolph was surely the first major star of the film industry. Although he married twice and had several romantic liaisons, he never had children (as far as we know), so we’ll never know how those rather outré smoldering good looks might have translated to 21st century standards.