Featured Biographies |
Walter, Ulrich - (born 1954), German astronaut
Albert II of Habsburg - (1397-1439), German emperor, king of Bohemia and Hungary, and (as Albert V) duke of Austria
Decker, Mary - (born 1958), Slaney, track star
Taylor, Joseph - astronomer
Carr, Allan - (1937-1999), film producer, writer
Washburn, Cephas - (1793-1860), missionary
Booker, James - musician
Delibes, Leo - (1836-1891), composer
Adamnan - (625-704), Irish religious leader
Ramis, Harold - (born 1944), actor, comedian, screenwriter, director, producer
Blow, Kurtis - singer
Burgh, Hubert de - (1165-1243), justiciar
Abich, Otto Wilhelm Hermann von - (1806-1886), German mineralogist, geologist
MacDonald, John D. - (1916-1986), detective fiction
Dare, Virginia - (1587-1588), first English child born in North America
Alexander, Lloyd - (born 1924), US fantasy author
Naismith, James - (1861-1939), Teacher, invented Basketball
Dalen, Gustaf - (1869-1937), inventor
Backus, Billy - (born 1943), world champion boxer
Watt, Mike - (born 1957), bassist
Walcott, Derek - (born 1930), poet, Nobel Prize for Literature, 1992
Davidson, Avram - (1923-1993), author
Bardili, Christoph Gottfried - (1761-1808)
Underhill, John - (1609-1672), Puritan colonist and soldier in America
Absalon - (c. 1128-1201), Danish archbishop
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