• Hippolyto Joseph Da Costa
  
  Portrait painted by G.H Harlow. Engraved by H.R. Cook. Frontispiece, Narrative,1811. Remembered for his persecution by the Inquisition and his subsequent rescue by English brethren "who got him under the protection of the British flag." As auth ...
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• Horatio Herbert Kitchener
  
  "Kitchener wants you" poster September 22, 1850 - June 6, 1916 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome Born near Ballylongford, Kerry, Ireland, in 1899 Kitchener was appointed Governer General of Sudan and from 1902-09 he was Commander in Chief o ...
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• Horatio Nelson
  
  Detail portrait by Lemuel Francis Abbott September 29, 1758 - October 21, 1805 British naval officer, won fame as a leading naval commander before his death at the Battle of Trafalgar made him one of Britain's greatest national heroes. His title in ...
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• Irving Berlin
  
  May 1888 - September 22nd 1989 Born Israel Berlin in May 1888, he had his first major international hit, Alexander's Ragtime Band in 1911. Irving Berlin's music defined American popular song for much of the century: White Christmas, Anything You Can ...
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• J. Edgar Hoover
  
  January 1, 1895 - May 2, 1972 Born in Washington, D.C., John Edgar Hoover received his LL. M. in 1916 and joined the Department of Justice on July 26, 1917. On May 10, 1924, Attorney General Harlan Fiske Stone appointed the twenty-nine year old Hoove ...
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• Jacques and Étienne Montgolfier
  
  Collage from miniatures on ivory, in the Musée Carnavalet, Paris. Cited in American Mason. Andrew Boracci, ed.. Sag Harbor, NY. 1997- <aboracci@optonline.net Also see Denslow. ...
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• James Anderson
  
  c.1680 - May 28, 1739 The Rev. James Anderson, D.D. was probably born in Aberdeen, Scotland, migrating to London sometime before taking over the lease of a Presbyterian chapel in Swallow Street in 1709-10. On September 29, 1721 he was directed by t ...
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• James Cash Penney
  
  J.C. Penney Foundation Archives September 16, 1875 - February 12, 1971 Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk. Opening his first department sto ...
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• James VI of Scotland
  
  June 19, 1566 - March 27, 1625 King of Scotland (1567-1625), and the first Stuart King of England (1603-25), English historians have tended to portray him as a coward and a fussy and foolish pedant: 'The wisest fool in Christendom'. In fact he was re ...
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• Jean Sibelius
  
  December 8, 1865 - September 20, 1957 Finnish composer, Jean Sibelius was born in Hämeenlinna. After early training in Helsinki and later in Berlin, Sibelius made his career in Finland, where he was awarded a state pension. He wrote seven symph ...
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• Jean-Henri Dunant
  
  American Red Cross Photo May 8, 1828-October 30, 1910 Founder of the Red Cross, a founder of the Young Men's Christian Association, and co-winner of the first Nobel Prize for Peace in 1901, he also worked to bring about the 1864 Geneva Convention. ...
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• Jeremy L. Cross
  
  June 27, 1783 - 1861 Masonic lecturer and ritualist, Jeremy L. Cross was an active promoter of the Royal Arch system and issued the Masonic Chart in 1819, a modification of Webb's Freemason's Monitor. The correspondence and papers of Bro. Cross are ...
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• Joel Roberts Poinsett
  
  Portrait by Thomas Sully, 1840 March 2, 1779 - December 12, 1851 A fervent liberal, as special agent for the USA in Buenos Aires and Brazil, and later minister to Mexico, he frequently meddled in the affairs of his hosts, incurring their animosity ...
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• Johann Christian Bach
  
  detail of a portrait by Thomas Gainsborough; in the Civco Museo Bibliografico Musicale, Bologna, Italy September 5, 1735 - January 1, 1782 Youngest of Johann Sebastian Bach's four sons, musician and composer Johann Christian was known as the Engl ...
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• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  
  1749-1832 German poet, dramatist and philosopher, Goethe was born August 28, 1749 at Frankfort-on-Maine and died at Weimer on March 22, 1832 Not only is he remembered as author of Götz von Berlichingen and Faust but he had an accomplished caree ...
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• John Brown
  
  Orations Hazeltine, 1902 May 9, 1800 - December 2,1859 Militant American abolitionist, John Brown's raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Va., in 1859 made him a martyr to the anti-slavery cause and was instrumental in heightening section ...
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• John Coustos
  
  John Coustos Aged 43 years. 1703 - 1746 John Coustos, a jeweller and dealer in precious stones, was born in Berne, Switzerland, relocating to England as a child and becoming a naturalized citizen. His masonic career is noteworthy for two events. H ...
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• John Molson, Sr.
  
  December 28, 1763 - January 1836 Born in Spalding, England and orphaned as a young child, John Molson immigrated to Canada in 1782. In 1786, he used the money his parents left him to buy a small brewery in Montreal. His first steam ship, the Accommo ...
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• John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe
  
  December 5, 1859 - November 20, 1935 Earl Jellicoe GCB OM GCVO PC (the Right Honourable Sir John Rushworth Jellicoe), 1st Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa (UK 1918), and Earl Jellicoe and Viscount Brocas of Southampton (UK 1925). Jellicoe led the Grand Fl ...
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• John Theophilus Desaguliers
  
  March 12, 1683 - February 29, 1744 The Rev. John Theophilus Desaguliers LL.D., F.R.S. was born in Rochelle, France. The son of a Huguenot clergyman, Desaguliers was educated at Christ Church, Oxford. His reputation as a lecturer on experimental phil ...
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• John Wayne
  
  The Quiet Man 1952 May 16, 1907 - June 11, 1979 Botn Marion Morrison, "the Duke" appeared or starred in over 200 films in his fifty-year career, winning an Oscar for "True Grit," in 1969. Remembered for his definition of the American individualis ...
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