Featured Biographies |
Yourcenar, Marguerite - (1903-1987), Belgian novelist
Eckert, Wallace John - (1902 – 1971) computation laboratory pioneer
Hacker, Benjamin Thurman - (1935-2003), Rear Admiral, US Navy
Fisk, Carlton - baseball player
Essen, Louis - (1908-1997), English physicist
Berns, Bert - songwriter
Butt, Isaac - Home Rule leader
Bamberger, Ludwig - (1823-1899)
Borgman, Eric Bruno - (born 1975), actor, director and writer
Abdul Jabbar, Kareem - (born 1947), US athlete
Parra, Nicanor - Chile
Quayle, James Danforth Dan - (1947-), US politician
Beaverbrook, Maxwell Aitken, Lord - (1879-1964), UK politician & newspaper tycoon
Carnegie, Andrew - (1835-1919), American entrepreneur, philanthropist and industrialist
Baden Powell, Lord Robert - (1857-1941), Scouting founder
Adorno, Theodor - (1903-1969), philosopher
Lawrence, D.H. - (1885-1930), British author of Lady Chatterley's Lover
Bancroft, George - (1882-1956), actor
Sancho IV of Castile - (1257?-1295), Castilian monarch
Febvre, Lucien - historian
Watson, James Dewey - (born 1928), Nobel Prize-winning biologist
Browning, John Moses - (1855-1926), inventor
Davis, Jefferson - (1808-1889), President of the Confederate States of America
Jablochkoff, Paul - (1847-1894), carbon-arc "electric candle"
Tarkenton, Fran - (born 1940), Football Hall of Famer
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