Bohdan Khmelnytsky

Bohdan Khmelnytsky

male, deceased (1657)
Bohdan Zynovii Mykhailovych Khmel'nyts'kyi was a hetman of the Zaporozhian Cossack Hetmanate of Ukraine. He led the uprising against the...
Marc Chagall

Marc Chagall

male, deceased (1985)
Marc Chagall (Russian: Марк Захарович Шага́л; Belarusian: Мойша Захаравіч Шагалаў "Mojša Zacharavič Šahałaŭ") (7 July 1887 - 28 March 1985) wa...
Sergei Witte

Sergei Witte

male, deceased (1915)
Count Sergei Yulyevitch Witte (June 29, 1849 - March 13, 1915), also known as Sergius Witte, was a highly influential policy-maker who presided...

Józef Piłsudski

male, deceased (1935)
Józef Klemens Piłsudski, was a Polish revolutionary and statesman, Field Marshal, first Chief of State (1918-1922) and dictator (1926-1935) of th...
Alexander II of Russia

Alexander II of Russia

male, deceased (1881)
Alexander (Aleksandr) II Nikolaevich was the Emperor of the Russian Empire and Tsar of Russia from 3 March 1855 until his assassination in 1881. He...
Imam Shamil

Imam Shamil

male, deceased (1871)
Imam Shamil (1797 - March 1871) was an Avar political and religious leader of the Muslim tribes of the Northern Caucasus. He was a leader of...
Mikhail Bakunin

Mikhail Bakunin

male, deceased (1876)
Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin , Michel Bakunin on the grave in Bern), (May 18 (30 N.S.), 1814 - June 19 (July 1 N.S.), 1876) was a well-known...
Yitzhak Shamir

Yitzhak Shamir

male, 94 years old (Israel)
Shamir first described a meeting he had recently had with a Vermont-based psychoanalyst, the nephew of Israel's first Prime Minister, David...
Isaiah Berlin

Isaiah Berlin

male, deceased (1997) (United States)
Sir Isaiah Berlin, OM (June 6 1909 – November 5 1997), was a political philosopher and historian of ideas, regarded as one of the leading liberal th...
Jean Sibelius

Jean Sibelius

male, deceased (1865)
The core of Sibelius' oeuvre is his set of seven symphonies . Like Beethoven , Sibelius used each one to develop further his own personal...