Born Lille, France. Height 6 ft, 5 inches, nicknamed Le Grande Asperge. President of France 1958-69. Just like Queen Wilhelmina, while in London he used the BBC to send popular messages of resistan...
Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous, France
John (Jack) John Henry Stephen Dimmer was born at 37 Gloster Street, South Lambeth. Following action at Klein Zillebeke, Belgium, Dimmer learned of his VC reading a British newspaper whilst recover...
Born London, son of George, Duke of Kent and Marina, the Duchess. Since 1967 Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England.
Born in St Pancras as Reginald Yarnitz Freeson. Served in the army in WW2. Labour politician, MP 1964-87, for Willesden East and later Brent East, with 14 years on the front bench. Died Salisbury. ...
Pioneer of child psychoanalysis. Born Vienna, the sixth and last child of Sigmund. Was on holiday in England in 1914 when war was declared and she had to return home. After nursing her father i...
Raymond Gale Fusch was born as Raymond Gale Fuchs on 12 August 1916, in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, the son of Francis Xavier Fuchs (1890-1968) and Ermilie Fuchs née Pettingale (1891-1976). Accordin...
Secretary of State for the Colonies 1846-52.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has b...
Person, Nationalism, Seriously Famous, Argentina, Bolivia, Cuba, South America
Pianist and trombonist. Born Edward Thomas Harvey in Blackpool. At the age of 16 he joined George Webb's Dixielanders jazz band. Following WW2 he performed with a number of bands, including John Da...
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