Asia – Oman

Kurtis Blow/Kurt Walker (1959- )
Legendary rapper, composer, actor, and activist Kurtis Blow was born on August 9, 1959, in Harlem, New York, as Kurt...
July 11th, 2021

Miles K. Davis (1960- )
Miles K. Davis is the first black educator to become president of Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon. Davis was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1960....
July 29th, 2018

John D. Hopper (1947- )
Retired Lt. General John D. Hopper was born in Clarksville, Tennessee in 1947. He attended Lyndon McKinley high school in Columbus, Ohio and...
July 1st, 2018

Sultanate of Zanzibar (1856–1964)
The island of Zanzibar, now a part of Tanzania, was a nineteenth century East African trading empire that fell under...
March 27th, 2016

Seyyid Said (1790–1856)
Seyyid Said, also known as Said bin Sultan, was a resourceful and energetic sultan of Oman who moved the capital...
March 27th, 2016

Elizabeth Davenport McKune (1947- )
Ambassador Elizabeth Davenport McKune was born on November 15, 1947 in Detroit, Michigan. She became a Foreign Service officer in...
February 16th, 2015

Richard Lewis Baltimore, III (1947- )
Ambassador Richard Lewis Baltimore III was born on December 31, 1947 in New York City, New York to Judge Richard...
February 16th, 2015

Gina Kay Abercrombie-Winstanley (1957- )
Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, the first woman diplomat to lead a U.S. consulate in the gender conservative Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, also...
January 30th, 2015

Marguerita Ragsdale (1948- )
Marguerita Dianne Ragsdale was born in April 1948 in Richmond, Virginia to Lillie and Vernon Ragsdale and raised alongside her...
January 21st, 2015