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Margaret "Molly" Brown (1867 - 1932)

Margaret "Molly" Brown (née Tobin) (July 18, 1867 – October 26, 1932) was an American socialite, philanthropist, and activist who became famous due to her survival of the 1912 sinking of the RMS Titani...

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Phyllis Diller (1917 - 2012)

Phyllis Diller was an American actor and stand-up comedian, best known for her eccentric stage persona, her self-deprecating humor, her wild hair and clothes, and her exaggerated, cackling laugh. W...

Ginger Rogers (1911 - 1995)

American stage and film dancer and actress Ginger Rogers along with Fred Astaire was the most legendary dancing team in film history; she was also a successful dramatic actress, even winning a Best Act...

Rembrandt (1606 - 1669)

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (July 15, 1606 - October 4, 1669) was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the ...

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Woody Guthrie (1912 - 1967)

Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie (July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967) is best known as an American singer-songwriter and folk musician, whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional ...

John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States (1767 - 1848)

John Quincy Adams was the Sixth President 1825-1829 • Son of John Adams 2nd PresidentBorn: July 11, 1767 in Braintree, Massachusetts. Died: February 23, 1848, after collapsing on the floor of the Hou...

Nikola Tesla (1856 - 1943)

Links about Tesla * , * According to Tesla's own story, his family surname was previously Draganić. One theory is that Tesla's family got their surname after the Roman settlement Tesleum located close ...

Pvt. Elias Howe, Jr., USA (1819 - 1867)

Inventor of the sewing machineDescendant of John Howe, of Sudbury, who became a freeman of Massachusetts Bay Colony in May l640 and died at Marlboro in l680. Elias Howe went to school occasionally in t...

Kevin Bacon

New York, New York, United States

Kevin Bacon is an American actor and a subject of the the game / hypothesis of a theorem of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon . He is bigger in Hollywood than in Geni . After an electrifying performance in th...

Ringo Starr

Richard Starkey, better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, the English musician, singer-songwriter, and actor gained worldwide fame as the drummer for the English rock band The Beatles. When the band...

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