Robert Maynard

Robert Maynard

male
Robert Maynard was a lieutenant in the British Royal Navy, captain of "HMS Pearl", and is most famous for defeating the infamous pirate Blackbeard...
Jonathan Cilley

Jonathan Cilley

male, deceased (1838)
Jonathan Cilley (July 2, 1802 - February 24, 1838) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maine. He served part of one term in the...
Humphrey Marshall

Humphrey Marshall

male, deceased (1841)
Humphrey Marshall (1760 - July 3, 1841) was a United States Senator from Kentucky. Marshall was born in Fauquier County, Virginia, the son of John...
Joachim Meyer

Joachim Meyer

male
Joachim Meyer was the author of a 1570 fechtbuch "Gründtliche Beschreibung der kunst des Fechten" (in English, "Fundamental Descriptions of the A...

John Small

male, deceased (1841)
John Small (August 27 1746-July 18 1841) was a political figure in Upper Canada. He was born in Cirencester, England in 1746. In 1792, he was...
John Lyde Wilson

John Lyde Wilson

male, deceased (1849)
John Lyde Wilson (May 24, 1784 - February 12, 1849) was an antebellum Democratic-Republican Governor of South Carolina from 1822 to 1824 and an...
Benjamin Williams

Benjamin Williams

male, deceased (1814)
Benjamin Williams (1 January 1751 -- 20 July 1814) was the last Federalist governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina, from 1799 to 1802 and from...
Joseph Reinach

Joseph Reinach

male, deceased (1921)
Joseph Reinach was a French author and politician. He was born in Paris. His two brothers Salomon and Theodore would become well-known in the field...
Henriette Caillaux

Henriette Caillaux

female, deceased (1943)
Henriette Caillaux (1874-1943) was a Parisian socialite and second wife of the former Prime Minister of France. She is remembered as an assassin....

Émile de Girardin

male, deceased (1881)
Émile de Girardin, was a French journalist, publicist, and politician. He was born in Paris in 1802, the son of General Alexandre de Girardin and o...