"Work hard with love because that is how you sweeten the bitterness."
Achievers who lost a parent early in life. The link between loss & greatness.
Taken from Don't let death ruin your life by Jill Brooke.
Political Figures who lost a parent early in life:
Alexander the Great
Mark Antony
Tony Blair
Simon Bolivar
Guy Burgess
Aaron Burr
Julius Caesar
Caligula
Catherine I
Neville Chamberlain
Salmon Chase
Chiang Kai-shek
Winston Churchill
Claudius I
Henry Clay
Cleopatra
Grover Cleveland
William Jefferson Clinton
Oliver Cromwell
Jefferson Davis
Abba Eban
Elizabath I (England)
Alexander Hamilton
John Hancock
Hannibal
Benjamin Harrison
Rutherford Hayes
Henry VIII
Adolf Hilter
Ho Chi Minh
Richard Holbrooke
Herbert Hoover
Sam Houston
Harold Ickes
Ivan IV the Terrible
Andrew Jackson
Thomas Jefferson
Benito Juarez
Kagawa Toyohiko
Jomo Kenyatta
Genghis Khan
Nikita Khrushchev
Kenneth Kuanda
Robert E. Lee
Vladimir Ilych Lenin
Abraham Lincoln
Slobodan Milosevic
James Monroe
Napoleon Bonaparte
Gamal Nasser
Horatio Nelson
Nero
Eva "Evita" Peron
Peter the Great
Maximilien de Robespierre
Eleanor Roosevelt
Franklin Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt
Alfred Smith
John Smith
Sen Olympia Snowe
Joseph Stalin
Queen Victoria
George Washington
Roger Williams
Religious Leaders & Philosophers who lost a parent early in life:
Saint Augustine
Buddha
Albert Camus
Confucius
Charles Darwin
Mohandas Gandhi
Pope John Paul II
Mohammed
Friedrich Nietzsche
Plato
Jean-Paul Sartre
Artists, Writers, Musicians who lost a parent early in life:
James Agee
Steve Allen
Hans Christian Andersen
Johann Sebastian Bach
Francis Bacon
Baudelaire
Ludwig van Beethoven
Cate Blanchett
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Bronte
Mel Brooks
Dame Barbara Cartland
Ray Charles
Mary Higgins Clark
Sean Puffy Combs
Joseph Conrad
Dante Alighieri
James Dean
Daniel Defoe
Edgar Degas
Eugene Delacroix
Benicio Del Toro
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
George Elliot
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Desiderius Erasmus
Eric Fischl
Helen Frankenthaler
E.M. Forster
Robert Frost
Thomas Gainsborough
George Gordon, Lord Byron
Kelsey Grammer
Joseph Heller
Alfred Hitchcock
Victor Hugo
Aldous Huxley
Samuel Johnson
Immanuel Kant
John Keats
Larry King
Nathan Lane
John Lennon
Jerry Lieber
Madonna Ciccone
Thomas Mann
Somerset Maugham
Paul McCartney
Herman Melville
H.L. Mencken
Michelangelo
Charles Mingus
Moliere
Marilyn Monroe
Thomas More
Rosie O'Donnell
Dorothy Parker Edgar Allan Poe
Anothony Quinn
Jean Racine
Raphael
Paul Revere
Julia Roberts
Jean-Jacques Rosseau
Bertrand Russell
George Sand
William Saroyan
Franz Schubert
Martin Short
Gertrude Stein
Stendhal
Tom Stoppard
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Barbra Streisand Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
William Thackeray
Leo Tolstoy
Mark Twain
Voltaire
Richard Wagner
Virginia Woolf
Orson Welles
Edith Wharton
James Whistler
Theodore White
Elie Wiesel
Oscar Wilde
William Wordsworth
Emile Zola
Scientists who lost a parent early in life:
Sir Joseph Banks
Robert Boyle
Sir William Bragg
Sir Thomas Browne
Henry Cavendish
Nicolaus Copernicus
Marie Curie
Rene Descartes
Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
Sir Francis Galton
Sir Andrew Huxley
Antoine Lavoisier
Gottfried Leibnitz
Sir Isaac Newton
Blaise Pascal
Hermann Rorschach
If you would like to know what age a specific famous person's parent died you may email me at mkboehmer@gmail.com
"Work hard with love because that is how you sweeten the bitterness."
