1546-1601
1839-1922
Hugh Capet was a 10th century monarch who started the Capetian Dynasty of France.
938-996
1897-1981
Raúl Juliá was a Puerto Rican actor best known for his work in film, including Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) and The Addams Family (1991).
1940-1994
Jeffrey Lundgren was an Ohio-based cult leader who murdered a family of five.
1950-2006
Bernardo O'Higgins is best known for being the leader of Chilean independence from Spain and its first leader.
1778-1842
British social anthropologist A.R. Radcliffe-Brown had a profound impact on British and American social anthropology through his version of Functionalism.
1881-1955
Jackie Robinson became the first African-American to play major league baseball, becoming Rookie of the Year in 1947, National League MVP in 1949 and a World Series champ in 1955.
1919-1972
American writer and producer Gene Rodenberry created the immensely influential Star Trek television series in the 1960s.
1921-1991
Civil rights activist Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger, spurring the Montgomery boycott and other efforts to end segregation.
1913-2005
1902-1935
Anne Boleyn's successor, Queen Consort Jane Seymour, was Henry VIII’s third wife. She bore his first male heir, King Edward VI, before dying of complications.
1509-1537
Daniel Webster was an American lawyer and Whig Part leader who served as a congressman and secretary of state.
1782-1852