Michael LeMoyne Kennedy (February 27, 1958 – December 31, 1997), was the sixth of eleven children of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy. He was a nephew of former U.S. president John F. Kennedy and senator of Massachusetts Edward M. Kennedy. He had six brothers and four sisters. His siblings, from oldest to youngest, are Kathleen Kennedy Townsend (b. 1951), Joseph Patrick Kennedy II (b. 1952), Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (b.1954), David Anthony Kennedy (1955-1984), Courtney Kennedy Hill (b. 1956), Kerry Kennedy (b. 1959), Christopher George Kennedy (b. 1963), Matthew Maxwell Taylor Kennedy (b.1965), Douglas Harriman Kennedy (b. 1967), and Rory Kennedy (b. 1968)..
