- 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. - 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, … - 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. - 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, … - Ben Ownby
William "Ben" Ownby (born in 1993 in Beaufort, Missouri, USA) is a former abductee. On Monday, January 8 2007, at approximately 3:30 p.m., Ben was dropped off by his school bus but never arrived home. When Ben didn't arrive home, his parents began calling friends and the authorities. The story was rapidly picked up by the media, and the FBI was later involved. His abduction shocked the quiet community where 13-year old Ownby was a boyscout and straight-A student. - 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. - 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, … - 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). - 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. - 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. - Spencer Elden
Spencer Elden (born on June 27, 1991) is the model who appeared on the cover of Nirvana's album "Nevermind". Nirvana considered using a stock photograph of a swimming baby, but when that proved too expensive, they hired photographer Kirk Weddle. Weddle's friends, Renata and Rick Elden, allowed their son Spencer to be photographed for about $200. The hook, line, and dollar were superimposed later. - 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. - 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. - 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. - Billy Gilman
Billy Gilman (born William Wendell Gilman III May 24, 1988) is a Grammy-nominated country music singer and songwriter. Born in Hope Valley, Rhode Island, he lives with his parents Bill and Fran Gilman and his younger brother Colin. At a young age he attracted the attention of a local vocal coach, Angela Bacari, who later became his manager. He met and worked with Ray Benson of (Asleep at the Wheel) who helped record demos, including "Roly Poly". - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. - Alex Scott
Alexandra Flynn Scott (January 18, 1996 - August 1, 2004, also known as Alex Scott), of Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, was the founder of Alex's Lemonade Stand, which she started to raise money for pediatric cancer research. Alex was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a pediatric cancer, two days before her first birthday. She battled the illness for seven and a half years before passing away in 2004. - 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. - 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. - 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, … - 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. - 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, … - 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. - 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. - 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. - Rachelle Waterman
Rachelle Ann Monica Waterman, aka "smchyrocky", (born August 26, 1988) is a teenage girl from Craig, Alaska who was charged with the first degree murder of her mother - though her trial resulted in a hung jury 10-2 in favour of acquittal, and a mistrial was subsequently declared. The case received a wide following on the Internet, partly because Waterman kept a public record of her thoughts and activities on LiveJournal. - Esmie Tseng
Esmie Tseng, aka rockonlittleone, (born April 7 1989) is a Kansas teenager charged with stabbing her mother to death at the age of 16. While matricides are rare in the United States, the case also gained visibility due to her active online presence. Tseng maintained blogs on Xanga, LiveJournal and MySpace. Tseng attended Blue Valley North High School, where she was on the honor roll for her first two years and a member of the school's Gifted program. - Katherine Lester
Katherine R. Lester (b. 1989) is an American teenager who traveled to the Middle East in June 2006 to meet Abdullah Jinzawi, a resident of Jericho whom she met on MySpace. She misled her parents by saying she was taking a trip to Canada with some friends, so that she could obtain a passport. Upon returning to Michigan, the 16 year old Lester resumed communication with Jinzawi, 20, … - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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, … - 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. - 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, … - Dedrick Owens
Dedrick Owens (born in 1993) is an African-American child murderer who killed Kayla Rolland in his Mount Morris Township, Michigan school, Theo J. Buell Elementary School, while 6 years old and in the first grade. - Rumaisa Rahman
Rumaisa Rahman (born 19 September, 2004) is a baby who, according to medical records, is the smallest born baby in history to survive birth after complications due to her size. Rahman was eight inches (20 cm) long and weighed 244 grams (8.6 ounces). She has a twin sister, Hiba, also a small baby, weighing just 563 grams (1 pound 4 ounces) at birth. Her parents, Mahajabeen Shaik, 23, and Mohammed Abdul Rahman, 32, were originally from Hyderabad, India. - Michael Tang
Michael Tang (born November 23, 1995) is a bowler in San Francisco, California. On March 11, 2006, Tang became the youngest person to bowl a perfect game at an event sanctioned by the United States Bowling Congress, a distinction he would hold for about nine months. On the day he set the record, he was 10 years, three months, and 16 days old, and three months younger than the previous record-holder, Josey LaRocco of Louisville, Kentucky had been.
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