Pain of our time

  1. Famous people without parents



    Some well-known people were foster children:

    - Augustus (31 BC – 14 AD), a Roman Imperator fostered by Gaius Julius Caesar;







    - Dante Alighieri (1265 – 1321), an Italian poet;







  2. - Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750), a German composer;







    - Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 – 1778), a French writer;






    - Vasily Zhukovsky (1783 – 1852), a Russian poet;







    - Lev Tolstoy (1828 – 1910), a Russian writer;






    - Coco Chanel (1883 – 1971), a French fashion designer;







    - Marlyn Monroe (1926 – 1962), an American actress, model and singer;





    - Steve Jobs (1955 – 2011), an American businessman, designer and inventor;





    - Mike Tyson (1966), an American professional boxer;




    - Nicole Richie (1981), an American actress, singer and fashion designer;






    - Guy Ritchie (1968), an English screenwriter and film maker.