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American people of Dutch descent
- Humphrey BogartHumphrey DeForest Bogart was born on Christmas Day 1899 in New York City. His father Belmont worked as a cardiopulmonary surgeon while his mother Maud earned…
- Herman MelvilleHerman Melville was born on the 1st of August 1819, in New York City. He entered the world as the third child of Allan Melvill and Maria Gansevoort.
- Franklin D. RooseveltFranklin Delano Roosevelt entered the world on the 30th of January 1882, inside Springwood, a sprawling estate located south of Hyde Park in New York.
- Theodore RooseveltTheodore Roosevelt Jr. was born on the 27th of October 1858, at 28 East 20th Street in Manhattan. His youth was defined by debilitating asthma attacks that…
- George LucasGeorge Walton Lucas Jr. was born on the 14th of May 1944 in Modesto, California. He grew up as the son of Dorothy Ellinore Lucas and George Walton Lucas Sr.
- Marlon BrandoMarlon Brando Jr. entered the world on the 3rd of April 1924 in Omaha Nebraska as the only son of Marlon Brando Sr and Dorothy Pennebaker.
- Roger EbertRoger Joseph Ebert was born on the 18th of June 1942 in Urbana, Illinois. He grew up as the only child of Annabel and Walter Harry Ebert.
- Clint EastwoodClinton Eastwood Jr. arrived at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco on the 31st of May 1930. Nurses nicknamed him Samson because he weighed more…
- Michael DouglasMichael Kirk Douglas entered the world on the 25th of September 1944 in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He was the first child of actors Kirk Douglas and Diana…
- Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady was born on the 12th of November 1815 into a prominent family in Johnstown, New York. Her father Daniel Cady stood as one of the richest…
- Thomas EdisonIn 1862, a fifteen-year-old Thomas Edison stood on the tracks near Port Huron, Michigan. He watched a runaway train approach three children who could not…
- Brian WilsonBrian Douglas Wilson was born on the 20th of June 1942, at Centinela Hospital Medical Center in Inglewood, California. His father Murry Wilson worked as a…
- Ron HowardRonald William Howard entered the world on the 1st of March 1954, in Duncan, Oklahoma. His father Rance Howard served three years in the United States Air…
- Walter CronkiteWalter Leland Cronkite Jr. entered the world on the 4th of November 1916, in Saint Joseph, Missouri. His father was a dentist named Walter Leland Cronkite…
- John Bell HoodJohn Bell Hood graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1853, ranking 44th out of a class that originally numbered 96 students.
- W. E. B. Du BoisWilliam Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born on the 23rd of February 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. His mother Mary Silvina Burghardt came from a…
- James LongstreetJames Longstreet was born on the 8th of January 1821 in Edgefield District, South Carolina. His father James owned a cotton plantation near where Gainesville…
- Earl Van DornEarl Van Dorn entered the United States Military Academy in 1838. He graduated in 1842 with a low rank of 52nd out of 68 cadets.
- Rasmus B. AndersonRasmus Bjørn Anderson arrived in the world on the 12th of January 1846. He grew up in Koshkoning within Dane County, Wisconsin.
- John HouboltJohn Cornelius Houbolt was born in Altoona, Iowa on the 10th of April 1919. His parents were first-generation Dutch immigrants who raised him during a time…
- William RosecransWilliam Starke Rosecrans was born on a farm near Little Taylor Run in Kingston Township, Delaware County, Ohio. He grew up as the second of five sons to…