Georgiy Timofeyevich Dobrovolsky (Russian: Гео́ргий Тимофе́евич Доброво́льский; June 1 1928 – June 30 1971) was a Soviet cosmonaut. He is one of the only three people in history to die […]
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Giuseppe Zangara
Giuseppe Zangara (September 7 1900 – March 20 1933) was the assassin of Chicago mayor Anton Cermak though United States President–elect Franklin D. Roosevelt may have been his intended target. […]
Ibn Khaldun
Ibn Khaldūn (full name Arabic: أبو زيد عبد الرحمن بن محمد بن خلدون الحضرمي Abū Zayd ‘Abdu r-Raḥmān bin Muḥammad bin Khaldūn Al-Ḥaḍrami; May 27 1332 AD/732 AH – March […]
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman GCB (7 September 1836 – 22 April 1908) was a British Liberal Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1905 to 1908 […]
Miguel Cotto
Miguel Ángel Cotto Vázquez (born October 29 1980) is a Puerto Rican professional boxer. As an amateur Cotto represented Puerto Rico in the lightweight and light welterweight divisions at various […]
Willibrord
Willibrord (c. 658 – 7 November 739) was a Northumbrian missionary saint known as the Apostle to the Frisians in the modern Netherlands. He became the first Bishop of Utrecht […]
Nikolay Rukavishnikov
Nikolay Nikolayevich Rukavishnikov (Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Рукави́шников; September 18 1932 – October 19 2002) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew three space missions of the Soyuz programme: Soyuz 10 Soyuz […]
Martina Navratilova
Martina Navratilova (Czech: Martina Navrátilová pronounced [ˈmartɪna ˈnavraːcɪlovaː]; born Martina Šubertová pronounced [ˈmartɪna ˈʃubɛrtovaː]; October 18 1956) is a retired Czech and American tennis player and coach. Billie Jean King […]
Vitaly Sevastyanov
Vitaly Ivanovich Sevastyanov (Russian: Вита́лий Ива́нович Севастья́нов; 8 July 1935 – 5 April 2010) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 9 and Soyuz 18 missions.He trained as […]
John Fortescue (judge)
Sir John Fortescue (c. 1394 – c. 1480) was the Chief Justice of the King’s Bench of England and the author of De Laudibus Legum Angliæ (Commendation of the Laws […]