Featured Biographies |
Braun, Karl Ferdinand - (1850-1918), 1909 Nobel Prize in physics
Yoshiteru, Ashikaga - (1536-1565), Shogun, Japanese feudal leader
Tartaglia, Niccolo Fontana - (1500-1557), Italian mathematician
De Jesus Mangual, Tomas - (born c. 1940) writer
Macchio, Ralph - (born 1961), actor
Macdonald, Flora - Jacobite and Empire Loyalist
Blake, Eubie - (1883-1983), USA composer & musician
Warner, Mark R. - US politician
Lawson, Nigella - (born 1960), celebrity chef, writer
Kaline, Al - (born 1934), Baseball Hall of Famer
Darlan, Francois - (1881-1942), French WW2 admiral
Brassai - (1899-1984), photographer
David, Saint - (fl. 6th century), patron saint of Wales
O'Herlihy, Dan - (born 1919), actor
Aldrich, Henry - (1647-1710), English theologian, philosopher
Bailey, Pearl - (1918-1990), singer
Bettelheim, Bruno - (1903-1990), child psychologist, psychiatrist
Feoktistov, Konstantin - (born 1926), astronaut
Nansen, Fridtjof - (1861-1930), Norwegian arctic explorer, scientist, statesman
Eotvos, Roland - (1848-1919), physicist
Amago Kunihisa - (1492-1554), Japanese warrior
Edwards, Jonathan theology - (born 1703), evangelical Christian leader
Daubigny, Charles-Francois - (1817-1878), painter
Bowering, George - (born 1935), Canadian writer
Bary, Anton de - (1831-1888), surgeon, botanist, microbiologist
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