Basic Famous People - Biographies of Celebrities and other Famous People

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This online biographical reference contains thousands of profiles of famous people and celebrities, living and dead. Our database of biographies includes celebrities of music, movies and television as well as current famous people and historical figures from all fields of human endeavor.

We invite you to start by selecting famous people & celebrities from today's birthdays and death anniversaries,or browsing our alphapetical listing above. You may also be interested in our browsing our constantly updating lists of most popular actors, musicians, people in the news, and historical figures. Be sure to check out our lists of most significant famous people of all time, as well as by field.

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Today's Birthdays of Famous People & Celebrities:

	1608	Thomas Fuller Historian - English churchman and historian
	1623	Blaise Pascal Mathematician - French thinker and mathematician
	1842	Carl Zeller Composer - Austrian composer of operettas
	1856	Elbert Hubbard Author - Founder of Roycroft Press
	1861	Douglas Haig Military - Commander in Chief of British Expeditionary Force
	1918	Evelle J. Younger Politician - Attorney General of California from 1971-1979
	1948	Nick Drake Singer/Songwriter -
	1950	Ann Wilson Musician - Heart
	1954	Kathleen Turner Actor - Romancing the Stone
	1962	Paula Abdul Singer - 1980s pop star

Today's Birthdays of Famous People & Celebrities - Complete

Today's Death Anniversaries of Famous People & Celebrities:

	1786	Nathanael Greene Military - Revolutionary War general
	1850	Margaret Fuller Author - Woman in the Nineteenth Century
	1902	John Dalberg-Acton Historian -
	1902	Lord Acton Historian - British historian
	1927	Jerome K. Jerome Author - Three Men in a Boat
	1937	J. M. Barrie Author - Peter Pan
	1956	Thomas J. Watson Business - Founder of IBM
	1989	Hy Gardner Columnist - New York Herald Tribune
	1991	Jean Arthur Actor - Only Angels Have Wings
	1993	William Golding Novelist - Lord of The Flies

Today's Death Anniversaries of Famous People & Celebrities - Complete

Recent Deaths:

	1947	Mitch Mitchell Drummer - Drummer for The Jimi Hendrix Experience
	1932	Miriam Makeba Singer - South African singer and civil rights activist
	1942	Michael Crichton Author - Jurassic Park, Westworld, etc.
	1924	Yma Sumac Singer - Vocalist with a 4.5-octave
	1912	Studs Terkel Author - Working

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