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 [...]