Biography Category
1561–1626, English philosopher, essayist, and statesman, b. London, educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and at Gray’s Inn. He was the son of S...
1890–1941, American jazz musician, composer, and band leader, originally named Ferdinand Joseph Lamothe, b. Gulfport, La. He began studying piano as...
(f d r ´k f l-l ´n ) (KEY) , 1920–93, Italian film director. After World War II he wrote screenplays for such neorealistic films as Rossellini’...
(h ´g ) (KEY) (Hoagland Howard Carmichael), 1899–1981, American songwriter, pianist, and singer, b. Bloomington, Ind. While still a student at Ind...
(hy m) (KEY) , 1711–76, Scottish philosopher and historian. Educated at Edinburgh, he lived (1734–37) in France, where he finished his first philo...
1925–, African-American blues singer and guitarist, b. near Indianola, Miss., as Riley B. King. He grew up poor in the Mississippi Delta region, beg...