8. Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts. Benjamin Franklin spent only two years attending a school in Boston and a private academy shortly before joining the family candle and soap making business. By the age twelve, Benjamin Franklin was serving as an indentured apprentice at a printing shop owned by his brother, James Franklin. Young Benjamin Franklin made up for his lack of formal education by spending what little money he had on books and periodicals. He often went without food to afford new books and volumes. He also honed his writing skills by reading essays and periodicals and then rewriting them from memory. Benjamin became a best selling hit writer as a teenager.

7. Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin was born on February 12th, 1809 in Shrewsbury, England. Charles Darwin created the idea of natural selection. He also came up with undeniable evidence from his detailed research which includes a lengthy five year voyage on the HMS Beagle. On this voyage, Charles Darwin visited ecologically diverse areas such as Chile, Australia, Brazil, the Falkland Islands, and the Galapagos Islands. He is most famous for his work regarding the Galapagos Island. Charles Darwin was known to have said “Owing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable to an individual of any species, in its infinitely complex relationship to other organic beings and to external nature, will tend to the preservation of that individual, and will generally be inherited by its offspring.”

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