Nikola Tesla was born on 10 July 1856 in the village of Smiljan which is now part of Croatia but…
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Winston Churchill was born at Blenheim Palace, in Oxfordshire on 30 November 1874. He grew up as part of Great…
Read More »Katharine Houghton Hepburn was born on 12 May 1907 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Her father, Thomas was a urologist at…
Read More »Jacques-Yves Cousteau was born on 11 June 1910 in Saint-André-de-Cubzac, Gironde, which is not too far from Bordeaux in South-Western…
Read More »Spencer Bonaventure Tracy was born on April 5, 1900, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA to John Edward Tracy who was a…
Read More »Lyndon Baines Johnson, known to most as LBJ, was born on 27 August 1908 in Gillespie County, Texas, USA. He…
Read More »James Maitland Stewart was born on 20 May 1908 in Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA. His Presbyterian father, Alexander Maitland Stewart owned…
Read More »Kurt Donald Cobain was born on 20 February 1967 at Grays Harbor Hospital, in Aberdeen, Washington, USA. His younger sister,…
Read More »Eric Arthur Blair who would be later known as George Orwell was born on 15 June 1903 in Motihari which…
Read More »“I won’t be a rock star. I will be a legend.” – Freddie Mercury Farrokh Bulsara, known to everyone in…
Read More »“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison Thomas Alva Edison was born…
Read More »“Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.” – Ayrton Senna Ayrton Senna da Silva was…
Read More »“I’m gonna sing, and I’m going to make me a lot of money.” – Sam Cooke Samuel Cook was born…
Read More »“There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” –…
Read More »“Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is…
Read More »“Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.” – Mary Pickford The actress and…
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