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Martin Luther King Jr (1929-1968)

Civil Rights Leader promoting non-violence. Born in Atlanta, Georgia. (Nobel Foundation, Wikimedia Commons)

Bill Gates

Co-founder of Microsoft and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Born in Seattle Washington (U.S Department of Health and Human Services, Wikimedia Commons)

John Lewis (1940-2020)

Civil rights leader and Congressman. Born in Troy, Alabama. (U.S. House of Representatives, Wikimedia Commons)

Jeff Bezos

Founder of Amazon and owner of the Washington Post. Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1964. (Seattle City Council, Wikimedia CCA 2.0)

Elon Musk

Founder of Tesla electric cars and SpaceX. Born in Pretoria, South Africa in 1971. (The Royal Society, Wikimedia CCA 3.0)

Savannah Guthrie

Broadcast journalist for NBC. Born in Melbourne, Australia in 1971 (David Shankbone, Wikimedia CCA 3.0)

Steve Jobs

Co-founder of Apple. Born in San Francisco (Matthew Yohe, Wikimedia CCA 3.0)

Norah O’Donnell

Television journalist and anchor of the CBS Evening News. Born in Washington D.C. in 1974. (Onetwo1, Wikimedia CCA 3.0)

Larry Page

Co-founder of Google. Born in Lansing, Michigan in 1973. (Stansfield PL, Wikimedia Commons)

Kate Snow

Television journalist for NBC News. Born in Bangor, Maine in 1969. (David Shankbone, Wikimedia CCA 3.0)

Jack Dorsey

Co-founder of Twitter. Born in St Louis, Missouri in 1976. (Cellanr, Wikimedia CCA 2.0)

Oprey WInfrey

American talk show host, television producer, actress and philanthropist. Born in Kosciusko, Mississippin in 1954. (Aphrodite in NYC, Wikimedia CCA 2.0)

Steven Spielberg

Film director, producer and screenwriter. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1946. (Dick Thomas Johnson, Wikimedia CCA 2.0)

Sandra Day O’Connor

The first woman Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Born in El Paso, Texas in 1930. (Library of Congress, Wikimedia Commons)

Ruth Bader (1933-2020)

First Jewish woman and 2nd woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. Born in Brooklyn, New York City. Supreme Court of the United States, Wikimedia Commons)

Sally Ride (1951-2012)

In 1983, Sally Ride became the 1st U.S. woman in space .Born in Los Angeles (NASA, Wikimedia Commons)

Mark Zuckerberg

(Co-founder of Facebook. Born in White Plains, New York in 1984. (Anthony Quintano, Wikimedia CCA 2.0)

Colin Powell

Retired four-star general who served as the U.S. Secretary of State from 2001 to 2005. Born in New York City in 1937 (DoD News, Wikimedia CCA 2.0)

Maya Lin

Winning architect proposal in 1981 for the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C. Born in Athens, Ohio in 1959. (Berkeley Center for New Media, Wikipedia CCA 2.0)

Neil Armstrong (1930-2012

Amercian astronaut and politician. In 1969, during the Apollo 11 Mission, Armstrong became the 1st person to walk on the moon. Born in Wakakoneta, Ohio (NASA, Wikimedia Commons)

Walt Disney (1901-1966)

Pioneer in film animation. Founder of Disneyland in Anaheim, California. Born in Chicago. (Boy Scouts of America, Wikimedia Commons)

Amelia Earhart (1897-1937)

First female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic. Born in Atchison, Kansas. (Underwood and Underwood, Wikimedia Commons)

Louis Armstrong (1901-1971)

Trumpheter and jazz musician. Born in New Orleans. (Library of Congress, Wikimedia Commons)

Rosa Parks (1913-2005)

American activist in the civilrights movement who played a pivotal role in the Montgomery Alabama bus boycott against seating segregation of 1955. Born in Tuskegee Alabama. (Wikimedia Commons)

General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)

American five-star general. Born in Little Rock, Arkansas. (MacArthur Naval Historical Center, Wikimedia Commons)

General George S. Patton (1885-1945)

Born in San Gabriel, California (U.S .Army, Wikimedia Commons)

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

Author of “For Whom the Bell Tolls; A Farewell to Arms; The Sun Also Rises.” Born in Oak Park, Illinois Lloyd Arnold, Wikimedia Commons)

William Faulkner (1897-1962)

Writer “The Sound and the Fury; Absalom Absalom.” Born in New Albany, MIssissippi. (Carl Van Vechten, Wikimedia Commons)

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1849)

Author of “The Great Gatsby” Born in St Paul, Minnesota. (The Worlds Work, Wikimedia Commons)

Orville Wright (1871-1948)

Born in Dayton, Ohio. With his brother WIlbur, he made the first aircraft flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina (Wikimedia Commons)

Henry Ford (1863-1947)

Founder of the Ford Motor Company. Born in Springwells Township, Michigan. (Library of Congress, Wikimedia Commons)

Thomas Edison (1847-1931)

Inventor of the electric light bulb. Born in Milan, Ohio. (Louis Bachrach, Wikimedia Commons)

Charles Lewis Tiffany (1812-1902)

Founder of “Tiffanys” luxury jewelry store on Fifth Avenue in New York City. Born in Killingy, Connecticut. (Wikimedia Commons)

Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919)

American businessman and philanthropoist. Built Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Steel Company, later U.S. Steel. Born in Dunfemine, Scotland. (Theodore C. Marceau, Wikimedia Commons)

John Willard Marriott (1900-1985)

Founder of the Marriott Corporation restaurants, hotels and resorts. Born in Marriott Settlement, Utah. (U.S.Gov, Wikimedia Commons)

John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937)

Founder of the Standard Oil Company. Born in Richford, New York (The Rockefeller Archive Center, Wikimedia Commons)

Conrad Hilton (1897-1979)

Founder of the Hilton Hotel chain. Born in San Antonio. (Harry Pot, Wikimedia CCA 3.0)

Saint Elizabeth Ann (1774-1821)

Established the first Catholic girls’ school in the U.S. at Emmitsburg, Maryland. 1st U.S. born citizen to become a saint. Born in New York City. (Wikimedia Commons)

Francesca Cabrini (1850-1917)

In 1936, she became the 1st U.S. citizen to be canonized as a saint. Born in Sant Angelo Lodigiano, Italy. (Wikimedia Commons)

Hellen Keller (1880-1968)

Author and political activist for women’s suffrage and labor rights. First deaf blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. Born in Tuscumbia Alabama. (Los Angeles Times, Wikimedia Commons)

Andrew Saks *1847-1912)

American businessman who founded the Saks Fifth Avenue Store in New York. Born in Baltimore (HBC Heritage)

Rowland Macy (1822-1877)

American businessman who founded the Macy’s Department Store on 6th Avenue in New York. Born in Nantucket Island, Massachusetts (Wikimedia Commons)

George Westinghouse (1846-1914)

American entrepreneur in the electrical industry based in Pennsylvania. Born in Central Bridge, New York. (Wikimedia Commons)

Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)

Social reformer and women’s rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women’s suffrage movement. Born in Adams, Massachusetts (Wikimedia Commons)

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

American writer and printer. Author of “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” Born in Florida, Missouri (AF Bradley, Wikimedia Commons)

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)

American abolitionist and author of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Born in Hartford, Connecticut (National Archives and Records Administration, Wikimedia Commons)

Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)

Educator and adviser to multiple U.S .presidents. Born in Hales Ford, Virginia (Harris & Ewing, Wikimedia Commons)

Harriet Tubman (1822-1913)

American abolitionist and activist. Born a slave in Dorchester County, Maryland (Horatio Seymour Squyer, Wikimedia Commons)

Clara Barton (1821-1912)

Founder of the American Red Cross in 1881. Born in North Oxford, Massachusetts (James Edward Purdy, Wikimedia Commons)

Captain Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809 and Lieutenant William Clark (1770-1838)

Led a 2 year transcontomemtal expedition to map the Pacific Northwest after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. (Wikimedia Commons)

Elizabeth Stanton (1815-1902)

American leader of the women’s rights movement during the mid-to-late 1800s. Born in Johnstown, New York (Wikimedia Commons)

Paul Revere (1735-1818)

Warned the American militia of an impending British attack. Born in Boston (JS Copley, Wikimedia Commons)

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

One of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Printer, scientist and Inventor. Born in Boston (Joseph Duplessis, Wikimedia Commons)

William B..Travis (1809-1836)

Commanded the Texas forces at the battle of the Alamo in San Antonio fighting Mexican forces. Born in Saluda County, South Carolina (Wiley Martin, Wikimedia Commons)

Daviy Crockett (1766-1836)

American folk hero. Frontiersman and politician who died at the Battle of the Alamo. Born in Greene County, Tennessee (Chester Harding, Wikimedia Commons)