Biography Category
(py r b l) (KEY) , 1647–1706, French philosopher. Born a Huguenot, he converted to Roman Catholicism and then returned to Protestantism. To avoid Fr...
(kr s´ p s) (KEY) , c.280–c.207 B.C., Greek Stoic philosopher, b. Soli, Cilicia. He was a disciple of Cleanthes and succeeded him as head of the Ac...
(sö´r n ky r´k gôr) (KEY) , 1813–55, Danish philosopher and religious thinker. Kierkegaard’s outwardly uneventful life in Copenhagen contraste...
1893–1979, American movie actress, b. Toronto, Ont. In 1909 she began working with D. W. Griffith. Specializing in playing young girls, she was dubb...
(Edward Kennedy Ellington), 1899–1974, American jazz musician and composer, b. Washington, D.C. Ellington made his first professional appearance as ...
1935–, American musician and singer, b. Macon, Ga., as Richard Wayne Penniman. One of the first rock musicians in the 1950s, he recorded “Tutti Fr...