Featured Biographies |
de Balzac, Honore - (1799-1850), French realist author
Paschal I, Pope - (817-824)
Sangharakshita - (born 1921), Founder of the Western Buddhist Order
Bradlee, Benjamin - (born 1921), journalist
Eisenman, Peter - architect
Wang, Wayne - (born 1949), director
Bessler, Johann Ernst Elias - (1680-1745), inventor
Nashe, Thomas - (1567-1601), poet
Broadbent, Jim - (born 1949), actor
Bose, Satyendra Nath - (1894-1974), physicist
Bayes, Thomas - (1702-1761), mathematician, statistician
Brancusi, Constantin - (1876-1957), sculptor
Pankhurst, Christabel - British suffragette
William Ralph Inge - (1860-1954), writer, clergyman
Eisinga, Eise - (1744-1828), astronomer
Alexander of Greece rhetorician - Greek rhetorician
Gallus, Jacobus - (1550-1591), composer and conductor
Abbey, Lynn - (born 1948), US author
Bell, Gertrude - (1868-1926), archaeologist, writer, spy
Acorn, Milton - (1923-1986), poet
Waals, Johannes Diderik van der - (1837-1923), chemist
Beaufort, Margaret - (1443-1509), mother of Henry VII of England
Cartwright, Nancy - (born 1957), actress
Labov, William - (born 1927), linguist
Warne, Shane - (born 1969), Australian cricketer
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