Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach

male, deceased (1750)
Johann Sebastian Bach was a prolific German composer and organist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra and solo instruments drew...
Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking

male, 67 years old
Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA, (born 8 January1942) is a British theoretical physicist. Hawking is the Lucasian Professor of...
Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven

male, deceased (1827)
Ludwig van Beethoven, (baptized December 17, 1770 - March 26, 1827) was a German composer. He is regarded as one of the greatest composers in the...
Richard Feynman

Richard Feynman

male, deceased (1988) (FAR ROCKAWAY, New York, United States)
Richard Phillips Feynman was an American physicist known for expanding the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of...
Hugh Hefner

Hugh Hefner

male, 83 years old (Los Angeles, California, United States)
Hugh Marston Hefner (born April 9, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois), also referred to colloquially as Hef, is the founder and editor-in-chief of...
Linus Torvalds

Linus Torvalds

male, 39 years old
Linus Benedict Torvalds ; born December 28, 1969 in Helsinki, Finland, is a Finnish software engineer best known for initiating the development of...
Glenn Gould

Glenn Gould

male, deceased (1982)
Glenn Herbert Gould (birth name "Glenn Herbert Gold") (September 25, 1932 - October 4, 1982) was a Canadian pianist, noted especially for his...
Galileo Galilei

Galileo Galilei

male, deceased (1642)
Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564 - 8 January 1642) was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher closely associated with...
Timothy Leary

Timothy Leary

male, deceased (1996)
Timothy Francis Leary, (October 22, 1920 - May 31, 1996) was an American writer, psychologist, advocate of psychedelic drug research and use, and...
Alan Turing

Alan Turing

male, deceased (1954) (london)
This short on-line biography of Alan Turing is based on the entry I wrote for the British Dictionary of National Biography in 1995. The eight parts...