Canute The Great

Canute The Great

male, deceased (1035)
Canute I, or Canute the Great, in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles also known as Cnut was a Viking king of England, Denmark, Norway, some of Sweden (such...
Victor Hensen

Victor Hensen

male, deceased (1924)
Christian Andreas Victor Hensen was a German zoologist (planktology). He coined the term "plankton" and laid the foundation for biological...
Henry The Lion

Henry The Lion

male, deceased (1195)
Henry the Lion was a member of the Welf dynasty and Duke of Saxony, as Henry III, from 1142, and Duke of Bavaria, as Henry XII, from 1156, which...

Kessog

male, deceased (560)
Saint Kessog was an Irish missionary of the mid-sixth century active in the Lennox area and southern Perthshire. Kessog was Scotland's patron saint...
Wolfgang Petersen

Wolfgang Petersen

male, 68 years old
Wolfgang Petersen (born March 14, 1941 in Emden, Lower Saxony, Germany) is a German film director. Petersen is best known for the classic World War...
Hendrik Willem Mesdag

Hendrik Willem Mesdag

male, deceased (1915)
Hendrik Willem Mesdag (23 February 1831 - 10 July 1915) was a Dutch marine painter. He was born in Groningen, the son of the banker Klaas Mesdag...
Maggi Hambling

Maggi Hambling

female, 64 years old
Maggi Hambling is a British painter and sculptor. Perhaps her best known public works are a memorial to Oscar Wilde in central London and...
Otto Weddigen

Otto Weddigen

male, deceased (1915)
Otto Eduard Weddigen was a German U-boat commander during World War I. He was born in Herford and started his military career in the Kaiserliche...

John Rodgers

male, deceased (1926)
John Rodgers (15 January 1881 - 27 August 1926) was an officer in the United States Navy and an early aviator. The great grandson of Commodore...
Richard Hodges

Richard Hodges

male, 57 years old
Richard Hodges OBE, FSA (born September 29, 1952) is a contemporary British archaeologist whose work primarily concerns trade and economics during...