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Bela Lugosi
Name at birth: Béla Ferenc Dezso BlaskoBela Lugosi set the standard for movie vampires when he starred in the title role of Dracula, the 1931 film version of Bram Stoker's famous book. A successful…Bill Frisell
Bill Frisell grew up in Colorado, then moved east to Boston and New York to study guitar in the late 1970s. He toured Europe and began recording in the early 1980s, and his first album, In Line was…John Bunyan
John Bunyan's 17th-century book The Pilgrim's Progress is classic literature's most famous Christian allegory. Bunyan grew up in a village outside Bedford, England, the son of a tinker (or brazier…Duke Ellington
Name at birth: Edward Kennedy EllingtonEdward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington started as a pool hall piano player and grew to become one of the great figures in American jazz performance. Duke Ellington…Gustav Klimt
Artist Gustav Klimt, like composer Gustav Mahler, philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein and big-time thinker Sigmund Freud, was a hotshot of Vienna's glory days at the turn of the 20th century. Influenced…Immanuel Kant
German philosopher Immanuel Kant's position as one of the greats in Western metaphysics comes from works he published late in life, including Critique of Pure Reason (1781) and The Fundamental…Macy Gray Biography
Macy Graymusician Although she was exposed to a variety of music throughout her childhood, both listening to her parents' vast record collection and studying classical piano, it wasn't until…Susannah McCorkle Biography
Susannah McCorklejazz singerBorn: 1/4/1946Birthplace: Berkeley, Calif. sultry-voiced singer and accomplished writer known for her literary interpretation of jazz standards. Fluent in six…Nils Bohlin
Nils Bohlin Born: July 17, 1920 Birthplace: Sweden Three-point safety belt—The now-standard three-point safety belt,…Ray Charles 2004 Deaths
Ray CharlesAge: 73 singer, pianist, and composer whose soulful tunes combined gospel, blues, pop, country, and jazz. A pioneer in rock music whose songs ranged from pop standards to love…Trending
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