Featured Biographies |
Backus, Billy - (born 1943), world champion boxer
Eco, Umberto - (1932-), Italian semiotic & writer
Saraste, Jukka Pekka - Finnish conductor
Bukreev, Boris Y. - (1859-1962), Soviet mathematician
Bellamy, David - (born 1933), botanist
Lamas, Lorenzo - (born 1958), actor
Emanuel, Joseph, of Portugal - (1750-1777), King
Budd, Harold - (born 1936), musician
Davis, Jim - (born 1945), Garfield cartoonist
Dayananda, Swami - hindu reformist
Nation, Carry - (1846-1911), US saloon smasher
Findley, Timothy - (1930-2002), Canadian author
Fey, Tina - (born 1970), comedian
Eudoxus of Cnidus - (c. 400 BC-340s BC), Greek astronomer, mathematician
Young, Jimmy - US heavyweight boxer in the 1970s
Alfonso IX of Castile - (1171-1230), king of Leon 1188-1230
Bondarchuk, Sergei - (1920-1994), film director
Dahl, Anders - (1751-1789), (namesake of the Dahlia)
Iman - aka Iman Abdulmajid, (born 1955), model, wife of David Bowie
Barbarin, Paul - (1902-1966), jazz drummer
Wallace, David Foster - (born 1962), USA novelist
Gabriel, Peter - (born 1950), British musician
Belknap, Jeremy - (1744-1798), American clergyman and historian
Fairbanks, Douglas, Sr. - (1883-1939), US actor, cofounder of United Artists
Banting, William - (1796-1878), first famous dieter
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