On this day in 1957, John Henry Phelan died, leaving a legacy of oil, philanthropy and business. Phelan was born to Patrick Henry and Adele (Myers) Phelan on Dec. 11, 1877 in Charlotte ...

John Tyler, the 10th U.S. president, was born in 1790. He took office in 1841, after William Henry Harrison died. And his last living grandchild, Harrison Ruffin Tyler, just passed away ...

John Franks, of Chicago, passed away on May 14 in The Villages, Florida. John was born in Chicago to Veronica Florence Jensen ... his stepfather Thomas Purtell, his Uncle Henry Jensen and many more ...

Rt. Hon. John Henry Bostwick CB, KC, was born on May 3, 1939 and passed away on May 3, 2025 – his 86th birthday. The Official Memorial Service will be conducted at Christ Church Cathedral, George ...

I was born to play this part.'" The 1969 movie version of True Grit, based on the book by Charles Portis, gave Wayne a chance to do something a little different. DON'T MISS... John Wayne's 10-year ...

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow” and “from 10p pieces grow great harp players”, said no-one ever. Unless they were ...

"John Paul Jones was truly a hero," she says ... The French records of his death and burial in 1792 had been destroyed in a fire; one searcher, in the 1850s, regretfully concluded that the ...

David Mamet returns to cinema with Henry Johnson, a film version of his ... shock when meeting his homicidal alter ego in the convict John Henry Abbott. Here, LaBeouf’s erotic, psychotic ...

A rumor that circulated online in May 2025 claimed a video authentically showed a 95-year-old World War II veteran named Henry Whitaker singing for his fallen friend Thomas on NBC's reality ...