Biography

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.

He first became consul in 59 BC.

A bystander to the event reported it to the police, and an investigation was launched, resulting in Rasputin's body being fished out of the river.

Volodymyr Zelenski was born on January 25, 1978 in the central Ukrainian town of Kryvyi Rih.

During his student years, Chopin was fascinated by folk music, and it characterises his work from this period.

The British monarch is a talented watercolorist. The Telegraph described him as one of the highest earning artists in the British Isles.

In the fall of 1808, after turning down a position at the Royal Theater, Beethoven was offered a well-paid position as bandmaster at the court of Cassel by Napoleon's brother, Jerome Bonaparte, then king of Westphalia.

He preferred composing to the role of a virtuoso, to which he devoted himself between 1835 and 1846.

In 1988, a 10-franc coin with a portrait of Roland Garros was released in France.

Even as a child Frederic made numerous appearances in the salons of the Warsaw aristocracy.