Featured Biographies |
Ammann, Simon - (born 1981), gold medallist in Ski jumping at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Ahn Eaktae - Korean composer
Abaris - (8th century BC), priest of Apollo
Pasteur, Louis - (1822-1895), French biochemist
Langdon, John - (1741-1819), Governor of New Hampshire, U.S. Senator
Akers, Thomas - (born 1951) astronaut
Carmack, John - first person shooters Doom, Quake
Agricola, Mikael - (1510-1557) Finnish theologian & scholar and creator of written Finnish language
Braud, Wellman - (1891-1966), jazz string-bass musician
Larson, Gary - (born 1950), US The Far Side cartoonist
Brown, John doctor - (1735-1788), Scottish physician who developed his own medical "system"
Sax, Adolphe - (1814-1894), Belgian inventor
Felix III, Pope - (483-492)
Kamehameha III of Hawaii - king
Brood, Herman - (1946-2001), rock musician and artist
Banic, Stefan - (1870-1941), parachute inventor, philanthopist
Vance, John Holbrook - (born 1916), author
Einasto, Jaan - Estonian astronomer
Baker, Thomas - (1656-1746)
Brault, Jacques - (born 1933), Canadian writer
Adams, Walter Sydney - (1876-1956), American astronomer
Bruhns, Nicolaus - (1665-1697), composer
Endersch, Johann Friedrich - cartographer
Briggs, Henry - (1556-1630), English mathematician
Brooks, Shelton - (1886-1975), songwriter
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