Famous People - Facts for Kids

Barack Obama was the first African American President of the United States.

Albert Einstein read his first science books so many times, the pages became worn and torn from use.

Soon after Beethoven died in 1827, his body was examined and later exhumed in the 19th century, and some fragments of his skull were taken by a Viennese doctor.

Abraham Lincoln visited wounded soldiers from both the Union and Confederate sides in hospitals during the Civil War.

Albert Einstein had a funny way of taking naps! He would sit in his comfy chair and hold a spoon in his hand, with a metal plate underneath. When he started to doze off, the spoon would drop and make a loud clink on the plate, waking him up!