Howard Hughes

This business magnate, investor, aviator, aerospace engineer, film maker and philanthropist bought the Desert Inn in Las Vegas because he refused to move and didn't want further conflicts with the owner. He also bought the small Silver Slipper casino only to reposition the hotel's trademark neon silver slipper, visible from Hughes' bedroom, which apparently had been keeping him up at night!

Coquette Productions

This is the motion picture production company created by the Arquettes (David Arquette and Courteney Cox Arquette) - a portmanteau of their surnames.

Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought

This book by Douglas Hofstadter was the first book ever sold on Amazon.com!

C.O.L.B.E.R.T.

The treadmill on the International Space Station is the only piece of NASA engineered equipment in space that is named after a living human being - Stephen Colbert (!!!) thanks to his interest in a naming census. The "backronym" is Combined Operational Load-Bearing External Resistance Treadmill.

Judith Polgár

The Hungarian chess grandmaster along with her two older sisters, Susan and Sofia were part of an educational experiment carried out by their father László Polgár, in an attempt to prove that children could make exceptional achievements if trained in a specialist subject from a very early age.

Pehla Nasha

The only movie in which Aamir Khan and Shahrukh Khan share screen space - also Ashutosh Gowariker's directorial debut.

2013

The first year since 1987 to be denoted by four different digits