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Gregory Hines

dancer, actorBorn: 2/14/1946Birthplace: New York City Appearing first on tour with his older brother Maurice and later joined by their Dad, Gregory Hines has been dancing, joking, singing, and…

Kirsten Dunst

actressBorn: 4/30/1982Birthplace: Point Pleasant, N.J. Dunst has been in show business almost her entire life. She began modeling and appearing in commercials at age 3 and made her feature film…

John Trudell

musician, poet, activistBorn: Feb. 15, 1946Birthplace: Omaha, Neb. John Trudell, the son of a Santee Sioux father and a Mexican mother, grew up around the Santee reservation near Omaha. He joined…

Meyer Lansky

(Maier Suchowljansky)mobsterBorn: 7/4/1902Birthplace: Grodno, Russia Best known as Charles “Lucky” Luciano's right hand man and the financial mastermind behind the mob, Lansky was the most powerful…

Thomas Gayle MORRIS, Congress, NM (1919)

MORRIS, Thomas Gayle, a Representative from New Mexico; born in Eastland County, Tex., August 20, 1919; moved to New Mexico; served as an enlisted man in the United States Navy from November…

P.B.S. Pinchback

Pinckney Benton StewartAmerican Reconstruction-era politician Born: May 10, 1837Birthplace: Macon, Georgia Pinchback was born to a freed slave and her former master, who lived together as a couple…

Hiram Revels

Senator from Mississippi; first African American senatorBorn: September 27, 1827Birthplace: Fayetteville, N.C. Born a free Black man, Revels worked as a barber and as a minister in the African…

Sitting Bull Biography

Sioux chiefBorn: c.1831Birthplace: on Grand River, S.D. Sitting Bull was a Sioux warrior of the Hunkpapa Lakota tribe. He fought his first battle at age fourteen and quickly became known for his…

Ang Lee

director, writerBorn: 10/23/1954Birthplace: Pingtung, Taiwan Ang Lee first gained fame for his second feature film The Wedding Banquet (1993), which was described as “a cross-cultural, gay Green…

CLARK, Daniel, Congress, LA (1766-1813)

CLARK, Daniel, a Delegate from the Territory of Orleans; born in Sligo, Ireland, about 1766; educated at Eton and other colleges in England; immigrated to the United States in 1786 and settled…