10,000
Milestone: NNDB now has 10,000 living people in the database.

Also, new additions:

• Richard E. Byrd Arctic and Antarctic explorer
• René Caillié First European to return from Timbuktu
• René Clair Silent film director, Paris qui dort
• Toumani Diabaté Master of the Kora
• E-40 Hyphy rapper, Charlie Hustle
• Mavis Gallant Prolific Canadian short story author
• William H. Gass The Tunnel
• Khalil Gibran The Prophet
• Doug Giles Conservative pastor
• Ellen Glasgow In This Our Life
• Raymond Hackett Theater and silent film actor
• Jaroslav Hasek The Good Soldier Svejk
• Alexander Gordon Laing Explorer killed returning from Timbuktu
• Philip Larkin The Whitsun Weddings
• Penelope Lively Moon Tiger
• David Lodge How Far Can You Go?
• Witold Lutoslawski Aleatoric composer
• Ross Macdonald Creator of P.I. Lew Archer
• Katherine Mansfield Bliss
• Bobbie Ann Mason In Country
• Edgar Lee Masters Spoon River Anthology
• William Maxwell The Folded Leaf
• Ian McEwan Amsterdam
• Ved Mehta Face to Face
• Grace Metalious Peyton Place
• László Moholy-Nagy Bauhaus professor
• Ermanno Olmi L'albero degli zoccoli
• Ann Radcliffe The Mysteries of Udolpho
• Robert L. Ripley Believe It or Not!
• Jim Rome Jim Rome is Burning
• Kurt Schwitters Collagist, Merz
• John Skelton Why come ye nat to courte
• Ali Farka Touré Bluesman of Africa, Talking Timbuktu
• Madame Tussaud Wax sculptor
• John Wiese Power noise musician
• Professor X Vanglorious

Posted: March 18, 2006