03/15/1767 - 06/08/1845
Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was the seventh President of the United States. Based in frontier Tennessee, Jackson was a politician and army general who defeated the British at the Battle of New Orleans and the Creek In...
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09/26/1891 - 01/11/1985
Sir William John McKell (26 September 1891 – 11 January 1985), Australian politician, was Premier of New South Wales from 1941 to 1947, and was the 12th Governor-General of Australia.
01/29/1843 - 09/14/1901
William McKinley, Jr. (January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901) was the 25th President of the United States (1897–1901), and the last veteran of the American Civil War to be elected to that office. He was the last President of the 19th c...
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07/09/1533 - 24/03/1603
Elizabeth I was Queen regnant of England and Queen regnant of Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty. The daught...
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Tim Russert (Timothy John Russert)
05/07/1950 - 06/13/2008
Timothy John "Tim" Russert (May 7, 1950 – June 13, 2008) was an American television journalist and lawyer who appeared for more than 16 years as the longest-serving moderator of NBC's Meet the Press.
01/03/1883 - 10/08/1967
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS (3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967) was a British Labour politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and as the Leader of the Labour Party fr...
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01/15/1918 - 09/28/1970
Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein (15 January 1918 – 28 September 1970) was the second President of Egypt from 1956 until his death.
04/23/1888 - 03/05/1967
Major-General Georges-Philéas Vanier PC DSO MC* CD (April 23, 1888 – March 5, 1967) was a Canadian soldier and diplomat who served as Governor General of Canada, the 19th since Canadian Confederation.
10/24/1784 - 07/09/1850
Zachary Taylor (November 24, 1784 – July 9, 1850) was the 12th President of the United States (1849-1850) and an American military leader. Initially uninterested in politics, Taylor nonetheless ran as a Whig in the 1848 presidential election...
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12/17/1929 - 09/27/2009
William Lewis Safire (December 17, 1929 – September 27, 2009) was an American author, columnist, journalist and presidential speechwriter.
08/26/1875 - 02/11/1940
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir PC GCMG GCVO CH (26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation.
10/15/1926 - 07/15/2010
James E. Akins, the State Department’s top energy expert and then ambassador to Saudi Arabia, who warned more than a year in advance of the 1973 Arab oil embargo that oil-exporting nations were poised to restrict shipments, died on July 15 i...
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10/12/1866 - 11/09/1937
James Ramsay MacDonald, PC, FRS (12 October 1866 – 9 November 1937) was a British Labour politician, who served two separate terms as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He rose from humble origins to become the first ever British Labour P...
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09/03/1910 - 04/17/2007
Kitty Carlisle (also billed as Kitty Carlisle Hart; September 3, 1910 – April 17, 2007) was an American singer, actress and spokeswoman for the arts.