Roger Maris – a baseball player, was born on September 10, 1934 in the city of Hibbing, Minnesota, died of lymphatic cancer on December 14, Best known as a man who beat the Babe Ruth record on home runs for one season. In 1961, 61 home runs were made by Roger Maris. This athlete broke … Read more
Elena Lvovna Chekalova is a journalist, television presenter, wife of Leonid Parfenov. Elena Chekalova is known not simply as the wife of the famous TV presenter, but as a woman who has covered all of her culinary abilities. She is able to bring from the screens not only a dry recipe for an expensive overseas … Read more
Rimma V. Markova is an actress of theater and cinema, People’s Artist of the Russian Federation. Rimma Markova was born in the village of Churino, Samara region, March 3, 1925. The girl was brought up in an actor’s family: her father worked as an actor in the drama theater of Saratov. Not surprisingly, since childhood … Read more
(Wilde) (16.10.1854, Dublin, 30.11.1900, Paris), an English writer and critic. Irish by nationality. He graduated from Oxford University (1879). The collection of “Poems” (1881) was a success. Under the influence of J. Ruskin’s lectures on art, he was carried away by the ideas of the so-called aesthetic movement, preached the need for the revival of … Read more
President Ronald Reagan was the 40th president of the United States. He radically revised the goals of the US government and put an end to the Cold War with the Soviet Union. Childhood and Education Ronald Wilson Reagan was born on February 6, 1911 in Tampico, Illinois, USA, to John Edward’s family “Jack” Reagan and … Read more
Harutyun A. Hakobyan – artist, magician, was born on April 26, 1918 in Yerevan. At the beginning of the biography of Harutyun Hakobyan, a choreographic education was received at the local school. Then, thanks to the will of his father, he leaves the dance ensemble for training in a construction technical school. The next stage … Read more
Christy Mathewson is an American baseball player, was born in Factoryville, Pennsylvania. In 1902 he graduated from the University of Bucknell. The baseball player played with his right hand. In the biography of Christy Mathewson, since 1901, games began for the “Cincinnati Reds” team, and then for the “New York Giants”. After John McGraw, Matthews … Read more
Scarlett Johansson is an American actress. She is best known for her roles in the films “Lost in Translation”, “Nanny Diaries”, “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”, “Avengers”, “Hitchcock” and “Lucy”. Briefly Scarlett Johansson was born in New York in 1884. Acting career she began as a child, at the age of 13, the role in the film … Read more
Charles Augustin de Coulomb is a physicist, whose name is the law of interaction of electric projectiles. Childhood and youth Charles Augustin de Coulon was born into a well-to-do family in Angouleme, France. His father, Henri Coulomb, came from a well-known family of lawyers, and his mother, Catherine Bage, was a representative of a noble … Read more
Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov is a famous Soviet writer, public figure, military correspondent, laureate of Lenin and Stalin prizes, Hero of Socialist Labor. Early years Born on November 15, 1915 in Petrograd. But the first years of his life Simonov lived in Saratov, Ryazan. Parents were named Kirill, but then changed his name and took a … Read more