Featured Biographies |
Pachomius - one of the founders of Christian monasticism
Jackson, Thomas William - US novelist
Pascin - (1885-1930), painter
Abington, Frances - (1737-1815), actor
Garratt, Herbert William - (1864-1913), locomotive engineer
Pirandello, Luigi - (1867-1936), playwright
Tank, Kurt - (1898-1983), aerospace engineer
Caldera, Rafael - Venezuelan president
Affan, Uthman ibn - (d. 656) caliph
Paschen, Friedrich - 19th century physicist
Ravenscroft, Thurl - (born 1914), voice-over actor ("Tony the Tiger")
Bach, Sebastian - (born 1968), musician ("Skid Row")
Abercrombie, John - (1780-1844), musician
Bering, Vitus - (1680-1741)
Iacocca, Lee - (born 1924), US car tycoon
Alexander II of Alexandria - Coptic Pope, Patriarch of Alexandria
Fichte, Gottlieb - (1762-1814), philosopher
Faye, Alice - (1915-1998), actress
Brecht, Bertolt - (1898-1956), German Three-penny Opera lyricist
Wake, Nancy - (born 1912), French Resistance fighter and SOE agent
Berger, Richard - (1894-1984), Swiss professor of design, decoration, and art history
Budrys, Algis - (born 1931), US science fiction author
Finn, Tim - singer
Becker, Gary - (born 1930), economist
Bruce, Jack - (born 1943), musician
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