Featured Biographies |
Beaumont, Francis - (1586-1616), poet
Lasker, Emanuel - (USA, 1868-1941), chess player
Davidov, Karl - (1838-1889), Russian cellist
Carrasco, Pedro - (1943-2001) world champion boxer
Rachmaninov, Sergei - (1873-1943), Russian composer
Baden, Max von - (1867-1929)
Naipaul, Vidiadhar Surajprasad - (born 1932), writer
Rall, Ted - (born 1963), American political cartoonist
Lachenmann, Helmut - (born 1935), composer
Brandstrom, Elsa - (born 1888), "The Angel of Siberia"
Beard, James - (1903-1985), chef, cookbook writer
Abington, Frances - (1737-1815), actor
Alexius III Angelus - Byzantine Emperor
Sancho II of Portugal - (1223-1248), Portuguese monarch
Cantrell, Blu - (born 1976), rap singer
Lassus, Orlande de - (ca. 1532-1594), (Orlandus Lassus, Orlando di Lasso)
Feliciano, Jose - (born 1945), Puerto Rican singer
Brown, Isaac N. - (1817-1889), U.S. and Confederate Naval Officer
Ellern, William B. - (born 1933), author
Samaranch, Juan Antonio - (born 1920), president of the IOC from 1980 to 2001
Benni, Stefano - (born 1947)
Dal, Vladimir - Russian lexicographer
Sanchez, Alex El Nene - (born 1973), world champion boxer
Quintanilla, Selena - (1971-1995), tejano singer
Blier, Bertrand - (born 1939), French film director
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