Biography of Kofi Annan
Kofi Atta Annan was born on 8 April 1938 in the Kofandros section of Kumasi, Ghana, is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1 January 1997 to … read more
Biography of Subramaniam Chandrashekhar
Subramaniam Chandrashekhar was born on October 19, 1910 in Lahore, India ( later part of Pakistan ). At the time of Chandrashekhar’s birth, his father, Chandrashekhar Subramaniam Ayyar, was an officer in the Department of … read more
Biography of Marie Curie
Marie Sk?odowska Curie was born on 7 November 1867 in Warsaw, Russian held parts of Poland & died on 4 July 1934 in Passy, Haute-Savoie, France, was a Polish–French physicist–chemist famous for her pioneering research … read more
Biography of Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman was born in New York City on 31 July, 1912, the fourth child and only son of working class Jewish immigrants from a Hungarian community in what is now Ukraine. When he was … read more
Biography of Samuel Beckett
The Irish genius Samuel Barclay Beckett was born of a Protestant family in Dublin on 13 April 1906. The dramatist was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. After 1937 Samuel Beckett primarily lived … read more
Biography of Nelson Mandela
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born in a village near Umtata in the Transkei on the 18 July 1918, was President of South Africa, the first to be elected in a fully representative democratic election, who … read more
Biography of Chandrasekhar Venkat Raman
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (aka C V Raman) was born at Trichinopoly in Southern India on November 7th, 1888 & died on November 21, 1970, the first Indian scientist to win Nobel Prize. His father was … read more