Dr Samuel Johnson (1709–84) was the leading literary scholar and critic of his time. A man celebrated for his brilliant and witty conversation, Dr. Johnson was England ‘s first full-dress man of letters, and his mind and personality helped to create the traditions that have guided English taste and criticism. His rather gross appearance and …
English dramatist and poet, William Shakespeare, (1564–1616), is considered the greatest playwright who ever lived. Life of Shakespeare Little is known of Shakespeare’s boyhood, but it is believed that he attended the grammar school in Stratford , where he would have been educated in the classics, particularly Latin grammar and literature. In 1594 Shakespeare became …
Cassius Marcellus Clay (Muhammad Ali) was born in Louisville, Kentucky. Ali later changed his name after he converted to Islam in 1975. He died on June 3, 2016. Early boxing career Standing at 6’3″ (1.91 m), Ali had a highly unorthodox style for a heavyweight boxer. Rather than the normal boxing style of carrying the …
Monica Seles (born December 2, 1973 ) was an American professional tennis player, who originally played for her native Yugoslavia . She has won nine Grand Slam singles titles playing for Yugoslavia and the United States . Seles became a teen tennis sensation in 1990, when she won the French Open at age 16. Biography …
Sir James Chadwick, the winner of Nobel Prize for physics in 1935, was born in Cheshire, England, on 20th October, 1891. He graduated in Physics in 1911 from Manchester University and spent the next two years under Professor Rutherford in the Physical Laboratory in Manchester, where he worked on various radioactivity problems, gaining his M.Sc. …
Louis Pasteur, the 19th century biologist and chemist, is best known as the inventor of pasteurization. His work with germs and microorganisms opened up whole new fields of scientific inquiry, aided industries ranging from wine to silk, and made him one of the world’s most celebrated scientists. Biography Louis Pasteur was born on December 27, …
Doris Lessing, the British novelist won the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature. Her novels are deeply autobiographical and reflect her deep feminist engagement with major social and political issues. Biography Doris Lessing was born on 22 October 1919 to British parents in what was then known as Persia (now Iran) as Doris May Taylor. In …
One of the 20th century’s most profound figures in literature, Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He attended Harvard University before studying philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris. In 1914 he settled in England and worked as a schoolmaster and eventually met and became friends with many popular writers of the …
Brazil footballer Kaka was named FIFA World Player of the Year in 2007. The 25 year old Brazilian beat Barcelona forward Lionel Messi and Manchester United player Christiano Ronaldo in the annual poll of national team coaches and captains. Biography Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite (born April 22, 1982 in Brasília), better known as Kaka, was …
Ferrari Driver Kimi Raikkonen won the Formula One Drivers Championship title in 2007. He won six races that season. Early years Kimi Matias Raikkonen was born on October 17th, 1979 in Espoo, Finland. He started national and international kart racing from the age of ten, before taking up car racing in 1999. In 2000, the …
