Biography

William had many siblings.

As an able student, he attended a special engineering course for outstanding students.

His real name was Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni.

Lodovico felt that he was special because of his count connections.

Eugene Adrien Roland Georges Garros was a French aviation pioneer and fighter pilot.

Eight-year-old Amadeus gave concerts at Versailles for Louis XV and at Buckingham Palace for George III.

For the sake of Chopin's health and life, as a cholera epidemic was spreading in Paris, his friends found an apartment in Chaillot for him.

Chopin's relationship with George Sand lasted almost until the last years of the composer's life, ending in 1847.

Anna settled at the Ivy House in Golders Green, London, in 1912.

Ada Lovelace befriended her tutor Mary Somerville.Mary Somerville was a Scottish physicist, writer and scholar. She studied mathematics and astronomy, and in 1835 she and Caroline Herschel (a British astronomer) were elected as the first honorary members of the Royal Astronomical Society.