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- Mahatma GandhiMohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on the 2nd of October 1869 in Porbandar, a coastal town on the Kathiawar Peninsula. His father Karamchand Uttamchand…
- John F. KennedyJohn Fitzgerald Kennedy entered the world on the 29th of May 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts. His father Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.
- Donald TrumpDonald John Trump was born on the 14th of June 1946 at Jamaica Hospital in Queens. He grew up in a twenty-three room mansion in the Jamaica Estates…
- Taylor SwiftTaylor Alison Swift was born on the 13th of December 1989, in West Reading, Pennsylvania. Her parents chose a unisex name hoping it would help her succeed in…
- Ronald ReaganRonald Wilson Reagan was born on the 6th of February 1911, in an apartment located in Tampico, Illinois. His mother Nelle Clyde Wilson led prayer meetings at…
- 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.
- George H. W. BushOn the 9th of June 1943, George Herbert Walker Bush became one of the youngest pilots ever commissioned in the United States Navy, a distinction that would…
- Barack ObamaBarack Obama was born on the 4th of August 1961, at Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu, Hawaii.
- Nikita KhrushchevNikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was born on the 15th of April 1894 in Kalinovka, a small village in western Russia. His parents were poor peasants who…
- Elon MuskElon Reeve Musk was born on the 28th of June 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa. His mother Maye was a model and dietitian born in Saskatchewan, Canada.
- Winston ChurchillOn the 30th of November 1874, Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born at his family's ancestral home, Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire.
- Joseph StalinJoseph Stalin was born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili on the 5th of March 1878 in Gori, Georgia. His father Besarion worked as a shoemaker until his…
- Jimmy CarterJames Earl Carter Jr. was born on the 1st of October 1924, in the small town of Plains, Georgia. He entered the world at the Wise Sanitarium where his mother…
- Elizabeth IIAt 2:40 am on the 21st of April 1926, a baby girl named Elizabeth Alexandra Mary was born at 17 Bruton Street in Mayfair.
- Adolf HitlerAdolf Hitler was born on the 20th of April 1889 in Braunau am Inn, a town in Austria-Hungary. He lived with his father Alois and mother Klara Pölzl.
- Dwight D. EisenhowerDwight David Eisenhower was born in Denison, Texas, on the 14th of October 1890. His family moved to Abilene, Kansas, the following year and lived there for…
- Ruhollah KhomeiniRuhollah Musavi Khomeini was born on the 17th of May 1900 in the small town of Khomeyn. His father Mustafa Musawi died when Ruhollah was only two years old.
- Anwar SadatAnwar Sadat was born on the 25th of December 1918 in Mit Abu El Kom, a small town within the Monufia Governorate. He grew up in a poor family with fourteen…
- Mikhail GorbachevMikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was born on the 2nd of March 1931 in Privolnoye, a small village in the North Caucasus region of what is now Russia.
- Mark ZuckerbergMark Elliot Zuckerberg was born on the 14th of May 1984, in White Plains, New York. He grew up in a Reform Jewish household with three sisters named Arielle…
- Chiang Kai-shekOn the 31st of October 1887, a boy named Chiang Jui-yüan was born in the small town of Xikou. This place sat at the foot of the Wuling Mountains in Fenghua…
- Harry S. TrumanHarry S. Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri, on the 8th of May 1884. He grew up as the oldest child of John Anderson Truman and Martha Ellen Young Truman.
- Henry KissingerHeinz Alfred Kissinger was born on the 27th of May 1923 in Fürth, Bavaria. His family lived under Nazi rule when he was nine years old and Adolf Hitler…
- John Foster DullesJohn Foster Dulles entered the world on the 25th of February 1888 in Washington D.C. He was born into a family that dominated American foreign policy for…
- Charles de GaulleCharles de Gaulle was born on the 22nd of November 1890 in the northern French city of Lille. He entered the military academy at Saint-Cyr in October 1910…
- Yuri AndropovYuri Vladimirovich Andropov was born on the 15th of June 1914 in Stanitsa Nagutskaya, a town that now belongs to Stavropol Krai.
- 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…
- Vladimir PutinVladimir Vladimirovich Putin was born on the 7th of October 1952 in Leningrad. He grew up as the youngest of three children during a time when his family…
- Greta ThunbergGreta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg was born on the 3rd of January 2003 in Stockholm, Sweden. Her father is actor Svante Thunberg and her mother is opera…
- Willy BrandtHerbert Ernst Karl Frahm was born on the 18th of December 1913 in the Free City of Lübeck. His mother Martha Luise Wilhelmine Frahm worked as a cashier for a…
- Edward TellerEde Teller was born on the 15th of January 1908, in Budapest, then part of Austria-Hungary. He grew up in a Jewish family where his father Miksa worked as an…
- Personal computerIn 1946, the ENIAC machine became operational and could be run by a single person. This mode of operation predated batch programming or time-sharing systems…
- Mohammad MosaddeghDr. Mohammad Mosaddegh entered the world on the 19th of May 1882, in Ahmedabad near Tehran. His father served as finance minister under the Qajar dynasty…
- George H. W. BushOn the 12th of June 1943, a young man named George Herbert Walker Bush stood on the deck of the USS San Jacinto. He was only nineteen years old and had just…
- James F. ByrnesJames Francis Byrnes was born at 538 King Street in Charleston, South Carolina, on the 2nd of May 1882. His father died shortly after his birth, leaving a…
- Linus PaulingLinus Carl Pauling was born on the 28th of February 1901, in Portland, Oregon. His father Herman Henry William Pauling worked as a traveling salesman for the…