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Here you will find thousands of biographies and quotes by famous, infamous
and not so famous people and celebrities, past and present.

To start select famous people & celebrities from today's birthdays and death anniversaries,
or select famous people & celebrities from our alphabetical list above.

Today's Birthdays of Famous People & Celebrities:

	1740	Giovanni Paisiello Composer - Il Barbiere di Siviglia
	1860	J. M. Barrie Author - Peter Pan
	1882	Henry J. Kaiser Business -
	1883	Jose Ortega y Gasset Philosopher - Raciovitalismo, Razón Histórica
	1914	Hank Snow Country Musician - "I'm Movin' On
	1914	Carlo Maria Giulini Conductor -
	1927	Manfred Eigen Physicist -
	1934	Alan Bennett Actor -
	1936	Glenda Jackson Actor -
	1938	Charles Simic Poet - The World Doesn't End
	1946	Candice Bergen Actor -
	1949	Billy Joel Singer/Songwriter -
	1955	Anne-Sofie von Otter Singer - Mezzo-soprano

Today's Death Anniversaries of Famous People & Celebrities:

	1707	Dietrich Buxtehude Composer - Baroque period organist
	1791	Francis Hopkinson Author - The Ballad of the Kegs
	1805	Friedrich Schiller Playwright - Ode an die Freude
	1860	Samuel Griswold Goodrich Writer -
	1892	Ezio Pinza Singer - Bass
	1903	Paul Gaugin Painter - French post-impressionist painter
	1911	Thomas Wentworth Higginson Author -
	1952	Canada Lee Actor - Cry, the Beloved Country
	1968	Marion Lorne Actor - Played Aunt Clara on the TV series "Bewitched"
	1970	Walter Reuther Labor Leader - UAW and CIO labor leader
	1977	James Jones Author - From Here to Eternity
	1978	Aldo Moro Head of State - Kidnapped and murdered PM of Italy
	1981	Nelson Algren Writer -
	1985	Edmond O'Brien Actor - D.O.A.
	1986	Tenzing Norgay Explorer - With Edmund Hillary, first two men on Everest
	1993	Penelope Gilliatt Writer -
	1999	Dana Plato Actor - Kimberly on Diff'rent Strokes
	2004	Alan King Comic -

Recent Deaths:

	1916	Dick Wilson Actor - Ladies, please don't squeeze the Charmin!
	1929	Ira Levin Novelist - Rosemary's Baby
	1923	Norman Mailer Author - Armies of the Night
	1915	Paul Tibbets Military - Dropped "Little Boy" on Hiroshima
	1933	Robert Goulet Actor - Baritone star of stage and screen

Most Influencial People:

	0004	Jesus of Nazareth Religion - Son of God
	1879	Albert Einstein Physicist - Theory of relativity
	1643	Isaac Newton Physicist - Father of modern physics
	0010	Paul the Apostle Religion - Apostle to the Gentiles
	1393	Moses Religion - Wrote the Torah
	0570	Muhammad Religion - Muslim Prophet
	0050	Cai Lun Inventor - Inventor of paper
	1398	Johannes Gutenberg Inventor - Inventor of movable type
	1451	Christopher Columbus Explorer - Re-discovered the New World
	1822	Louis Pasteur Chemist - Discovered process of pasteurization
	1564	Galileo Galilei Astronomer - Invented telescope
	0384	Aristotle Philosopher - Politics
	0365	Euclid of Alexandria Mathematician - The Elements
	1889	Adolf Hitler Head of State - Teppichfresser
	1957	Osama Bin Laden Terrorist - Head of al Qaeda terrorist organization
	1809	Abraham Lincoln President - 16th US President, 1861-65
	1946	George W. Bush President - 43rd US President
	1911	Ronald Reagan President - 40th US President, 1981-89
	1483	Martin Luther Religion - Created Protestant movement
	1847	Thomas A. Edison Inventor - Invented the light bulb
	0563	Gautama Buddha Religion - Enlightened One
	0551	Confucius Religion - Founder of Confucianism
	1929	Martin Luther King Activist - African American civil rights activist
	1564	William Shakespeare Playwright - Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth
	1818	Karl Marx Philosopher - Das Kapital, Communist Manifesto