Searchable text of 25,000 entries. Official site of the Biography Channel television series.

Contains brief information on over 33,000 people from all fields from antiquity to the present. Can be searched by names or keywords.

Interesting site which notes if celebrities from all areas are dead or alive. Gives birth dates and if dead, provides date of death and cause.

Provides location of graves of notable persons; is searchable by name or geographical area. Some entries include actual photos of graves.

Includes over 30,000 biographies.

This site contains records of over 94,000 million names of deceased persons in the U.S. Usable for genealogists and other researchers. Records are from the Master Death File of the U.S. Social Security Administration.

Directory of over 180,022 politicians, living and dead.

Genealogies for the members of the royal families of the Europe

Heads of state and government.

Brief biographies of deceased National Academy of Sciences members.

Contains over 1000 biographies of mathematicians.

Inventors holding U.S. Patents; is searchable by inventor's name or by invention.