Featured Biographies |
Quantz, Johann Joachim - (1697-1773), composer
Baudouin I of Belgium - (7 September, 1930-31 July, 1993), Belgian monarch
Bourke White, Margaret - (born 1906), US aviator
Alexius IV - Byzantine Emperor
Barty, Billy - (1924-2000), actor
Pankhurst, Sylvia - (died 1960), British suffragette, social activist
Alexander II, Pope - (pope 1058-1061)
Sanchez, Javier - (born 12968), tennis player, Aranxta's brother
Nayanar, E.K. - (1919-2004), three-time Chief Minister of Kerala, India
Gardner, Guy - astronaut
Elway, John - (born 1960), National Football League player
Lassus, Orlande de - (ca. 1532-1594), (Orlandus Lassus, Orlando di Lasso)
Bell, Marilyn - first person to swim Lake Ontario
Empson, Sir William - (1906-1984), poet
Ecclestone, Bernie - (born 1930), owner and manager of the Formula One racing series
Botvinnik, Mikhail - (1911-1995), chess player
Bester, Alfred - (1913-1987), US science fiction writer
Eno, Brian - (born 1948), composer, musician
Tarkenton, Fran - (born 1940), Football Hall of Famer
Bunge, Mario - (born 1919), philosopher
Blackman, Honor - (born 1927), actress
Yates, Dornford - (1885 - 1960), British novelist
Davey, Frank - Canadian writer
Blanton, Jimmy - musician
Blaikie, William Garden - (1820-1899), writer
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