Walter Zapp

Walter Zapp

male, deceased (2003)
basel, FromRIGA, Baltic German, basle, estonian, tallinn…riga
Walter Zapp (born September 4 1905 in Riga, Latvia; died July 17 2003 in Binningen near Basel, Switzerland) was the inventor of the subminiature...
Albert Of Riga

Albert Of Riga

male, deceased (1229)
Buxhöwde, Roman Catholic bishop, Appeldern, Buxthoeven, German, Buxhövden…from Lower Saxony, FromRIGA, archbishopric of Riga, riga, Riga Cathedral
Albert of Riga or Albert of Livonia (ca. 1165 - 17 January 1229) was the third Bishop of Riga in Livonia. In 1201 he founded Riga, the modern...
Aron Nimzowitsch

Aron Nimzowitsch

male, deceased (1935)
Aron Niemzowitsch, Jewish person, Chess grandmaster, Latvian, grandmaster, chess…FromRIGA
Aron Nimzowitsch (born Aron Niemzowitsch and also known as Nimzovich was a Latvian-born Danish chess player of grandmaster strength and a very...
Philippe Halsman

Philippe Halsman

male, deceased (1979)
Jewish person, FromRIGA, Jewish, Latvian, postage stamp, surrealist…riga, born in Riga, Latvia
Philippe Halsman (2 May, 1906 Riga, Latvia - 25 June, 1979 New York City) was a Latvian-born American portrait photographer. Born to a Jewish...
Juris Hartmanis

Juris Hartmanis

male, 81 years old
Ohio State University, Erdős number 3, World War II, FromRIGA, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, riga
Juris Hartmanis (born July 7, 1928 in Riga, Latvia) is a prominent computer scientist and computational theorist who, with Richard E. Stearns,...
Lipman Bers

Lipman Bers

male, deceased (1993)
FromRIGA, New York University faculty, New York University, Syracuse University, mathematician, Jewish American…riga
Lipman Bers (May 22, 1914, Riga, Latvia – October 29, 1993, New Rochelle, New York) was an American mathematician who worked on Riemann surfaces. Be...

Helmuts Balderis

male, 57 years old
FromRIGA, winger, Olympic ice hockey player of the Soviet Union, Soviet ice hockey player, Minnesota North Stars player, riga…from the Soviet Union
Helmuts Balderis-Sildedzis (born July 31, 1952 in Riga, Latvia) is a retired Latvian ice hockey player. He played right wing.

Jānis Liepiņš

male, deceased (1964)
painter, Latvian, artist, st petersburg, riga, FromRIGA…Riga Artists' Group
Jānis Liepiņš was born on August 9, 1894 in Riga, Latvia. He studied at J Madernieks Studio in Riga between 1909-1910, in Kazan 1911-1913 and M Ber...
Konstantin Sokolsky

Konstantin Sokolsky

male
World War II, singer, pierrot, Russian, bolshevik, riga…FromRIGA
<b>Konstantin Sokolsky</b&gt; (also spelled: <b>Sokolski</b>, Rus. Константин Сокольский, original name Konstantin Kudryavtsev, Константин Кудрявцев...
Alexander Koblencs

Alexander Koblencs

male, deceased (1993)
Soviet chess player, vilnius, brno, Jewish person, FromRIGA, fide…riga
Alexander Koblents (Latvian Aleksandrs Koblencs, German Koblenz) (born 3 September, 1916, Riga - died 9 December, 1993, Riga) was a Latvian chess...