Andropov was the son of railway official, Vladimir Konstantinovich Andropov, who was a member of a Don Cossacks noble family. Andropov was educated at the Rybinsk Water Transport Technical College. Both of parents died early, leaving Yuri an orphan at [...]

Winnie Madikizela–Mandela born Nomzamo Winfreda Zanyiwe Madikizela is a South African politician who has held several government positions and headed the African National Congress Women's League. She is currently a member of the ANC's National Executive Committee. Although still married [...]

Wei is a Chinese human rights activist known for his involvement in the Chinese democracy movement. The oldest of four children, brought up by Chinese Communist Party cadres. In 1966, Wei joined the Red Guards as a 16 year-old student [...]

Sonia Maria Sotomayor was born in the Bronx, a borough of New York City. Her father was Juan Sotomayor from the area of Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico, and her mother was Celina Báez an orphan from the neighborhood of [...]

An activist in the civil rights movement of Greenwood, Mississippi, Samuel Block was a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). A stubborn, yet levelheaded individual, Block was known for his calm in the face of brutal opposition. Born [...]

Bunche the Nobel Peace Prize winner U.N. diplomat was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1903 or 1904 and baptized at the city's Second Baptist Church. His father, Fred, was a barber, while his mother, Olive Agnes , was an amateur [...]

Paddy Devlin Co-founder of the Social Democrat and Labor party in Northern born in the Pound Loney in the Lower Falls in West Belfast on 8 March 1925 and lived in the city for almost all his life. His mother [...]

Khrushchev was born April 15, 1894, in Kalinovka, a village in what is now Russia's Kursk Oblast, near the present Ukrainian border. His parents, Sergei Khrushchev and Ksenia Khrushcheva, were poor peasants of Russian origin and had a daughter two [...]

Gorbachev was born on 2 March 1931 in Stavropol, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, into a mixed Russian-Ukrainian family of migrants from Voronezh and Chernigov Governorates. As a child, Gorbachev experienced the Soviet famine of 1932–1933. He recalled in a memoir [...]

Michael Dale "Mike" Huckabee born August 24, 1955 is an American politician who served as the 44th Governor of Arkansas 1996–2007. He was a candidate in the 2008 United States Republican presidential primaries, finishing second in delegate count and third [...]

Menachem Begin born on 16 August 1913 – 9 March 1992 was an Israeli politician, founder of Likud and the sixth Prime Minister of the State of Israel. Before independence, he was the leader of the Zionist militant group Irgun, [...]

Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr. served as Democratic mayor of Washington, D.C. from 1979 to 1991. He was forced to leave office during his third term as a result of his arrest and conviction on drug charges, but afterward he was [...]

Fahd Abdulaziz was born in 1921. He is the eighth son of Ibn Saud. His mother was Hassa Al Sudairi and he was the eldest member of the Sudairi Seven. Fahd's education took place at the Princes' School in Riyadh, [...]

Born in McDonald, Ohio. Kolter moved to Pennsylvania at a young age, attending New Brighton High School in New Brighton, Pa., and Geneva College in Beaver Halls, Pa. Spending the bulk of his youth in Pennsylvania, Kolter’s developed a fierce [...]

A steadfast politician with an accomplished career as a representative in Congress on behalf of the state of California, James Frederick Lloyd, was born in Helena, Montana in 1922. Despite his humble beginnings, he rose to become a beloved friend [...]

Born on 6 October 1930 – 10 June 2000) was a Syrian statesman, politician and general who served as President of Syria from 1971 to 2000, and Prime Minister from 1970 to 1971. He served as Secretary of the Syrian [...]

Despite being born in Bakos, Alexandria, Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein never truly had a home, moving all over Egypt from an early age. Nasser lived with his uncle, Khalil Hussein, in Cairo for a few years, until he moved [...]

Fiorello Henry LaGuardia was the mayor of New York from 1934 to 1945. He was popularly known as "the Little Flower," the translation of his Italian first name. According to modern historians, LaGuardia is considered one of New York City's [...]

Buddy Roemer was born in Shreveport, LA October 4, 1943. He attended the public schools in the area, graduating from Bossier High School in 1960. He went on to Harvard University where he received his B.S. in 1964 and then [...]