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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…

Kurt Donald Cobain was born on 20 February 1967 at Grays Harbor Hospital, in Aberdeen, Washington, USA.  His younger sister,…

Henry Tudor was born on 28 January 1457 during a period of turmoil and conflict over the succession of the…

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.”…