Featured Biographies |
Davis, Miles - (1926-1991), jazz musician
Evans, Edith - (1888-1976), actor
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da - (c.1525-1594), composer
Land, Michael - (born 1961), American video game composer
Ellison, Harlan - (born 1934), US science fiction writer
Rand, Ayn - (1905-1982), US philosopher & Atlas Shrugged writer
Alcidamas - (born 4th century BC), Greek rhetorician
Kacan, Metin - (born 1961), Turkish novelist
Jackson, Shirley - (1916-1965), author
Block, Walter - economist
Lachenmann, Helmut - (born 1935), composer
Caballe, Montserrat - (born 1933), opera singer
Davydova, Yelena - (born 1961), Olympic gymnast
Evagrius - patriarch of Constantinople
Daishonin, Nichiren - (1222-1282), (founder of Nichiren Buddhism)
Dawson, Richard - (born 1932), British politician
Upham, Charles - (1908-1994), New Zealand war hero
Bamford, Samuel - (1788-1872)
Pataki, George - New York Governor
Walker, John - (born 1952), athlete
Beatrix, Queen of the Netherlands - (born 1938)
Ericsson, Lars Magnus - (1846-1926), industrialist
Canisius, Petrus - (1521-1597), Jesuit
Carissimi, Giacomo - (1605-1674), composer
Egoyan, Atom - director (The Sweet Hereafter)
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