Featured Biographies |
Ocasio, Ossie - world champion boxer
Cardano, Gerolamo - (1501-1576), Renaissance polymath
Sacks, Oliver - (born 1933), British-born US neurologist
Borodin, Alexander - (1833-1887), Russian composer
Laurents, Arthur - (born 1918), playwright, novelist, and director
Nasmyth, Alexander - (1758-1840), Scottish painter
James, M.R. - (1862-1936), author
Brasseur de Bourbourg, Charles Etienne - (1814-1874), ethnographer
Benedict V, Pope - (pope 964-965)
Sandoval, Richie - (born 1960), world champion boxer
Cakste, Janis - Latvian president
Card, Orson Scott - (born 1951), American author, novelist
Sakai, Stan - Japanese-born cartoonist of Usagi Yojimbo fame
Bellman, Carl Michael - (1740-1795), Swedish musician
Lavallee, Calixa - (died 1891), composer
Uris, Leon - (1924-2003), US writer
Callas, Maria - (1923-1977), Operatic soprano
Aeschylus - (525-456 BC), Greek dramatist
Emmet, Robert - (1778-1803), leader of 1803 rebellion
Brown, Fredric - (1906-1972), science fiction and mystery author
Blige, Mary J. - (born 1971), musician
Ladislaus II - (1471-1516), Bohemian aristocrat
Baltard, Louis - (1764-1846)
Lackey, Mercedes - (born 1950), US fantasy author
Cardin, Pierre - (born 1922), French fashion designer
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