Featured Biographies |
Valdivia, Pedro de - (1500-1553), Conquistador of Chile
Essen, Hans Henric von - Swedish soldier
Bloch, Marc - (1886-1944), medieval France
Naur, Peter - (born 1928), pioneer in computer science
Wang Go - (Öljeitü), King of Shen
Bradford, William - (1590-1657) Leader of Plymouth Colony
Ferguson, Patrick - (1744-1780), British Major killed in the American Revolution
Daudelin, Charles - (1920-2001), sculptor
Batoni, Pompeo Girolamo - (1708-1787), painter
Lascelles, George , 7th Earl of Harewood - aristocrat
Pawelczyk, James - astronaut
Benson, George - (born 1943), musician
Eschscholtz, Johann Friedrich von - biologist and explorer, namesake of the California Poppy
James II of Scotland - (1430-1460)
Kurt Eichhorn - conductor
Young, Angus - (b. 1955), guitarist for AC/DC
Brown, Ray - (died 2002), musician
Brown, Thomas Edward - (1830-1897), poet
Sassoon, Siegfried - (1886-1967), British war poet
de Camp, L. Sprague - (1907-2000), US fantasy author
Bateson, Gregory - (1904-1980), anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, cyberneticist
Machaut, Guillaume de - (1300-1377), composer
Advani, Pankaj - snooker player, India
Burgoyne, John - (1723-1792), Lieutenant-General who surrendered British Army at Saratoga
Cale, John - (born 1942), musician
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