Featured Biographies |
Carpentier, Georges - (1894-1975), world boxing champion
Tallis, Thomas - (c.1505-1585), composer
Bennett, James Gordon, Jr. - (1841-1918), publisher
Ernesaks, Gustav - Estonian composer and conductor
Braud, Wellman - (1891-1966), jazz string-bass musician
Baker, Kenneth - politician
Elliott, Bob - (born 1923), comedian
Paulus, Friedrich - Field Marshal and commander of German troops in Stalingrad
Jackman, Hugh - (born 1968), US actor, singer
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro - (662-710), Japanese poet
MacLeod, Alistair - (born 1936), Canadian writer, novelist
Barbirolli, John - (1899-1970), conductor
Ball, Sir Alexander John - (1759-1809)
Caesar, Augustus - (62 BC-14 AD), first Roman emperor
Naur, Peter - (born 1928), pioneer in computer science
Berra, Yogi - (born 1925), US baseball player
del Toro, Benicio - (born 1967), actor
Boccaccio, Giovanni - (1313-1375), Italian novelist
Walden, Roger - (died 1406), Archbishop of Canterbury
Branting, Hjalmar - (1860-1925), politician
Sadat, Anwar - (1918-1981), president of Egypt
Narrayen, Irene Jai - (born 1932), Fijian politician
Dawson, John William - (1820-1899), Canadian geologist
Bernard of Clairvaux - (1090-1153), French scholastic philosopher
Jade, Claude - French actress
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