Billie Holiday, whose real name was Eleanora Fagan, was born in Baltimore April 7, 1915 and she died in New-York July 17, 1959. She is an American jazz singer and is  considered one of the greatest singers that jazz has ever known.

Her name is Agnès Gonxha Bojaxhiu. She was born on
August 1910 in the Ottoman Empire and she died in September 1997. She is famous
because she founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta. She was Indian and
she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying. Mother Teresa’s
Missionaries of Charity looked after 610 missions in 123 countries. She received
the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919.

The name of my character is Henry Purcell.
He was born in 1659 and he died in 1695.
He was an English music composer and an organist.
He specialised in secular and sacred music.

His name is Tex Avery or Frederick Bean Avery. He was an american actor and director. He was born in 1908 and he died in 1980. He created famous cartoons and characters, such as Droopy, which was featured in sixteen cartoons.

He was born in 1812, he died in 1870.  He was English.  He wrote many novels about children. Oliver
Twist and David Copperfield are his most famous novels. He was a famous writer.

1812-1870

Family : father imprisoned for debt

                 married, 10 children

Jobs : factory at the age of 12

           law clerk

           court stenographer

          journalist

          writer

Famous for : writing novels, creating unique characters.

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Listen to Charles : Charles D. by Charles

He was born in 1894 and he died in 1973.

He was American.

He was a film director.

He is famous for his westerns such as Stagecoach, The Searchers and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.

One of those films, How Green Was My Valley, won Best Picture.

 a British romantic poet  (1788-1824)

famous for : writing romantic poems and being a romantic hero.

Lord Byron by Clara H.

Lord Byron is a man, he was English.

He was born on 22nd January 1788.

He died on 19th April 1824.

He was a poet and a politician.

He wrote poems such as :   »She Walks in Beauty », « When We Two Parted ».

Sir Winston Léonard Spencer Churchill was born on 30 november 1874 and he died on 24 January 1965. He was the  Prime Minister  of Great-Britain during the second World War and an officer in the British army. He was English. At the beginning of World War II, he said :    

« I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat » .

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He was born in 1958.
He is an American film director and he is a writer and an artist.
He is famous for  films such as : « Edward Scissorhands », « Charlie and the Chocolate Factory », « Alice in Wonderland ».