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Biography (from the Greek words bios (βιος), meaning 'life', and graphein, meaning 'to write') is a genre of literature or film which presents a relatively full account of the most interesting and important events of a notable person's life. While a biography may focus on a fictional person, the term usually refers to non-fiction works. As opposed to summaries of people's lives, such as profiles or curriculum vitae, a biography is a continuous narrative which interprets and explains the person's character, personality, and social context.

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A. E. J. Collins was a cricketer and soldier, most famous for his achievement, as a schoolboy, of the highest-ever recorded score in cricket, 628 not out, over four afternoons in June 1899. Collins' record-making innings drew a large crowd and increasing media interest: spectators at the Old Cliftonian match being played nearby were drawn away to watch a junior school house cricket match. Collins joined the British Army in 1902. He studied at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, before becoming an officer in the Royal Engineers. He served in France during World War I, where he was killed in action in 1914.

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Emir Mohammed Alim Khan (1880–1944) was the last emir of the Manghit dynasty, the last ruling dynasty of the Emirate of Bukhara in Central Asia. He reigned from January 3, 1911 to August 30, 1920, and was a direct descendant of Genghis Khan, the first Great Khan. (read more...)

Photo credit: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1911) Source: Library of Congress

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...that former child actor Richard Eyer, who played the boy who runs "afowl" of the goose in William Wyler's 1956 film Friendly Persuasion, is now an elementary school teacher in Bishop, California?
...that 1985 NCAA hurdling champion Thomas Wilcher won the Michigan High School Athletic Association team track & field championship three consecutive times, both as an athlete and a coach?
...that after winning three medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics as a 16-year-old, Anita Nall retired from competitive swimming in 2000 due to chronic fatigue syndrome?

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Births

1638 - Louis XIV of France (d. 1715)
1888 - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, second President of India (d. 1975)
1905 - Arthur Koestler, Hungarian writer (d. 1983)
1921 - Jack Valenti, American political advisor and film executive (d. 2007)
1939 - George Lazenby, Australian actor
1940 - Raquel Welch, American actress
1942 - Werner Herzog, German film director
1946 - Freddie Mercury, Zanzibar-born singer Queen (d. 1991)
1963 - Juan Alderete, American bassist (Racer X)
1973 - Rose McGowan, Italian-born actress

Deaths

1857 - Auguste Comte, French sociologist (b. 1798)
1902 - Rudolf Virchow, German pathologist and politician (b. 1821)
1988 - Gert Fröbe, German actor (b. 1913)
1997 - Mother Teresa, Albanian missionary and humanitarian, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1910)