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Anne Frank
Annelies Marie Frank was a German-born Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim. She gained worldwide notability posthumously for keeping a diary documenting her life in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands. In the diary, she regularly described her family's everyday life in their hiding place in an Amsterdam attic from 1942 until their arrest in 1944.
Carlo Acutis
Carlo Acutis was an English-born Italian Catholic teenager known for his devotion to the Eucharist and his use of digital media to promote Catholic devotion. Born in London and raised in Milan, he developed an early interest in computers and video games, teaching himself programming and web design and assisting his parish and school with digital projects.
Sadako Sasaki
Japanese origami artist
Heather O'Rourke
American actress (1975–1988)
Ibrahim ibn Muhammad
Youngest son of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (630–632)
Rosalia Lombardo
Italian child who died of pneumonia
Tanya Savicheva
Russian diarist (1930–1944)
Guru Har Krishan
The eighth Sikh Guru
Qasim ibn Muhammad
son of Muhammad and Khadijah bint Khuwaylid
Abd-Allah ibn Muhammad
one of the sons Muhammad and Khadija
Hamnet Shakespeare
Hamnet Shakespeare was the only son of William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway, and the fraternal twin of Judith Shakespeare. Hamnet died at the age of 11. Some Shakespearean scholars speculate on the relationship between Hamnet and his father's later play Hamlet, as well as on possible connections between Hamnet's death and the writing of King John, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, and Twelfth Night.
Nkosi Johnson
South African child AIDS activist (1989–2001)
David Vetter
American sufferer of severe combined immunodeficiency (1971–1984)
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Italian ballet dancer (1853–1870)
William Wallace Lincoln
third son of Abraham Lincoln
Antonietta Meo
Italian girl declared venerable by the Catholic Church (1930–1937)
Zeng Jinlian
tallest woman verified in modern times
Edward Baker Lincoln
second son of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln (1846–1850)
Mattie Stepanek
American writer (1990–2004)
Christian Heinrich Heineken
German child prodigy
Patrick Bouvier Kennedy
Patrick Bouvier Kennedy was the youngest child of United States president John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy. His elder siblings were Caroline, John Jr., and Arabella.
Garafilia Mohalbi
Greek girl (b. 1817 – d. 1830) rescued from Turkish slavery, who became the subject of an artistic movement about Greek slavery in the Ottoman Empire
Anne Darwin
second child and eldest daughter of Charles and Emma Darwin
Magdalena Luther
daughter of Martin Luther
Allegra Byron
daughter of George Gordon, Lord Byron, and Claire Clairmont (1817–1822)
Baby Fae
American infant and xenotransplant patient (1984–1984)
Connor Michalek
American cancer victim
Marjorie Fleming
Scottish child writer and poet (1803-1811)