Biographies

Ruth Elizabeth “Bette” Davis, was an American film, television, and stage actress.

Joan Crawford was an American actress.

Amelia Mary Earhart was a United States aviation pioneer, author, and women’s rights advocate.

Charles Elwood Yeager, known as Chuck was an American aviator, major general in the United States Air Force and a famous test pilot.

James Harold Doolittle, also known as Jimmy Doolittle, was an American pilot and a pioneer in the development of aviation between the two world wars.

Christian Wolff, from 1745 Baron von Wolff was a German polymath, jurist and mathematician, and one of the most important philosophers of the Enlightenment between Leibniz and Kant.

Roland Garros was a French aviator, lieutenant pilot during World War I. He was born on October 6, 1888 in Saint-Denis de La Réunion and died in an air battle on October 5, 1918 in Vouziers.

Joseph Benedict Augustus John Anthony Michael Adam of Habsburg-Lorraine was Holy Roman Emperor from 1765, first associated with the throne over the Habsburg family dominions with his mother Maria Theresa until her death in 1780, and then also Archduke of Austria and sole ruler until his death in 1790.

James Madison was an American politician and political theorist.

Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d’Alembert