Featured Biographies |
Taylor, Lawrence - (born 1959), American football star
Brabham, Jack - (born 1926), Australian race driver
Taverner, John - (c.1490-1545), composer
Carpentier, Georges - (1894-1975), world boxing champion
Bird, Larry - (born 1956), NBA basketball player, Hall of Famer
Pal, George - (1908-1980), director, producer
Carradine, John - (1906-1988), actor
Bobrikov, Nikolai Ivanovich - (1839-1904), Russian governor-general of Finland
Delano, Jane - (1862-1919), major American figure in nursing
Brownson, Nathan - (1742-1796), Georgia delegate to the Continental Congress
Sancho III of Navarre - (c. 985-1035), Castilian monarch
Benvenuti, Nino - (born 1938), world boxing champion
Gann, Thomas - explorer
Machuchal - (1934-1995), comedy actor
Jacobsen, J. C. - (1811-1887)
Boulle, Pierre - (1912-1994), French author
Wahlberg, Donnie - (born 1969), actor, singer
Langer, William - US politician
Qian, Zhang - spent 12 years starting in 138 BC exploring much of Central Asia for Emperor Han Wu Di
Quaritch, Bernard - (1819 - 1899), German-born, London-based rare books dealer
Bellairs, John - (1938-1991), author
Saroyan, William - (1908-1981), dramatist
Calder, Angus - Great Britain
Enzensberger, Hans Magnus - (born 1929), German poet
Abaris - (8th century BC), priest of Apollo
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