John James Audubon

John James Audubon was born in 1785. He is famous for the book Birds of America. He was born in what is now Haiti but moved to France when he was young, but immigrated to the US. The Audubon society was named after him. He died in 1851.

Paul Revere

Paul Revere was born in 1734. He is famous for  the Ride of Paul Revere which was that he rode to Lexington from Boston to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams that the British were preparing to march on Lexington. He is also known to be a Son of Liberty, part of a group of men who wanted to be free in colonial Britain. He was a Silversmith. He died in 1818.

Frederick the Great

Frederick the Great was born in 1712. He doubled the size of Prussia using armies His predecessor (Frederick William I)  had built to challenge Austria, France, and Russia. Fredrick conquered Silesia from Austria's empress Maria Theresa. Frederick greatly improved Prussia's Business and made it a cultural center in the Enlightenment.
He died in 1786.

Leif Ericson

Leif Ericson was born in 970 A.D. to Eric the Red. Leif's father had been banished from Iceland  and had discovered Greenland and settled there. Leif himself was to surpass his fathers discovery as he sailed and attempted to settle in Newfoundland(an area in Canada). Leif Ericson Day is held on October 9.

John Constable

John Constable was born in 1776. He was an English romantic painter, who mainly did landscapes. His wife was disinherited for marrying him. Although his painting is now popular in Britain at the time he painted it was much popular in France.  He died in 1835.

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin was born in 1706. He is famous for being an American revolutionary and Founding Father. He was also a scientist who supposedly discovered electricity while flying a kite. He was also a printer who wrote Poore Richards Almanac which was filled with sayings and other things of use to common people. He died in 1790.

Joseph Turner

Joseph Turner was born in 1775. He was a painter who did Romantic style watercolors. His artwork was mainly landscapes. His atwork was fantastic and extreme showing natures beauty and anger in some cases. One of his paintings, The Fighting Temeraire, was polled in Britain as it's greatest painting.   He died in 1851.