About Who Was Who
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More about Who Was Who
- There are over 80,000 biographies in Who Was Who, from the archives of Who's Who stretching back to 1898.
- The first person in Who Was Who, by birth date, is Charles Villiers, who was born in 1802.
- Here, for example, are the entries for W. S. Gilbert and Florence Nightingale.
- The last person is Luciano Pavarotti, who died in September 2007.
- Over 10,000 of the Who Was Who biographies are linked to the corresponding biographies in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.