Hawayo Takata

Hawayo Takata

female, deceased (1980)
Hawayo Takata (December 24 1900 - December 11 1980), a Japanese-American born in Hanamaulu, Territory of Hawaii, introduced the spiritual practice...
Khushwant Singh

Khushwant Singh

male, 94 years old
Khushwant Singh, born on 2 February ,1915 in Hadali, British India, now a part of Punjab, Pakistan, is a prominent Indian novelist and journalist....
Anish Kapoor

Anish Kapoor

male, 55 years old
Anish Kapoor (born 1954) is a Turner Prize winning sculptor. Born in Bombay (Mumbai), India, Kapoor attended the Doon School, located in Dehra Dun,...
Suleiman The Magnificent

Suleiman The Magnificent

male, deceased (1566)
Suleyman I, was the tenth and longest‐serving Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, reigning from 1520 to 1566. He is known in the West as Suleiman the Ma...

Thespis

male
Thespis of Icaria (6th century BC) is claimed to be the first person ever to appear on stage as an actor in a play, although the reality is...
Mongkut

Mongkut

male, deceased (1868)
Mongkut (Rama IV), (October 18, 1804 - October 1, 1868) was king of Siam from 1851 to 1868. Historians have widely regarded him as one of the most...
Sergei Rachmaninoff

Sergei Rachmaninoff

male, deceased (1943)
Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff ("Sergej Vasilevič Rakhmaninov", 1 April, 1873 (N.S.) or 20 March 1873 (O.S.) - 28 March 1943) was a Russian c...

William Adams

male, deceased (1620)
William Adams, was an English navigator who travelled to Japan and is believed to be the first Briton ever to reach that country. He was the...
Georg Feuerstein

Georg Feuerstein

male
Dr. Georg Feuerstein (born 1947) is a well-known German-Canadian Indologist, and a Western authority on Yoga. Feuerstein moved to England to do his...
Tony Jaa

Tony Jaa

male, 33 years old
Panom Yeerum born on February 5, 1976 in Surin Province, Thailand, better known in the West as Tony Jaa and in Thailand as Jaa Panom, is a Thai...