Featured Biographies |
Aesop - (c.620-c.560 BC, writer of the Fables
Batoni, Pompeo Girolamo - (1708-1787), painter
Bernoulli, Jakob - (1654-1705), Swiss mathematician
Berry, Wendell - poet
Washburn, Cephas - (1793-1860), missionary
Bell, Lauralee - (born 1968), soap opera actress
Paasikivi, Juho Kusti - (1870-1956), president of Finland
Buchanan, Jensen - (born 1962), soap opera actress
Ackerman, Forrest J. - (b.1916), US science fiction author
Botvinnik, Mikhail - (1911-1995), chess player
Barrie, Chris - (born 1960), (Red Dwarf, The Brittas Empire)
Garland, Alex - author of The Beach
Gascoyne, David - poet
Carter, Howard - (1874-1939), UK archeologist
Vardalos, Nia - (born 1962), actress, writer, comedienne
Aikman, Troy - (born 1966), American football star
Benny, Jack - (1894-1974), actor, comedian
Bracken, Thomas - (1843-1898), NZ poet, author and politician
Batson, Brendan - (born 1953), English association footballer
Calment, Jeanne - (1875-1997), French centenarian
O'Brien, Edna - novelist, member of Aosdána
Bell, Madison Smartt - Waiting for the End of the World (1985), and A Soldier's Joy (1989) amongst others
Kayak, Tito - (born 1958), Puerto Rican anti-military leader
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - (1896-1940), US author
Brown, David M. - (1956-2003), U.S. astronaut
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