Featured Biographies |
Alexius I Comnenus - (1048-1118), Byzantine Emperor
Fisher, Doris - (1915-2003), singer & songwriter
Dean, James - (1931-1955), US actor
Ernesaks, Gustav - Estonian composer and conductor
Bauhin, Gaspard - (1560-1624), biologist
Patterson, Clair - (1922-1995), US geochemist
Brasseur de Bourbourg, Charles Etienne - (1814-1874), ethnographer
Nash, Graham - (born 1942), singer-songwriter
Balkenende, Jan Peter - (born 1956), prime minister
Walker, C. J. - she was the first African-American millionaire
Kassebaum, Nancy - (born 1932), US Senator 1978-1996
Delaney, Edward - sculptor, Aosdána
MacDiarmid, Hugh - (1892-1978), poet
Bartholomew I, Patriarch - patriarch of Constantinople
Bode, Johann Elert - (1747-1826), astronomer
Laswell, Bill - (born 1950), musician and producer
Van Steenbergen, Rik - (1924 - May 15, 2003), Belgian cyclist
Ransome, Arthur - (1884-1967), Swallows and Amazons series
Abelard, Peter - (Pierre Abélard), (1079-1142), French scholastic philosopher
Maalouf, Amin - novelist
Beaufort, Margaret - (1443-1509), mother of Henry VII of England
Bergen, Edgar - (1903-1978), US ventriloquist
Sanchez, Mario Ernesto - actor, founder of Teatro Avante
Takeda Shingen - Samurai warlord
Jardine, Al - (born 1942), rock musician, Beach Boys member
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