Biography

Wednesday, 3 June 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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John Sutter
He wanted to build a town named Sutterville.
His son, John Augustus Sutter Jr., proposed the name Sacramento, derived from the Sacramento River. ...
Kate Middleton
Catherine Elizabeth Middleton was born on January 9th, 1982, in Reading.
Kate’s parents, Carole and Michael, met at work; the Princess’ mother worked as a flight attendant a ...
Anna Pavlova
Anna was the principal ballerina of the Imperial Russian Ballet.
The Imperial Russian Ballet, currently known as the Kirov Ballet, was founded in the 18th century an ...
Christopher Columbus
In May 1492, Columbus arrived at the port of Palos in Andalusia, where the town provided him with two caravels: Niña and Pinta, and leased a larger ship, the caravel "Santa Maria," as his flagship.
On August 3, 1492, the three ships set sail with a crew of about 90 men and, after a brief stopover at Las Palmas in the Canary Islands, set course westward. Columbus' first expedition had begun.
William Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s name appears in the surviving books of Queen Elizabeth I’s treasurer as one of three so-called “Lord Chamberlain’s servants” who got paid to perform a play before the Queen at Greenwich Palace on December 26 and 28, 1594.
Tadeusz Kosciuszko
In the spring of 1777, Kosciuszko was sent north to the Canadian border, where he fortified various Continental Army military camps for months under General Horatio Gates.
He became famous after the Battle of Saratoga, where he performed his fortification work. His engine ...
Sting
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.
Anna Pavlova
Anna was born on February 12th, 1881 in Sankt Petersburg, Russia.
Her mother, Lyubov Feodorovna, was a laundress. There is a mystery surrounding her fatherhood, howev ...
Hypatia
A group of scholars in the 20th century decided that Hypatia was the most intelligent person in the history of mankind.
Robert Oppenheimer
In 1947, Oppenheimer took a position as director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.
He received a hefty salary of $20,000 a year and the opportunity to live for free in a 17th-century house, with a cook and caretaker. The house was surrounded by woods covering 107 acres.