Biography

In October 2020, New York’s Christie’s Auction House reported that a copy of the First Folio sold for $9.97 million.

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.

Beethoven was probably first introduced to Joseph Haydn in late 1790 when he, traveling to London, stopped over Christmas in Bonn.

In 1808, he published a book, "Manoeuvres of horse artillery."

He published a number of sonnets and sermons, and the subjects he mainly dealt with were love and death.

Monroe’s autobiography, “My story,” was written at the peak of her career, but published 10 years after her death.

Garros was the first to shoot down an aircraft with a machine gun mounted on the fuselage.

Beethoven's return from Heiligenstadt to Vienna was marked by a change in musical style and is now often referred to as the beginning of his middle (heroic) period.

Mozart received a commission from Munich to write a grand opera for the start of the opera season in that city in December 1780.

The wedding took place on Friday, April 29th, 2011, at Westminster Abbey.