Featured Biographies |
Belyayev, Pavel Ivanovich - (1925-1970), cosmonaut
Abraham - (ca. 1800 BC), Biblical figure
Ernst, Max - (1891-1976), German surrealist painter
Baylor, Elgin - (born 1934), National Basketball Association star
MacLennan, Hugh - (1907-1990), novelist and essayist, wrote Two Solitudes and Barometer Rising
Imhotep - (27th Century BC), architect in ancient Egypt
Bridges, Robert - (1844-1930), poet
Walsh, George - (1868-1913), US publisher, head of Dakota Territory's Council
Bates, Martin Van Buren - big US man
Figo, Luis - athlete
Nannen, Henri - (1913-1966), journalist and publisher
Bonestell, Chesley - (died 1986), US science fiction visual artist
Bush, Alan - (1900-1995), composer, opera composer
Kastner, Erich - (1899-1974), lyricist and narrator
Satrapi, Marjane - (born 1969), Iranian graphic novelist
Burke, Tom - (1875 - 1929), track and field athlete
Rabelais, Francois - (ca. 1493-1553), Renaissance writer
Aichinger, Gregor - (c. 1565-1628), German composer
Ende, Michael - (1929-1995), German fantasy writer and poet
Afonso IV of Portugal - (1290-1357), king in 1325
Fefferman, Charles - mathematician
Quesnay, Francois - economist
Gaudí, Antoni - (1852-1926), Spanish architect
Oe no Hiromoto - (1148-1225), senior statesman of the Kamakura shogunate
Bolivar, Simon - (1783-1830), South American independence leader
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