Michel Brunet

male, 69 years old
Michel Brunet is a French paleontologist and a professor at the University of Poitiers. Brunet was born in 1940 in Vienne, in the region of Poitou....
John Howard Griffin

John Howard Griffin

male, deceased (1980)
John Howard Griffin was a white journalist and author who wrote largely in favor of racial equality. He is best known for darkening his skin and...
Paul Tannery

Paul Tannery

male, deceased (1904)
Paul Tannery was a French mathematician and historian of mathematics. He was labeled by George Sarton as "the scholar who deserves perhaps more...
Hubert Languet

Hubert Languet

male, deceased (1581)
Hubert Languet (Vitteaux (21 miles west of Dijon) 1518-Antwerp September 30 1581) was a French diplomat and reformer. He entered the University of...
Saskia Sassen

Saskia Sassen

female, 60 years old
Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Member, The Committee on Global Thought, at Columbia University. Her new book is...
John Lesley

John Lesley

male, deceased (1596)
John Lesley, or Leslie, (September 29, 1527 - May 31, 1596), Scottish Roman Catholic bishop and historian, was born in 1527. His father was Gavin...

Pierre Briant

male, 69 years old
Pierre Briant is a French Iranologist, Professor of History and Civilisation of the Achaemenid World and the Empire of Alexander the Great at the...
Jean Carbonnier

Jean Carbonnier

male, deceased (2003)
Jean Carbonnier (1908-2003) was a professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Poitiers from 1937-1955, then at the Sorbonne until 1976....
Pascoal Mocumbi

Pascoal Mocumbi

male, 68 years old
Pascoal Manuel Mocumbi was the Prime Minister of Mozambique from 1994 until 2004. His traditional name was Mahykete. He is the son of Manuel...
Georges Vedel

Georges Vedel

male, deceased (2002)
Georges Vedel was a French public law professor from Auch, France.<br /><br /> Vedel is credited as being “the reviser of public law [in Fr...