Featured Biographies |
Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor - (1637-1646), king 1636, emperor 1637-1657
Kain, Conrad - (1883-1934), mountain guide, first ascent of Mount Robson
Brossard, Nicole - (born 1943), formalist poet
Evora, Cesar - actor
Barnes, William - (1801-1886), poet
La Fontaine, Jean de - (1621-1695), fablist
Cardenas del Rio, Lazaro - (1895-1970), Mexican president
Camm, Sidney - aeronautical engineer
Van Dyke, Dick - (born 1925), US actor, comedian
Paisley, Ian - (born 1926), Northern Irish protestant radical politician
Tarbell, Ida - (1857-1944), journalist
Lange, Hope - (born 1931), actress
Fitzsimmons, Cotton - (1931-2004), NBA basketball coach
Felix IV, Pope - (526-530)
Banting, Frederick - (1891-1941), medical scientist, co-discovered insulin
Canova, Antonio - (1757-1822), Italian sculptor
Paley, William - (died 1805), philosopher
Taylor, James - (born 1948), singer-songwriter, musician
Bierstadt, Albert - (1830-1902), painter
Dalton, Emmett - (1861-1937), US outlaw
Jensen, Johannes Vilhelm - (1873-1950), Danish novelist
Lamar, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus - (died 1893), the only United States Supreme Court justice from Mississippi
Campion, Thomas - (1567-1619), composer, poet
Mommsen, Theodor - (1817-1903), Roman Empire
Alexander VIII, Pope - (pope 1689-1691)
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