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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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Births
- 106 BC - Pompey the Great, consul of Rome, (d. 48 BC) (pictured)
- 1547 - Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author (d. 1616)
- 1758 - Horatio Nelson, British admiral (d. 1805)
- 1786 - Guadalupe Victoria, first President of Mexico (d. 1843)
- 1901 - Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1954)
- 1904 - Greer Garson, British actress (d. 1996)
- 1907 - Gene Autry, American actor, singer, and businessman (d. 1998)
- 1935 - Jerry Lee Lewis, American musician (d. 2022)
- 1943 - Lech Wałęsa, President of Poland, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- 1948 - Bryant Gumbel, American television personality
- 1957 - Andrew Dice Clay, American comedian and actor
- 1958 - Ralf Rangnick, German association football manager
Deaths
- 48 BC - Pompey the Great, consul of Rome (b. 106 BC)
- 1560 - King Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1496)
- 1642 - René Goupil, French Catholic missionary, one of Canadian Martyrs (b. 1608)
- 1902 - Émile Zola, French writer (b. 1840)
- 1967 - Carson McCullers, American author (b. 1917)
- 1973 - W. H. Auden, English poet (b. 1907)
- 1988 - Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912)
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