Some love these politicians, some oppose them. Some changed things for the better. Other for the worse. Either way, these people have had a significant influence on our history. However, please keep in mind that nothing is black and white. The fact that you oppose someone does not make them evil (of course, there are certain exceptions).
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12th, 1809, on the Sinking Spring Farm, Kentucky. It was a log cabin a few miles south of Hodgenville. The family,...
Franklin Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) was born on January 30th, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York. As he was born into the famous Roosevelt family, expectations...
Franz Joseph I.
Franz Joseph I. of Austria of the Habsburg-Lorraine house was born on August 18th, 1830, in the imperial Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, in the Austrian ...
George Washington
George Washington was born on February 22nd, 1732, in Popes Creek, Virginia. Then, Virginia was one of the British thirteen colonies in North America....
Golda Meir
Golda Meir (birth name Mobavithc) was born on May 3rd, 1898, in Kyiv. Then, it was a part of the Russian Empire, but today it is the capital of Ukraine....
Jacques Chirac
Jacques René Chirac was born on November 29th, 1932, in Paris, France. His father was a bank clerk and later an executive in an aircraft company. ...
John Adams
John Adams was born on October 30th, 1735, in Braintree, Massachusetts Bay. Then it was one of the thirteen colonies of British America. He was a...
Josip Broz Tito
Josip Broz Tito was born on May 7th, 1892, in Kumrovec, then Austria-Hungary. Yet, his exact day of birth is inexact. He was the son of a Slovene...
Kemal Atatürk
Ali oğlu Mustafa (Mustafa, son of Ali) was born around 1881 in Salonica in the Ottoman Empire. Today, this region is in Greece. He gained the second ...
Konrad Adenauer
Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer was born on January 5th, 1876, in Cologne, the German Empire. He grew up in a Roman Catholic family. The family was...
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher, born Roberts, was born on October 13th, 1925, in Grantham, England. Her father, Alfred Roberts, was a local grocery shop owner....
Nelson Mandela
Rolihlahla (Nelson) Mandela was born on July 18th, 1918, in a small village called Mvevo, South Africa. On his first day of school, his teacher has...
Olof Palme
Sven Olof Joachim Palme was born on January 30th, 1927, in Stockholm, Sweden. He was the youngest child of a well-off family. However, his father...
Queen Victoria
Alexandrina Victoria (Queen Victoria) was born in Kensington Palace, London, on May 24th, 1819. Her father, Edward, Duke of Kent, son of George...
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was born on February 6th, 1911, in Tampico in Illinois. His father had problems with alcohol and maintaining a stable job. Hence,...
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13th, 1743, in Shadwell, Virginia. Then, Virginia was one of the British thirteen colonies in North America. He...
Winston Churchill
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born on November 30th, 1874, in Blenheim, the UK. The family was of wealthy aristocrats. His father, Lord Randolph,...
