Bill Gates

                                     Bill Gates 

Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955 is an American business magnate, investor, programmer,inventor and philanthropist.Gates is the former chief executive and current chairman of Microsoft, the world’s largest personal-computer software company, which he co-founded with Paul Allen.

He is consistently ranked as the wealthiest person on the world from 1995 to 2009 excluding 2008.According to the Bloomberg Billionaires List, Gates is the world's richest person in 2013, a position that he last held on the list in 2007.

He remained as chairman and created the position of chief software architect. In June 2006, Gates announced that he would be transitioning from full-time work at Microsoft to part-time work, and full-time work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Microsoft launched its first retail version of Microsoft Windows on November 20, 1985, and in August, the company struck a deal with IBM to develop a separate operating system called OS/2. Although the two companies successfully developed the first version of the new system, mounting creative differences caused the partnership to deteriorate. It ended in 1991, when Gates led Microsoft to develop a version of OS/2 independently from IBM.

Michael Jackson

                                 Michael Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson was born on August 29, 1958 was an American singer-songwriter,dancer, businessman and philanthropist. He is refered as " KING OF POP ".MJ is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records. 

In the early 1980s, Jackson became the dominant figure in popular music. The music videos for his songs, including those of "Beat It," "Billie Jean," and "Thriller," were credited with breaking down racial barriers and transforming the medium into an art form and promotional tool.The popularity of these videos helped to bring the then relatively new television channel MTV to fame.

Jackson is one of the few artists to have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice. He was also inducted into the Dance Hall of Fame as the first and only dancer from pop and rock music. Some of his other achievements include multiple Guinness World Records; 13 Grammy Awards as well as the Grammy Legend Award and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award; 26 American Music Awards.

While preparing for his comeback concert series titled This Is It, Jackson died of acute propofol andbenzodiazepine intoxication on June 25, 2009, after suffering from cardiac arrest.Jackson's death triggered a global outpouring of grief and a live broadcast of his public memorial service was viewed around the world.