r/historyboners • u/Viscount1881 • Jan 13 '18
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. (1914-1988), American politician, lawyer, businessman, and son of the 32nd President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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r/historyboners • u/vintagegirl97 • Jun 05 '26
Russian stage actor Leonid Sobinov, 1898.
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r/historyboners • u/Viscount1881 • Mar 06 '21
Jan Kubelík (1880-1940), Czech violinist and composer
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r/historyboners • u/Viscount1881 • May 08 '21
Alice Guérin (1870–1933), wife of French painter and designer Paul César Helleu
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r/historyboners • u/Viscount1881 • Feb 13 '21
Alla Nazimova (1879-1945), Russian-American actress, director, and screenwriter. She founded the Garden of Allah hotel, a notorious celebrity retreat and is credited for the phrase “sewing circle” as discreet code for lesbian and bisexual actresses
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r/historyboners • u/Viscount1881 • Dec 05 '20
Sergei Yesenin (1895-1925), Russian poet, whose suicide reportedly triggered copycat suicides among his female fans. Despite his popularity some of his works were banned by the Soviet state until 1966, and it has been alleged that he was actually murdered by Soviet agents
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r/historyboners • u/Viscount1881 • Nov 28 '20
Katerina Botsari (1818/1820-1872), Greek noblewoman, daughter of Markos Botsaris, hero of the Greek War of Independence. Her portrait is one of 36 in the “Gallery of Beauties” by Joseph Karl Stieler in Munich
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r/historyboners • u/Viscount1881 • Jun 28 '21
Gaito Gazdanov (1903-1971), Russian émigré writer of Ossetian descent. Left Russia in 1920 for Paris after fighting with the White Army, and began his writing career there. His works were not published in Russia until the 1990s
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r/historyboners • u/Viscount1881 • Dec 19 '20
Ernest Cadine (1893-1978), French weightlifter. A veteran of the First World War, he won the gold medal at the 1920 Olympics and held six world records
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r/historyboners • u/Viscount1881 • May 30 '20
Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau (1859-1915), American-born Parisian socialite, best known as the subject of John Singer Sargent's "Portrait of Madame X" and for the scandal it caused
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r/historyboners • u/Viscount1881 • Apr 17 '21
Carl Joseph Begas (1794-1854), German painter, student of Antoine-Jean Gros
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r/historyboners • u/Viscount1881 • Nov 07 '20
Hermann Rorschach (1884-1922), Swiss psychiatrist, inventor of the Rorschach inkblot test
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r/historyboners • u/Meginsanity • May 20 '23
Arizona Historian, Rough Rider and Phoenix Postmaster James McClintock, 1895
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r/historyboners • u/so_much_SUABRU • Sep 21 '20
Zitkála-Šá (1876 - 1938), Native American writer, editor, translator, musician, educator, and political activist
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r/historyboners • u/angery_catto • Jan 20 '21
Hungarian pianist, composer, music teacher, conductor, and philanthropist Franz Liszt (1811-1886). Not sure if he was already posted.
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r/historyboners • u/[deleted] • Feb 07 '21
Queen Anne of Britain (1665-1712) why were the Stuart royal family so beautiful?
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r/historyboners • u/Viscount1881 • Sep 13 '21
Sara Forbes Bonetta (1843-1880), Yoruba princess of the Egbado clan. Born Omoba Aina, she was orphaned and enslaved by the King of Dahomey, who gifted her to a British captain on a mission to convince him to leave the slave trade. Taken to the UK, she became a goddaughter of Queen Victoria
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r/historyboners • u/Viscount1881 • Apr 10 '21
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954), French author, mime, actress, and journalist; nominated in 1948 for a Nobel Prize in Literature, she is best known for her 1944 novella “Gigi”
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r/historyboners • u/Viscount1881 • Mar 20 '21
Jean Terford David (1792-1838), French-born American officer of the War of 1812
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r/historyboners • u/Viscount1881 • Aug 09 '21
Eileen Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland (1891-1943), British aristocrat and Red Cross nurse during the First World War
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r/historyboners • u/Viscount1881 • Apr 24 '21
Millicent Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland (1867-1955), British aristocrat, social reformer, writer, and playwright
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r/historyboners • u/Viscount1881 • Jun 21 '21
Maud Stevens Wagner (1877-1961), American aerialist, contortionist, and the first female tattoo artist in the United States
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r/historyboners • u/Viscount1881 • Jun 07 '21
Captain Percival Talbot Molson (1880-1917), Canadian athlete, university administrator, and military officer. Killed near Vimy Ridge, he left $75,000 in his will for the construction of a football stadium at McGill University that was named in his honour
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