- Ryan White
Ryan Wayne White was a young man with AIDS from Kokomo, Indiana. In the 1980s, he drew national and worldwide attention due to his infection. White became infected with HIV from a blood product known as Factor VIII, as part of his treatment for hemophilia given to him on a regular basis. He was diagnosed with AIDS (as transmitted by casual contact) on December 17, 1984, by a doctor performing a partial lung removal. - Jessica Dubroff
Jessica Whitney Dubroff was a 7-year-old pilot trainee who was attempting to become the youngest person to fly an airplane across the United States when, 24 hours into her flight, her general aviation aircraft crashed after takeoff from Cheyenne Regional Airport in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Dubroff was born in Contra Costa, California. During her flight, which included several stopovers, Dubroff became an instant media celebrity. - Samantha Smith
Samantha Reed Smith (June 29 1972 - August 25 1985) was an American schoolgirl from Houlton, Maine who was called "America's Youngest Ambassador" in the United States and the "Goodwill Ambassador" in the Soviet Union during her short lifetime. She became famous in these two countries and well-known worldwide after writing a letter to the Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Yuri Andropov during the Cold War, … - Jeff Weise
Jeffrey James Weise (August 8, 1988 - March 21, 2005) was a high school student of Red Lake, Minnesota responsible for the shooting deaths of his grandfather and his grandfather's girlfriend and the Red Lake High School massacre, a school shooting in which he killed nine people and injured more than a dozen others before committing suicide. He left many postings across the Internet on websites such as nazi.org, … - Carly Janiga
Carly Janiga (born October 19,1988), is an American gymnast. A Paradise Valley, Arizona native. As an Elite gymnast, she trained at the "Desert Devils Gymnastics" club in Mesa under coach Geoff Eaton. She did not compete much in 2003 due to a heel injury. 2004 was her big year, however, and she was considered a viable prospect for the American team for the 2004 Olympics in Athens. At that time, the youngest gymnast in serious contention for the U.S. team, … - Akiane Kramarik
Akiane Kramarik (born July 9, 1994) is an American artistic prodigy and poet. Akiane Kramarik was born in Mount Morris, Illinois to a Lithuanian mother and an American father. According to her website, she is homeschooled. Primarily a self-taught painter, Akiane Kramarik started drawing at age four, painting at six, and writing poetry at seven. Her first completed self-portrait sold for ten thousand US dollars. - Candace Newmaker
Candace Elizabeth Newmaker (19 November 1989 - 18 April 2000) was a victim of child abuse and suffocated during a 70-minute treatment session supposedly to treat reactive attachment disorder. - Virginia Dare
Virginia Dare (born August 18 1587) was the first child born in the Americas to English parents, Eleanor (or Ellinor/Elyonor) and Ananias Dare. She was born into a short-lived colony on Roanoke Island in present-day North Carolina. What became of Virginia and the other colonists has become an enduring mystery. The fact of her birth is known because the leader of the colony, Eleanor Dare's father, John White, returned to England to seek assistance for the colony. - Mattie Stepanek
Matthew "Mattie" Joseph Thaddeus Stepanek was an American poet and advocate. At the age of 3, Stepanek started to write poetry to cope with the death of his older brother. His first five books are: "Heartsongs", "Journey Through Heartsongs", "Hope Through Heartsongs", "Celebrate Through Heartsongs" and "Loving Through Heartsongs". All five works made the New York Times' Best Seller list. - Kimmie Meissner
Kimberly Claire Meissner (born October 4, 1989), better known as Kimmie Meissner, is an American figure skater. She is the 2007 U.S. National Champion, the 2007 Four Continents Champion, and the 2006 World Champion. She is the second American woman to land the triple Axel in competition. - Emily Hughes
Emily Hughes (born January 26, 1989) is an American figure skater. She is the 2007 U.S. National silver medalist. She is the younger sister of Sarah Hughes, who won a gold medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics. - Frances Bean Cobain
Frances Bean Cobain (born August 18, 1992) is the only child of the late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain and Hole frontwoman Courtney Love. She was born at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California at 7:48 AM, weighing 7 lb 1 oz (3.2 kg). - Baby M
Baby M (born March 27, 1986) was the name given to Melissa Stern, the child in an American custody case between the surrogate mother hired to carry her, and the child's biological father. Mary Beth Whitehead, the surrogate mother, was artificially inseminated with William Stern's sperm. Contrary to popular belief (as well as what was stated in the surrogacy contract), Mr. Stern's wife, Elizabeth, was not infertile, … - Jessica McClure
Jessica Morales née McClure, became famous at the age of 18 months after falling into a Midland, Texas well on October 14, 1987. Rescuers worked for 58 hours to free "Baby Jessica" from an 8-inch-wide pipe. The story gained worldwide attention (leading to some criticism as a media circus), and later became the subject of a 1989 ABC TV movie, "Everybody's Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure", starring Patty Duke and Beau Bridges. - Riley Keough
Danielle Riley Keough (born May 29, 1989) known as Riley Keough, is the daughter of singer Lisa Marie Presley and musician Danny Keough, and the granddaughter of Elvis Presley. In February 2004 Danielle made her modeling runway debut for designers Dolce & Gabbana in Milan. More recently she has made a video for Dior Perfume and modeled for Victoria's Secret. She was raised as a Scientologist. - Jacob D. Robida
Jacob D. Robida was a Massachusetts teenager who attacked patrons at a Massachusetts gay bar, shot a female companion and ultimately shot himself after fleeing to Norfork, Arkansas. Days before the deadly shootings, Robida attacked several patrons in a New Bedford gay bar, then fled the state. He died in a hospital in Springfield, Missouri at 03:38 CST on February 5, 2006, following a shootout with local authorities on February 4, 2006, in Norfork, Arkansas, … - Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart
Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart (September 6, 2000 - September 6, 2000) was a baby girl who was stillborn in Paragould, Arkansas to Scott Stewart and Lisa Bartlett. Her stillbirth is of particular note for being the first example of a stillbirth whose cause was successfully resolved via the Kleihauer-Betke test. It is worth noting that there may have been non-Rh disease-related factors that contributed to Breanna Lynn's stillbirth. - Lionel Tate
Lionel Alexander Tate (born January 30, 1987) was convicted of first-degree murder for battering a 6-year-old playmate, Tiffany Eunick, to death on July 28, 1999, a crime for which he was sentenced to life imprisonment without chance of parole on March 9, 2001. - Etan Patz
Etan Kalil Patz was a six-year-old child who disappeared in lower Manhattan on May 25, 1979. At the time, news coverage of Patz's disappearance was made into a media circus in the New York area. He is arguably the most famous missing child of New York City. He was the first child to be pictured on the back of a milk carton. - Genie Wiley
Genie is the name used for a feral child discovered by California authorities on November 4, 1970 in the Los Angeles suburb of Arcadia. She was born on April 18, 1957 and was the fourth (and second surviving) child to unstable parents, Irene and Clark Wiley. An older brother, John, also lived in the home. Her mother was partially blind due to cataracts and a detached retina, … - Gabby Soleil
Gabby Soleil (born May 25, 1995) is an American actress. She played Adriana on "The Hughleys" in the 2001-2002 season, and Destiny Johnson in the 2004 comedy feature film "Johnson Family Vacation". Her 2005 telefilm "The Reading Room" is in post-production, and she provides the voice of Jazmine Dubois, a supporting character on the animated series "The Boondocks". - Caril Ann Fugate
Caril Ann Fugate (born July 31,1943) was the fourteen-year-old accomplice of spree killer Charles Starkweather. She lived in Lincoln, Nebraska, and in 1956, she started dating Charles Starkweather. He was five years her senior, a dropout, and a truck unloader at the Western Newspaper Union warehouse. On January 21, 1958, Fugate later claimed to have come home to find that Starkweather had shot her parents to death. - Jeremy Strohmeyer
Jeremy Strohmeyer, born October 11, 1978, is a Long Beach, California man who molested and murdered 7-year-old Sherrice Iverson at Primadonna Resort and Casino in Primm, Nevada, on May 25, 1997. - Cody Posey
Cody Posey (born October 9, 1989) is a New Mexico teenager who confessed to killing his father, stepmother, and stepsister on July 5, 2004, when he was 14 years old. Posey was found guilty of various degrees of homicide. He was subsequently sentenced as a juvenile to be detained until he was 21 years old with the possibility of parole after 40 days. - Johnny Gunther
John Gunther, Jr. (1929- June 30, 1947), was the son of the American author John Gunther and is the central figure in John Gunther's book, "Death Be Not Proud", which tells of the younger Gunther's death at the age of seventeen from a brain tumor. Born in 1929 in Paris, France, Gunther was diagnosed with a brain tumour at age 16 and died from the illness 15 months later at Memorial Hospital, now known as Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, in New York City. - Christopher Penley
Christopher Penley was a 15-year-old U.S. schoolboy who was shot by a SWAT team on January 13, 2006 — and died of his injuries — after he had briefly taken another student hostage in a classroom and then later holed himself up in an outdoor bathroom at Milwee Middle School in Longwood, Florida, with an Airsoft gun painted entirely black to disguise it as a Beretta 9mm. After the gun was discovered by a fellow student, … - Nyjah Huston
Nyjah Huston is a skateboarder from Davis, California. He is regarded for his skill in competitions, often utilizing stairs and rails. His sponsors include Element Skateboards, Silver Trucks, FKD Bearings, and éS Footwear. When he is not competing, Huston has been involved in the filming of the skate video Yés! Nyjah Huston went to the X GAMES at the age of 11, making him the youngest competitor in the history of the event. He placed 8th in the men's skateboard street. - Coco Hayley Gordon Moore
Coco Hayley Gordon Moore (born July 1, 1994) is the daughter of Sonic Youth's husband-and-wife team of bassist/vocalist Kim Gordon and guitarist/vocalist Thurston Moore. Gordon became pregnant with Coco during the sessions for Sonic Youth's "Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star" album in 1993. Gordon's belly had barely started to show with Coco when the band filmed a promo video for the album's first single, "Bull in the Heather". - Ben Wilson
Ben "Benji" Wilson (March 18, 1967 in Chicago, Illinois - November 21, 1984) was a highly talented basketball player who was shot to death on the eve of his senior season in high school. He was widely regarded as the best high school player in the U.S. (Class of 1985). Wilson led Simeon Vocational High School (now known as Simeon Career Academy) of Chicago to the Illinois State Championship 1984. - David Vetter
David Phillip Vetter (September 21, 1971 - February 22, 1984) was a boy from Shenandoah, Texas, United States who suffered from a rare genetic disease now known as severe combined immune deficiency syndrome (SCIDS). Forced to live in a sterile environment, he became popular with the media as "the boy in the plastic bubble". David's parents, David Joseph Vetter Jr. and Carol Ann Vetter, had one daughter, Katherine; their first son, … - Autum Ashante
Autum Ashante (some sources Autumn Ashante) is an elementary-school-aged homeschooled African-American poet from Mount Vernon, New York. She gained notoriety in the New York area when on February 28 2006, at age seven, she performed her poem, "White Nationalism Put U in Bondage", as part of a Black History celebration at a Peekskill, New York middle school and high school. According to reports in the New York Post and the Westchester Journal News, … - Gregory Kingsley
Gregory Ralph Kingsley (born 1980) was the subject of a landmark legal case when he divorced himself from his natural parents. He was estranged placed into foster case in 1990. In 1992, Gregory took steps to legally divorce his natural parents. He became known in the media as 'Gregory K'. On June 9, the judge deemed that Gregory had the same rights as an adult to fight for his own interests and ruled that the child could file his petition for divorce. - Kiplyn Davis
Kiplyn Davis (born July 1 1979) was a 15-year-old high school student who was reported missing on May 2 1995 in Spanish Fork, Utah. Davis, a sophomore, was last seen at Spanish Fork High School, where she attended her early driver's education class, her morning classes and was seen at lunchtime in the school's cafeteria with her friends and classmates. She did not show up for her fourth and fifth period classes. All of her personal belongings, including her purse, makeup, … - Joseph Rodriguez
Joseph Rodriguez (1932 - missing from September 6, 1936) was a four year old resident of East Harlem (also known as Spanish Harlem or El Barrio), New York, whose disappearance in 1936 remains one of the oldest known unsolved missing person's cases in New York City history. - Brianna Lahara
Brianna LaHara (born 1991) is a girl from New York who was sued by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on September 8, 2003 for allegedly distributing music via the Internet which led to massive public outcry against the RIAA. Amidst bad publicity, the RIAA agreed to settle for $2,000. The P2P trade group P2P United agreed to reimburse Brianna and her mother. - Kara Borden
Kara Beth Borden (born 1991) is an American from Lititz, Pennsylvania whose parents were murdered by her boyfriend, David Ludwig, on 13 November 2005. - Jazmin Grace Grimaldi
Jazmin Grace Grimaldi was born on March 4, 1992 in Palm Springs, California, United States. She is the elder child of Albert II, Prince of Monaco and Tamara Rotolo, and a granddaughter of the late Prince Rainier III and Princess Grace. On July 6, 2005, Prince Albert II confirmed the revelations regarding his son Alexandre Coste. February 2006. French magazine "Voici" published photographs of mother and daughter during a visit to Monaco. - Anthony Rosario
Anthony Rosario (1976-January 12, 1995), an 18-year-old resident of New York City, born and raised in The Bronx, was killed (along with Hilton Vega (1973-1995)) by NYPD officers Patrick Brosnan and James Crowe, who were former bodyguards of mayor Rudolph Giuliani. The perceived refusal of Giuliani and Commissioner Bill Bratton to listen to new evidence caused clashes between citizens and police. - Jonathan Lerman
Jonathan Lerman (born 1987) is a US autistic savant artist. Jonathan Lerman began to lapse into long silences at the age of two, and the next year he was diagnosed with autism. His IQ is purported to be 53. Lerman's artistic bent appeared at the age of 10 in the form of charcoal-drawn faces - both people he knows and those he imagines. In 1999 he had his own solo exhibition at the KS Art gallery in New York City. - Roy L. Dennis
Roy L. "Rocky" Dennis (1961-1978) was an American boy afflicted with craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, an extremely rare, disfiguring, sclerotic bone disorder. The condition usually results in neurological disorders and death during childhood; Rocky died at the age of 16. Following Rocky's death, his family donated his body to the University of California, Los Angeles for medical research.
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