Jean-Baptiste Arban

Jean-Baptiste Arban

male, deceased (1889)
Joseph Jean Baptist Laurent Arban was a cornetist, conductor, pedagogue and the first famed virtuoso of the "cornet à piston" or valved cornet. He w...

Marc-Pierre de Voyer de Paulmy comte d'Argenson

male, deceased (1764)
Marc-Pierre de Voyer de Paulmy, comte d'Argenson was a French politician, son of the 1st Marquis d'Argenson and the younger brother of René Louis d...
George Augustus Eliott 1st Baron Heathfield

George Augustus Eliott 1st Baron Heathfield

male, deceased (1790)
George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield, KB (1717-12-25-1790-07-06) was born at Wells House, near Stobs Castle, Roxburghshire, the 10th (and...
Aksel Airo

Aksel Airo

male, deceased (1985)
Aksel Fredrik Airo was a Finnish lieutenant general and main strategic planner during the Winter War and the Continuation War. He was the virtual...
Nicolas de Pigage

Nicolas de Pigage

male, deceased (1796)
Nicolas de Pigage was a French builder. His father was a chiseler. He began in 1743 to study at the École Militaire to change to the Académie Ro...

Newton Howard

male
Dr. Newton Howard is the founder and chairman of the Center for Advanced Defense Studies, a Washington, D.C. National Security Group. He is a...
Louis Marie de Lescure

Louis Marie de Lescure

male, deceased (1793)
Louis-Marie Joseph, marquis de Lescure was a French soldier and adversary of the French Revolution, the cousin of Henri de la Rochejaquelein. He...

Jean-François Jacqueminot

male, deceased (1865)
Viscount Jean François Jacqueminot was a French general. He was born at Nancy, studied at the École Militaire, entered the army in 1803, and ri...

Francis Dhanis Francis Baron Dhanis

male, deceased (1909)
Francis, Baron Dhanis was a Belgian administrator born in London in 1861 and passed the first fourteen years of his life at Greenock, where he...