Featured Biographies |
Bailey, Donovan - (born 1967), sprinter
Bach, Johann Christian - (1735-1782), composer
Daubenton, Louis-Jean-Marie - (died 1800), French naturalist
Aakjær, Jeppe - (1866 - 1930), Danish writer
Biddle, Edward - (1738-1779), Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress
Sakuraba, Motoi - composer
Baden, Max von - (1867-1929)
Gabriel, Juan - songwriter
Obermeier, Gerlinde - dramatist, author
Yao Ming - NBA Basketball player, Houston Rockets
Byrd, Donald - musician
Rains, Claude - (1889-1967), British actor (The Invisible Man, Casablanca)
Bergomi, Giuseppe - athlete
de Havilland, Geoffrey - (1882-1965), aerospace engineer
Van Peebles, Melvin - (born 1932), actor, screenwriter
Kamehameha III of Hawaii - king
Dee, Jack - British comedian, stand-up comedian
Boleslaus V , Duke of Poland - (1243-1279), Polish ruler
Beatty, John - (1828-1914), U.S. Congressman from Ohio
Ray, Satyajit - (1921-1992), film director
Dahl, Anders - (1751-1789), (namesake of the Dahlia)
Quaid, Dennis - actor
Cartland, Barbara - (1901-2000), British writer
Dal, Vladimir - Russian lexicographer
Calvino, Italo - (1923-1985), Italian surrealist author
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