Brandeis, Louis (November 13)
The first Jewish Supreme Court justice
Famous People Born in 1856
From the Who2 database of 4,809 musicians, actors, historical figures, and other celebrities:
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Freud, Sigmund (May 6)
The founder of psychoanalysis -
Haggard, H. Rider (June 22)
Author of King Solomon's Mines -
Lascurain, Pedro
President of Mexico for under an hour -
Peary, Robert E. (May 6)
North Pole expedition leader -
Pétain, Henri Philippe (April 24)
He sold out France to the Nazis -
Shaw, George Bernard (July 26)
The author of Pygmalion -
Tesla, Nikola (July 10)
The electrical genius who invented alternating current -
Washington, Booker T. (April 5)
The black educator who started the Tuskegee Institute -
Wilson, Woodrow (December 28)
The U.S. president during World War I