Featured Biographies |
Carpentier, Georges - (1894-1975), world boxing champion
Abbadie, Antoine Thomson - (1810-1897), traveler
Bernard of Chartres - scholastic philosopher
Borgia, Lucrezia - (1480-1519), Renaissance ruler and daughter of Pope Alexander VI
Sienkiewicz, Henryk - (1846-1916), Pole
Vallee, Rudy - (1901-1986), US singer, actor
MacMillan, Harold - (1894-1986), British prime minister
Brand, Vance - astronaut
Ingersoll, Robert G. - (1833-1899), orator
Brown, Peter - singer (including in Paper Doll)
Yukihiro Takahashi - Japanese musician
Paris, Matthew - (died 1259), historian
Janacek, Leos - (1854-1928), Czech composer, opera composer
Emmet, Robert - (1778-1803), leader of 1803 rebellion
Ximenez, Fortun - (d. 1533), early Spanish colonizer in Mexico
Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli - (1888-1975), Indian philosopher
Lauda, Niki - (born 1949), French race car driver
Wadlow, Robert Pershing - (1918-1940), US tallest man in the world
Carr, Eric - (1946-1991), Drummer for the rock band Kiss
Early, Jubal A. - (1816-1894), Confederate general in the American Civil War
Barker, George painter - (1882-1965), U.S. painter
Bhattacharya, K C - (1875-1949)
Ramos Horta, Jose - (born 1949)
Gallienus - (218-268), (Roman Emperor)
Garn, Jake - senator, astronaut
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