Featured Biographies |
Burnet, Gilbert - (1643-1715), Scottish divine, author
Burton, Sir Richard Francis - (1821-1890), explorer, translator, orientalist
Enesco, Georges - (1881-1955), composer
Brooke, Rupert - (1887-1925), English poet
Saroyan, William - (1908-1981), dramatist
Bardot, Brigitte - (born 1934), French actress
Feldman, Andrea - (1948-1972) Actor
Baird, Sir David - (1757-1829)
Akers, Thomas - (born 1951) astronaut
Talbot, William Fox - (1800-1877), photographer
Aleixandre, Vicente - (died 1984), literature Nobelist
Laurie, Piper - (born 1932), actress
Fersen, Axel von - (1755-1810), Swedish politician
Lavender, David - (1910-2003), Western US writer and historian
Caruso, Luciano - soprano
Fabian, John - astronaut
Ockeghem, Johannes - (c.1430-c.1495), Belgian composer
Eysenck, Hans - (1916-1997), psychologist
Maas, Ernest - (1892-1986), screenwriter
Landini, Francesco - (1325-1397), composer
Vanbrugh, John - (1664-1726), architect
Gamow, George - (1904-1968), Ukrainian astronomer
Favre, Brett - (born 1969), US football player
Kahanamoku, Duke - (1890-1968), American swimmer
Papandreou, Georgios - in Greek resistance and government-in-exile
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