The Most Influential Celebrities of All Time to World!
Roy Acuff was a pioneer in the development of country music-as a singer, fiddler, songwriter, and music publisher, and as the spiritual figurehead of the Grand Ole Opry. One of the best-loved figures in the genre, he was the first living person to be elected as a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame. […]
Nathan Abshire was a Cajun accordion player whose talent as a musician, vocalist, and songwriter, together with his amiable personality, made him a favourite with Cajun and non-Cajun audiences alike. His postwar recordings helped bring the accordion back to a position of prominence in Cajun music, and his songs captured the joys and sorrows that
The Italian conductor Claudio Abbado is one of the superstars of late 20th-century concert music-renowned for his work in both the concert hall and the opera house. He is an outstanding interpreter of operatic and modern music and works extensively with young musicians. Abbado was born on June 26, 1933, into a highly musical Milanese
(fl. c. 62 CE, Alexandria, Egypt) Heron (or Hero) of Alexandria was a Greek geometer and inventor whose writings preserved for posterity a knowledge of the mathematics and engineering of Babylonia, ancient Egypt, and the Greco-Roman world. Heron’s most important geometric work, Metrica, was lost until 1896. It is a compendium, in three books, of
(b. 27th century BCE, Memphis, Egypt) Imhotep (Greek: Imouthes) was a vizier, sage, architect, astrologer, and chief minister to Djoser (reigned 2630–2611 BCE), the second king of Egypt’s third dynasty, who was later worshipped as the god of medicine in Egypt and in Greece, where he was identified with the Greek god of medicine, Asclepius.
(b. 62? CE, Guiyang [now Leiyang, in present-day Hunan province], China-d. 121, China) Cai Lun (courtesy name [zi] Jingzhong) was a Chinese court official who is traditionally credited with the invention of paper. Cai Lun was a eunuch who entered the service of the imperial palace in 75 CE and was made chief eunuch under
(b. Jan. 19, 1736, Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scot.-d. Aug. 25, 1819, Heathfield Hall, near Birmingham, Warwick, Eng.) James Watt was a Scottish instrument maker and inventor whose steam engine contributed substantially to the Industrial Revolution. He was elected fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1785. Education and Training Watt’s father, the treasurer and magistrate
(b. Oct. 24, 1632, Delft, Neth.-d. Aug. 26, 1723, Delft) Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was a Dutch microscopist who was the first to observe bacteria and protozoa. His researches on lower animals refuted the doctrine of spontaneous generation, and his observations helped lay the foundations for the sciences of bacteriology and protozoology. Little is known of
(b. Jan. 17 [Jan. 6, Old Style], 1706, Boston, Mass. [now in U.S.]-d. April 17, 1790, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.) Benjamin Franklin was an American printer and publisher, author, inventor and scientist, and diplomat. One of the foremost of the Founding Fathers, Franklin helped draft the Declaration of Independence and was one of its signers, represented
Cro-Magnon was a population of early Homo sapiens dating from the Upper Paleolithic Period (c. 40,000 to c. 10,000 years ago) in Europe. In their ancient cave habitations they left behind traces of ingenious stone tools, carved statuettes and figurines, and painted scenes of striking beauty that are considered to be among the greatest treasures