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Mark TwainSamuel Langhorne Clemens was born on the 30th of November 1835, just two weeks after Halley's Comet made its closest approach to the sun, a celestial event…
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe was born on the 19th of January 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts, into a family of actors that seemed destined for tragedy before it had truly…
Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln was born into absolute poverty on the 12th of February 1809 in a one-room log cabin on Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky.
Theodore RooseveltTheodore Roosevelt Jr. was born on the 27th of October 1858, into a wealthy New York family, but his early life was defined not by privilege but by a…
Thomas EdisonThomas Alva Edison was born completely deaf in one ear and barely hearing in the other, a condition that would define his entire approach to invention and…