Featured Biographies |
Sandburg, Carl - (1878-1967), poet
Alechinsky, Pierre - (born 1927)
Bennett, Joan - (1910-1990), actress
Benedict IX, Pope - (Theophylactus, c. 1012-maybe 1055 or 1065)
Farr, William - (1807-1883), epidemiologist
Carr, Bill - (1909-1966), American athlete
Ainge, Danny - (born 1959), basketball player, coach, baseball player
Baldung, Hans - (1484-1545), painter
Dale, Jim - (born 1935), British singer, comedian, movie actor
Budding, Edwin Beard - (1795-1846), lawnmower and adjustable spanner
Lawrie, Lee - (1877-1962)
Boland, Eavan - (born 1944), poet
Narayan, R K - (1906-2001), novelist
Best, Pete - (born 1941), drummer
Jarre, Maurice - (born 1924), French composer
Boldon, Ato - (born 1973), Trinidad and tobago athlete
Patton, George - (1885-1945), US general
Basie, Count - (1904-1984), musician, composer
Wallace, Alfred Russel - (1823-1913), UK natural selection co-discoverer
Dalen, Gustaf - (1869-1937), inventor
Naipaul, Vidiadhar Surajprasad - (born 1932), writer
Garratt, Herbert William - (1864-1913), locomotive engineer
Bennett, William R. - (born 1932), Canadian politician
Brecht, Bertolt - (1898-1956), German Three-penny Opera lyricist
Carr, Gerald - astronaut
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