Biography Category
(zhäN gäb N´) (KEY) , 1904–76, French film actor, b. Paris; his original name was Alexis Moncourge. Gabin’s work as a cabaret entertainer led t...
(Abu Yusuf Yakub ibn Ishak al-Kindi) (ä´b y s f´ yäk b´ b´ n shäk´ l-k n´d ) (KEY) , 9th cent. Arab philosopher, b. Basra, Iraq. He studi...
1932–, Anglo-American film actress, b. London. Regarded as one of the world’s most beautiful women, Taylor went from child star to a series of lad...
d. 1245, English scholastic philosopher, called the Unanswerable Doctor by his fellow scholastics. He was a Franciscan and a lecturer at the Univ. of ...
(kärp k´r t z) (KEY) , fl. c.130–c.150, Alexandrian philosopher, founder with his son Epiphanes of a Hellenistic sect, notoriously licentious, rel...
(k ltr n´, k l´tr n) (KEY) , 1926–67, American jazz musician, b. Hamlet, N.C. He began playing tenor saxophone as an adolescent. Coltrane worked w...