Featured Biographies |
Bronfman, Charles - (born 1931), industrialist
Wang, Vera - (born 1949), fashion designer
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr - (born 1918), Russian historian and novelist
Innocent XI, Pope - aka Benedetto Odescalchi, (1676-1689)
Hafstein, Hannes - (1912-1914), prime minister
Bradley, Henry - editor of the Oxford English Dictionary
Edelfelt, Albert - (1854 - 1905), Finnish painter (1854 - 1905)
Bjork - (born 1965), Icelandic singer
Browne, Noel - politician
Uematsu, Nobuo - (born 1959), Japanese composer
Dearborn, Henry - (1751-1829), U.S. Congressman, Secretary of War
Ballantyne, Robert Michael - (1825-1894)
Urban IV, Pope - (1261-1264)
Bergen, Edgar - (1903-1978), US ventriloquist
Parise, Roland - astronaut
Bauer, Nancy - Canadian writer
Acuff, Roy - (1903-1992), musician
Zachariae, Karl Eduard - (1812-1894), German jurist
Bulwer Lytton, Edward George - (1803-1873), the annual bad writing contest is named after him
Barnwell, Robert W. - (1801-1882), U.S. and Confederate Senator from South Carolina
Paul the Deacon - (ca 720-799)
Edward I of England - (1272-1307), English monarch
Taira no Kiyomori - (1118-1181), samurai warlord
Van de Graaff, Robert - (born 1901), physicist, inventor
Prudhomme, Sully - (March 16, 1839 - September 6, 1907), French poet and essayist
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