Featured Biographies |
Nanak, Guru - (born 1469), the founder of Sikhism
Ramone, Johnny - (born 1951), musician
Warton, Thomas - (1728-1790), English academic, poet laureate
Erwin, Emily - (born 1972), musician
d'Aguillon, Francois - (1566-1617), mathematician
Blackwood, Algernon - (1869-1951), author
Nansen, Eigil - humanist and architect
Fefferman, Charles - mathematician
Gallus, Jacobus - (1550-1591), composer and conductor
Ward, Artemus - (1834-1867), US humorist, a.k.a. Charles Farrar Browne
Capra, Fritjof - (born 1939), US fringe physicist
Bosschaert, Ambrosius - (1573-1612), painter
Sakuramachi - emperor of Japan
Laurens, John - (1754-1782), American soldier and statesman in Revolutionary War
Benson, Edward White - (1829-1896), Archbishop of Canterbury
Ball, Thomas - (1819-1911)
Ballen, Albert - inventor of cruise ships
Browne, Charles Farrar - (1834-1867), (Artemus Ward)
Bannister, Roger - (born 1929), athlete, first "Miracle Mile"
Berthollet, Claude Louis - (1748-1822)
Adam, Adolphe Charles - (1803-1856), composer
Edwy of England - (955-959), English monarch
Paasikivi, Juho Kusti - (1870-1956), president of Finland
Say, Louis - (1774-1840), economist
Brudenell, James Thomas, Earl of Cardigan - (d. 1868), UK military leader
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