Jaroslav Pelikan

Jaroslav Pelikan

male, deceased (2006)
Jaroslav Jan Pelikan was one of the world's leading scholars in the history of Christianity and medieval intellectual history. Pelikan was born in...
Jonathan Larson

Jonathan Larson

male, deceased (1996)
Jonathan Larson was an American composer and playwright who lived in New York City and authored musicals, including "Rent" and "Tick, Tick......
Yosef Karo

Yosef Karo

male, deceased (1575)
Yosef Caro (sometimes Joseph Caro was one of the most significant leaders in Rabbinic Judaism and the author of the Shulchan Arukh, an...
Yehuda Ashlag

Yehuda Ashlag

male, deceased (1954)
Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag or Yehuda Leib Ha-Levi Ashlag also known as the Baal Ha-Sulam, (lit. "Master of the Ladder") - referring to his magnum opus,...
Mika Waltari

Mika Waltari

male, deceased (1979)
Mika Toimi Waltari (September 19, 1908 – August 26, 1979) was a Finnish historical novelist, best known for his magnum opus "The Egyptian" ("...
Heinrich Graetz

Heinrich Graetz

male, deceased (1891)
Heinrich Graetz was amongst the first historians to write a comprehensive history of the Jewish people from a Jewish perspective. Born Tzvi Hirsh...
Firaq Gorakhpuri

Firaq Gorakhpuri

male, deceased (1982)
Raghupati Sahay 'Firaq' Gorakhpuri (1896-1982) was one of the most noted contemporary Urdu poets. He was born in Gorakhpur in a Kayastha family....
Legendary Stardust Cowboy

Legendary Stardust Cowboy

male, 62 years old
The Legendary Stardust Cowboy, born Norman Carl Odam on October 10, 1947 in Lubbock,Texas, was an incoherent rock and roll performer who invented...
David Bentley Hart

David Bentley Hart

male
David Bentley Hart is an Eastern Orthodox theologian, philosopher, writer, and cultural commentator. He has taught at the University of Virginia,...
Piotr Rubik

Piotr Rubik

male
Piotr Rubik (born 3rd September 1968 in Warsaw) is a Polish composer of music for orchestra, films and theatre. He learned to play the cello from...