Featured Biographies |
Abelard, Peter - (Pierre Abélard), (1079-1142), French scholastic philosopher
Fields, W.C. - (1880-1946), US comedian
David, Gerard - (c.1450-1523), Belgian painter
Ockels, Wubbo - astronaut
Ehrenfest, Paul - (1880-1933), physicist & mathematician
Jarry, Alfred - (1873-1907), French satirist, inventor of Pataphysics
Amos, Daniel - musician
Balaguer, Joaquin - (1906-2002), Dominican Republic President
Adam, Ian - (b,1937), Canadian writer
Blaise, Clark - (born 1940), Canadian writer
Blige, Mary J. - (born 1971), musician
Bolden, Buddy - (1877-1930), musician, "inventor of jazz"(?)
Haenchen, Hartmut - (born 1943), German conductor
Bacon, John - (1740-1799), sculptor
Farr, Bruce - (born 1948), boat designer
Bronfman, Charles - (born 1931), industrialist
Wallace, Irving - (1916-1990), novelist
Albert II of Habsburg - (1397-1439), German emperor, king of Bohemia and Hungary, and (as Albert V) duke of Austria
Boniface V, Pope - (pope 615-618)
Brahe, Nils - (1604-1632)
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett - (1806-1861), English poet
d'Ailly, Pierre - scholastic philosopher
Dawson, John William - (1820-1899), Canadian geologist
Eckert, John Presper - (born 1919), computer developer
Bradford, Barbara Taylor - (born 1933), author
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