Pierre Mendès France
French politician born in 1907. President of the Council of Ministers representing the Radical Party.
Nostradamus
French astrologer & physician, born in 1503, & known for his predictions about the future of the world.
Lucretia Mott
U.S. Quaker, abolitionist, women’s rights activist, & social reformer born in 1793.
Maxime Jacob
Italian former racing cyclist , world champion, & Olympic silver medalist (1992).
Edouard Dhorme
French Assyriologist, Semitologist, and translator of the Bible born in 1881.
Charles Goodyear
American self-taught chemist & manufacturing engineer born in 1800. Developed vulcanized rubber.
Dian Fossey
American primatologist known for extensive study of mountain gorillas from 1966 until her 1985 murder.
Evangeline Booth
English evangelist, author, & first woman General of The Salvation Army born in 1865.
Pierre-Ossian Bonnet
French mathematician born in 1819. Known for advancing the Guass-Bonnet theorem in geometry.
Wilhelm Carl Keppler
German businessman born in 1882. One of Hitler’s early financial backers & later economic advisor.