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Historical Figures

Historical Figures 2026-03-17 (Season 42)

HISTORIC NAMES

This name of a grand duchess of the 20th century comes from a word meaning "resurrection" in Greek

Historical Figures 2026-03-04 (Season 42)

FINAL RESTING PLACES

His burial site at the London church of St. Giles' Cripplegate includes a figure of a snake holding an apple

Historical Figures 2025-09-08 (Season 42)

FAMOUS NAMES

On June 12, 1942 she wrote, "I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone"

Historical Figures 2025-06-13 (Season 41)

HISTORIC NAMES

Some 200 years after her birth, she was awarded the rank of General in Maryland's National Guard on Veterans Day 2024

Historical Figures 2025-04-24 (Season 41)

HISTORIC NAMES

He was riding back from the conquest of Granada when he was summoned to a royal meeting that would change history

Historical Figures 2024-09-12 (Season 41)

HISTORIC NAMES

In 1824, President Monroe invited him back to the adopted country of his youth, which has always cherished his "important services"

Historical Figures 2024-09-09 (Season 41)

FAMOUS WOMEN

Before her death in 2022, she pledged her collection of more than 200 pins to the National Museum of American Diplomacy

Historical Figures 2024-07-25 (Season 40)

FAMOUS WOMEN

Adding to her nickname, one legend claimed that earlier in life, she was saved from drowning by family friend Mark Twain

Historical Figures 2024-07-10 (Season 40)

FAMOUS AMERICANS

In his 1999 memoir he wrote, "I had been shot down a short walk's distance from the French-built prison, Hoa Lo"

Historical Figures 2024-06-12 (Season 40)

FAMOUS NAMES

Vying with Eiffel, this engineer wanted to create big; an admiring account said the obelisk of Luxor is too short to be a spoke

Historical Figures 2023-04-10 (Season 39)

FAMOUS NAMES

In 1966, the year of his death, he shared plans for an experimental prototype community in Florida

Historical Figures 2022-12-22 (Season 39)

FAMOUS NAMES

In 2001 he published a book called "Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall"; in 2002, "Existencilism"

Historical Figures 2022-09-21 (Season 39)

FAMOUS NAMES

Perhaps the most famous picture of him was taken in New Jersey in 1951 as he was annoyed by paparazzi on his 72nd birthday

Historical Figures 2022-04-22 (Season 38)

HISTORIC NAMES

DNA from 2 living descendants of Anne of York was used to identify the remains of this man

Historical Figures 2022-02-03 (Season 38)

FAMOUS AMERICANS

He was buried in 1969 in one of the World War II uniform jackets named for him

Historical Figures 2022-01-10 (Season 38)

19th CENTURY NOTABLES

On his deathbed in France in 1890, he told his brother, "The sadness will last forever"

Historical Figures 2021-11-17 (Season 38)

FINAL RESTING PLACES

A cemetery on this island has the graves of Robert Fulton & 2 of the first 4 Treasury Secretaries

Historical Figures 2021-10-25 (Season 38)

NOTABLE WOMEN

Of the 3 pioneering women in their field to be dubbed the "Trimates", this one got her PhD from Cambridge in 1966

Historical Figures 2021-07-26 (Season 37)

NOTABLE NAMES

Following his death in 2018, his ashes were interred at Westminster Abbey between the remains of fellow scientists Darwin & Newton

Historical Figures 2021-06-23 (Season 37)

FAMOUS WOMEN

In 1983, 20 years after her famous first, she was honored on a one-ruble coin

Historical Figures 2021-04-07 (Season 37)

NOTORIOUS

In 1897 she was accused of a much lesser crime, shoplifting in Rhode Island

Historical Figures 2020-10-05 (Season 37)

FAMOUS AMERICANS

Will Smith & Lennox Lewis were pallbearers at this man's 2016 funeral

Historical Figures 2020-01-23 (Season 36)

FAMOUS NAMES

A new Election Day ritual is leaving “I Voted” stickers on the headstone of this historic woman at a Rochester, New York cemetery

Historical Figures 2019-07-18 (Season 35)

NOTORIOUS

The death penalty has been carried out only once under Israeli law--in 1962, for this man

Historical Figures 2019-01-07 (Season 35)

19th CENTURY NOTABLES

When he died in Samoa in 1894 his obituary said, "He loved Samoa better than any other place, except Scotland"

Historical Figures 2018-07-26 (Season 34)

FAMOUS NAMES

Almost 100 when he died in 2018, this North Carolina man became just the 4th private citizen to lie in honor at the U.S. Capitol

Historical Figures 2017-11-20 (Season 34)

FAMOUS NAMES

She declared, "By blood, I am Albanian... as to my calling, I belong to the world"

Historical Figures 2017-01-09 (Season 33)

19th CENTURY NOTABLES

Calling him a red-headed madman, in 1889 a group of his neighbors signed a petition to ban him from his home in Arles, France

Historical Figures 2016-10-26 (Season 33)

NOTABLE WOMEN

On her passing in 1913, Booker T. Washington called her heroic, "not unlike some of the heroic figures... in the Bible"

Historical Figures 2016-07-05 (Season 32)

FAMOUS AMERICANS

In 1902, 25 years after his death, a New York Times article about a family reunion listed his direct descendants at more than 1,000

Historical Figures 2016-06-14 (Season 32)

CONTEMPORARIES

In an 1864 letter, he congratulated Abraham Lincoln on reelection on behalf of "the workingmen of Europe"

Historical Figures 2016-06-10 (Season 32)

FAMOUS AMERICANS

Of his greatest accomplishment, he humbly remarked, "Pilots... take pride in a good landing, not in getting out of the vehicle"

Historical Figures 2016-05-24 (Season 32)

19th CENTURY NOTABLES

He died in New Orleans on December 6, 1889, a little over 20 years after his treason case had been dropped

Historical Figures 2015-12-11 (Season 32)

HISTORIC NAMES

The only time the pope & the U.S. president shared a name ended when both died in this year

Historical Figures 2015-09-17 (Season 32)

CONTEMPORARIES

On an 1851 visit to Europe, Mathew Brady had hoped to meet this man who inspired him, but he died just as Brady set sail

Historical Figures 2015-07-21 (Season 31)

HISTORIC NAMES

In 1909 this Oxford student surveyed Crusader castles in the Mideast; a few years later he returned for less peaceful activities

Historical Figures 2015-06-30 (Season 31)

FAMOUS WOMEN

On January 5, 1939, in a Los Angeles probate court, this national heroine was declared legally dead

Historical Figures 2015-01-09 (Season 31)

FAMOUS AMERICANS

In 1982, 72 years after his death, he became the first person inducted into the Hall of Famous Missourians

Historical Figures 2014-09-26 (Season 31)

FAMOUS AMERICANS

In 1936 at age 79, he published an article in Esquire magazine in which he described how to pick a jury

Historical Figures 2014-01-23 (Season 30)

NOTABLE NAMES

During a jubilee celebration in 2003, he became the first foreigner to be made an honorary citizen of Nepal

Historical Figures 2013-06-04 (Season 29)

NOTABLE NAMES

In August 2012 the Telegraph of London ran the headline "Paralympics 2012:" he "opens ceremony with a 'Big Bang'"

Historical Figures 2012-03-21 (Season 28)

FAMOUS NAMES

At his death in January 2010, he was called "the Garbo of letters, famous for not wanting to be famous"

Historical Figures 2011-07-22 (Season 27)

FAMOUS AMERICANS

In 1909 he sent the message "Stars and Stripes nailed to the pole"

Historical Figures 2011-06-28 (Season 27)

FAMOUS NAMES

The last time the University of Michigan retired a football number was in 1994, in honor of this center who graduated in 1935

Historical Figures 2010-10-25 (Season 27)

FAMOUS AMERICANS

In 1886 he published his first book, "The Trumpet and Drum", an instructional handbook with 8 compositions

Historical Figures 2010-03-16 (Season 26)

FAMOUS AMERICANS

About him F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, "In the spring of '27, something bright and alien flashed across the sky..."

Historical Figures 2010-03-01 (Season 26)

NOTORIOUS

Often described as a redhead, this accused killer called her hair light brown on her 1890 passport application

Historical Figures 2010-01-12 (Season 26)

FAMOUS WOMEN

Halls of fame into which she's been inducted include the California, National Women's, National Aviation & U.S. Astronaut

Historical Figures 2009-10-19 (Season 26)

NOTABLE WOMEN

When Galveston was devastated by a hurricane in 1900, she traveled 1,500 miles to head up the relief effort

Historical Figures 2009-05-19 (Season 25)

FAMOUS AMERICANS

Ayn Rand wrote to him, "I felt that 'The Fountainhead' had not quite completed its destiny until I had heard from you about it"