Famous People - Facts for Kids

Abraham Lincoln let his youngest son, Tad, roller skate in the East Room of the White House, even though it scratched the floors.

John Lennon wrote his first song called "Hello Little Girl" when he was a teenager.

Leonardo da Vinci wrote his notes backward – you need a mirror to read them!

Coco Chanel really did grow up in a very poor family with five siblings, and money was always tight while they moved around rural France.

Ludwig van Beethoven's late string quartets were so advanced for their time that many listeners found them incomprehensible at first, but they're now considered some of the greatest chamber music ever written.