Historic Bios
Isaac Newton was an English mathematician, physicist, and scientist who is widely considered to be one of the most influential scientists of all time. He was born on January 4, 1643, in the manor house of Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, England. His father, also named Isaac Newton, had died three months before Newton was born. His mother, […]
Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. His parents were Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks. Lincoln had one sister, Sarah, who was born in 1807. When Abraham was seven, the family moved to Indiana. His mother died in 1818, and his father remarried in 1819. Lincoln had two stepbrothers, John […]
Jackie Robinson was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when the Brooklyn Dodgers started him at first base on April 15, 1947. As the first black man to play in the major leagues […]
Nikola Tesla was born in 1856 in the Austrian Empire and was a Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. Tesla started working in the telephone industry before moving to the United States in 1884 […]
Ronald Reagan was born on February 6, 1911, in Tampico, Illinois, the second son of Jack and Nelle Reagan. Jack Reagan was a salesman and an alcoholic who left the family when Ronald was only eleven. His mother worked as a dressmaker to support the family. Ronald graduated from high school in 1928 and went […]
Muhammad Ali was born on January 17, 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky. His birth name was Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr. He began boxing when he was 12 years old and won six Kentucky Golden Gloves championships, two national Golden Gloves championships, an Amateur Athletic Union national title, and the Light Heavyweight gold medal in the 1960 […]
Thomas Edison, an American inventor and businessman, profoundly impacted the world with inventions like the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the long-lasting electric light bulb. His approach to mass production and large-scale teamwork in invention pioneered the concept of the first industrial research laboratory. Edison, born in 1847 in Milan, Ohio, grew up in Port […]
George Washington was born on February 22, 1732 in Westmoreland County, Virginia. He was the first child of Augustine Washington and his wife Mary Ball Washington. Washington grew up in a family of landed gentry. His father died when George was 11 years old, and his half-brother Lawrence became a surrogate father figure for him. Washington attended […]
George Herman “Babe” Ruth Jr. (February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948) was an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball (MLB) spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935. Nicknamed “The Bambino” and “The Sultan of Swat“, he began his MLB career as a stellar left-handed pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, […]
Theodore Roosevelt was born on October 27, 1858, in New York City. His father, Theodore Roosevelt Sr., was a successful businessman and philanthropist. His mother, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, was a Southern belle. Roosevelt had an older sister, Anna, and a younger brother, Elliott. As a child, Roosevelt was sickly and asthmatic. He was home-schooled by […]