Joseph Haydn

Joseph Haydn

male, deceased (1732)
House of Esterházy, The Enlightenment, Freemason, Classical music era, Viennese composer, Tenor…father of the symphony, father of the string quartet
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) is the composer of three wonderful trios for flute, cello and piano, the first of which was composed in 1790 and ranks...
James Thomson

James Thomson

male, deceased (1748)
Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot of Hensol, Richmond, London, TheSeasons, university of edinburgh, alfred, tory…Seasons, Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
James Thomson (11 September 1700 - 27 August 1748) was a Scottish poet and playwright. He was born at Ednam in Roxburghshire, and educated at the...
Kristijonas Donelaitis

Kristijonas Donelaitis

male, deceased (1780)
Christian Donalitius, TheSeasons, lithuanian, pastor, priest, Lithuania Minor
Christian Donalitius or Kristijonas Donelaitis was a Prussian-Lithuanian Lutheran pastor and poet. He was born on January 1, 1714 in Lasdinehlen...
John Cranko

John Cranko

male, deceased (1973)
rhodesia, Rustenburg, pushkin, Pineapple Poll, tchaikovsky, British…The Bumboat Woman's Story, TheSeasons
John Cyril Cranko, (August 15 1927 - June 26 1973), was a choreographer with the Sadler's Wells Ballet (which later became the Royal Ballet) and...

Andrew Millar

male, deceased (1768)
tom jones, British, amelia, hume, thomson, fielding…the strand, TheSeasons, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, A Dictionary of the English Language
Andrew Millar, British publisher. About 1729 he started business as a bookseller and publisher in the Strand, London. His own judgment in literary...
Pietro Testa

Pietro Testa

male, deceased (1650)
printmaker, Sacrifice of Iphigenia, Italian, baroque, lucca, cortona…TheSeasons
Pietro Testa (1611-1650) was an Italian High Baroque artist, mainly a printmaker and draftsman, active mostly in Rome.
Thomas Shields Clarke

Thomas Shields Clarke

male, deceased (1920)
Princeton University, painter, artist, American, atelier, Art Students League…TheSeasons, The Cider Press
Thomas Shields Clarke, American artist, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Princeton University in 1882. He was a pupil of the...

Charles Talbot 1st Baron Talbot

male, deceased (1737)
Lord Talbot, Privy Council of Great Britain, British, Member of the Privy Council of Great Britain, Alumni of Oriel College, Oxford, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain…member of the United Kingdom Parliament, TheSeasons, Baron in the Peerage of Great Britain
Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot PC (1685 - February 14, 1737), was a British lawyer and politician. He was Lord Chancellor of Great Britain from...

Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate

male, deceased (1889)
Utrecht University alumni, De Vrouw in het Nederlandsch Lied, writer, theology, utrecht university, dutch…TheSeasons, The Planets, The Creation
Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate (December 23, 1819 - December 24, 1889), Dutch divine, prose writer and poet, was born at The Hague. He started in life...