Biography

Tuesday, 29 September 2026

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Marilyn Monroe
Monroe died on 5th August 1962.
The cause of death was determined as a sleeping pill overdose.
Ada Lovelace
After her first meeting with Charles Babbage, Lovelace visited him whenever she could.
Babbage was impressed with her intellect and analytical skills. He called her the "The Enchantress o ...
Napoleon Bonaparte
He was born as Napoleone di Buonaparte in Ajaccio, Corsica, on August 15, 1769.
He was the son of an indigent nobleman of Italian descent, Carlo Maria Buonaparte, and his wife, Let ...
Nikola Tesla
Toward the end of his life, Tesla worked obsessively on the concept of free energy.
In 1901, he patented a free energy receiver called the Radiant Energy Apparatus. The patent applies to the sun, as well as other sources of radiant energy, such as cosmic rays.
Abraham Lincoln
He measured about 195 centimeters, which makes him the tallest president of the US.
Charles Darwin
He was born on 12 February 1809 in the small English town of Shrewsbury, in the family home of The Mount.
He came from a wealthy family of Robert Darwin, a physician and financier, and Susannah Wedgwood - h ...
Frederic Chopin
In 1817 the first printed work by Frederic Chopin was published. It was a polonaise in the key of G minor.
It was published in the parish typographical establishment of the Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the New Town in Warsaw.
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin died after a long illness on April 19, 1882, at the age of 73.
In recognition of his great contributions to science, Queen Victoria expressed the wish that the gre ...
William Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s documented artistic activity spans the years 1586 to 1612.
Amadeus Mozart
Like her sister Aloysia, Constance Weber was a singer.
Her marriage to Mozart lasted nine years, and during her marriage, Constance gave birth to six children, of whom only two sons, Franz Xaver Wolfgang and Karl Thomas, survived.