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20th-century English businesspeople

  • Charlie ChaplinLondon, 1897. A seven-year-old boy named Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr. sat at the Central London District School for paupers, his head cocked slightly to one…
  • Allan WilliamsAllan Richard Williams entered the world on the 21st of February 1930 in Bootle, England. His father worked as a local council building inspector and dance…
  • Allen LaneAllen Lane Williams entered the world on the 21st of September 1902 in Bristol. His parents were Camilla and Samuel Williams.
  • Lew GradeLev Isaakovich Winogradsky was born in Tokmak, a town within the Berdyansky Uyezd of the Russian Empire. His family fled pogroms in 1912 when he was five…
  • Alexander McQueenLee Alexander McQueen was born on the 17th of March 1969 at University Hospital Lewisham in Lewisham, London. He grew up as the youngest of six children to…
  • Frank CassFrank Cass arrived in London on the 11th of July 1930. His father worked as a cabinetmaker while his mother traced her lineage to Poland.
  • Brian EpsteinBrian Samuel Epstein entered the world on the 19th of September 1934 at 4 Rodney Street in Liverpool. His father Harry and mother Malka, known as Queenie by…
  • Dick JamesReginald Leon Isaac Vapnick entered the world on the 12th of December 1920 within the East End of London. His parents were Polish Jewish immigrants who ran a…
  • John Maynard KeynesJohn Maynard Keynes entered the world on the 5th of June 1883 in Cambridge, England. His father John Neville Keynes worked as an economist and lecturer at…