Curated category
20th-century Baptists
- Aretha FranklinAretha Louise Franklin was born on the 25th of March 1942, at her family's home located at 406 Lucy Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee.
- Bill ClintonWilliam Jefferson Clinton was born on the 19th of August 1946 at the Julia Chester Hospital in Hope, Arkansas. His father died three months before his birth…
- Jimmy CarterJames Earl Carter Jr. was born on the 1st of October 1924, in the small town of Plains, Georgia. He entered the world at the Wise Sanitarium where his mother…
- Al GoreOn the 31st of March 1948, Albert Arnold Gore Jr. was born in Washington, D.C., the second child of a U.S. Representative and his wife Pauline LaFon Gore.
- John GrishamJohn Ray Grisham Jr. was born on the 8th of February 1955 in Jonesboro, Arkansas. His family moved to Southaven, Mississippi when he was four years old.
- Muriel LesterMuriel Lester was born at Gainsborough Lodge in Leytonstone on the 9th of December 1883. Her father Henry Edward Lester served as president of the Essex…
- Wilt ChamberlainWilton Norman Chamberlain was born on the 21st of August 1936, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He grew up as the sixth of nine children to Olivia Ruth and…
- Diana RossDiana Ross was born on the 26th of March 1944, in Detroit, Michigan. Her family lived at 635 Belmont Street in the North End section of the city before…
- Cornel WestCornel Ronald West was born on the 2nd of June 1953, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He grew up in Sacramento, California, where his mother Irene Rayshell Bias worked as…