Mikhail Tal

Mikhail Tal

male, deceased (1992)
Mikhail Tal (November 9, 1936–June 28, 1992) was a Soviet-Latvian chess player, and the eighth World Chess Champion.
Alexei Shirov

Alexei Shirov

male, 37 years old
Alexei Shirov (Aleksejs Širovs, Алексей Широв, a chess grandmaster. On the July 2007 FIDE rating list he was ranked number eleven in the world wit...
Isaiah Berlin

Isaiah Berlin

male, deceased (1997) (United States)
Sir Isaiah Berlin, OM (June 6 1909 – November 5 1997), was a political philosopher and historian of ideas, regarded as one of the leading liberal th...
Mikhail Baryshnikov

Mikhail Baryshnikov

male, 61 years old
Mikhail Nikolaevitch Baryshnikov (b January 27, 1948) is a Russian dancer, choreographer, and actor. He is often called the world's greatest living...
Mikhail Eisenstein

Mikhail Eisenstein

male
Mikhail Eisenstein, (1867, St. Petersburg - 1921, Berlin), was a Russian architect and civil engineer. Being of Jewish descent, he converted to...
Raimonds Pauls

Raimonds Pauls

male, 73 years old
Raimonds Pauls is a Latvian composer and piano player who is well-known and respected in Latvia and the former Soviet Union. Pauls was interested...
Gidon Kremer

Gidon Kremer

male, 62 years old
Gidon Kremer (born February 27, 1947) is a Latvian violinist and conductor. Kremer was born in Riga to parents of German-Jewish origin, his father...
Laila Freivalds

Laila Freivalds

female, 67 years old
Laila Freivalds (born June 22, 1942) is a Latvian-born Swedish Social Democratic politician and a former Swedish Minister for Justice, Minister for...
Friedrich Zander

Friedrich Zander

male, deceased (1933)
Friedrich Zander, often transliterated "Fridrikh Arturovich Tsander" from Фридрих Артурович Цандер, the Russian version of his name, or "Frīdrihs...
Yeshayahu Leibowitz

Yeshayahu Leibowitz

male
Yeshayahu Leibowitz (1903-1994) was an Israeli scientist, philosopher and public figure noted for his outspoken and often controversial opinions...