Biography

During his first ten months living in Paris, Hemingway wrote 88 articles for the Toronto Star.

Just before his death, Mozart began work on the Requiem funeral mass.

Napoleon divorced Josephine (she did not give him an heir) and married Marie Louise - daughter of the defeated Austrian Emperor Francis II.

She was also a gambling enthusiast - in her late 40s she lost more than £3,000 on horse racing.

Hemingway worked as a correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance agency (NANA) during the Spanish Civil War.

He wrote his first opera "Ottone in villa" at the age of 35.

At nineteen, he married Praskovia Fedorovna Dubrovna, with whom he had four children.

As a solo musician and member of The Police, Sting won 17 Grammy Awards, won Song of the Year for "Every Breath You Take," three Brit Awards, including Best British Male Artist in 1994, a Golden Globe, an Emmy and four Academy Award nominations for Best Original Song.

Charles Darwin lived from 1809 to 1882.

Alfred Nobel lived between 1833 and 1896.