People

1389–1435

John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford, was the third surviving son of Henry IV and served as regent of France for the infant Henry VI. A […]

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1570–1638

John Tradescant the elder was an English gardener, collector and traveller in the early seventeenth century. His plant collecting and cabinet of curiosities helped shape the […]

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1608–1662

John Tradescant the Younger was an English gardener and collector who continued his father’s work in plant collecting and natural history. The Tradescant collection later became […]

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1853–1895

John Wesley Hardin was a Texas gunfighter and outlaw who claimed to have killed more than forty men, though many of his stories cannot be verified. […]

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1893–1978

Jomo Kenyatta was a Kenyan nationalist leader and the first president of independent Kenya. His career moved from anti-colonial activism and imprisonment during the Mau Mau […]

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1063 BCE–1011 BCE

Jonathan was a son of King Saul and close companion of David. Although heir to Saul, Jonathan protects David from his father and dies with Saul […]

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born c. 14th century

Jon Havtoresson was a Norwegian nobleman of the fourteenth century and member of the powerful Sudreim lineage. Through descent and marriage connections he belonged to the […]

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1116–1167

Josce de Dinan was an Anglo-Norman lord who held Ludlow Castle during the civil war between Stephen and Empress Matilda. He became involved in a violent […]

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1563 BCE–1453 BCE

Joseph was a son of Jacob whose story in Genesis takes him from slavery to high office in Egypt. Sold by his brothers, Joseph interprets dreams, […]

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1836–1914

Joseph Chamberlain was a British politician, reformer and imperial advocate of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His career included municipal reform in Birmingham, Liberal […]

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