Bizarre and Intriguing Facts About Some of History’s Most Famous Notables
by Throughout time we have always been fascinated by famous people, whether they’re musicians, movie stars, presidents, kings, queens, criminals or even warriors.
Our attraction to these famous people isn’t always because of who they are that make them interesting, but rather some unusual facts about them, that make them interesting. Here is some of history’s most famous people with some rather unusual interesting facts.
King George I
King George 1st, was born and raised in Germany but never learned to speak English ,even though he was King of England from 1714, to 1727. He created the first government cabinet by leaving the running of his country to his ministers. King George was born on May 28th, 1660 and died on June 11th, 1727. He served as king from August 1st, 1714 to June 11th, 1727.
Queen Anne
Queen Anne assigned her cousin, Lord Cornbury governor of New York and New Jersey, even though he was a transvestite. When the colonist discovered this they were aghast. Queen Anne was born on February 6th, 1665, and died on April 1st, 1714. She served as queen from March 8th, 1702 to August 1st, 1714.
Aaron Burr
Vice-president Aaron Burr who served under Jefferson murdered a man and got away with it? He shot and killed Alexander Hamilton on July 11, 1804, in a duel. Both men during an angry outburst decided on the duel. Burr was later charged with murder in New Jersey, but the State never pursued him on the grounds that “civilized nations” do not treat dueling deaths as “common murders.” Aaron Burr was born on February 6th, 1756, and died on September 14th, 1836. He served as vice-president from March 4th, 1801 to March 4th, 1805.
Woodrow Wilson, 28th President
President Woodrow Wilson earned a Ph.D. in John Hopkins University. He is the only U.S. president to receive a Ph.D. He was born on December 28th, 1856, and died on February 3rd, 1924. He served as president from March 4th, 1913 to March 4th, 1921.
Zachary Taylor – 12th President
President Zachary Taylor, didn’t vote until he was the ripe old age of 62 years-old. Neither did he vote in his own election because he was a soldier and moved so often that he could not establish a fixed residence. He was born on November 24th and died on July 9th, 1850. He served as president from March 4th to July 9th, 1850.
John Quincy Adams – 6th President
President John Quincy Adams was born on July 11th, 1767, and died on February 23rd, 1848. He served as president from March 4th, 1825 to March 4th, 1829, and had a pet alligator, which he kept in the East Room of the White House.
Albert Einstein
Local news hounds discovered that a 12 year-old girl would frequently visit the Einstein home. The girls mother not bothering to ask until the newspaper reported it, wondering what could Einstein and her daughter have in common that they would spend so much time together. Einstein replied when asked, “She brings me cookies and I do her arithmetic homework.” Einstein was born on March 14th, 1879, and died April, 1955. He won a “Nobel Prize in Physics.”
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare is well known for inventing several words and phrases. Words such as, “assassination,”"puke” and “bedroom,” are among his invention as is the phrase, “Laugh it off.”
If you read Shakespeare’s original published copy of Hamlet, from the furthest left hand side, it reads, “I am a homosexual,” in the last 14 lines in the book. Is this a clever confession or just a coincidence?
William Shakespeare was baptized on April 26th, 1564, there is no known record of his birth. He died in April, 1616.
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Post CommentCHAN LEE PENG
On February 12, 2009 at 10:20 am
Of all, I only know Albert Einstein. Great find, thanks!
QuinMonty86
On February 12, 2009 at 10:29 am
I only knew about Aaron Burr. wow
Patrick Bernauw
On February 12, 2009 at 10:30 am
I didn’t know about Shakespeare & Hamlet… but if it’s true Christopher Marlowe wrote all the Shakespeare pieces, then the “I am a homosexual” quote really fits!
maranatha
On February 12, 2009 at 10:34 am
Trivia is SOOOO interesting. Thanks for sharing!
Can you imagine a ruler of England who never bothers to learn the language!!!!
Olivia Reason
On February 12, 2009 at 10:36 am
Don’t you just love history?
I didn’t know any of these things about these people. And come to think of it, this is my first time looking a picture of Queen Anne…Good job, Debra.
LOVELYHONEY
On February 12, 2009 at 12:06 pm
i am a direct person who loves individuals of intellect
TWO SUCH GREAT people i ADMIRE are SHAKSPEARE and EINSTEIN
in poetry iam a descendant of Shakes and in the study of the human mind , Einstein, but for them i would have been nought.
lh
M.A Bhanpurwala
On February 12, 2009 at 12:27 pm
i know three great people , william shakspeare, einstein and king george I thanks for sharing……….
Joni Keith
On February 12, 2009 at 12:41 pm
This is a whole lot of cool information. The Albert Einstein bit made me laugh. Very clever.
Christine Ramsay
On February 12, 2009 at 1:49 pm
These are some interesting facts. I like the Einstein one too.
Great work.
Christine
Carolyn Ann Aish
On February 12, 2009 at 1:56 pm
I’ve always loved history, and I really enjoyed reading this–as well as being newly informed, especially on the Presidents of the USA. You did good to get all the pix too, well done.
kim waite
On February 12, 2009 at 2:10 pm
very interesting,Jo Bingham highley recomended your work to me and I can see why.
hfj
On February 12, 2009 at 2:23 pm
A very interesting article. Some of these facts i knew about some of these great people, and some i didn’t. Thanks for the history lesson. Well done
Reilley
On February 12, 2009 at 3:02 pm
I LOVE trivia like this.
Moses Ingram
On February 12, 2009 at 3:10 pm
As you know, I’m a lover of history, so I find all of this interesting. I’m familiar with all of them but didn’t know of the trivia. I wasn’t surprised about King George 1, as I knew he was born and raised in Germany. He would have spent only 13 years in England but it’s still surprising that he didn’t learn any English at all. Did you make an error in either his birth and death years because it would make him 114 years of age? I have heard that Queen Anne was very unpopular, in fact there was a saying,”Queen Anne is dead”, which apparently meant, “nothing of much importance happened”. The story of Aaron Burr is of course will known but now I know why he wasn’t prosecuted. Very interesting post, thanks for sharing.
Debra.
On February 12, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Moses,
There is an error on his death date, it should be June 11th, 1727. I did submit a fix.Anyhow, I’ve been doing that a bit lately, I guess I got a little confused with all the dates. Anyways thank you for your comments and god bless you all.
Joie Schmidt
On February 12, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Wow – - very interesting, cool article – I enjoyed it very much!
Blessings.
Sincerely,
-Liane Schmidt.
Westbrook
On February 12, 2009 at 3:46 pm
I am up on all of these people…it is a nice refresher. Thanks
T.Rex McGoogle
On February 12, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Debra,
Now that was some interesting history. Very good, however, I think there’s a typo on the birth/death dates of King George.
I love to read such tidbits of history. Me, I don’t know how to
drag such nice pictures to the Triond page.
George W Whitehead
On February 12, 2009 at 3:53 pm
Great article, Debra. Imagine having Einstein to do your homework for you. By the way, legend has it that Shakespeare was both born and died on April 23rd, St George’s Day, St George of course being the patron saint of England.
Debra.
On February 12, 2009 at 4:43 pm
George,
I understand that legend has that Shakespeare died in April but there is no record or proof of his death so no one really knows when he died but it is a known and documented fact that he was baptized on April 26th.
Thank you all again for commenting!God bless.
Majic
On February 12, 2009 at 5:17 pm
King Richard the “Lionheart” was also another king who never spoke English. He also passed on his crown to Prince Johan who was the villain Prince in the Robinhood legend. So if Robinhood was real then he got no “happy ever after”
AC Hamilton III
On February 12, 2009 at 5:54 pm
Good information. Einstein was actually a very comical fellow. He was full of very funny quotes. Great article!
Peter Cimino
On February 12, 2009 at 6:18 pm
Very cool article. Well done.
Morgana
On February 12, 2009 at 8:02 pm
Interesting people….at least after death they were
mysticdave
On February 12, 2009 at 8:29 pm
I love interesting trivia:)
Lee Altman
On February 12, 2009 at 8:57 pm
great work. I love history and the stories that trail it.
Eunice Tan
On February 12, 2009 at 9:30 pm
Very … very interesting. Great work!
Lisa Clayton Williams
On February 12, 2009 at 10:36 pm
As always, great stuff! I have learned a lot of interesting facts from your articles! Entertaining read!
MMV Abad
On February 13, 2009 at 6:25 am
Interesting facts, Debra. Thanks, I’ve always enjoyed history!
trishia
On February 13, 2009 at 7:58 am
So that’s where the phrase”laugh it off” came from. Intriguing facts here. Thanks for sharing.
S A JOHNSON
On February 13, 2009 at 8:46 am
Very cool article!
Claudettte
On February 13, 2009 at 10:25 am
Most interesting information. Really enjoyed.
OhSugar
On February 13, 2009 at 11:47 am
These were really interesting pictures of some of our past history makers. The information on them was also interesting. Thank you for sharing this.
valli
On February 13, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Nice and interesting facts.
Ruby Hawk
On February 13, 2009 at 6:32 pm
Interesting historical facts. I love learning these things.
nobert soloria bermosa
On February 14, 2009 at 7:09 am
i enjoyed this coz i love history
rutherfranc
On February 14, 2009 at 7:49 pm
interesting facts! nice consolidation Deb!
Amreen
On February 16, 2009 at 11:58 am
Wow some of these facts I haven’t ever heard of before apart from King Georige the 1st. Nice work!
Ruby Hawk
On March 8, 2009 at 8:26 pm
I knew most of this at one time but it was time I had a refresher course. Thank you for seeing to it.
This is an article I missed so here I am late. Late is better than never.