5 Minute Biographies

Helen Adams Keller was born on 27 June 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama, United States. She became one of the most…

Natalie Wood was born Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko on 20 July 1938 in San Francisco, California, United States. She became one…

Frank Patrick Herbert was born on 8 October 1920 in Tacoma, Washington, United States. He became one of the most…

Lucille Désirée Ball was born on 6 August 1911 in Jamestown, New York, United States. She became one of the…

Henry John Deutschendorf Jr., known to the world as John Denver, was born on 31 December 1943 in Roswell, New…

Margaretha Geertruida Zelle, better known to the world as Mata Hari, was born on 7 August 1876 in Leeuwarden, Netherlands.…

Ernest Hemingway was born on 21 July 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, and became one of the most influential and…

Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little on 19 May 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. He became one of the most influential…

Roy Orbison was born on 23 April 1936 in Vernon, Texas, and went on to become one of the most…

Gregory Peck, born Eldred Gregory Peck on 5 April 1916 in La Jolla, California, was one of Hollywood’s most celebrated…

William Shakespeare, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language and the world’s preeminent dramatist, was…

Aristotle, one of the most influential philosophers in history, was born in 384 BCE in the city of Stagira, located…

Anne Frank, born Annelies Marie Frank on 12 June 1929 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, became one of the most…

Alfred Hitchcock, born Alfred Joseph Hitchcock on 13 August 1899 in Leytonstone, Essex, England, is often regarded as one of…

Margaret Thatcher, born Margaret Hilda Roberts on 13 October 1925 in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, remains one of Britain’s most significant…

Henry Ford, the pioneering American industrialist who revolutionised the automobile industry and transformed manufacturing, was born on 30 July 1863…