Featured Biographies |
Euler, Leonhard - (1707-1783), Swiss mathematician and physicist
Beckham, David - (born 1975), association football player
Ximenes, Ettore - (1855-1919), Italian painter
Aguilera, Christina - (born 1980), US singer
Walker, Joseph Marshall - (1786-1856) Louisiana Governor
Bellman, Carl Michael - (1740-1795), Swedish musician
Dandridge, Dorothy - (1922-1965), actress
Farouk of Egypt - (1920-1965), king
Baez, Joan - (born 1941), US singer-songwriter
Edison, Charles - (1890-1969), Governor of New Jersey
Youd, Samuel - (born 1922), author
Abington, Frances - (1737-1815), actor
Barker, George painter - (1882-1965), U.S. painter
Afonso IV of Portugal - (1290-1357), king in 1325
Besson, Luc - (born 1959), French film director
Racah, Giulio - (born 1909), Italian mathematician and physicist
Walter, Ulrich - (born 1954), German astronaut
Barnum, Phineas Taylor - (1810-1891), US showman
Browne, Charles Farrar - (1834-1867), (Artemus Ward)
Karpinski, Alfons - (1875-1961), Polish painter
Bieler, Gustave - (1904-1944), SOE agent, WWII hero
Zamyatin, Yevgeny - (1884-1937), writer of We
Garland, Alex - author of The Beach
Ahlefeldt, Karl Gustav - (1910-1985), Danish film actor
Edwin of Northumbria - (627-632), British monarch
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