Angličtina
2,568 referátov · strana 22 z 129
Patrick Swayze biography
Actor, dancer. Born August 18, 1952, in Houston, Texas. Swayze and his four siblings were raised by their parents Patsy and Jesse Swayze. Sw…
Winona Ryder biography
Actress. Born Winona Laura Horowitz, on October 29, 1971, in Winona, Minnesota. Named after the city where she was born, she is the third of…
Matt Damon biography
Actor, screenwriter. Born October 8, 1970, in Boston, Massachusetts. After his parents divorced when he was a young child, Damon moved with …
Home
It is surely not easy to say what a home is, but it is certain, that it is not only a house. It´s feeling of security, relations, people we …
Angela Bassett biography
Actress, born August 16, 1958, in New York City, New York. Raised with her sister, D'nette, in St. Petersburg, Florida by her single mother,…
Michael Mann biography
Director, producer, screenwriter. Born February 5, 1943, in Chicago, Illinois. Raised in the working class Chicago neighborhood of Humboldt …
Michael Faraday biography
Physicist and chemist. Born September 22, 1791, in Newington, Surrey. The family soon moved to London, where young Michael, one of 10 childr…
Steven Spielberg biography
Director, producer, writer. Born December 18, 1946, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Spielberg began experimenting with 8mm short films when he was only…
Peter the Great biography
Russian czar. Born Pyotr Alekseyevich, on June 9, 1672, in Moscow, Russia. Peter the Great was the fourteenth child of Czar Alexis by his se…
Harrison Ford biography
Actor. Born July 13, 1942, in Chicago, Illinois. Arguably the most bankable movie star ever, Harrison Ford came into his success relatively …
Sigourney Weaver biography
Actress. Born Susan Alexandra Weaver, on October 8, 1949, in New York City. At age 14, she took the name "Sigourney" from a character in F. …
Kevin Kline biography
Actor, director. Born in St. Louis, Missouri. After graduating from Indiana University with a dual degree in speech and theater, Kline heade…
Eliot, T.S. (Thomas Stearns) biography
Poet. Born September 26, 1888, in St. Louis, Missouri. Eliot's distinguished family tree included an ancestor who arrived in Boston in 1670,…
Ron Howard biography
Actor, director, producer. Born March 1, 1954, in Duncan, Oklahoma. He started off in show business at age two, appearing on the Kraft Theat…
William Blake biography
Poet, painter, engraver, and mystic. Born in London on November 28, 1757, Blake was the second of the five children of James and Catherine B…
Janet Jackson biography
Singer, songwriter, actress. Born May 16, 1966, in Gary, Indiana. The youngest of 10 children born to Joseph Walter Jackson and his wife, Ka…
John Paul II. biography
Pope, leader of the Catholic Church. Born Karol Jozef Wojtyla, on May 18, 1920, in Wadowice (a small town about 35 miles southwest of Kraków…
Mother Teresa biography
Christian missionary in India. Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu on August 27, 1910, in Skopje, Yugoslavia. Mother Teresa of Calcutta was a Roman C…
Fidel Castro biography
Cuban revolutionary and political leader, premier and president of Cuba, born August 13, 1927 (several sources say 1926), in MayarÍ on his f…
John F. Kennedy biography
Statesman and 35th U.S. president (1961-63), born on May 29, 1917, in Brookline, Massachusetts; the second of Joseph and Rose Kennedy's nine…