• Basil Deacon Hobbs
  
  December 20, 1894 - 1963 Basil Deacon Hobbs DSO OBE DSC was the second most highly decorated pilot in Canada. Born in Arlington, Berks, England, he moved to Canada with his family as a young man. In 1915, he joined the Royal Naval Air Service as a ...
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• Benjamin Franklin
  
  Miniature by Thouron, 1782, Bridgeman Art Library, London January 6, 1706 O.S. - April 17, 1790 American printer — he published the first book in the colonies, Anderson's Constitutions of 1723 — author, postmaster, statesman, scientist ...
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• Booker T. Washington
  
  April 5, 1856 - November 14, 1915 Booker Taliaferro Washington, a distinguished American educator, was born a slave at Hale's Ford, Virginia. In 1881 he became the head of an institution at Tuskegee, Alabama, since incorporated as the Tuskeegee Norma ...
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• Burl Ives
  
  www.burlives.com June 14, 1909-April 14, 1995 World renowned performer on the concert and theater stage, in radio, film and television Burl Ives often performed for charities Famous for such folk songs as "Jimmy Crack Corn," "Big Rock Candy Mou ...
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• Cecil B. DeMille
  
  Sunset Boulevard (Paramount, 1950) August 12, 1881 - January 21, 1959 Director, producer, writer and actor, Cecil Blount DeMille formed an alliance with vaudeville musician, Jesse L. Lasky, and a glove salesman named Samuel Goldfish (later Goldwyn ...
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• Cecil John Rhodes
  
  July 5, 1853 - March 26, 1902 "I have no feelings as to where a man was born", "race feelings I cannot have in me." British administrator, financier and philanthropist. In his will he left £6,000,000 to public service and endowed 170 Oxford sch ...
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• Charles Mair
  
  Alberta Folklore and Local History Collection Accession No: 96-93-428 1838 - 1927 Playwright and poet, Charles Mair is noted for the blank-verse drama Tecumseh (1886), a collection of his poetry,Dreamland and other Poemsand his formation of the Can ...
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• Charles Montesquieu
  
  January 18, 1689 - February 10, 1755 Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu—one of the great political philosophers of the Enlightenment—has been called the "ideological co-founder of the American Constitution along ...
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• Charles Woodward
  
  b. July 19, 1842 - June 2, 1937 Farmer, merchant, and politician, Charles Woodward founded the largest department store chain in western Canada with eighteen stores in 1975. Active in promoting the interests of business in Vancouver and known as the ...
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• Chevalier Andrew Michael Ramsay
  
  Illust. by "J.B.T.", 1921 9 June 1686 (1668?)- 6 May 1743 Raised a Calvinist, the Chevalier Andrew Michael Ramsay converted to Catholicism in 1709, although he was never entirely orthodox, as can be seen from his posthummously published The Philos ...
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• Chevalier D’Eon De Beaumont
  
  Detail from a mezzo-tint print dated June 25, 1771, one of many jests on Freemasonry (AQC, XVI, 1903). This colourized version appeared in the August 2000 edition of BBC History. October 5, 1728 - May 21, 1810 Lawyer, diplomat, confidential envoy ...
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• Chief Joseph Brant
  
  Detail of portrait by George Romney, 4 April 1776, 39" x 50". National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Cat. 1957: no. 8005. 1742 - November 2, 1807 The Mohawk Thayendanegea, also known as Joseph Brant, served as Principle Chief of the Six Nations India ...
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• Chief Tecumseh
  
  Larger image. 1768 - October 5, 1813 Shawnee chief who lead his warriors against American troops and formed a confederacy of all the western and southern tribes to hold the Ohio river valley as the permanent boundary. In 1812 he was commissioned ...
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• Christopher Wren
  
  October 20, 1632 - February, 25, 1723 Gifted mathematician, scientist and architect Sir Christopher Wren was born in East Knoyle, Wiltshire. A founding member of the Royal Society, his many accomplishments included the designs for St. Paul's Cathedr ...
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• Colonel Harland Sanders
  
  September 9, 1890 - December 16, 1980 American businessman, and founder of the Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant franchise, Harland David Sanders started the business in 1952 and sold it in 1964, although he remained their corporate spokesman until h ...
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• Daniel Carter Beard
  
  Detail from cover illustration by Joseph Cummings Chase for Boy's Life, February 1925. June 21, 1850 - June 11, 1941 Dan Beard was a painter, illustrator, and founder of the Boy Scouts of America in 1910. He formed "The Society of the Sons of Dani ...
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• Daniel O’Connell
  
  Detail of painting by G. Mulvany (National Gallery of Ireland). August 6, 1775 - May 15, 1847 Irish Catholic lawyer and politician, Daniel O'Connell, called "The Liberator", was a Member of Parliament in 1928 and Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1841. An ...
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• Danny Thomas
  
  1983 January 6, 1914 - February 6, 1991 Born Muzyad Yakhoob in Dearborn, Michigan, and later known as Amos Jacobs, Danny Thomas was best known for his television portrayal of Danny Williams on Make Room For Daddy. He appeared in many films and tele ...
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• Dave Thomas
  
  Grand Lodge of Ohio Beacon Vol. 7 Issue 3 July 2, 1932 - January 7, 2002 American businessman and founder of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, Rex David Thomas, was born in Atlantic City and adopted at six weeks. As founder of the Wendy's ...
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• De Witt Clinton
  
  March 2, 1769 - February 11, 1828 An unsuccessful presidential candidate in 1812, DeWitt Clinton served as state senator, US senator, mayor of New York and lieutenant governor before being elected governor from 1817 to 1823 and from 1825 until his de ...
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• Dr. Charles H. Wesley
  
  December 2 1891 - August 16 1987 Professor of History at Howard University, Charles Harris Wesley was a noted historian, educator and author, and an ordained minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. The fourth African American to receive a ...
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