András Róna-Tas

male, 78 years old
András Róna-Tas is a Hungarian historian and linguist. He was born in 1931 in Budapest. Róna-Tas studied under such preeminent professors as Gyu...

Sergej Ognew

male, deceased (1951)
Sergej Ivanovich Ognew was a Russian zoologist and naturalist, remembered for his work on mammalogy. He graduated from Moscow University in 1910,...

Shankar Lamichhane

male
Shankar Lamichhane is a Nepalese essayist and a winner of Madan Puraskaar, the highest national honor in literary achievement. Abstract Chintan:...

Dmitry Galkovsky

49 years old
Dmitry Galkovsky is a Russian novelist, essayist, philosopher, blogger, and author of the monumental novel-treatise "The Endless Dead-End"....

Hans Leonhard Schäufelein

male, deceased (1540)
Hans Leonhard Schäufelein was a German painter, designer, and wood engraver. He was born in Nuremberg, probably studied under Wohlgemut, and then b...
Allan Hendry

Allan Hendry

male, 59 years old
Allan Hendry is an American astronomer and ufologist. UFO historian Jerome Clark calls him "one of the most skilled investigators in the history of...
Avraamy Palitsyn

Avraamy Palitsyn

male, deceased (1626)
Avraamy Palitsyn was a 17th century Russian historian. Born near Rostov, he was the cellarer at the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra from 1606 to 1613....

Suzanne Haik Haïk-Vantoura

female, deceased (2000)
Suzanne Haïk-Vantoura (born July 13, 1912 - died October 22, 2000) was an organist, music teacher, composer and music theorist. Her "magnum opus" w...

Symeon Of Polotsk

male, deceased (1680)
Simeon of Polotsk or Simeon Polotsky (born "Samuil Yemelyanovich Petrovskiy-Sitnianovich", Russian: Симеон Полоцкий, December 12, 1629, Polotsk...
Moshe Shmuel Shapiro

Moshe Shmuel Shapiro

male, deceased (2006)
Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Shapiro (1917-2006) was a Rosh Yeshiva and important rabbinic figure in Israel. His father, Rabbi Aryeh Shapiro, was the son of...