Sadik Al-Azm

male
Sadik Al-Azm (Arabic,صادق العظم is an Professor Emeritus of Modern European Philosophy at the University of Damascus in Syria. His area of specializ...
Olivier Messiaen

Olivier Messiaen

male, deceased (1992)
Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist. He entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 11, and numbered Paul Dukas,...
Robert Schuman

Robert Schuman

male, deceased (1963)
Robert Schuman (June 29 1886 - September 4 1963) was a noted Luxembourg-born German-French politician, a Christian Democrat (M.R.P.) who is...
Marc Chagall

Marc Chagall

male, deceased (1985)
Marc Chagall (Russian: Марк Захарович Шага́л; Belarusian: Мойша Захаравіч Шагалаў "Mojša Zacharavič Šahałaŭ") (7 July 1887 - 28 March 1985) wa...
Mauricio Kagel

Mauricio Kagel

male, 77 years old
Mauricio Kagel (born Buenos Aires, December 24 1931) is an Argentine composer who has lived in Cologne, Germany since 1957. He is most famous for...
Fatema Mernissi

Fatema Mernissi

female, 69 years old
Fatema Mernissi is a Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist. Born in Fez in 1940, she studied political science at the Sorbonne and at Brandeis...
Hans van Manen

Hans van Manen

male, 77 years old
Hans van Manen (Nieuwer-Amstel, Netherlands, 11 July 1932) is a Dutch ballet dancer, choreographer and photographer. He is a son of a German...
Oskar Kokoschka

Oskar Kokoschka

male, deceased (1980)
Oskar Kokoschka (March 1, 1886-February 22, 1980) was an Austrian artist and poet of Czech origin, best known for his intense expressionistic...
Paul Delouvrier

Paul Delouvrier

male
Paul Delouvrier was awarded the Erasmus Prize in 1985. Paul Delouvrier is a French man whom many wrongly thought of as being related to the rapper...