Stephen was born in the university town of Oxford in 1942 in the middle of the Second World War. The eldest of three children, he spent his childhood and adolescence like most other children.A brilliant thinker, he was interested in astronomy and studied at Cambridge.At the age of 21, he was diagnosed with the incurable and fatal disease ALS.He was only given a few more years.In 1968, he married Jane Wilde, with whom he had three children.From 1968 he needed a wheelchair.Despite everything, he went on to have a phenomenal scientific career. From 1985, he could no longer speak and needed a speech computer. His books became world-famous. He left his wife in 1990 and married his nurse, Elaine Mason, in 1995. They divorced in 2006. He died in 2018.

Charles was born into abject poverty in London and grew up with his older half-brother Sidney in the streets and homes of London. Even as a child, he earned his living performing in music halls. His artistic talents soon became apparent. He became the first world-famous film star during the silent film era in the tragic-comic role of the Tramp. He was a co-founder of the film company United Artists. As a multi-talented actor, he made the leap from black and white silent films to color talkies and became famous for his many films. In terms of relationships, things did not go so well. He was married four times, three times to very young women. He had a total of 11 children. He was knighted in 1975. He died in 1977 in Vevey, Switzerland.

Steve was given up for adoption by his parents at birth in 1955. He grew up with Paul and Clara Jobs in San Francisco together with a younger adopted sister, Patty, in Silicon Valley. He was fascinated by electronics from an early age. He dropped out of university in 1973 and worked for the electronics company Atari. In 1976, he founded Apple together with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. In 1984, they presented the first „Macintosh“ computer. In the following years, Apple became the market leader in the computer industry with its own production philosophy and made Jobs a billionaire. In 1991 he married Laurene Powell. Jobs has four children. Three with Laurene, plus his first (illegitimate) daughter Lisa, whom he only acknowledged very late in life. Steve died of cancer in 2011, leaving behind a computer empire.

Although Leonardo was recognized as an illegitimate child by his prominent father, he spent his early years growing up in his grandfather’s house. He spent his early years in Florence, where his artistic talent was also recognized. He began his first apprenticeship in 1469 with the then famous sculptor Verrocchio.In 1476, an anonymous complaint of homosexual acts was filed against him. However, there was never any evidence or a verdict. From 1482, he lived and worked in Milan. There he became famous for his many inventions of all kinds.He painted pictures, but also designed machines, flying machines and weapons, and carried out medical studies that were far ahead of his time. Many of his works of art are still world-famous today. He died unmarried and without children in 1519.

Marilyn grew up 12 days after her birth and spent the first few years in the care of the religious Bolender couple as a foster child.In 1934, she became a social orphan and gained an enthusiasm for film through the care of Grace Mc Kee.After another stay in an orphanage, she experienced sexual abuse in her mother’s home.She spent some good years with Ana Lower, a widow and relative.At the age of sixteen, she married to get away from the orphanage.A photographer discovered her as an attractive worker in a munitions factory.In order to get a film contract, she divorced in 1946. Her meteoric rise to film and sex symbol began in 1949. She was married three times. She died in 1962 at the age of 36, presumably from a drug overdose.

Jesus – Hebrew: Yeshua – was born in the year 0 or -4 depending on the calendar (this is where the Christian calendar begins) in Beth-Lehem in modern-day Israel.His parents fled with him to Egypt when the then King Herod learned that the Messiah (Redeemer) of Israel had been born and consequently had all male children murdered.After the tyrant’s death, Yeshua returned with his family and lived in Nazareth.He grew up with at least five halfsiblings.He developed extraordinary abilities at a very early age and claimed to be the Son of God.He learned the carpentry trade of his stepfather Joseph and began his public ministry at the age of around 30.He attracted thousands of people with his special talent for performing miracles and healings. He spoke of God like no other. For about 3 years, he traveled the country with 12 disciples and women, teaching people God’s ways. The jealous elite had him crucified with falsified and fabricated accusations. Through his resurrection on the third day and the words he had spoken, Christianity was born.