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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
- 1182 - Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shogun (d. 1204)
- 1522 - Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian naturalist (d. 1605)
- 1524 - Pierre de Ronsard, French poet (d. 1585)
- 1711 - William Boyce, English composer (d. 1779)
- 1816 - Carl Zeiss, German lens maker (d. 1888)
- 1917 - Ferdinand Marcos, President of the Philippines (d. 1989)
- 1935 - Arvo Pärt, Estonian composer
- 1965 - Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria
- 1981 - Dylan Klebold, Columbine high school shooter (d. 1999)
Deaths
- 1161 - Queen Melisende of Jerusalem (b. 1105)
- 1733 - François Couperin, French composer (b. 1668)
- 1822 - Fortunat Alojzy Gonzaga Żółkowski, Polish actor (b. 1777)
- 1948 - Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan (b. 1876) (pictured)
- 1971 - Nikita Khrushchev, Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1894)
- 1973 - Salvador Allende, President of Chile (b. 1908)
- 2001 - John P. O'Neill, former FBI agent, and Director of Security at the World Trade Center (b. 1952)
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See also: Biographies of living persons • Manual of Style (biographies)
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