president's motherBorn: July 22, 1890Birthplace: Boston, Mass. Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy was the oldest of six children born to Josephine Hannon and John “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald, a colorful and…
SPEIER, Karen Lorraine Jacqueline (Jackie), a Representative from California; born in San Francisco, San Francisco County, Calif., May 14, 1950; graduated from Mercy High School, Burlingame,…
actorBorn: 2/18/1925Birthplace: New York City This character actor began his career on stage and radio as a child and became a familiar face to American audiences in television and film during the…
(Encyclopedia) Kennedy, Charles Rann, 1871–1950, Anglo-American dramatist, b. Derby, England. He became a U.S. citizen in 1917. His plays, concerned with moral problems, include The Servant in the…
actressBorn: 9/13/1944Birthplace: Weybridge, Surrey, England A former model, she is noted especially for her work in Francois Truffaut's Day for Night (1973), about an actress recovering from a…
(Encyclopedia) Shriver, Eunice Mary Kennedy, 1921–2009, American philanthropist and advocate for the intellectually disabled, b. Brookline, Mass., grad. Stanford (1943); she was a daughter of Joseph…
(Encyclopedia) Duncan, Robert Kennedy, 1868–1914, American industrial chemist and educator b. Brantford, Ont., grad. Univ. of Toronto (B.A., 1892). He was professor at the Univ. of Kansas (1906–10)…
philanthropist, mental health activistBorn: 1921Birthplace: Brookline, Mass. Shriver, the daughter of Joseph P. and Rose Kennedy and the sister of President John Kennedy, has long advocated for the…
fashion publicist, socialiteBorn: 1/7/1966Birthplace: White Plains, N.Y. press-shy fashion publicist who was thrown into the media spotlight when she married John F. Kennedy, Jr., in 1996. She…