Curated category
United States Army Air Forces personnel of World War II
- 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…
- Clark GableWilliam Clark Gable arrived in the world on the 1st of February 1901, inside a small house in Cadiz, Ohio. His father worked as an oil-well driller while his…
- James StewartJames Maitland Stewart was born on the 20th of May 1908, in Indiana, Pennsylvania. He grew up as the eldest child and only son of Elizabeth Ruth Jackson and…
- Dr. SeussTheodor Seuss Geisel arrived in Springfield, Massachusetts on the 2nd of March 1904. His father managed a family brewery that closed during Prohibition…
- Gus GrissomVirgil Ivan Grissom was born in the small town of Mitchell, Indiana, on the 3rd of April 1926. His father worked as a signalman for the Baltimore and Ohio…
- Jack L. WarnerJacob Warner was born in London, Ontario, Canada, on the 2nd of August 1892. His parents were Polish-Jewish immigrants who spoke mainly Yiddish at home.
- William WylerWilli Wyler was born on the 1st of July, 1902, in Mulhouse, Alsace-Lorraine. His father Leopold ran a thriving haberdashery business there.
- Joseph HellerJoseph Heller was born on the 1st of May 1923, in Coney Island. His parents were poor Jewish immigrants from Russia named Lena and Isaac Donald Heller.
- Al CerviAlfred Nicholas Cervi was born on the 12th of February 1917 in Buffalo, New York. He attended East High School where he captained both the baseball and…
- Timothy LearyTimothy Francis Leary was born on the 22nd of October 1920 in Springfield, Massachusetts. He grew up as an only child in a strict Irish Catholic household.
- Walter Kaufmann (philosopher)Walter Arnold Kaufmann was born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, on the 1st of July 1921. He grew up as a Lutheran child in a city that would soon become…
- Gail HalvorsenGail Seymour Halvorsen was born in Salt Lake City on the 10th of October 1920. He grew up on small farms first in Rigby, Idaho, and then in Garland, Utah.