Biography

Biographies of notable people — their path, achievements and key facts.

Dale Earnhardt Jr.

October 10, 1974 • Kannapolis, North Carolina Race-car driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. possesses one of the most familiar names—and faces—in the world of stock-car racing, b...

John F. Kennedy Jr.

Born: November 25, 1960 Washington, D.C. Died: July 16, 1999 Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts American magazine publisher and lawyer...

Cal Ripken Jr.

Born: August 24, 1960 Havre de Grace, Maryland American baseball player Cal Ripken Jr. holds many records in professional baseball, but it is his ...

Sammy Davis Jr.

Born: December 8, 1925 New York, New York Died: May 16, 1990 Los Angeles, California African American singer, dancer, and actor ...

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Dale Earnhardt Jr.

Professional race car driver Born Ralph Dale Earnhardt Jr., October 10, 1974, in Concord, NC; son of Dale, Sr. (a race car driver and team owner) and Brenda Earnhardt. ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Born: March 8, 1841 Boston, Massachusetts Died: March 6, 1935 Washington, D.C. American Supreme Court justice and legal writer ...

Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

Born: October 15, 1917 Columbus, Ohio American historian and politician Arthur Schlesinger Jr. is an outstanding historian of the United States a...

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Berry Gordy Jr.

Born: November 28, 1929 Detroit, Michigan African American businessman, songwriter, and entrepreneur Berry Gordy Jr. founded Motown Records in 1959. Th...

Martin Luther King Jr.

Born: January 15, 1929 Atlanta, Georgia Died: April 4, 1968 Memphis, Tennessee African American civil rights activist and minister ...

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Robert Downey Jr.

Actor Born Robert John Downey Jr., April 4, 1965, in New York, NY; son of Robert John (a filmmaker) and Elsie (an actress) Downey; married Deborah Falconer (a singer; divorc...

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Juanes

Singer Born Juan Esteban Aristizábal, August 9, 1972, in Medellín, Colombia; married Karen Martínez (a model and actress); children: Luna (daughter). Addresse...

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Heidi Julavits

Author Born in 1968, in Portland, ME; daughter of an attorney and a teacher; married Manny Howard (a food writer), 1997 (divorced, 1999); married Ben Marcus (a writer and ed...

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Juliana

Born Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina, April 30, 1909, in The Hague, Netherlands; died of pneumonia, March 20, 2004, in Baarn, Netherlands. Monarch. Princess Juliana of the Netherlands...

Carl Jung

Born: July 26, 1875 Kesswil, Switzerland Died: June 26, 1961 Küsnacht, Switzerland Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist ...

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Andrea Jung

Andrea Jung (born 1959) went from being a lackluster student to attending the Ivy League's Prince- ton University, and went on to become the CEO of Avon Products. ...

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Karen Jurgensen

Former editor of USA Today Born c. 1949, in NC; daughter of Kai (a drama teacher) and Peggy Jurgensen; married first husband (divorced); married Bill Leary ...

Benito JuÁrez

Born: March 21, 1806 San Pablo Guelatao, Oaxaca, Mexico Died: July 18, 1872 Mexico City, Mexico Mexican statesman and president ...

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Joseph Kabila

Joseph Kabila (born 1971) became the president of the Congo in 2001 when he was only 29 years old. He was put into the position after his father, Laurent Kabila, president at the t...

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Lech Kaczynski

President of Poland Born June 19, 1949, in Warsaw, Poland; son of Rajmund (an engineer) and Jadwiga (a professor of literature) Kaczynski; married Maria Mackiewicz (an econo...

Cynthia Kadohata

1956 • Chicago, Illinois Author Since publishing her first novel, The Floating World, in 1989, Cynthia Kadohata has been viewed as one of the mo...