Biography

Abraham Lincoln – 16th President of the United States (1809-1865)   Name: Abraham Lincoln Date of birth: February 12, 1809 Place of birth: Hodgenville, Kentucky,…

Paul Brown – Coach, Athlete, Football Player (1908–1991)   Full name: Paul Eugene Brown Date of birth: September 7, 1908 Place of birth: Norwalk, Ohio Date…

Full Name: Marie Skłodowska Curie Born: Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland, then part of Russian Empire Died: 4 July 1934 (aged 66); Passy, Haute-Savoie, France Citizenship: Poland (by…

Glenn Davis – Athlete, Football Player (1924–2005)   Full name: Glenn Woodward Davis Date of birth: December 26, 1924 Place of birth: Claremont, California Date…

Full Name: Pierre Curie Born: 15 May 1859; Paris, France Died: 19 April 1906 (aged 46); Paris, France Nationality: French Specific Fields: Physics and Chemistry Known for:…

Red Grange – Athlete, Radio Personality, Football Player (1903–1991)   Full name: Harold Edward “Red” Grange Date of birth: June 13, 1903 Place of birth:…

Full Name: Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen Born: 30 November 1817, Garding, Schleswig (Germany) Died: 1 November 1903, Charlottenburg, Germany Language: German Special Fields: Classical scholar,…

Joe Paterno – Coach, Athlete, Football Player (1926–2012)   Full name: Joseph Vincent Paterno Date of birth: December 21, 1926 Place of birth: Brooklyn, New…

Born: 13 May 1857; Almora, North-Western Provinces, British India Died: 16 September 1932 (aged 75); London, England Special Fields: Medicine Nationality: British Known for: Discovering…

Aldous Huxley – Writer, Novelist, Philosopher (1894-1963)   Full name: Aldous Leonard Huxley Date of birth: 26 July 1894 Place of birth: Godalming, England Date…

Full Name: Hermann Emil Louis Fischer Born: 9 October 1852; Euskirchen, Rhine Province Died: 15 July 1919 (aged 66); Berlin, Germany Special Fields: Chemistry Nationality:…

Born: 25 May 1865; Zonnemaire, Netherlands Died: 9 October 1943 (aged 78); Amsterdam, Netherlands Special Fields: Physics Known for: Zeeman effect Notable awards:  Nobel Prize for…