Featured Biographies |
Papin, Denis - (1647-c. 1712), inventor of the piston steam engine
Dawson, Richard - (born 1932), British politician
Brand, Neville - (1920-1992), actor
Borodin, Alexander - (1833-1887), Russian composer
Fabricius, David - (1564-1617), astronomer
Brown, Les - (1912-2001), [[big band|big-band] leader
Pascal, Blaise - (1623-1662), French mathematician, philosopher
Berg, Alban - (1885,-1935), Austrian composer
Balue, Jean - (c. 1421-1491), French cardinal, statesman
Landsbergis, Vytautas - Lithuanian president
Kath, Terry - (1946-1978), musician
Eminescu, Mihail - (1850-1889), Romanian poet
Bruno, Giordano - (1548-1600), Italian philosopher
James, William - (1842-1910), psychologist
Britten, Benjamin - (1913-1976), composer, opera composer
Buxtehude, Dietrich - (1637-1707), Danish composer
Carloman , son of Pippin III - (died 771]]), Frankish king
Vanderbilt, Cornelius - (1794-1877), entrepreneur
Brinch Hansen, Per - Dutch computer scientist (concurrency theory)
Adams, Samuel - (1912-1942), US naval officer
Wakoski, Diane - (born 1937), (The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems)
Urban I, Pope - (222-230)
Calvino, Italo - (1923-1985), Italian surrealist author
Carrasco, Angela - singer
Baines, Edward - (1774-1848), British newspaperman, politician
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