Historical men and women

  Anne Hyde (1637-71) had two daughters who would become Queens and would have been a Queen Consort herself had she not died before her husb...

  Sweyn Forkbeard was the father of King Cnut (also known as Canute), the Dane who ruled England from 1016 to 1035. Sweyn was himself the vi...

  Thorkell the Tall was a Viking leader who was prominent in English affairs during the reigns of Ethelred the Unready (Anglo-Saxon king fro...

  Henry Fox was a prominent English politician during the late 18 th century, although he never became Prime Minister (or First Lord of the...

  King Louis IX was the only king of France to be declared a saint, a status that he earned through his excessive piety and participation in...

  Ernst Wollweber was born in 1898, the son of a miner in Hamburg, Germany. He joined the German Navy in 1917 and was inspired by what was ...

  Manco Capac, who died in or around the year 1107, is generally described as the first emperor of the Inca people who occupied much of the ...