English Homework 1º Bto: Biographies.

John Lenon:

Date of birth: October, 194o.

Place of birth: Liverpool, England.

Job: guitarist in the band "The Beatles"

Marriage: Yoko Ono

First solo album: "Imagine", 1971

Death: murdered, 8 December, 1980, New York

Son: Julian Lenon, pop musician.

Agatha Christie:

Date of birth: 1890

Job: successful English author of detective stories

Works: 67 books, 16 plays; translated into many different languages

Famous characters: Hercule Poirot and Mrs Marple

Famous books: "Murder on the Orient Express (1934), Death on the Nile (1937)"

1971: was made a Dame by the Queen

Death: 1976

T.E. Lawrence:

Date of birth: 1888

Job: English soldier and writer

1916: went to Saudi Arabia to fight against the Turkish, known as "Lawrence of Arabia"

1926: wrote "Seven Pillars of Wisdom"

1935: died in a motorcycle accident in England.

Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Soldier in India and Egypt

Journalist in South Africa before being a politician

1900-1965: Member of Parliament

1940: became Prime Minister and Minister of Defence

1945: lost the elections

1951-1955: was Prime Minister again

1953: was made a Knight by the Queen and won the Nobel Prize for literature.


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