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The Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) was a founder of modern depth psychology.

The son of a country pastor, he studied at Basel (1895-1900) and Zurich (M.D., 1902). After a stint at the University Psychiatric Clinic in Zurich, Jung worked (1902) under Eugen Bleuler at the Burgholzli Clinic. He wrote valuable papers, but more important was his book on the psychology of dementia praecox (1906), which led to a meeting (1907) with Sigmund Freud. Finding that their theoretical positions had much in common, the two formed a close relationship for a number of years: Jung edited the Jahrbuch fur psychologische und psychopathologische Forschungen and was made (1911) president of the International Psychoanalytic Society. However, a formal break with Freud came with the publication of Jung's revolutionary work The Psychology of the Unconscious (1912), which disagreed with the Freudian emphasis on sexual trauma as the basis for all neurosis and with the literal interpretation of the Oedipus complex.

The American aviator Amelia Mary Earhart Putnam (1897-1937) remains the world's best-known woman pilot long after her mysterious disappearance during a round-the-world flight in 1937.

She was the first person to fly alone from Honolulu to California (1935). In 1937, she attempted with a copilot, Frederick J. Noonan, to fly around the world, but her plane was lost on the flight between New Guinea and Howland Island. In 1992, a search party reported finding remnants of Earhart's plane on Nikumaroro (formerly Gardner Island), Kiribati, but their claims were disputed by people who worked on Earhart's plane, and her fate remains a mystery. In 1964, Geraldine Mock was the first woman to successfully complete Earhart's round-the-world route. Earhart was married to G. P. Putnam (1887-1950) in 1931.

Fidel Castro Ruz (born 1926) was Cuban prime minister and first secretary of the Communist party of Cuba. A lawyer by training, Castro led the Cuban Revolution and transformed the island into the first Communist state in the Western Hemisphere.

Known for playing offbeat characters in movies like The Usual Suspects (1995), for which he won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar, L.A. Confidential (1997), and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997), he began his career on the stage, with the New York Shakespeare Festival, and won a Tony Award for Lost in Yonkers (1991). He worked with Jack Lemmon on stage and television in O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night (1987) and in film in David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross (1992). His role in the 1999 film American Beauty earned him a Best Actor Oscar. Other films include Pay It Forward(2000), and The Shipping News (2001). He made his directorial debut in 1996 with Albino Alligator.

When in February, 2003, Meryl Streep was Oscar-nominated for her performance in Adaptation, she overtook Katherine Hepburn to become the most successful actress in Hollywood history. 13 nominations in 26 years (Hepburn took 48 over her 12) - incredible. Given the traditional paucity of fine roles for more mature women, this is proof positive that Streep's talent can often turn manure into gold-dust. And everyone knows it, too. Though there have been many jokes about her penchant for trying different accents, she is generally accepted to be the pre-eminent screen actress of her generation - and maybe of all generations.

Education: Bernardsville High School in Bernardsville, NJ Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York (graduated in 1971) Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut (graduated in 1975) Husband/Wife: Donald J. Gummer (sculptor; married in September 1978) Relationship: John Cazale (actor; born on August 12, 1935; died on March 12, 1978; together 1976-1978)

Father: Harry Streep Jr. (pharmaceutical executive) Mother: Mary Streep (commercial artist)

Brother: Harry Streep III (choreographer; younger; married to actress Maeve Kinkead), Dana (bond salesman; younger)

Son: Henry Gummer (aka Harry Gummer ; born in 1979) Daughter: Louisa Jacobson Gummer (born on June 12, 1991), Grace Jane Gummer (born in 1986), Mary Willa Gummer (born in 1983).

After graduating from high school, he set his sights on making a life for himself in New York City. By 1987, LeBlanc had obtained parts in national television commercials for such products as Levi's 501 jeans, Coca-Cola, and Doritos. He also appeared in a Heinz catsup spot that won the prestigious Gold Lion Award at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. In 1988, LeBlanc started formal acting training. Within a year, he landed a starring role in the television series "TV 101," and moved to Los Angeles. LeBlanc also guest-starred on the cable series "Red Shoe Diaries". LeBlanc is currently engaged to model Melissa McKnight and is living with his dog, Lady.

Scoring a role on the television series TV 101 found the fresh-faced actor relocating to sunny Los Angeles, and although the show was quickly canceled, LeBlanc continued with appearances in television's Married With Children and in such short-lived series as Top of the Heap and Vinny and Bobby in the early '90s. Following his breakthrough in Friends in 1994, Leblanc gained a reputation as somewhat of a party guy with a penchant for womanizing, though he would later deflect the image as he settled down in his marriage to Meliss McKnight. Numerous disputes over salary also brought the cast of Friends frequently into the public eye, and LeBlanc attempted to solidify a cinematic career with roles in such features as Ed (1996), Lost in Space (1998), and Charlie's Angels (2000). Though hobbies such as parachute jumping and car racing suggest that his thrill-seeking habits didn't die with the end of his motorbike racing aspirations, LeBlanc opted out of performing his own stunts after his double was injured during the filming of All the Queen's Men in 2001

Dark-haired browned eyed smoldering beauty who began acting at age four in the 1943 movie, Happy Land. Wood acted steadily until her accidental drowning death in 1981. Wood was nominated for three Oscars, but may be best known for her role as Maria in the film version of West Side Story (1961). She earned her first nomination, as best supporting actress, for her portrayal of Judy in the classic Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and followed that with best actress nominations for her role as Wilma Dean Loomis in Splendor in the Grass (1961) and for her role as Angie Rossini in Love with the Perfect Stranger (1963). She married actor Robert Wagner in 1957, divorced in 1962, and remarried him in 1972. The couple had one daughter, Courtney Brooke, in 1974.

Pearl Buck was awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature. Until 1924 she lived principally in China, where she, her parents, and her first husband, John Lossing Buck, were missionaries. She is famous for vivid, compassionate novels about life in China. The Good Earth (1931; Pulitzer Prize), considered her finest work, describes a Chinese peasant's rise to wealth and brilliantly conveys a sense of the daily life of ordinary Chinese people. Among her other novels of China are East Wind: West Wind (1930), Dragon Seed (1942), Imperial Woman (1956), and Mandala (1971). In 1935, she married her publisher Richard J. Walsh, president of the John Day Company. In 1949 she founded Welcome House, which provided care for the children of Asian women and American soldiers; the Pearl Buck Foundation of Philadelphia, to which she consigned most of her royalties, aids in the adoption of Amerasian children.

The work of the Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759-1796) is characterized by realism, intense feeling, and metrical virtuosity. His best work is in Scots, the vernacular of southern Scotland, and he is one of the greatest authors in that language of the last 4 centuries

Robert Burns was born in Alloway, Ayrshire, on Jan. 25, 1759, in the cottage of hard-working farmer parents. He grew up in the general atmosphere of dour Scottish Calvinism, but his father's moderate religious views helped instill in Burns a spirit of tolerance and of rebellion against the grimmer doctrines of Calvinism. Although Burns's formal schooling was skimpy, he read avidly and for a time had a good tutor in John Murdoch, who gave him a thorough grounding in the 18th-century genteel tradition of English literature.

See his poems (ed. by J. L. Robertson, 1953); letters (ed. by D. Ferguson and G. Ross Roy, 2 vol., 1985); biographies by M. Lindsay (2d ed. 1968) and R. T. Fitzhugh (1970); studies by D. Daiches (1978), H. Hecht (1985), and C. McGuirk (1985).

The heavy-lidded commanding actor is best remembered for his tough-guy roles in Westerns, war films and films noir. Mitchum once said he would play just about any part, and he did, usually to perfection. In the late 1940s, Mitchum was known as a bad boy, having been arrested for"conspiracy to possess marijuana." His films include The Story of G.I. Joe, Out of the Past, The Night of the Hunter and Cape Fear.

When Robert Redford (born 1937) appeared in the 1969 hit motion picture Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, he was already well on his way to becoming an American motion picture icon. Known for his good looks, intelligence and commercial success, Redford's successes in writing, directing and producing motion pictures, as well as his establishment of the Sundance Institute, has made him a household name throughout the world. .

His films include Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), All the President's Men (1976), The Natural (1984), The Horse Whisperer (1998, which he also directed) and Spy Game (2001). Redford runs the Sundance Institute, an organization that promotes and supports independent filmmakers and sponsors the annual Sundance Film Festival.