Curated category
Knights of Malta
- Frank SinatraFrancis Albert Sinatra entered the world on the 12th of December 1915 inside a tenement building at 415 Monroe Street in Hoboken, New Jersey.
- Miles DavisMiles Dewey Davis III arrived in the world on the 26th of May 1926, born into an affluent African-American family in Alton, Illinois.
- Benito MussoliniBenito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was born on the 29th of July 1883 in Dovia di Predappio, a small town in the province of Forlì.
- François MitterrandFrançois Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand was born on the 26th of October 1916 in Jarnac, Charente. His family was devoutly Catholic and conservative.
- Maximilian I of MexicoOn the 6th of July 1832, Maximilian was born inside the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna. He entered a world of rigid hierarchy where his father, Archduke Franz…
- Konrad AdenauerKonrad Adenauer was born on the 5th of January 1876 in Cologne, Rhenish Prussia. He grew up as the third of five children to Johann Konrad Adenauer and…
- Paul I of RussiaIn 1762, eight-year-old Paul Petrovich lay unnoticed on the floor of his nursery after falling from a crib. Empress Elizabeth had taken him immediately after…
- CaravaggioMichelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio arrived in Milan on the 29th of September 1571. His father Fermo worked as a household administrator for the local marquess.
- Ferdinand von Hompesch zu BolheimFerdinand von Hompesch zu Bolheim entered the world on the 9th of November 1744 in the quiet village of Bolheim. This small settlement now belongs to the…
- Alexandre Colonna-WalewskiOn the 4th of May 1810, a boy named Alexandre Florian Joseph Colonna Walewski drew his first breath at Walewice near Warsaw.
- Vince LombardiVincent Thomas Lombardi entered the world on the 11th of June 1913, in the Sheepshead Bay neighborhood of Brooklyn. His parents Enrico and Matilda had both…