O. J. Matthijs Jolles

male, deceased (1968)
Otto Jolle Matthijs Jolles (1911-1968) performed a major service to strategic studies in the United States by providing the first American...
Edwin Muir

Edwin Muir

male, deceased (1959)
Edwin Muir was a Scottish poet, novelist and translator born on a farm in Deerness on the Orkney Islands in the remote northeast of Scotland....
John Wesley

John Wesley

male, deceased (1791)
John Wesley was an eighteenth-century Anglican minister and Christian theologian who was an early leader in the Methodist movement. Methodism had...
Erling Falk

Erling Falk

male, deceased (1940)
Erling Falk was a Norwegian businessman and politician. Falk attended school in Trondheim (1901), Mosjøen (1903 and high school in Stavanger (...

Constance Bache

female, deceased (1903)
Constance Bache (March 11, 1846 - June, 1903) was an English composer, pianist and teacher. Bache was born in Edgebaston, the daughter of Samuel...

Paul Schmidt

male
Paul Schmidt was a translator in the German foreign ministry from 1923-1945. During his career he served as the translator for Neville...
Franciszek Nowicki

Franciszek Nowicki

male, deceased (1935)
Franciszek Henryk Siła-Nowicki was a Young Poland poet, a mountaineer, socialist activist, and designer of the "Orla Perć" (Eagle's Path) High Ta...

Władysław Syrokomla

male, deceased (1862)
Władysław Syrokomla was a pseudonym of Ludwik Władysław Kondratowicz (Ludźvik Uładzisłaŭ Kandratovič, "Людзьвік Уладзіслаў Кандра...

Edward Backhouse Eastwick

male, deceased (1883)
Edward Backhouse Eastwick (1814 - July 16, 1883), British orientalist, diplomat and Member of Parliament. Born a member of an Anglo-Indian family,...

Demetris Th. Gotsis

male, 64 years old
Demetris Th. Gotsis is a Greek poet and author residing in Cyprus. He was born on October 26, 1945 in Thessaloniki, Greece. He studied Medicine at...