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...
Lyn Collins

Lyn Collins

female, deceased (2005)
Lyn Collins (12 June 1948 - 13 March 2005) was an African American soul singer best known for working with James Brown in the 1970s. Contrary to...
Lonnie Smith

Lonnie Smith

male
Dr. Lonnie Smith was born in Lackawanna, New York, (just outside of Buffalo) His affinity for R&B melded with his own personal style, and he...
Charles Fort

Charles Fort

male, deceased (1932)
Charles Hoy Fort was an American writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena. (According to some sources he was born on 9 August.) Jerome Clark...
Gaylord Perry

Gaylord Perry

male, 71 years old
Gaylord Jackson Perry (born September 15 1938 in Williamston, North Carolina) is a former right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball and a...
Kevin Gilbert

Kevin Gilbert

male, deceased (1993)
Kevin Gilbert (1933-1993) was a 20th century Indigenous Australian activist writer and artist. Kevin Gilbert was born into the Wiradjuri and...
Stephen Law

Stephen Law

male
Stephen Law is a philosopher who teaches at Heythrop College in the University of London. He also edits the journal "THINK", a source of philosophy...

Patra

female, 37 years old
Patra is the stage name taken by Dorothy Smith, a dance music and reggae singer born on January 22 1972 in Kingston, Jamaica. She first made an...
Stu Mittleman

Stu Mittleman

male
Stu Mittleman stands out in the ultramarathon field for running 1,000 miles (1 609.344 kilometers) in 11 days, 20 hours 36 min. 56 sec. in 1986. He...

Conde McGinley

male, deceased (1963)
Michael Conde J. McGinley, (1890-1963) editor of a semimonthly paper called "Common Sense", brought briefly to the nation's attention by his...