Biography

Biographies of notable people — their path, achievements and key facts.

Chad Michael Murray

August 24, 1981 • Buffalo, New York Actor Chad Michael Murray moved easily from television into feature films thanks to his roles in highly rated teen dramas on the WB ...

Elon Musk

1971 • South Africa Entrepreneur, philanthropist Elon Musk was a multi-millionaire by the time he reached the age of thirty-one thanks to his creation of the company th...

Benito Mussolini

Born: July 29, 1883 Predappio, Italy Died: April 28, 1945 Como, Italy Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was head of t...

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Carl Mydans

Born May 20, 1907, in Boston, MA; died of heart failure, August 16, 2004, in Larchmont, NY. Photographer. Carl Mydans spent 40 years with Life magazine, and deliver...

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Walter Dean Myers

August 12, 1937 • Martinsburg, West Virginia Author Walter Dean Myers is a pioneer of young adult fiction. His novels about urban teens...

Gabriel GarcÍa MÁrquez

Born: March 6, 1928 Aracataca, Colombia Colombian novelist, short-story writer, and journalist Gabriel García Márquez is a Colombian novelist, short-st...

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Gabriel García Márquez

Author and journalist Born Gabriel José García Márquez, March 6, 1928, in Aracataca, Colombia; son of Gabriel Eligio Garcia (a telegraph operator) and Luisa Santiaga Márquez...

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Georges Méliès

French filmmaker Georges Méliès (1861–1938) was in the words of Jim Gilchrist of the Scotsman , "one of the great pioneers of the cinema." The sp...