Featured Biographies |
Eisenhower, Mamie - (1896-1979), First Lady of the United States
Paxman, Jeremy - (born 1950), television personality, television presenter
MacDonald, Margaret - (1865-1933), wife of Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Blackman, Honor - (born 1927), actress
Aitmatov, Chingiz - (born 1928), Kyrgyz author
Benedict VII, Pope - (pope 975-983)
Paganini, Niccolo - (1782-1840), Violinist
Larkin, Philip - (1922-1985), poet
Papandreou, Georgios - in Greek resistance and government-in-exile
Wang Anshih - (1021-1086)
Bechstein, Ludwig - (1801-1860), narrator and poet
Laine, Papa Jack - (1873-1966), New Orleans drummer and bandleader
de Botton, Alain - (born 1969), English novelist
Parsons, Louella - (1881-1972), gossip columnist
Bartholomew, Dave - musician, composer, promoter
Taylor, Terry Scott - (b. 1950) US songwriter
Fabian, Pope - (236-250)
Bandinelli, Bartolommeo - (1493-1560), sculptor
Farman, Henry - (1874-1958)
Laromiguiere, Pierre - (1756-1837), philosopher
Kapteyn, Jacobus - (1851-1922), astronomer
Dare, Virginia - (1587-1588), first English child born in North America
Kabila, Laurent-Desire - (1939-2001), president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo 1997-2001
Dahl, Anders - (1751-1789), (namesake of the Dahlia)
Burke, Tom - (1875 - 1929), track and field athlete
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