Parent(s) Died, Disappeared or Became Incapacitated
Only listed here if it directly contributed to placement
- Ratana, Raniera Te Ao Hou
- Munk, Kaj
- Muhammad
- Morley, Eric Douglas
- Montgomery, Lucy Maud
- Monroe, William Smith
- Monaghan, Thomas
- Minik
- Mihinui, Dorothy Huhana
- Murray, Andrew Buist
- Nanbaree
- Niyazov, Saparmurat Ataevich
- Raeburn, Henry
- Quinn, Katherine DeMille
- Pryse, Robert John
- Ponsonby, Sarah
- Poe, Edgar Allan
- Pliny the Younger (under Roman Empire)
- Pŕscoli, Giovanni
- Parker, Quanah
- Mici Plwm
- Memminger, Christopher Gustavus
- Maugham, William Somerset
- Lonewolf, Delos Knowles
- Lloyd, Ellis
- von Lipp, Joseph
- Li Peng
- Lewis, Eleanor Parke Custis
- Lewis, Edmonia
- Lee, John Doyle
- Langstone, Frank
- Lopez, Charlotte Anne
- Mabo, Edward Koiki
- McAuley, Catherine
- Masters, Tom
- Mason, Sophia Thomas
- Martinson, Harry Edmund
- Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla
- McQueen, Steve
- McKenzie, Richard B.
- McCarthy, Thaddeus
- McCarthy, Mary Therese
- Langston, John Mercer
- Riles, Wilson C.
- Abramovich, Roman
- Wiesel, Eliezer
- Whitman, Marcus
- Whaitiri, Te Waari Kahukura
- Westheimer, Ruth Siegel
- Welch, Bruce
- Weinstock, Arnold
- Walker, C.J.
- Waaka, Te Kari
- Williams, Jett
- Williams, John Owen
- Wirt, William
- Agnelli, Umberto
- Agnelli, Umberto
- Zvi, Sarah
- Wright, Richard Nathaniel
- Wright, Allen
- Wordsworth, William
- Wordsworth, Dorothy
- Wolde, Degaga
- Train, George Francis
- Train, George Francis
- Tolstoy, Leo Nikolayevich
- Spencer, Percy LaBaron
- Shoah
- Shin, Paull H.
- Sherman, William Tecumseh
- Scully, Julia
- Sancho, Ignatius
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- Roosevelt, Eleanor
- Stands In Timber, John
- Tall Mountain, Mary
- Tecumseh
- Tolkien, J.R.R.
- Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista
- Thomas, Leslie John
- Te Waharoa
- Terupe, Tui
- Tenskwatawa
- Templer, James
- Tekakwitha, Kateri
- Robinson, Bill
- Douglas, Catherine
- Cole, Carol
- Cohn, Leopold
- Cochran, Jacqueline
- Chips, Horn
- Chanel, Gabrielle Bonheur
- Cerullo, Morris
- Catches, Peter
- Carter, Forrest
- Commager, Henry Steele
- Conrad, Joseph
- Cornwell, Patricia
- Dodson, Patrick
- Dodson, Michael
- Dodson, Adrian
- Diamond, Jeff
- Dean, James Byron
- Deacon, Joseph John
- Dante Alighieri
- Custis, George Washington Parke
- Cardozo, Abraham
- Campbell, Ben Nighthorse
- Byrd, Robert C.
- Bates, Daisy
- Bartram, John
- Bankhead, Tallulah
- Ballinger, John
- Baiul, Oksana
- Bach, Johann Sebastian
- Aristotle
- Alda, Frances Jeanne
- Bayard, James Asheton, Sr.
- Bergman, Ingrid
- Bishop, Elizabeth
- Burnum, Burnum
- Burke, Kathy
- Burke, Andrew Horace
- Brown, Mick
- Brown, Matthew
- Brodkey, Harold
- Brainerd, David
- Bokassa I
- Aberdeen, George Hamilton Gordon
- Duchin, Peter Oelrichs
- Kul Kul Stu Hah
- Jacobs, Peter
- Jackson, Thomas (Stonewall)
- Isidore of Seville
- Ice-T
- Hyde, Orson
- Hyde, Joseph Peter
- Hurston, Zora Neale
- Hughes, Langston
- Jehoash
- Jenkins, Robert Thomas
- Jobs, Steven Paul
- Kujau, Konrad
- Klein, Hans-Joachim
- Juliana of Ličge
- Julian the Apostate (under Roman Empire)
- Juárez, Benito Pablo
- Jones, Pei Te Hurinui
- Jones, Frederick McKinley
- Jones, David Ivon
- Hoover, Herbert Clark
- Hoo-moo-thy-ah
- Henson, Matthew Alexander
- Francis, Benjamin
- Forman, Milo
- Fitzgerald, Ella
- Finn Mac Cumhal
- Farragut, David Glasgow
- Esther
- Elder, Lonne III
- Edward VI
- Frelinghuysen, Frederick Theodore
- Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
- Gay, John
- Hensley, Albert
- Hedgewar, Keshav Baliram
- Hancock, John
- Hadrian (under Roman Empire)
- Grey Owl
- Graham, Eddie
- Goldwyn, Sam
- Gökçen, Sabiha
- Eastman, Charles Alexander
Ratana, Raniera Te Ao Hou
Ratana was the son of Tahupotiki Wiremu Ratana, the founder of the Ratana church of New Zealand, which draws its membership overwhelmingly from the Maori people. His father died in 1939 and... [more]
Munk, Kaj
Munk was born Kaj Harald Leininger Petersen on the island of Lolland. His father died in 1899 and his mother in 1903. He was then adopted by the Munk family. His first play, Pontius Pila... [more]
Muhammad
Muhammad was born after his father died, and his mother died when he was six years old. He was then raised by his grandfather until he too died, when Muhammad was eight, after which he was ... [more]
Morley, Eric Douglas
Morley was orphaned at the age of 11 and sent to a naval training ship. He became an entertainment and media tycoon. He and his wife founded the Miss World pageants in 1951; he was chair... [more]
Montgomery, Lucy Maud
Montgomery was born on Prince Edward Island and her mother died when she was two. Her father left her to be raised by very strict grandparents while he moved west and started a new family. ... [more]
Monroe, William Smith
Monroe was born on a farm at Jerusalem Ridge, Kentucky, the last of eight children in a poor, backwoods family. Both his parents were traditional Appalachian musicians (father step-dancer; ... [more]
Monaghan, Thomas
Monaghan's father died when he was four, and he and his younger brother were put into care by their mother so that she could attend nursing school. They remained in care, foster homes and o... [more]
Minik
In 1897 the polar explorer Robert Peary returned from northwestern Greenland with some specimens for the American Museum of Natural History in New York: six real live Inuit, including a man... [more]
Mihinui, Dorothy Huhana
Mihinui was born in Whakarewarewa near Rorotua, New Zealand, to a Maori mother and an Australian father. Her mother died when she was about six years old, and she and her younger brother we... [more]
Murray, Andrew Buist
Murray was born to Scottish immigrants to South Carolina. His mother died about 1847 (1867 according to one source), and his father in 1857. Sources differ about the rest of his childhood: ... [more]
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