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Revision as of 22:43, 8 July 2009
The Biography Portal
A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a person's experience of these life events. Unlike a profile or curriculum vitae (résumé), a biography presents a subject's life story, highlighting various aspects of their 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 themselves, sometimes with the assistance of a collaborator or ghostwriter. (Full article...)
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McCoy Tyner (born December 11, 1938) is a jazz pianist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is best known for his work with the John Coltrane Quartet, playing with Coltrane, Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones. His brother, Jarvis Tyner, was the Communist Party USA vice-presidential candidate in 1976. (Read more...)
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See also: Biographies of living persons • Manual of Style (biographies)
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Births
- 1646 – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German mathematician and philosopher (d. 1716)
- 1818 – Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian-Austrian physician (d. 1865)
- 1926 – Carl Hahn, German automotive executive, chairman of Volkswagen from 1982 to 1993
- 1949 – John Farnham, Australian singer
- 1952 – Dan Aykroyd, Canadian actor
- 1961 – Diana, Princess of Wales, (d. 1997)
- 1961 – Carl Lewis, (pictured) American athlete
- 1967 – Pamela Anderson, Canadian model and actress
- 1971 – Missy Elliott, American singer
- 1975 – Sufjan Stevens, American musician
- 1977 – Liv Tyler, American actress
Deaths
- 1974 – Juan Perón, President of Argentina (b. 1895)
- 2004 – Marlon Brando, American actor (b. 1924)
- 2005 – Luther Vandross, American singer (b. 1951)
- 2019 – Tyler Skaggs, American baseball pitcher (b. 1991}
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