Featured Biographies |
Xenophanes - philosopher
Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm - (1784-1846), astronomer, mathematician
Kael, Pauline - (1919-2001), US movie critic
Sannazaro, Jacopo - (born 1458), Italian poet
Beckett, Gilbert Arthur a - (died 1891), British writer
Black, Ben - (1889-1950), impresario and popular composer
Bloom, Orlando - (born 1977), actor
David, David W. - (1873-1959) US Governor of Idaho
Brown, Guillermo E. - musician
Paik, Nam June - (born 1932)
Fish, Stanley - (born 1938), literary theorist
Ure, Midge - singer-songwriter
de Borda, Jean Charles - (1733-1739), French scientist
Baker, Benjamin, Sir - (1840-1907), civil engineer
Encke, Johann - (1791-1865), German astronomer
Salutin, Rick - political writer, essayist editor
Sanchez Vicario, Aranxta - (born 1971) Spain tennis player
Alexander II of Epirus - (died ca. 260 BC), king of Epirus 3th century BC
Washington, William - (1752-1810), American revolutionary soldier
Laine, Papa Jack - (1873-1966), New Orleans drummer and bandleader
Broca, Paul - (born 1824), anthropologist
Benny, Jack - (1894-1974), actor, comedian
Sansom Hallowes, Odette - (1912-1995), British SOE agent, WW II heroine
Brecht, Bertolt - (1898-1956), German Three-penny Opera lyricist
Larson, Gary - (born 1950), US The Far Side cartoonist
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