04/23/1791 - 06/01/1868
James Buchanan, Jr. (April 23, 1791 – June 1, 1868) was the 15th President of the United States (1857-1861). He is the only president from Pennsylvania, the only president who remained a life-long bachelor, and the last one born in 18th cent...
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05/06/1856 - 02/20/1920
Robert Edwin Peary, Sr. (May 6, 1856 – February 20, 1920) was an American explorer who claimed to have led the first expedition, on April 6, 1909, to reach the geographic North Pole. Peary's claim was widely credited for most of the 20th...
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11/14/1908 - 05/02/1957
Joseph Raymond McCarthy was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in which Co...
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07/23/1779 - 09/14/1854
Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman (23 July 1779 – 26 September 1854) was a British lawyer, judge and politician. He served as Lord Chief Justice between 1832 and 1850.
Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon (French pronunciation: [alɛ̃ dəlɔ̃]; born 8 November 1935) is a French-Swiss actor. He rose quickly to stardom, and by the age of 23 was already being compared to French actors such as Gérard Phil...
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08/11/1852 - 12/02/1928
Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, (11 August 1852 - 2 December 1928), the second Governor-General of Australia.
Ludwig van Beethoven ( /ˈlʊdvɪɡ væn ˈbeɪt.hoʊvən/; German pronunciation: [ˈluːtvɪç fan ˈbeːt.hoːfən] ( listen); baptized 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. A cruc...
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Kick Cavendish (Kathleen Agnes Kennedy)
02/20/1920 - 05/13/1948
Kathleen Agnes "Kick" Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington (February 20, 1920 – May 13, 1948), born Kathleen Agnes Kennedy, was the fourth child and second daughter of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.and Rose Kennedy. She...
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10/19/1918 - 04/29/1994
Russell Kirk (October 19, 1918 – April 29, 1994) was an American political theorist, moralist, historian, social critic, literary critic, and fiction author known for his influence on 20th century American conservatism.
07/20/1919 - 01/11/2008
Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008), was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist.
03/27/1912 - 03/26/2005
Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, KG, PC (27 March 1912 – 26 March 2005), was a British Labour politician, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1976 to 1980....
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03/15/1767 - 06/08/1845
Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was the seventh President of the United States. Based in frontier Tennessee, Jackson was a politician and army general who defeated the British at the Battle of New Orleans and the Creek In...
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05/29/1917 - 11/22/1963
On November 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullets as his motorcade wound through Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was the youngest man elected President; he was t...
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05/19/1890 - 09/02/1969
Hồ Chí Minh, (19 May 1890 – 2 September 1969) was a Vietnamese Marxist-Leninist revolutionary leader who was prime minister (1945–1955) and president (1945–1969) of the Democratic Republic of Vie...
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02/10/1894 - 12/29/1986
Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC (10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986) was Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 January 1957 to 18 October 1963.