Charles Carroll of Carrollton (born Annapolis, Maryland, 1737; died Baltimore, Maryland, November 14, 1832) signed the Declaration of Independence. He was the last surviving signer of the document. Children can learn more at: Charles Carroll.
Rachel Field (born New York, New York, 1894; died Los Angeles, California, March 15, 1942) wrote at least 25 works for both children and adults. Her books include Hitty, Her First Hundred Years, which earned the 1930 Newbery Medal. She wrote Prayer for a Child, published posthumously in 1944. The illustrator, Elizabeth Orton Jones, received the 1945 Caldecott Medal. Children could learn more at Rachel Field.
Sir William Golding (born Columb Minor, Cornwall, England, 1911; died near Truro, Cornwall, England, June 19, 1993) was a writer. One of his most famous works is Lord of the Flies. He received a Nobel Prize in literature in 1983.
Sunita Williams
Sunita Williams (born Euclid, Ohio, 1965) is an astronaut and former test pilot. Williams participated in Expeditions 15 and 16 and in Expeditions 32 and 33 on the International Space Station. By 2012 she had taken seven spacewalks for a total of 50 hours 40 minutes. She ran the Boston Marathon in 2007 while she was serving on the International Space Station. She ran the marathon on a treadmill in four hours 24 minutes. Her fellow crew members cheered for her while her sister Dina Pandya and fellow astronaut Karen L. Nyborg ran the marathon on earth. Children can learn more at: Sunita Williams.
