Biography Category
1939–, Norwegian stage and film actress, b. Japan. She is best known for her roles in nine films directed by Ingmar Bergman, e.g., Persona (1966), S...
(Jean Baptiste Reinhardt), 1910–53, Belgian-born Gypsy jazz guitarist. Reinhardt began playing the guitar professionally at 12. He was severely burn...
( l-g zä´l ) (KEY) , 1058–1111, Islamic theologian, philosopher, and mystic. He was born at Tus in Khorasan, of Persian origin. He is considered t...
(p äf´) (KEY) , 1915–63, French cabaret singer, born as Edith Giovanna Gassion. She began to sing at 15 in cafés and in the streets of Paris and ...
(hw shûr) (KEY) , c.380–c.300 B.C., Chinese logician, remembered for his paradoxes. Little is known about his life, except that he was a provincia...
(y ´hän gôt´l p f kh´t ) (KEY) , 1762–1814, German philosopher. After studying theology at Jena and working as a tutor in Zürich and Leipzig, ...