Featured Biographies |
Def, Mos - rapper and actor
Dare, Virginia - (1587-1588), first English child born in North America
Adjani, Isabelle - (b.1955), French actress
Kallikrates - (5th Century BC), architect
Baillie of Jerviswood - (died 1684)
Blume, Judy - (born 1938), youth and adult author
Jay, John - (1745-1829), U.S. founding father, Supreme Court Chief Justice
Baker, Ginger - (born 1939), musician
Buchanan, James - (1791-1868), 15th President of the United States
Balbi, Adrian - (1782-1848)
Alison, Archibald - (1757-1839), Scottish author
Barbey d'Aurevilly, Jules Amedee - (1808-1889)
Oakley, Annie - (1860-1926), US sharpshooter
Alexander, Sir William - (c.1570-1640), leader of British colonization of Canadian maritimes
Fellows, Charles - (1799-1860), archaeologist
Sillanpaa, Frans Eemil - (1888-1964), Finnish author (Nobel Prize for Literature in 1939)
Sankara, Adi - (c. 788-820), Indian composer
Bellini, Giovanni - (c.1430-1516), Italian painter
Sacco, Albert - astronaut
Fitzgerald, Barry - (1888-1966), Abbey Theatre actor turned Hollywood star
Balling, Erik - (born 1924)
Vanbrugh, John - (1664-1726), architect
Xuan Zang - (602-644), Buddhist monk
Wang, An - (1920-1990), Chinese-born US computer pioneer
Carnap, Rudolf - (1891-1970), philosopher
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