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Bette Davis biography
Actress. Born Ruth Elizabeth Davis, on April 5, 1908, in Lowell, Massachusetts, the elder of the two daughters of Harlow Morrell Davis, a pa…
Jackie Kennedy biography
First Lady, book editor. Born Jacqueline Lee Bouvier on July 28, 1929. Her mother was Janet Lee Bouvier, and her father, though named John V…
Alonso Chaney biography
Actor. Born Alonzo "Lon" Chaney, on April 1, 1883, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Nicknamed "The Man of a Thousand Faces," he appeared in 15…
Jesse Jackson biography
Civil rights leader. Born Jesse Louis Jackson on October 8, 1941, in Greenville, South Carolina, a city beset with the problems of racial se…
Bill Clinton biography
Forty-second president of the United States, born William Jefferson Blythe, on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas. His father, William Blyth…
John Wayne biography
Actor. Born Marion Michael Morrison, on May 26, 1907, in Winterset, Iowa. He received his nickname "Duke" while still a child, because of hi…
Carolyn Bessette biography
Wife of John F. Kennedy, Jr. Born in White Plains, New York, and voted "Ultimate Beautiful Person" of her high school class of 1983, Bessett…
Monica Lewinsky biography
Former White House intern. Born July 23, 1973 in San Francisco, California. Monica Lewinsky was at the heart of the White House sex scandal …
Kenneth Starr biography
Lawyer, judge, independent counsel invesigator. Born July 21, 1946, in Vernon, Texas, to W. D. and Vannie Maude (Trimble) Starr. His father …
Gary Grant biography
Actor. Born Archibald Alexander Leach on January 18, 1904, in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, to Elias J. Leach, a clothes presser, and E…
Ferdinand Porsche biography
Biography of Fredinand Porsche Ferdinand Porsche was born on September 30,1875 in Bohemia, which is now a part of the Czech Republic. He l…
Jimmy Carter biography
Thirty-ninth U.S. president, diplomatic envoy. Born October 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia. Carter grew up in a devout Baptist family, the son …
Ronald Reagan biography
Fortieth United States president, former movie actor. Born February 6, 1911, in Tampico, Illinois. A 1932 graduate of Eureka College (Illino…
Nancy Reagan biography
First Lady. Born July 6, 1923 (some sources say 1921) in New York City. Nancy Davis Reagan is a former film and stage actress who became Fir…
Grace Kelly biography
Actress, princess of Monaco. Born November 12, 1929, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A Philadelphia debutante, Grace Kelly was the daughter o…
Jimmy Stewart biography
Actor. Born James Maitland Stewart, on May 20, 1908 in Indiana, Pennsylvania, the first of three children to Elizabeth and Alexander Stewart…
Frank Sinatra biography
Singer, film actor. Born Francis Albert Sinatra, in Hoboken, New Jersey, on December 12, 1915, the only child of Dolly and Anthony Martin Si…
Joseph Stalin biography
Georgian Marxist revolutionary and later virtual dictator of the USSR (1928--53). Born in Gori, Georgia, the son of a cobbler and ex-serf. H…
Joey Bishop biography
Comedian, actor, born Joesph Abraham Gottlieb, on February 3, 1918, in the Bronx, New York. Bishop grew up in South Philadelphia. After high…
Adolf Hitler biography
Dictator and leader of the German Nazi movement. Born April 20, 1889 in the small Austrian town of Braunau on the Inn River along the Bavari…