Biography

The exact date of Hypatia's birth is not known.

Not all of his children reached adulthood.

His real name was Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni.

His environmental interests also have a dark side. He tried to influence the government.

Beethoven was born in Bonn in 1770 in a house at Bonnstrasse 20, where the Beethoven-Haus Museum is now located.

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.

Roland Garros is sometimes referred to as the world's first air ace.

Chopin began learning the piano quite early, at the turn of his fourth and fifth year.

In 1875, having previously obtained a scholarship (thanks to a high school teacher), he enrolled at the Graz University of Technology.

Meddling in the Polish election, Peter I supported the election of August II the Strong as king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1697.