Princess Diana
Princess Diana was born (1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997) to an aristocratic family with links to the Royal…
Henry Ford
Henry Ford was born in 1863 on a farm in rural Michigan, near Detroit. From an early age, he expressed…
Alexander Fleming
Alexander Fleming was born (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) in East Ayrshire, Scotland in 1881. He was a…
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla was born 10 July 1856, of Serbian nationality in Smiljan, the Austrian Empire. Tesla was a bright student…
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison was born Feb 11, 1847in Milan, Ohio. He was the youngest of seven siblings. His parents were middle…
George Orwell
George Orwell was born Eric Blair on 25 June 1903, in Motihari, Bihar, in India. Shortly after his birth, he…
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday was born on 22 September 1791 in south London to relatively poor parents. At the age of 14,…
John M. Keynes
John M. Keynes was born (5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946) in Cambridge to an upper-middle-class family. His father…
Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan (name Temujin) was born (1164 – 1227). Temujin was son of a local tribal leader, Yesugei – sometime…
John Lennon
John Lennon was born, October 1940, during a German air raid in Oxford Street Maternity hospital, Liverpool. During his childhood,…
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway was born (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) in Oak Park, Illinois. After leaving school, he worked…
Bill Gates
Bill Gates (William Henry Gates) was born on 28 October 1955, in Seattle, Washington. His father William Gates Sr was…
Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa was born (1910–1997) in Skopje, the capital of the Republic of Macedonia. Little is known about her early…
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud was born 6 May 1856 in Freiberg in Moravia, Austrian Empire (now Příbor, Czech Republic) to Hasidic Jewish…
Johannes Gutenberg
Johannes Gutenberg was born (c. 1398 – February 3, 1468) in the German city of Mainz. He started his working…
Marie Curie
Marie Curie (Marya Sklodowska) was born on 7 November 1867 in Warsaw Poland. She was the youngest of five children…
Dalai Lama
The 14th Dalai Lama was born Lhamo Döndrub was born 6 Juli 1935, the 5th child of a large family…
Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee was born on 8th June 1955 in London, England. After doing his A Levels at Emanuel School, he…
William Tyndale
William Tyndale was born (1494 – 1536) in Gloucestershire, England. In 1506 he began studying at Magdalen Hall (later Hertford…