John E. "Jack" Potter (born 1956) is the current President and CEO of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority since July 18, 2011. He is the former United States Postmaster General...
Increase Sumner (November 27, 1746– June 7, 1799) was an American politician from Massachusetts. He served as the fifth governor of Massachusetts from 1797 to 1799. Trained as a lawyer, he...
Andrew William Mellon (March 24, 1855 – August 26, 1937) was an American banker, industrialist, philanthropist, art collector and Secretary of the Treasury from March 4, 1921 until February...
Sir John David Rees, 1st Baronet, KCIE, CVO, MP (16 December 1854 – 2 June 1922) was a colonial administrator in British India and subsequently a Member of Parliament at Westminster. He was...
Jacques Lucien Jean Delors (born 20 July 1925 in Paris) is a French economist and politician, the eighth President of the European Commission and the first person to serve three terms in...
Andrew Duff OBE (born December 25, 1950 in Birkenhead, Cheshire) is a Liberal Democrat politician and a Member of the European Parliament for the East of England region of the UK. He...
Sir Clement Raphael Freud (24 April 1924 – 15 April 2009) was an English broadcaster, writer, politician and chef. Freud was born in Berlin, the son of Jewish parents Ernst Ludwig Freud (an...
Michael Maurice Cashman (born 17 December 1950, London) is a British former actor, now a Labour politician. He has been a Member of the European Parliament for the West Midlands constituency...
Alessandra Mussolini (born 30 December 1962) is an Italian politician, the granddaughter of Benito Mussolini, and previously an actress and model. She is the founder and former leader of the...
Darrell Edmund Figgis (Irish: Darghal Figes; 17 September 1882 – 27 October 1925) was an Irish writer, Sinn Féin activist and independent parliamentarian in the Irish Free State. The little...
Sir Halford John Mackinder PC (15 February 1861 – 6 March 1947) was an English geographer and is considered one of the founding fathers of both geopolitics and geostrategy. He was born in...
Sir Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie (pronounced /ˈkʌmptən məˈkɛnzɪ/; 17 January 1883, West Hartlepool, England – 30 November 1972, Edinburgh, Scotland) was an English-born Scottish...
Hema Malini (Hindi: हेमा मालिनी Tamil: ஹேமமாலினி) (born October 16, 1948) is an Indian actress, director and producer, as well as a Bharatanatyam dancer-choreographer. Making her acting...
Dharamendra Singh Deol (Punjabi: ਧਰਮਿੰਦਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਦਿਉਲ), born 8 December 1935 in Punjab, better known as Dharmendra, is an award-winning Bollywood film star who has appeared in more than 200...
Deng Xiaoping listen (help·info) (simplified Chinese: 邓小平; traditional Chinese: 鄧小平; pinyin: Dèng Xiǎopíng; Wade-Giles: Teng Hsiao-p'ing; 22 August 1904 – 19 February 1997) was a Chinese...
William J. Gaston (September 19, 1778 – January 23, 1844) was a jurist and United States Representative from North Carolina. Gaston was born in New Bern, North Carolina. He entered...
Sir Josiah Child, 1st Baronet (1630 – June 22, 1699), English merchant, economist and governor of the East India Company, was born in London, the second son of Richard Child, a London...
Pope Benedict XVI (Latin: Benedictus PP. XVI; Italian: Benedetto XVI; German: Benedikt XVI.; born Joseph Alois Ratzinger on 16 April 1927) is the 265th and current Pope, by virtue of his...
Arturo Toscanini (Italian pronunciation: [arˈtuːro toskaˈniːni]; March 25, 1867 – January 16, 1957) was an Italian conductor. He was one of the most acclaimed musicians of the late 19th and...
Ernesto "Che" Guevara (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈtʃe geˈβaɾa]; June 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967), commonly known as El Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician...
Wilfred Fienburgh MBE (4 November 1919 – 3 February 1958) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. Fienburgh was born in Ilford, Essex. According to his obituary in The Times of...
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus (26 April 121 – 17 March 180) was Roman emperor from 161 to his death in 180. He ruled with Lucius Verus as co-emperor from 161 until Lucius' death in 169...
Sir Thomas More (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), also known as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, scholar, author, and statesman. During his life he gained a reputation as a leading...
Jared Bernstein leaves the Economic Policy Institute to become Chief Economist for Vice President-elect Joe Biden.
George John Mitchell, Jr., (born August 20, 1933) is the American special envoy to the Middle East for the Obama administration. A Democrat, Mitchell was a United States Senator who served...