Featured Biographies |
Saraste, Jukka Pekka - Finnish conductor
Quiller Couch, Arthur - (1863-1944), British writer
Wake, Nancy - (born 1912), French Resistance fighter and SOE agent
Farmer, Philip Jose - (born 1918), US science fiction author
Bridges, Roy - astronaut
Baldinucci, Filippo - (1625-1697)
Empson, Sir William - (1906-1984), poet
Borchert, Wolfgang - (1921-1947), dramatist, author
Barnes, Barnabe - (c. 1569-1609), English poet
Benoist, Robert - (1895-1944), race car driver, war hero
Yates, Richard novelist - (1926-1992), U.S. novelist
Bennett, Richard Bedford - (1870-1947), eleventh Prime Minister of Canada
Banks, Iain - (born 1954), British mainstream and space opera author, aka Iain M. Banks
Paterson, Andrew Barton Banjo - (1864-1941), writer, author
Darby, William O. - commander of the first US Army Rangers
Paton, Alan - (1903-1988), author
Beg, Ulugh - (1394-1449), astronomer
Essex, David - (born 1947), rock and roll singer
Feuerbach, Karl Wilhelm - (1800-1827), euclidean geometry
Kahn, Roger Wolfe - (1907-1962), jazz musician
Bavier, Simeon - (1825-1896), Swiss president
Jakobson, Roman - (1896-1982), linguist
van Basten, Marco - (b.1964 ), Dutch footballer
Fischer, Edwin - (1886-1960), pianist and conductor
Saussure, Horace Benedict de - (1740-1799), botanist
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