Biography

Monday, 4 May 2026
21 facts about Ada Lovelace
21 facts about Ada Lovelace
The first female programmer
Ada Lovelace was a British poet and mathematician who lived in the first half of the 19th century. She was the daughter of one of Britain's greatest d ...

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Abraham Lincoln
At a very young age, he lost his younger brother Thomas due to illness, and his mother died shortly thereafter.
A few years later he also lost his older sister, who died of postpartum fever.
Hypatia
The exact date of Hypatia's birth is not known.
She was probably born around 355 or 370. Such dates are given in her biographies, written by ancient scholars decades after her death. Most modern scholars believe that Hypatia was born in 370.
Peter the Great
In Poland, there is a giant oak tree in the village of Toporów, which was named the Peter I Oak in honor of Peter the Great.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Zelensky's family has Jewish roots.
Zelensky's great-grandparents perished in the Holocaust, as did his grandfather's three brothers. As ...
Jane Austen
Jane received her education primarily at home, learning drawing, music, and dance.
Jane's parents were avid readers, which they also strongly encouraged their daughter to do. As a res ...
Salvador Dali
He loved ripping money off of naive people.
The closest friend, confidant and muse of the artist Amanda Lear recalls that John Lennon's widow, Y ...
Christopher Columbus
He was probably born in Genoa in the year 1451.
There is no unanimity among historians about the origin of Columbus -  several theories about it hav ...
Sting
Sting is the father of six children. He has two children with his first wife, Frances Tornelty (1976 - 1984), and four with Trudie Styler, with whom he has formed a happy relationship since 1992.
Sting's daughter from his second marriage, Eliot Paulina Sumner, also known as Coco, is a singer and ...
Frederic Chopin
During his studies at the Warsaw Lyceum, Frederic often left Warsaw and visited a large part of Poland.
He visited Szafarnia, from where he sent his famous letters to his parents, "Kuriery Szafarskie" ("C ...
Jane Austen
Made in 1996, this adaptation of "Emma" received 2 Oscar nominations - it won the statuette for Best Original Score.
The title character, Emma Woodhouse, was played by Gwyneth Partlow.