What do the following people have in common?

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Problem

What do the following people have in common?

Jimmy Carter
John F Kennedy
George Washington
William Shakespeare
King James I
Winston Churchill
Queen Elizabeth I
King Henry VIII
Spencer Tracy
Katherine Hepburn
Mia Farrow
Woody Allen
Mary, Queen of Scots
Nero
Mark Twain
Lenin
Lizzie Borden
Myrna Loy
George Bernard Shaw
Emily Dickinson
Napoleon
George Custer
Sarah Bernhardt
Thomas Jefferson
Christopher Columbus
Queen Isabella

Sorry if this is an old puzzle, but does anyone know what the following
people have in common?  (I do not know.)

-- PhotoKate <photokate@aol.com>, October 1997

Show solution

Are they all sinistromanal?

-- Stan Armstrong <Stan@stanleya.demon.co.uk>

peter.hosszu@siemens.at wrote:
>
> I saw a subset of this list once, and all of them are
> left-handed.  Maybe this fits to this list too.

No the first three members of the list were not left handed.  I seem to
remember that we haven't had any strictly left handed presidents until
very recently.

-- Myron M. Meyer <mbmeyer@sd.cybernex.net>, October 1997

[ Editor: no other answer was found in the collected postings. ]