Featured Biographies |
Balue, Jean - (c. 1421-1491), French cardinal, statesman
Nasmyth, Alexander - (1758-1840), Scottish painter
Boyce, Max - entertainer
Beethoven, Ludwig van - (baptized 1770-1827), German-born composer
Farjeon, Eleanor - English writer
Yermakov, Nicholas - (born 1951), Russian author
Danes, Claire - (born 1979), actor
O'Brien, Flann - At Swim-Two-Birds
Barbier, Louis - (1593-1670), French bishop
Alexander of Aphrodisias - (2nd century AD), greek philosopher
Dale, Dick - (born 1937), songwriter, musician
Lawrence, Gertrude - (died 1952), actress
Boniface IX, Pope - (pope 1390-1404)
Lai, Leon - (born 1966)
Waddell, Rube - (1876-1914), Baseball Hall of Famer
Bilk, Acker - (born 1929), musician
Gaultier, Jean Paul - (born 1952), fashion designer
Ammann, Simon - (born 1981), gold medallist in Ski jumping at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Ahlefeldt, Karl Gustav - (1910-1985), Danish film actor
Baum, L. Frank - (1856-1919), US writer of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Butterworth, George - (1885-1916), composer
Abich, Otto Wilhelm Hermann von - (1806-1886), German mineralogist, geologist
Carolla, Adam - radio host, comedian
Davies, Ray - (born 1944), singer-songwriter
Paisley, Ian - (born 1926), Northern Irish protestant radical politician
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