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Robert Russell Bennett was born on June 15, 1894, in Kansas City, Missouri, the only son of George Robert and Mary Bradford Bennett. Both parents were of Yankee stock going back to the early colonial era.

Standard reference works list film actor Wallace Beery’s birthplace as Kansas City, Missouri, and disagree on his birth date.

Noah Beery Sr., a film actor, was born on a Clay County, Missouri, farm several miles northwest of Smithville on January 17, 1884.

William Stone Woods was born on November 1, 1840, the son of James Harris and Martha Jane Stone Woods. He was one of five children.

In his St. Louis studio, Charles “Carl” Ferdinand Wimar painted the Missouri River frontier in the final decade prior to the Civil War.

James T. Scott (1885?–1923) was the victim of one of the most notorious lynchings in Missouri history.

Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, around 1875—sources differ on the year of her birth—Arsania M. Williams was the third of five children of George and Julia Williams.

Missouri’s third governor, Abraham J. Williams served in that office for less than six months.

Roy O. Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis. Five years earlier, the US Supreme Court issued its decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, the case that endorsed racial segregation.