Category: Biographies

Claudius Ptolemy – a physicist, a mathematician, an astronomer, a geographer. The biography of Ptolemy has not been reliably studied for several reasons. It so happened that his contemporaries did not mention in their writings Ptolemy. Therefore, all the facts of Ptolemy’s biography are not fully confirmed. His contribution to science and destiny can be…

American actor Al Pacino has been attracting the attention of TV viewers since the 1970s with his play in the films The Godfather, Serpico and The Scent of a Woman. Early years Alfredo James Pacino was born on April 25, 1940 in New York. First he grew up in East Harlem, then in the Bronx.…

Herodotus – an ancient Greek historian, nicknamed the “father of history.” One of the first geographers and scientists-travelers. On the basis of the seen and questioned information gave the first general description of the then known world. Almost all known countries of their time traveled to write their famous “History”: Greece, South Italy, Asia Minor,…

ILF Ilya (real name – Ilya Arnoldovich Faisilberg) (1897 – 1937); Petrov Eugene (real name – Yevgeny Petrovich Kataev) (1903 – 1942) – satirical writers, authors of novels, short stories, feuilletons and essays written together. Ilf was born on October 3 (15th century) in Odessa in the family of a bank employee. In 1913, after…

Oksana Aleksandrovna Akinshina is a young and popular actress of Russian cinema. Akinshina was born on April 19, 1987 in the city of Leningrad. Her mother was an accountant, and her father a fitter. Oksana also has a younger sister. Akinshina attended a modeling agency and a circle of choreography at a young age. At…

Sergei Yurievich Jursky – actor of theater and cinema, director, Honored and People’s Artist of the RSFSR. Sergei was born on March 16, 1935 in Leningrad. To say that Sergey’s family was creative is not enough. His father directed Lenkontsertom, was an actor, director, worked as art director of the Moscow Circus. It is not…

Vysotsky Vladimir Semenovich is a Soviet poet, singer, actor, laureate of the USSR State Prize. Childhood Vladimir Vysotsky was born on January 25, 1938 in Moscow in a military family. The early childhood of the future poet passed in a close communal apartment. In 1941 – 1943, during the Great Patriotic War, Vladimir and his…

The diverse actor Brian Cranston played Walter White in the popular television drama “In All Grave”. In it, the school teacher made methamphetamine and turned into a criminal authority. Youth Bryan Lee Cranston was born on March 7, 1956 in Canoga Park, California. The son of an actor striving for success, Brian spent a lot…

(1818 – 1883) Pavel Ivanovich Melnikov was born on November 6, 1818 in Nizhny Novgorod in the family of Ivan Ivanovich Melnikov and his wife Anna Pavlovna in the house of her grandfather on the mother of the outward counselor Pavel Petrovich Sergeyev, in honor of whom the first-born was named. The Melnikov family belonged…

Tony Braxton – R & B singer, was born on October 7, 1967 in the city of Severn, Maryland. As the daughter of a priest, she furtively listened to worldly musicians when her parents were not at home. At the beginning of her biography, Tony Braxton sang in a church choir. This provided an opportunity…