Category: Biographies

Serena Williams – tennis player, was born September 26, 1981 in the city of Saginaw, Michigan. Most known as one of the sisters-tennis player Williams. In the late 1990s, in the biography of Serena Williams and her sister Venus, there was a starry time. They were African-American, which was a rarity in professional tennis. Sisters…

John Locke was an outstanding philosopher and thinker of the Enlightenment. Childhood and the early years of John Locke John Locke was born August 29, 1632 in a tiny cottage near the walls of the city church Rington, near Bristol, in the county of Sommerset, in the family of John Locke and Agnes Keene. The…

(1828 – 1910) (1828-1910), Earl, Russian writer, Corresponding Member (1873), Honorary Academician (1900) of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Beginning with the autobiographical trilogy “Childhood” (1852), “Adolescence” (1852-54), “Youth” (1855-57), a study of the “fluidity” of the inner world, the moral foundations of the personality became the main theme of Tolstoy’s works. The painful…

DJ Groove is a Russian DJ, composer. Eugene was born on April 6, 1972 in the Murmansk region. The music education in his biography DJ Groove received at the Conservatory of St. Petersburg. As a DJ began to perform in 1990. Music DJ Groove was first heard at the performances in Moscow, St. Petersburg. Also…

Michael Jordan – basketball player, was born on February 17, 1963. Most known as the defender of the team “Chicago Bulls”. Throughout the 1990s, Jordan was the best basketball player in the world. Five times in the biography of Michael Jordan was awarded the title of the most valuable player. Six times his team, “Chicago…

Jim Thorpe is an athlete, born on May 28, 1888. Biography of Jim Thorpe is best known as the history of a brilliant athlete, football player, baseball player. Jim Thorpe surprised the world of sports when he won gold medals in pentathlon, decathlon at the Olympics in 1912 in Stockholm. Later that year, speaking out…

Nobel Laureate Maria Curie was a physicist and chemist, known throughout the world for her work with radiation. Childhood and early years Maria Sklodowska was the youngest of five children of Bronislava and Vladislav Sklodowski. Both her parents were teachers. From an early age, the girl went in the footsteps of her father, keenly interested…

(1923 – 1984) Tendryakov Vladimir Fedorovich (1923 – 1984), the prose writer. Born December 5 in the village of Makarovskaya, Vologda region in the family of a people’s judge, then became a prosecutor. After graduation, he went to the front, was wounded and demobilized. He lived in the Kirov region, taught military affairs at school,…

Fred Williamson is a football player, actor. Born March 3, 1938 in the city of Gary, Indiana. Best known as a professional football star. In addition, he became famous in the 1970s thanks to films intended for African-American audiences. Fred, nicknamed “hammer” for a heavy blow, began to play professional football in 1961 for “Oakland…

Igor Dmitrievich Pelyh – TV presenter, producer, musician, creator and presenter of the popular entertainment program “Gallop on Europe”. Igor was born on February 3, 1974 in Ternopil. Already in his childhood, the biography of Igor Pelykh differed from his peers. The boy was very capable, creative, though not an excellent student. Was engaged in…