Featured Biographies |
Egoyan, Atom - director (The Sweet Hereafter)
Ray, Satyajit - (1921-1992), film director
Vance, John Holbrook - (born 1916), author
Brust, Steven - (born 1955), U.S. author
Yuan, Cheng Fung - Biomechanics
Boerum, Simon - (1724-1775) New York delegate to the Continental Congress
Vassilieff, Marie - (1884 - 1957), painter
Davis, Ann B. - (born 1926), actress
Ferdinand I of Austria - (1793-1875), Bohemian aristocrat
De Cosmos, Amor - (1825-1897), Canadian politician
Beck, Jeff - (born 1944), singer-songwriter, musician
Pavic, Milorad - (born 1929), novelist
Benovsky, Moric - (1746-1786), Slovak explorer, soldier, writer, king of Madagascar
Salinger, J. D. - (born 1919), US author
Berg, Moe - US spy and baseball player
Tatum, Art - (1909-1956), musician
Banks, Peter - musician
Carew, Thomas - (1595-1639), poet
Parsons, William Barclay - (1859-1932), civil engineer
Waters, John - (born 1946), director, writer
Bernays, Jakob - (died 1881), philologist
Jaruzelski, Wojciech - (born 1923), Polish general, communist ruler
Burnett, William - (1799-1861), British physician and Naval officer
Brown, Clifford - (1930-1956), U.S. jazz trumpeter
Bandello, Matteo - (1480-1562)
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