03/17/1961 - 03/06/2006
Dana Reeve (née Morosini) (March 17, 1961 – March 6, 2006) was an American actress, singer, and activist for disability causes.
06/25/1900 - 08/27/1979
Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979), was a British statesman and naval officer, and an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh...
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10/05/1936 - 12/18/2011
Vaclav Havel (5 October 1936 – 18 December 2011) was a Czech playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and politician. He was the tenth and last president of Czechoslovakia (1989–92) and the first President of the Czech Republic (1993...
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05/25/1867 - 06/29/1932
William Humble Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley (25 May 1867 – 29 June 1932), styled Viscount Ednam before 1885, was a British Conservative politician. He was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland between 1902 and 1905 and the fourth Governor-General of Austra...
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04/26/1922 - 01/26/1993
Jeanne Mathilde Sauve PC CC CMM CD (nee Benoit, April 26, 1922 – January 26, 1993) was a Canadian journalist, politician, and stateswoman who served as Governor General of Canada, the 23rd since Canadian Confederation.
12/12/1929 - 04/27/2006
Alexander Buel Trowbridge III (December 12, 1929 – April 27, 2006) was the United States Secretary of Commerce from June 14, 1967 to March 1, 1968 in the administration of Lyndon Johnson.
03/29/1790 - 01/18/1862
John Tyler, Jr. (March 29, 1790 – January 18, 1862) was the tenth President of the United States (1841–1845) and the first to succeed to the office following the death of a predecessor.
10/04/1822 - 01/17/1893
Rutherford Birchard Hayes (October 4, 1822 – January 17, 1893) was the 19th President of the United States (1877-1881). As president, he oversaw the end of Reconstruction and the United States' entry into the Second Industrial Revolution...
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10/02/1869 - 01/30/1948
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi as the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement. He pioneered satyagraha. This is defined as resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, a philosophy firmly...
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03/27/1912 - 03/26/2005
Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, KG, PC (27 March 1912 – 26 March 2005), was a British Labour politician, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1976 to 1980....
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08/11/1852 - 12/02/1928
Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, (11 August 1852 - 2 December 1928), the second Governor-General of Australia.
06/02/1923 - 07/01/2011
Jane Elaine Baker (June 2, 1923 - July 1, 2011) was an American politician, community organizer and former cooking show host. Baker on the city council of San Mateo, California, for twenty years. She was appointed the Mayor of San Mateo on six occ...
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09/16/1858 - 10/30/1923
Andrew Bonar Law (16 September 1858 – 30 October 1923) was a British Conservative Party statesman and Prime Minister. Born in the colony of New Brunswick, he is the only British Prime Minister to have been born outside the British Isles....
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Jackie Kennedy (Jacqueline Lee Onassis)
07/28/1929 - 05/19/1994
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier "Jackie" Kennedy Onassis (July 28, 1929 – May 19, 1994) was the wife of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, and served as First Lady of the United...
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10/20/1784 - 10/18/1865
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, (20 October 1784 – 18 October 1865), more popularly known simply as Lord Palmerston, was a British statesman who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century.