Featured Biographies |
Garner, James - (born 1928), actor
Alexander, James - (c.1690-1756) Attorney General for colonial New York
Burnett, Frances Hodgson - author of Little Lord Fauntleroy and The Secret Garden
Taylor, A. J. P. - (1906-1990), historian
Brin, David - (born 1950), U.S. science fiction writer
Bacharach, Burt - (born 1929), and Hal David
Pascin - (1885-1930), painter
Warner, Malcolm Jamal - (born 1970), actor
Burbidge, Margaret - astronomer
Fauset, Jessie - Harlem Renaissance writer
Davis, Benjamin O., Sr. - general
Bain, Barbara - (born 1932), actress
Bernstorff, Christian Gunther von - (1769-1835), Danish and Prussian statesman and diplomat
Lakatos, Imre - (1922-1974), philosopher
Eddy, Nelson - (1901-1967), singer
Baron, Joey - musician
Fawkes, Guy - (1570-1606), English would-be-bomber
Beiderbecke, Bix - (1903-1931), jazz trumpeter
Eaton, Aileen - (1909-1987), boxing promoter, first woman inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame
Abbadie, Antoine Thomson - (1810-1897), traveler
Jahn, Helmut - architect
Nash, Ogden - (1902-1971), master of light verse
Satie, Erik - (1866-1925), composer of Musiques d'ameublement
Bono - (born 1960), lead singer of Irish rock band U2
Breguet, Abraham Louis - (1747-1823), watchmaker
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