Kofi Atta Annan was born in Kumasi, in central Ghana, Africa, on April 8, 1938. Since 1960 Ghana has been...

JAMES HARRISON was born in Renton, near Ben Lomond, Scotland, April 17, 1816. He designed and built the plant for...

Nelson Mandela was born on July 18, 1918, into a royal family of the Xhosa-speaking Thembu tribe in the South...

KING JAJA OF OPOBO(full name: Jubo Jubogha; 1821–1891) was the first known Nigerian richest man, nationalist, a merchant prince and...

Shiro Ishii was born on 15 June 1892 in Shibayama in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, the fourth son of Katsuya Ishii, a local landowner and sake maker....

Himmler was born into a middle-class, conservative Catholic family in Munich, Germany, on October 7, 1900. His father, Gebhard, taught...

Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, in the small Austrian town of Braunau on the Inn...

Reinhard Heydrich was born in the German city of Halle, near Leipzig on March 7, 1904. Reinhard Eugen Tristan Heydrich...

In 1971, General Idi Amin overthrew the elected government of Milton Obote and declared himself president of Uganda, launching a...

Josef Mengele was born on the 16th of March, 1911 in the German Bavarian town of Gunzburg. After three miscarriages,...