John Conolly

John Conolly

male, deceased (1866)
John Conolly MD DCL (May 27, 1794 - March 5, 1866), English physician, was born at Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, of an Irish family. He graduated MD...
Nellie Bly

Nellie Bly

female, deceased (1922)
Nellie Bly was an American journalist, author, industrialist, and charity worker. She is most famous for an undercover exposé in which she faked i...
Vernon Scannell

Vernon Scannell

male, 87 years old
Vernon Scannell (born 1922) is a British poet and author. He was at one time a professional boxer, and has written novels about boxing. He was born...
Daniel Hack Tuke

Daniel Hack Tuke

male, deceased (1895)
Daniel Hack Tuke (April 19, 1827 - March 5, 1895) was physician and expert on mental illness from England. Tuke came from a long line of Quakers...
Lucia Joyce

Lucia Joyce

female, deceased (1982)
Lucia Anna Joyce (July 26, 1907 - December 12, 1982), daughter of Irish writer James Joyce and Nora Barnacle, was born in Trieste, speaking Italian...
Anthony Hardy

Anthony Hardy

male, 58 years old
Anthony Hardy (b. 1951) is an English serial killer who was convicted of murdering three women in London. Born on 31 May 1951 in Burton upon Trent,...

Anna Marsh

female, deceased (1834)
Anna Marsh (birth year unknown, died 1834) established the Vermont Asylum of the Insane in 1834. Marsh was born and raised in Hinsdale, New...
Eduardo Mendoza

Eduardo Mendoza

male, 66 years old
Eduardo Mendoza is a Spanish novelist, born in Barcelona, Spain on 11 January 1943. He studied law in the first half of the 1960s and lived in New...
Mark Rowntree

Mark Rowntree

male, 53 years old
Mark Rowntree (born c. 1956) is a British serial killer who was committed to a mental hospital after he admitted killing four people at random in...
Joshua Jebb

Joshua Jebb

male, deceased (1863)
Sir Joshua Jebb (8 May 1793 - 26 June 1863) was a military engineer and the British Surveyor-General of convict prisons. In Canada, he participated...