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People with speech disorders

  • Winston ChurchillOn the 30th of November 1874, Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born at his family's ancestral home, Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire.
  • Samuel L. JacksonSamuel L. Jackson was born on the 21st of December 1948 in Washington, D.C., but his true origin story begins with a speech impediment that nearly silenced…
  • Lewis CarrollCharles Lutwidge Dodgson entered the world on the 27th of January 1832 at All Saints' Vicarage in Daresbury, Cheshire. He was the oldest boy and third of…
  • Charles I of EnglandCharles Stuart entered the world at Dunfermline Palace on the 19th of November 1600 as the second son of King James VI of Scotland.
  • Alan RickmanAlan Sidney Patrick Rickman was born on the 21st of February 1946 in Brentford, London. He grew up in Acton, a district to the west of Wormwood Scrubs Prison.
  • Mike TysonMichael Gerard Tyson was born on the 30th of June 1966 at Cumberland Hospital in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. He grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant before his family…
  • DemosthenesIn 384 BC, a child named Demosthenes was born in the deme of Paeania. His father, also named Demosthenes, was a wealthy sword-maker who provided well for his…