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Introduction

Third Volume of a 1727 edition of Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
printed by Jacob Tonson
A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life. It
involves more than just the basic facts like education, work, relationships, and
death; it portrays a person's experience of these life events. Unlike a profile or
curriculum vitae (r�sum�), a biography presents a subject's life story,
highlighting various aspects of his or her life, including intimate details of
experience, and may include an analysis of the subject's personality.
Biographical works are usually non-fiction, but fiction can also be used to portray
a person's life. One in-depth form of biographical coverage is called legacy
writing. Works in diverse media, from literature to film, form the genre known as
biography.
An authorized biography is written with the permission, cooperation, and at times,
participation of a subject or a subject's heirs. An autobiography is written by the
person himself or herself, sometimes with the assistance of a collaborator or
ghostwriter.
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Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross, c. 1820 � March 10, 1913) was an African-
American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the US Civil War. After
escaping from slavery, into which she was born, she made thirteen missions to
rescue some seventy slaves using a network of antislavery activists and safe houses
known as the Underground Railroad. She later helped John Brown recruit men for his
raid on Harpers Ferry, and in the post-war era struggled for women's suffrage.
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Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra (December 12, 1915 � May 14, 1998) was an American
singer and film actor. Sinatra found unprecedented success as a solo artist from
the early to mid-1940s after being signed by Columbia Records in 1943, and was one
of the founding member of the Rat Pack. Sinatra is one of the best-selling artists
of all time.
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Biography � People
By association � By behavior � By ethnicity � By gender � By language � By
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� Basketball players � Olympians � Tennis players
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On this day � August 25

Births
1530 - Tsar Ivan IV of Russia (d. 1584)
1724 - George Stubbs, (pictured) British painter (d. 1806)
1900 - Hans Adolf Krebs, German physician and biochemist; Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1981)
1912 - Erich Honecker, East German politician (d. 1994)
1918 - Leonard Bernstein, American conductor and composer (d. 1990)
1919 - George Wallace, American politician (d. 1998)
1930 - Sean Connery, Scottish actor
1952 - Vijayakanth, Tamil Actor and Politician
1954 - Elvis Costello, English musician
1958 - Tim Burton, American film director
1970 - Claudia Schiffer, German model

Deaths
1688 - Henry Morgan, Welsh privateer
1776 - David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian (b. 1711)
1822 - William Herschel, German-born astronomer (b. 1738)
1867 - Michael Faraday, English scientist (b. 1791)
1900 - Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (b. 1844)
1908 - Henri Becquerel, French physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1852)
1956 - Alfred Kinsey, American research biologist (b. 1894)
1984 - Truman Capote, American author (b. 1924)
2001 - Aaliyah, American singer and actress (b. 1979)
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... that when Bulgarian politician Rayko Daskalov (pictured) was released from
prison in 1918 with the task of stopping a soldiers' uprising, he went on to take
charge of the rebellion instead?
... that Swiss-born U.S. soldier Rudolph Stauffer was one of 22 Medal of Honor
winners from Lieutenant Colonel George Crook's 1872�73 "winter campaign" against
renegade Apaches in the Arizona Territory?
... that Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer William M. Gallagher once commandeered
a police helicopter to cover a story?
... that N. D. Cocea's republican activism in the Kingdom of Romania involved
fabricating rumors about a peasant revolt, supporting Soviet Russia, and being
tried for l�se majest�?
... that the state of Maryland labeled Dominican nun Carol Gilbert as a terrorist?
... that Niqmepa was installed as King of Ugarit, an ancient city-state in
northwest Syria, by Hittite king Mursili II, who had forced his brother, Arhalba,
to abdicate?
... that with over 40,000 citations in scientific literature, Polish-American
polymer chemist Krzysztof Matyjaszewski is one of the most cited chemists in the
world?
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"Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive,
it isn't."
� Richard Bach
In Illusions, 1977
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See also: Biographies of living persons � Manual of Style (biographies)

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