Coverage is limited to people who are no longer living or whose public life and career are well behind them. Many links are annotated. Search box is halfway down the front page, or click here to search A Million Lives directly. Biography Center 5,486 biographies in English. Links to biography sites.
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Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. World Biographical Index Provides very brief data about 2.5 million people worldwide, living and deceased. Provide full name for best search results. Based on the 7th CD-ROM edition of the World Biographical Index published by K. G. Saur. Xrefer Search the full-text of several biographical dictionaries, including Who's Who in the Twentieth Century, The Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography , and other Oxford, Macmillan, and Penguin titles.