Biography

Saturday, 18 July 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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Marilyn Monroe
She has been numerously commemorated in pop culture.
Elton John wrote “Candle in the Wind” for her.
Tadeusz Kosciuszko
In 1808, he published a book, "Manoeuvres of horse artillery."
Probably the same year he left for Switzerland. He settled with Franz Xavier Zeltner in Solothurn, a ...
John Sutter
He spoke three languages.
Besides Swiss French, which was his native language, he also learned English and Spanish before traveling to the USA.
Frederic Chopin
Chopin died on the night of October 17, 1849.
In his last moments he was surrounded by a few people close to him. In the death certificate tuberculosis was indicated as the cause of death.
Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi also known as "The Red Priest" - Il Prete Rosso - was born in 1678 in Venice.
He was born into a rather poor family. His father, Giambattista Vivaldi, a musician by passion, init ...
Charles Darwin
It was not Darwin's observation of finches that contributed to the formulation of the theory of evolution.
Despite the observation of these birds in the Galapagos Islands, the founder of the theory of evolut ...
Peter the Great
While in The Hague, he regularly attended parliamentary sessions (as an observer), visited scholars, and toured palaces, picture galleries, and museums.
He took a keen interest in minutiae, "trying to pinch a particle from each discipline for his own us ...
Frederic Chopin
When his health improved, the couple returned to France.Chopin spent six successive summers at George Sand's summer estate at Nohant, and these were undoubtedly his happiest moments in life after leaving his homeland.
There he composed, among other works, the Ballade in A flat major, Nocturnes Op. 48, the Fantasy in ...
Aristotle
Aristotle tutored several crown heads.
Apart from Alexander the Great, who was one of the most prominent rulers of Macedonia, Aristotle tut ...
William Shakespeare
There are over 100 variations of the name Shakespeare. The poet was also known as Shakspere, Shakspear, Shakespere, Shaksper, Shaxper Shake-spear.
The spelling rules were not yet clearly established at the time.