Politicians
by donnysimon | created - 02 Aug 2019 | updated - 6 months ago | Public101. Pope Pius XII
Actor | Der veruntreute Himmel
Pope Pius XII was born on March 2, 1876 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor, known for Embezzled Heaven (1958), Tu es Pierre (1959) and The Story of the Pope (1942). He died on October 9, 1958 in Castel Gandolfo, Lazio, Italy.
102. Pope Pius X
Self | Sua Santità Pio X e le grandi feste cattoliche a Roma
Pope Pius X was born on June 2, 1835 in Riese, Treviso, Lombardy-Venetia, Austrian Empire [now Riese Pio X, Veneto, Italy]. He died on August 20, 1914 in Vatican City.
103. Dilma Rousseff
Self | Torre das Donzelas
Dilma Rousseff is the 36th President of Brazil, and the first woman to hold the office. Daughter of a Bulgarian immigrant father and a brazilian schoolteacher mother, Rousseff was raised in an upper middle class household in Belo Horizonte. She became a socialist during her youth, and following the...
104. Mohandas K. Gandhi
Music_department | Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) was born on October 2, 1869, into a Hindu Modh family in Porbanadar, Gujarat, India. His father, named Karamchand Gandhi, was the Chief Minister (diwan) of the city of Porbanadar. His mother, named Putlibai, was the fourth wife; the previous three wives ...
105. Prince Philip
Prince Phillip was born on 10 June 1921 as a Prince of Greece and Denmark. His family was deposed and he lived in France and finally went to boarding school in Gordonstoun in Scotland. Eventually he sent his boys there. When he was 18 he met 13 year old Princess (later Queen) Elizabeth, his third ...
106. Chris Dodd
Actor | Dave
Christopher John Dodd was a five-term U.S. Senator from the state of Connecticut (who also served six years in the House of Representatives). After his 36-year-career in Washington ended, Dodd was signed on to be the CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America in March 2011 at a seven figure ...
107. Joe Kennedy III
Self | Weekend Recharge
Joe Kennedy III was born on October 4, 1980 in Brighton, Massachusetts, USA. He has been married to Lauren Birchfield since December 1, 2012. They have two children.
108. Bill Moyers
Writer | Bill Moyers' Journal
Bill Moyers was born on June 5, 1934 in Hugo, Oklahoma, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Bill Moyers' Journal (1972), Creativity with Bill Moyers (1982) and Trade Secrets: A Moyers Report (2001). He has been married to Judith Davidson Moyers since December 18, 1954. They have three ...
109. John Ashcroft
Soundtrack | Don't Look Up
John Ashcroft was born on May 9, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He has been married to Janet Elise Roede since December 23, 1967. They have three children.
110. Haile Selassie
Self | Bob Marley: The Making of a Legend
Haile Selassie I (23 July 1892 - 27 August 1975) was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. He rose to power as Regent Plenipotentiary of Ethiopia (Enderase) for Empress Zewditu from 1916. Haile Selassie is widely considered a defining figure in modern Ethiopian history, and the key figure of ...
111. Winston Churchill
Writer | Matinee Theater
Born in Blenheim Palace, the residence of his grandfather, the 7th Duke of Marlborough. His father was the Duke's third son, Lord Randolph Churchill. His mother, Jennie Jerome, was the daughter of an American financier.
After passing through famous English public schools such as Harrow, he went on ...
112. Yat-sen Sun
Self | Pathé's Weekly, No. 23
Yat-sen Sun was born on November 12, 1866 in Hsiang-shan, Kwangtung Province, China. He was married to Ching-Ling Soong and Lu Mu-chen. He died on March 12, 1925 in Peking, China.
Sun was survived by his first and second wives, a daughter, and a son, Sun Fo. His first marriage, at the age of 18, to ...
113. Jawaharlal Nehru
Writer | Bharat Ek Khoj
Jawaharlal Nehru was born on November 14, 1889, in Allahabad, India. He was the son of Swaroop Rani and Motilal Nehru, a wealthy lawyer and a prominent leader of the Indian independence movement. The Nehru family belonged to the saraswat Brahmin caste. Nehru graduated from Trinity College, ...
114. Nikita Khrushchev
Self | This Hour Has Seven Days
Nikita Khruschev was born on April 17, 1894, into a family of peasants in the village of Kalinovka, Kursk region, Russian Empire. He was raised among agricultural and mining workers. He studied for only two years at grammar school as a child. After the Russian Revolution he joined the Red Army, ...
115. Vladimir Lenin
Writer | Un'alba
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April 1870 - 21 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his ...
116. The Dalai Lama
His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama (born Lhamo Döndrub, also known by his religious name, Tenzin Gyatso, shortened from Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso), is Tibet's head of state as well as the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people. He was recognized at age 2 as the reincarnation...
117. Saddam Hussein
Writer | Al-ayyam al-tawila
Saddam Hussein was a bloody and brutal dictator who kept his country of Iraq at war almost constantly after assuming power in 1979. At least one million people died due to the machinations of Saddam. After his regime was toppled by the U.S. invasion of 2003, he wound up on a gallows, his life ...
118. Joseph Stalin
Self | One Inch from Victory
Joseph Stalin (a code name meaning "Man of Steel") was born Iosif (Joseph) Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in 1878 in Gori, Georgia, the Transcaucasian part of the Russian Empire. His father was a cobbler named Vissarion Dzhugashvili, a drunkard who beat him badly and frequently and left the family ...
119. Adolf Hitler
Self | Triumph des Willens
Born the fourth of six children to Austrian customs officer Alois Hitler--who had been married twice before--and the former Klara Polzl, Adolf Hitler grew up in a small Austrian town in the late 19th century. He was a slow learner and did poorly in school. He was frequently beaten by his ...
120. Eva Braun
Cinematographer | Eva Braun: Hitler's Mistress
Eva Braun was the longtime companion of Adolf Hitler and, for less than 40 hours, his wife. Braun met Hitler in Munich when she was a 17-year-old assistant and model for his personal photographer Heinrich Hoffmann. She began seeing Hitler often about two years later. She attempted suicide twice ...
121. John V. Tunney
Actor | The Candidate
John V. Tunney was born on June 26, 1934 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Candidate (1972) and The Merv Griffin Show (1962). He was married to Kathinka Osborne and Mieke Sprengers. He died on January 12, 2018 in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
122. Leonid Brezhnev
Self | Gost' s ostrova svobody
Leonid Brezhnev was a communist leader of the Soviet Union who restored a conservative, centralized state, initially raising living standards and bringing the country to its height but ultimately causing economic stagnation and disproportionate military growth. This process exhausted the Soviet ...
123. Earle Cabell
Self | World in Action
Earle Cabell was born on October 27, 1906 in Dallas, Texas, USA. He died on September 24, 1975 in Dallas, Texas, USA.
124. John Connally
Self | The American Sportsman
John Connally was born on February 27, 1917 in Floresville, Texas, USA. He was married to Nellie Connally. He died on June 15, 1993 in Houston, Texas, USA.
125. Everett Dirksen
Actor | The Monitors
Everett Dirksen was born on January 4, 1896 in Pekin, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for The Monitors (1969), The Jack Paar Program (1962) and What's My Line? (1950). He died on September 7, 1969 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
126. Andrei Gromyko
Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko (8 July 1909 - 2 July 1989) was a Soviet Belarusian communist politician and diplomat during the Cold War. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs (1957-1985) and as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1985-1988). Gromyko was responsible for many top ...
127. Lady Bird Johnson
Self | Disneyland
Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson, the wife of Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th President of the U.S., was one of the most prominent First Ladies in American history. Though Eleanor Roosevelt, Nancy Reagan and Hillary Clinton exercised more power, and Jacqueline Kennedy and Dolly Madison were more glamorous, ...
128. John Kennedy Jr.
Actor | A Matter of Degrees
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on November 25, 1960, in Washington, DC, to John Fitzgerald Kennedy (President-to-be John F. Kennedy) and Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy (Jacqueline Kennedy). Three weeks before his birth, his father was elected President of the United States, and the nation ...
129. Caroline Kennedy
Actress | Poetry in America with Elisa New
Caroline Bouvier Kennedy was born on November 27, 1957 in New York. Her parents were John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy. In 1960, John "Jack" Kennedy won the Presidential Election. So on February 4, 1961 three year old Caroline moved into the White House. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr. ...
130. Jacqueline Kennedy
Self | A Tour of the White House
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier was born on July 28, 1929 in Southampton, New York, to Janet Norton (Lee) and John Vernou "Blackjack" Bouvier III, a stockbroker. Her sister Caroline Lee (aka Lee Radziwill) was born four years after her. Her mother was of Irish descent and her father had French, English, ...
131. Martin Luther King
Soundtrack | Freedom Writers
Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. He was the son of Alberta Christine (Williams), a schoolteacher, and Martin Luther King Sr. a pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. For Martin the civil rights movement began one summer in 1935 when he was six ...
132. Robert McNamara
Self | The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
Robert S. McNamara was born in San Francisco, California on June 9, 1916. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1937 with a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Philosophy. He went on to earn a Masters degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in ...
133. Dean Rusk
Self | Santo Domingo: War Among Friends
Dean Rusk was born on February 9, 1909 in Lickskillet, Georgia, USA. He was married to Virginia Foisie. He died on December 20, 1994 in Athens, Georgia, USA.
134. Cyrus Vance
Self | Cartes sur table
Cyrus Vance was born on March 27, 1917 in Clarksburg, West Virginia, USA. He was married to Grace Elsie Sloane. He died on January 12, 2002 in New York City, New York, USA.
135. Roy Wilkins
Self | Black Journal
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Black Journal (1968), The March in Washington (1963) and Of Black America (1968). He was married to Aminda Ann Badeay. He died on September 8, 1981 in New York City, New York, USA.
136. Charles de Gaulle
Writer | Une mauvaise rencontre
Charles André Joseph Marie DE Gaulle (22 November 1890 - 9 November 1970) was a French army officer and statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 in order to restore democracy in France. In 1958...
137. Benjamin Netanyahu
Self | Sabena Hijacking: My Version
Benjamin Netanyahu was born on October 21, 1949 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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