(born 1925) Vinokurov Eugene Mikhailovich (born 1925), the poet. He was born on October 22 in Bryansk, in the family of a serviceman. He studied at school until the tenth grade. The outbreak of the Patriotic War interrupted education: Vinokurov went to the officer artillery school, where a two-year program was held for nine months … Read more
Quentin Tarantino – film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, owner of the most prestigious in the film industry awards: “Oscar”, “Golden Palm Branch”, “Golden Globe”. Quentin Tarantino was born on March 27, 1963 in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. His parents were not painted. At birth in the biography of Quentin Tarantino was given the name Quintus. Later … Read more
Daisuke Matsusaka is a baseball player who was born on September 13, 1980 in Higashi Tsugaru-gu, Aomori, Japan. Best known as the reliever of the Boston Red Sox team. Daisuke is one of Japan’s most famous athletes. Various parts of the biography of Daisuke Matsusaka were intensively covered in the mass media, which brought him … Read more
English writer, professor of mathematics at Oxford University. Charles Ludwidge Dodgson (this is the real name of Carroll) was born in a small village of Dersbury in the Cheshire emblem. He was the eldest son of the modest parish priest Charles Dodgson and Francis Jane Lutwidge. At baptism, as it often happened in those days … Read more
Vladislav Borisovich Galkin is an actor, Honored Artist of Russia. Vyacheslav was born in Leningrad on December 25, 1971 in an acting family. His father was a famous director, actor Boris Galkin. But his parents did not want Vladislav Galkin’s biography to be chosen as an actor’s way. Since childhood, the boy has been mischievous, … Read more
(1811 – 1848) Russian critic and publicist. Born June 11 (old style – May 30) in 1811 in the fortress of Sveaborg (Finland), in the family of a naval doctor, and later – a district doctor. My mother was a typical provincial gossip, and my father, a man without gifts, sank under the influence of … Read more
James Baldwin is an American author, was born in New York. He spent his childhood in poverty in the slums of Harlem and at the age of 14 became a preacher in the Pentecostal Fireworks. His first novel, “Go forth from the mountain,” reflected his reflections as a young preacher. Two of these works in … Read more
Iosif Alexandrovich Brodsky – writer, translator. Joseph Brodsky was born on May 24, 1940 in Leningrad. Two years later, when the blockade was over, a move to Cherepovets took place in Brodsky’s biography. But the image of post-war Leningrad was preserved for a long time in the poet’s work. After the end of the seven … Read more
Muhammad Ali is a boxer, was born on January 17, 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky. He is best known as the heavyweight boxing champion, named the greatest. At birth, he received the name Cassius Marcellus Clay. A charismatic, outspoken athlete, named great, Muhammad Ali was one of the most outstanding boxers in the heavyweight of the … Read more
Adam Smith is a famous Scottish economist and philosopher, the founder of the classical school of political economy. His most famous works are: the scientific work Theory of Moral Senses and the book Study of the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Adam Smith was born in the small town of Kirkcaldy in … Read more