Featured Biographies |
Candy, John - (1950-1994), actor/comedian
Algren, Nelson - (1909-1981), The Man With the Golden Arm
Carpenter, David - Canadian writer
Takeda Shingen - Samurai warlord
Zapata, Emiliano - (1879-1919) Mexican revolutionary
Calvert, Robert - (1945-1988), poet
Talon, Jean - (1625-1694)
Danjon, Andre Louis - (1890-1967), astronomer
Sayers, Dorothy L. - (1893-1957), writer of mystery novels
Bush, Alan - (1900-1995), composer, opera composer
Absalon - (c. 1128-1201), Danish archbishop
Sasaki Kojiro - famous samurai killed by Miyamoto Musashi
Wankel, Felix - (1902-1988)
Hadley, John - quadrant
Adams, Henry - (1838-1918), Democracy: An American Novel
Carlos, Roberto - brazilian singer
Dalaigh, Cearbhall O - (1911-1978), Irish president
Kanelba, Rajmund - (1897-1960), Polish painter
Urban II, Pope - (1088-1099)
Innocent VI, Pope - aka Stephen Aubert, (1352-1362)
Jawlensky, Alexej von - (?1864-1941), Russian impressionist painter
Carney, Harry - (baritone)
Watterson, Bill - (born 1958), US cartoonist, creator of Calvin and Hobbes
Beatrix, Queen of the Netherlands - (born 1938)
Balogh, Mary - author
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