Biography

Monday, 29 June 2026

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Amadeus Mozart
Urged strongly by his father to return to Salzburg, he stopped in Munich and Mannheim on his way back.
He also managed to meet his first love Aloysia Weber, who confessed to Mozart that she no longer rec ...
Roland Garros
Garros was the first to shoot down an aircraft with a machine gun mounted on the fuselage.
Early in World War I, the possibility of mounting a forward firing machine gun on a fighter aircraft ...
John Sutter
John Augustus Sutter was born on February 23, 1803, in Kandern, former Holy Roman Empire.
Kandern is now a part of Germany.
Abraham Lincoln
His mother was Nancy Lincoln, née Hanks. Her descendant, and therefore a descendant of Abraham Lincoln, is actor Tom Hanks.
Nancy’s father was also named Tom.
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 ...
Robert Oppenheimer
Robert had a brother, Frank, who was eight years younger.
Frank was also a physicist - a particle physicist, a professor of physics at the University of Color ...
William Shakespeare
At 18, Shakespeare married 26-years old Anne Hathaway. Because of the age difference and Anne’s pregnancy, it was suspected that the wedding was a necessity.
They had three children, a daughter Susanna, born in 1583, and twins Hamnet and Judith, born in 1585 ...
Marilyn Monroe
Monroe was awarded a Golden Globe for her role in “Some Like it Hot.”
Charles Darwin
He became one of the best students.
In the final examinations he placed tenth out of 178 people. The reading of numerous naturalistic wo ...
Tadeusz Kosciuszko
Tadeusz Kosciuszko died in Solothurn on October 15, 1817, at age 71, and was buried in nearby Zuchwil.
A year later, a coffin with Kosciuszko's embalmed body was brought back to the country and ceremonio ...