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Margaret Thatcher, born Margaret Hilda Roberts on 13 October 1925 in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, remains one of Britain’s most significant…

Henry Ford, the pioneering American industrialist who revolutionised the automobile industry and transformed manufacturing, was born on 30 July 1863…

William Henry Harrison, the ninth President of the United States, was born on 9 February 1773 at Berkeley Plantation in…

Howard Robard Hughes Jr. was an American enigma. He was an aerospace engineer, a business magnate, a film producer, an…

John Maynard Keynes, a revolutionary figure in economic thought, was born on June 5th, 1883, in Cambridge, England. The son…

Charlton Heston, born John Charles Carter on the 4th of October, 1923, in Evanston, Illinois, was a titan of American…

Joseph Louis Barrow, better known as “The Brown Bomber,” was born in rural Alabama on May 13, 1914. Raised in…

John Wilkes Booth, a notorious figure in American history, was born on May 10, 1838, near Bel Air, Maryland. He…

Manfred von Richthofen, better known as the Red Baron, was born into Prussian nobility in what is now Poland on…

William Shakespeare, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist, was born in…

Did you know one of the founding fathers of the United States was born into a family of 17 children?…

Adolf Hitler, the embodiment of evil for the 20th century, was born on April 20, 1889, in Braunau am Inn,…

William Wordsworth (1770-1850), a titan of English Romanticism, left an indelible mark on the literary world. Born in Cockermouth, Cumbria,…

Muddy Waters, born McKinley Morganfield on April 4, 1913, in Issaquena County, Mississippi, stands as a monumental figure in the…

Henry Royce (1863-1933), a pioneering engineer and co-founder of the legendary Rolls-Royce company, was born on March 27, 1863, in…

Greta Garbo, born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, was an actress who began her career in her home country of Sweden before…