1289) Susanna Cole

Susanna Cole (née Hutchinson; 1633 – 1713). Lone survivor of an American Indian attack in which many of her siblings were killed, as well as her famed mother Anne Hutchinson. She was taken captive following the attack and held for several years before her release.
Susanna Hutchinson was born in Alford, Lincolnshire, England and was less than a year old when her family sailed from England to New England in 1634. She was less than five when her family settled on Aquidneck Island (later Rhode Island) in the Narragansett Bay following her mother's banishment from Massachusetts during the Antinomian Controversy. Her father died when she was about eight years old, and she, her mother, and six of her siblings left Rhode Island to live in New Netherland. They settled in an area that became the far northeastern section of The Bronx in New York City, near the Westchester County line. The family found themselves caught in the middle of Kieft's War between the local Siwanoy Indians and the colony of New Netherland, and they were all massacred in August 1643, except for Susanna. She was taken captive by the Indians, and was traded back to the English three years later.
When Susanna was released from her Indian captivity, she was taken to Boston where her oldest brother and an older sister lived, was re-introduced into English society, and married John Cole at the age of 18, the son of Boston innkeeper Samuel Cole. They lived in Boston for a few years, but moved by 1663 to the Narragansett country of Rhode Island (later North Kingstown) to look after the lands of her oldest brother Edward Hutchinson. Here the couple remained and raised a large family.

- "According to one story, Susanna's red hair spared her from the slaughter..."  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanna_Cole

- "Many of those who have researched and told her story believe she was saved by her red hair, for, rather than killing her, the Siwanoy took Susanna captive and renamed her Autumn Leaf."  https://books.google.de/books…

- "Young Susanna Hutchinson was captured by the chief of the Siwanoy and named Fall Leaf because of her red hair, which the Siwanoy had never seen before."  https://books.google.de/books…

- "... the daughter survived because her red hair so marveled the Indians they kept her."  https://books.google.it/books…

Susanna Cole as a child with her mother, Anne Hutchinson, in a bronze memorial at the Massachusetts State House

1288) Ugo Veniero D'Annunzio

Ugo Veniero D'Annunzio (1887 – 1945). Italian-born American engineer and businessman.
He was the third child of Italian poet Gabriele D'Annunzio and Roman aristocrat Maria Hardouin di Gallese.
He graduated in mechanical engineering and, after WWI, was hired by automotive firm Isotta-Fraschini.
He moved to the US as representative of the firm and later became senior manager and vice-president of American Aeronautical Corporation of Enea Bossi. In 1930 he took US citizenship.

- "Fisicamente, quest'uomo prestante, rosso di capelli e dalla mascella squadrata, gli assomilgiava abbastanza poco..." [Physically, this good-looking man, with red hair and a square jaw, didn't look like him very much.]  https://books.google.it/books…

1287) Italo Balbo

Italo Balbo (1896 – 1940). Italy's Marshal of the Air Force (Maresciallo dell'Aria), Governor-General of Libya, Commander-in-Chief of Italian North Africa (Africa Settentrionale Italiana, or ASI), and the "heir apparent" to Benito Mussolini.
After serving in World War I, Balbo became the leading Fascist organizer in his hometown of Ferrara. He was one of the four principal architects (Quadrumviri del Fascismo) of the March on Rome that brought Mussolini and the Fascists to power in 1922. In 1926, he began the task of building the Italian Royal Air Force and took a leading role in popularizing aviation in Italy, and promoting Italian aviation to the world. In 1933, perhaps to relieve tensions surrounding him in Italy, he was given the government of Italian Libya, where he resided for the remainder of his life. Balbo, hostile to anti-semitism, was the only leading Fascist to oppose Mussolini's alliance with Nazi Germany.
Early in World War II, he was accidentally killed by friendly fire when his plane was shot down over Tobruk by Italian anti-aircraft guns who misidentified his plane.

- "He also worried that his younger Fascist lieutenant, the red-haired “Iron Beard” Italo Balbo, would likely move on his own."  https://nationalinterest.org/…/plotting-and-planning-how-mu…

- "Balbo, un giovane tenente dai capelli rossi scarmigliati e barba alla d'Artagnan..." [Balbo, a young lieutenant with dishevelled red hair and a beard à la d'Artagnan.]  https://books.google.it/books…

- "At 11 p.m., the 26-year-old red-bearded Italo Balbo, wearing his good-luck charm..."  http://www.avalanchepress.com/Fascist4.php

N.B.: Wikipedia Italia, quoting the book by Silvio Bertoldi Camicia nera - Fatti e misfatti di un ventennio italiano (1994), writes Balbo had black hair. Historian Giordano Bruno Guerri, in his book Italo Balbo (1984), writes Balbo's hair was lighter than in photos, so much that he was usually described as "fair".

1286) Charles P. Kennedy

Charles Peter Kennedy (1959 – 2015). British Liberal Democrat politician who was Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1999 to 2006, and a Member of Parliament from 1983 to 2015.
Kennedy was elected to the House of Commons in 1983, and after the Alliance parties merged, became President of the Liberal Democrats and, following the resignation of Paddy Ashdown, Leader of the Liberal Democrats. He led the party through two general elections, increasing its number of seats in the House of Commons to their highest level since 1923, and led his party's opposition to the Iraq War. A charismatic and affable speaker in public, he appeared extensively on television during his leadership.

- "But Kennedy, red-haired and round-faced, a cheery and approachable figure, with a soft Highlands accent..."  https://www.theguardian.com/politi…/…/jun/02/charles-kennedy

- "I knew Charlie for more than 30 years and prefer to remember him when I first met him, a red-haired student with gusto, obvious potential – and impudence."  https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/…/tom-brown-charles-kennedy-p…

- "I hadn’t been there long when I bumped into a cheerful, chatty, red-haired Scot whom I recalled had been elected to Parliament for the Social Democratic Party in 1983."  http://cioj.org/thejournal/charles-kennedy/

- "Then there's Charles Kennedy. He has ginger hair."  https://books.google.it/books…

1285) Robert F. Kennedy

Robert Francis Kennedy (1925 – 1968). American politician and lawyer who served as the 64th United States Attorney General from January 1961 to September 1964, and as a U.S. Senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968.
He was appointed United States Attorney General after his brother John's successful election and served as the closest advisor to the President from 1961 to 1963.
He authored his account of the Cuban Missile Crisis in a book titled Thirteen Days. After his brother's assassination, he remained in office in the Johnson Administration for several months. He left to run for the United States Senate from New York in 1964 and defeated Republican incumbent Kenneth Keating.
In 1968, Kennedy became a leading candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency by appealing to poor, African American, Hispanic, Catholic and young voters. His main challenger in the race was Senator Eugene McCarthy. Shortly after winning the California primary around midnight on June 5, 1968, Kennedy was mortally wounded when shot with a pistol by Sirhan Sirhan, a 24-year-old Palestinian, allegedly in retaliation for his support of Israel following the 1967 Six-Day War. Kennedy died the following morning.
Son of Joe Kennedy. His paternal grandfather was P. J. Kennedy. Brother of Patricia Kennedy Lawford.

- "He wore his thick, auburn hair longer than many men of the time..."  https://books.google.it/books…

- "What I remember most was how vivid he was: his long, tousled red hair, his bright white (and toothy) smile..."  https://wfpl.org/forty-five-years-after-his-death-robert-f…/

- "I was close enough to notice his reddish chestnut colored hair."  https://translate.google.it/translate…

- "There stood this thin man with reddish hair."  https://dailygazette.com/…/memories-of-rfk-the-capital-regi…

- "... challenging the red-haired Kennedy to call for the release of Huey Newton..."  https://books.google.it/books…

1284) L. Brent Bozell Jr.

Leo Brent Bozell Jr. (1926 – 1997). American conservative activist and Roman Catholic writer.
His wife was Patricia Lee Buckley, sister of William F. Buckley, Bozell's best friend at Yale.
The two of them wrote the book McCarthy and His Enemies (1954), a defense of Senator Joseph McCarthy.
In 1958, Bozell ran for the Maryland House of Delegates but lost. He later worked as a speechwriter for Senator Barry Goldwater, for whom he ghostwrote the 1960 book The Conscience of a Conservative.

- "A young, energetic red-haired Yalie from Omaha", as he is described in Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus..."  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Brent_Bozell_Jr.

- "... a lanky, red-haired Omaha native..."  https://books.google.it/books…

- "Growing into a lanky boy with strong features and striking red hair..."  https://books.google.it/books…

1283) John II of France

John II (1319 – 1364), called John the Good (French: Jean le Bon). King of France from 1350 until his death.
He was the son of Philip VI of France and Joan of Burgundy.
During the Battle of Poitiers of 1356 he was captured, and while he was a prisoner in London, his son Charles became regent and faced several rebellions, which he overcame. To liberate his father, he concluded the Treaty of Brétigny (1360), by which France lost many territories and paid an enormous ransom. In an exchange of hostages, which included his second son Louis, Duke of Anjou, John was released from captivity to raise funds for his ransom. Upon his return to France, he created the franc to stabilize the currency and tried to get rid of the free companies by sending them to a crusade, but Pope Innocent VI died shortly before their meeting in Avignon. When John was informed that Louis had escaped from captivity, he voluntarily returned to England, where he died in 1364. He was succeeded by his son Charles V.