Category: Biographies

Sophia Loren is an Italian actress, winner of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts. The name of the outstanding beauty Lauren is often included in the lists of the most attractive women in the world. Early years Actress Sofia Villani Shikolone was born in Italy, in Rome, September 20, 1934. Her father, Riccardo Chicolone,…

Hristo is a Bulgarian-American painter, was born in the town of Gabrovo under the name of Hristo Vladimirov Yavashev. In his biography Hristo studied in Sofia, Vienna, Paris. His early experiments on installation led to the creation of a device for wrapping ordinary objects in fabrics and other materials. Thus, an artificial cover was created,…

Amedeo Avogadro is an Italian chemist and physicist known for his molecular theory. Childhood and early years Amedeo Avogadro was born on August 9, 1776 in Turin, Italy, to a family of lawyers. His father, Count Filippo Avogadro, was a well-known lawyer in Piedmont, an area in Northern Italy. His training begins at the age…

(1908 – 1981) Field (real name – Kampov) Boris Nikolayevich (1908 – 1981), a prose writer. Born March 4 (17 N. s.) In Moscow in the family of a lawyer. Children’s and teenage years passed in Tver, in the factory yard of the huge textile combine owned by Morozov. At home there was a good…

Denis Rozhkov is an actor of theater and cinema. According to Denis Rozhkov, his biography does not stand out against the background of his contemporaries-actors. He was born on July 3, 1976 in Moscow. In 1993 he graduated from the school. After an unsuccessful attempt to enter GITIS, he studied for a year at the…

Thomas Hart Benton – American artist, was born in Neosho, Missouri. He is the grand-nephew of Senator Thomas Hart Benton, the son of congressman patron E. Benton. In 1906, 1907 in his biography Benton attended the Institute of Art of Chicago. At the age of 19, Thomas moved to Paris, where he stayed for five…

John von Neumann is rightfully considered one of the greatest mathematicians of all time. Childhood John von Neumann was born in Budapest, the capital of Hungary, on December 28, 1903. He was the eldest son of his parents – Max Neumann and Margaret Kahn. From the earliest age of Neiman, the nature of numbers and…

(born 1913) Rozov Victor Sergeevich (born 1913), playwright. Born July 8 (21 N. s.) In Yaroslavl in the family accountant. Childhood years passed in his native city. In 1918, during the mutiny organized by Savinkov, the city burned. The Pink family, who lost all property that had fled from Yaroslavl, settled in Vetluga. From the…

Petr Andreevich Nalich is a singer, songwriter, representative of Russia at Eurovision 2010. Peter was born in Moscow on April 30, 1981. Peter’s great-grandfather sang at the Belgrade Opera, so it’s likely that his own unique velvet tenor Peter received from him. The first musical education Peter Nalich in biography received in the Moscow Music…

Ansel Adams – American photographer, was born in San Francisco. I started to take pictures in the clubs “Sierra” and “Yosemite Valley”. The name of the photographer is primarily associated with these clubs. In 1930, the fascination with photography in the biography of Ansel Adams became professional. In the same year he published the first…