09/05/1921 - 04/26/2007
Jack Joseph Valenti was a long-time president of the Motion Picture Association of America. During his 38-year tenure in the MPAA, he created the MPAA film rating system, and he was generally regarded as one of the most influential pro-copyr...
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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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07/06/1872 - 05/02/1955
Brigadier General Alexander Gore Arkwright Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie (6 July 1872 – 2 May 1955) was a British soldier and colonial governor and the tenth and longest serving Governor-General of Australia. Prior to his appointmen...
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03/29/1799 - 10/23/1869
Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, (29 March 1799 – 23 October 1869) was an English statesman, three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and to date the longest serving leader of the Conservative Party. He...
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1898 - 07/21/1967
Albert John Lutuli (c. 1898 – 21 July 1967), also known by his Zulu name Mvumbi, was a South African teacher and politician. Lutuli was elected president of the African National Congress...
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06/15/1880 - 03/21/1934
Fred Balzar (June 15, 1880 - March 21, 1934) was a governor of Nevada in 1927-34.
Tony Snow (Robert Anthony Snow )
06/01/1955 - 07/12/2008
Robert Anthony "Tony" Snow (June 1, 1955 – July 12, 2008) was an American journalist, political commentator, television news anchor, syndicated columnist, radio host, musician, and the third White House Press Secretary under Presid...
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12/17/1930 - 10/20/2010
Bob Guccione (December 17, 1930 – October 20, 2010) was the founder and publisher of the adult magazine Penthouse. He resigned from his publisher position in November 2003.
04/14/1874 - 01/16/1957
Major-General Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone KG PC GCB GCMG GCVO DSO ADC(P) FRS (born Prince Alexander of Teck; 14 April 1874 – 16 January 1957), was a close relative of the shared British a...
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Ike Eisenhower (Dwight David Eisenhower)
10/14/1890 - 03/28/1969
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was a five-star general in the United States Army and the 34th President of the United States, and the last to be born in the 19th century. During World War II, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied f...
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05/29/1917 - 11/22/1963
On November 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullets as his motorcade wound through Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was the youngest man elected President; he was t...
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12/10/1870 - 03/16/1949
Thomas Gore (December 10, 1870 – March 16, 1949) was a Democratic politician. He was blind and served as a United States Senator from Oklahoma from 1907 until 1921 and from 1931 until 1937. He was the maternal grandfather of author Gore Vida...
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01/11/1755 - 07/12/1804
Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755 or 1757 – July 12, 1804) was a Founding Father, soldier, economist, political philosopher, one of America's first constitutional lawyers and the first United S...
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04/23/1888 - 03/05/1967
Major-General Georges-Philéas Vanier PC DSO MC* CD (April 23, 1888 – March 5, 1967) was a Canadian soldier and diplomat who served as Governor General of Canada, the 19th since Canadian Confederation.
01/03/1883 - 10/08/1967
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS (3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967) was a British Labour politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and as the Leader of the Labour Party fr...
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