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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04/10/1874 - 10/20/1964
Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was the 31st President of the United States (1929–1933). Hoover was originally a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s...
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06/25/1900 - 08/27/1979
Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979), was a British statesman and naval officer, and an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh...
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03/18/1869 - 11/09/1940
Arthur Neville Chamberlain (18 March 1869 – 9 November 1940) was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940.
03/17/1961 - 03/06/2006
Dana Reeve (née Morosini) (March 17, 1961 – March 6, 2006) was an American actress, singer, and activist for disability causes.
11/23/1804 - 10/08/1869
Franklin Pierce (November 23, 1804 – October 8, 1869) was the 14th President of the United States (1853-1857) and is the only President from New Hampshire.
01/31/1866 - 01/15/1936
Henry William Forster, 1st Baron Forster(31 January 1866 – 15 January 1936), was a British Conservative Party politician who became the seventh Governor-General of Australia
12/12/1929 - 04/27/2006
Alexander Buel Trowbridge III (December 12, 1929 – April 27, 2006) was the United States Secretary of Commerce from June 14, 1967 to March 1, 1968 in the administration of Lyndon Johnson.
07/09/1533 - 24/03/1603
Elizabeth I was Queen regnant of England and Queen regnant of Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty. The daught...
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04/22/1854 - 05/14/1943
Henri La Fontaine (22 April 1854 – 14 May 1943), was a Belgian international lawyer and president of the International Peace Bureau from 1907 to 1943 who received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1913...
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11/14/1889 - 05/27/1964
Jawaharlal Nehru (14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was an Indian statesman who was the first and longest-serving Prime Minister of India (1947–1964). One of the leading figures in the Indian...
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04/28/1758 - 07/04/1831
James Monroe (April 28, 1758 – July 4, 1831) was the fifth President of the United States (1817–1825). Monroe was the last president who was a Founding Father of the United States. Monroe is most noted for his proclamation of the...
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07/04/1872 - 01/05/1933
John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. was the 30th President of the United States. A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics. Soon after, he was elected as the 29th Vice President in 1920 and succe...
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08/10/1893 - 02/03/1961
William Shepherd Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil, GCMG, MC, KStJ, PC, QC (10 August 1893 – 3 February 1961), the 14th Governor-General of Australia, was born in Scotland and educated at George Watson's College and the University of Edin...
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12/21/1918 - 06/14/2007
Kurt Josef Waldheim (21 December 1918 – 14 June 2007) was an Austrian diplomat and politician.