Category: Biography
Edward Elgar Edward Elgar (1857-1934), British composer. Self-taught, he played in local orchestras and settled in Malvern after an unsuccessful period in London (1889-91). His Enigma Variations (1899), an …
Sergei Eisenstein Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948), Russian film director. In the 1920’s he pioneered new techniques of film editing, producing a number of films noted for their beautifully composed scenes …
Dwight D.Eisenhower Dwight D.Eisenhower (1890-1969), US general and 34th president of the US. Having graduated from the US Military Academy at West Point in 1915, he commanded a tank training centre …
Albert Einstein Albert Einstein (1879-1955), US physicist, of German birth. He studied in Switzerland, becoming a Swiss citizen in 1901. In 1905, while working in the Berne Patent Office, …
Gustave Eiffel Gustave Eiffel (1832-1923), French engineer. Eiffel specialized in metal construction, building a number of iron bridges as well as the huge locks for the Panama Canal. For …
Bega Begum Bega Begum, 1581, Mughal princess. First cousin of Humayun, she was also the wife of his youth. A son horn to them in 1528 when Humayun, …
Paul Ehrlich Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915), German bacteriologist. After obtaining his medical degree at Leipzig (1878), Ehrlich worked with Emil Adolf von Behring to find a cure for diphtheria. In …
Basanti Devi Basanti Devi, 1880-1974, social and political worker. Widow of the great Chittaranjan Das whom she had married in 1897, she, along with her husband, gave up life …
