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Famous Leaders for Young Readers
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Famous Artists







Joan of Arc ( probably) January 6, 1412 - May 30, 1431

Albert Bierstadt Bierstadt January 7, 1830 - February 18, 1902

Sadako Sasaki January 7, 1943 - October 25, 1955

Albert Schweitzer January 14, 1875 – September 4, 1965

Martin Luther King Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968

Benjamin Franklin January 17, 1706 – April 17, 1790

Paul Cezanne January 19, 1839 – October 22, 1906

Mozart January 27, 1756 - December 5, 1791

Franklin D. Roosevelt January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945


Norman Rockwell February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978

Rosa Parks February 4, 1913 - October 24, 2005

Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004

Laura Ingalls Wilder February 7, 1867 – February 10, 1957

Thomas A. Edison February 11, 1847 - October 18, 1931

Abraham Lincoln February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865

Galileo February 15, 1564 – January 8, 1642

Cyrus McCormick February 15, 1809 – May 13, 1884

Susan B. Anthony February 15, 1820 - March 13, 1906

Ansel Adams February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984

George Washington Feb. 22, 1732 - Dec. 14, 1799

Winslow Homer February 24, 1836 - September 29, 1910

Pierre Auguste Renoir February 25, 1841 - December 3, 1919



Alexander Graham Bell March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922

Michelangelo March 6, 1475 - February 18, 1564

Albert Einstein March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955

Andrew Jackson March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845

James Madison March 16, 1751 – June 28, 1836

Anthony van Dyck March 23, 1599 – December 9, 1641

Gutzon Borglum March 25, 1867 – March 6, 1941

Norman Borlaug March 25, 1914 – September 12, 2009

Vincent van Gogh March 30, 1853 - July 29, 1890

Francisco Goya March 30, 1746 - April 16, 1828

Cιsar Chαvez March 31, 1927 - April 23, 1993


Edward Hicks April 4, 1780 – August 23, 1849

Booker T. Washington April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915

Fragonard April 5, 1732 – August 22, 1806

Dean Kamen April 5, 1951

Raphael April 6, 1483 – April 6, 1520

Thomas Jefferson April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826

Leonardo Da Vinci April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519

Wilbur Wright April 16, 1867 - May 30, 1912

John Muir April 21, 1838 – December 24, 1914

John James Audubon April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851

James Monroe April 28, 1758 - July 4, 1831


Wang Yani May 2, 1975

Thomas Gainsborough May 14, 1727 – August 2, 1788

Robert Peary May 6, 1856 – February 20, 1920

Florence Nightingale May 12, 1820 – August 13, 1910

Albrecht Durer May 21, 1471 – April 6, 1528

Henri Rousseau May 21, 1844 – September 2, 1910

Mary Cassatt May 22, 1844 – June 14, 1926

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze May 24, 1816 – July 18, 1868

John F. Kennedy May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963


Diego Velazquez June 6, 1599 – August 6, 1660

Paul Gauguin June 7, 1848 - May 8, 1903

Increase Mather June 12, 1639 – August 23, 1723

Anne Frank June 12, 1929 - March 1945

Lou Gehrig June 19, 1903 – June 2, 1941

Wilma Rudolph June 23, 1940 – November 12, 1994

Helen Keller June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968

Peter Paul Rubens June 28, 1577 – May 30, 1640

Michael Phelps June 30, 1985


James Abbot McNeill Whistler July 10, 1834 - July 17, 1903

Nikola Tesla July 10, 1856 - January 7, 1943

Mary McLeod Bethune July 10, 1875 - May 18, 1955

Rembrandt July 15, 1606 - October 4, 1669

Sir Joshua Reynolds July 16, 1723 – February 23, 1792

Nelson Mandela July 18, 1918

Sir Edmund Hillary July 20, 1919 – January 11, 2008

Ernest Hemingway July 21, 1898 – July 2, 1961

Edward Hopper July 22, 1882 - May 15, 1967

Amelia Earhart July 24, 1897 - July 2, 1937

Henry Ford July 30, 1863 - April 7, 1947


Francis Scott Key August 1, 1779 – January 11, 1843

Barack Obama August 4, 1961

Matthew Henson August 8, 1866 - March 9, 1955

Annie Oakley August 13, 1860 - November 3, 1926

Meriwether Lewis August 18, 1774 – October 11, 1809

Orville Wright August 19, 1871 – Janurary 30, 1948

William Wilberforce August 24, 1759 - July 29, 1833


James Forten September 2, 1766 – March 4, 1842

Grandma Moses September 2, 1860 - December 13, 1961

Walter Reed September 13, 1851 - November 22, 1902

Dale Chihuly September20, 1941

Michael Faraday September 22, 1791 - August 25, 1867

Johnny Appleseed September 26, 1774 – March 18, 1845

George Mόller September 27, 1805 – March 10, 1898


Gandhi October 2, 1869 - January 30, 1948

Jean Francois Millet October 4, 1814 – January 20, 1875

Frederick Remington October 4, 1861 – December 26, 1909

Mary Ann Shadd Cary October 9, 1823 - 1893

Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 - November 7, 1962

Molly Pitcher October 13, 1754 - January 22, 1832

Noah Webster October 16, 1758 – May 23, 1843

N.C. Wyeth October 22, 1882 – October 19, 1945

Theodore Roosevelt October 27, 1858 - January 6, 1919

John Adams October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826

Christopher Columbus October 31, 1451 – May 20, 1506

Johannes Vermeer October 31, 1632 – December 15, 1675



Daniel Boone November 2, 1734 – September 26, 1820

Marie Curie November 7, 1867 - July 4, 1934

Lise Meitner November 7, 1878 – October 27, 1968

Jack Kilby November 8, 1923 – June 20, 2005

Benjamin Banneker November 9, 1731 – October 9, 1806

Claude-Oscar Monet November 14, 1840 – December 5, 1926

John Steuart Curry November 14, 1897 – August 29, 1946

Georgia O'Keeffe November 15, 1887 - March 6, 1986

Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910

Winston Churchill November 30, 1874 – January 24, 1965


Georges Seurat December 2, 1859 – March 29, 1891

George Henry Boughton December 4, 1833 – January 19, 1905

Diego Rivera December 13, 1886 – November 24, 1957

Beethoven December 16, 1770 - March 26, 1827

Deborah Sampson December 17, 1760 – April 29, 1827

Pieter de Hooch Hooch December 20, 1629 - died 1684?

Madam C.J. Walker December 23, 1867 - May 25, 1919

Kit Carson December 24, 1809 – May 23, 1868

Sir Isaac Newton December 25, 1642 - March 20, 1727

Clara Barton December 25, 1821 - April 12, 1912

Louis Pasteur December 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895

Greg Mortenson December 27, 1957

Tiger Woods December 30, 1975



Birthdates Unknown or Uncertain





Hippocrates 460 B.C. – 377 B.C.

Aristotle 384 B.C. – 322 B.C.

Alexander the Great 356 – June 13, 323 A.D.

Constantine February 27, 272 – May 22, 337 A.D?

Johann Gutenberg 1395 – February 3, 1468?

Phillis Wheatley 1753-55 – December 1784

Sequoyah 1770’s – 1843 ?

Sojourner Truth 1797? – November 26, 1883

Frederick Douglass February 1818? – February 20, 1895

Elizabeth Keckly February 1818? - 1907

Harriet Tubman around 1820 - 1913?

George Washington Carver 1864? – January 5, 1943


Graphics courtesy of Lee Hansen and Teacher Files.com.




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