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The man known to history as Nikola Tesla was born on the 10th of July 1856 in Smiljan, Lika, which was originally part of the Austro-Hungarian empire but is now located in Croatia. His father was Milutin Tesla, a priest of the Serbian Orthodox Church and the son of Nikola Tesla’s grandfather who was also named Nikola. His grandfather had ...

The man known to history as Albert Einstein was born on the 14th of March 1879 in the city of Ulm in the south of what was then the German Empire. Ulm was a major urban centre of the Kingdom of Wurttemberg, a major constituent part of the German state in the late nineteenth century. His father was Hermann Einstein, ...

The man known to history as Robert Oppenheimer was born on the 22nd of April 1904 as Julius Robert Oppenheimer in New York City. He quickly became known primarily by his middle name and is typically referred to today as Robert Oppenheimer or J. Robert Oppenheimer. Robert was born into an affluent Jewish family in New York City. His father ...

The man known to history as Napoleon Bonaparte was born on the 15th of August 1769 in the town of Ajaccio on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. For centuries this had formed part of the Republic of Genoa, but at the time Napoleon was born it had just been amalgamated into the Kingdom of France. Napoleon’s father was Carlo Buonaparte, ...

The man known to history as John Jay was born on the 23rd of December 1745, or the 12th December following the Julian calendar, in New York City, then a town of 10,000 people in the colony of New York, one of more than a dozen colonies on the North American fringe Of the British Empire. John’s father Peter Jay ...

The man known to history as Robert Edward Lee was born on the 19th of January 1807, in Stratford Hall, Virginia. His father was Henry Lee III who was born into a privileged family and was also a famous American Revolutionary War hero. Henry Lee grew up in one of the foremost families in Virginia, as his mother, Lucy Grymes ...

The man known to history as Doctor Benjamin Franklin was born on the 17th of January 1706 in Boston, the capital of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, in a small, two-room house. His father was Josiah Franklin born in 1657 in the Northhamptonshire village of Ecton, In England, to a working-class, protestant family who for generations were known for their intelligence, ...