Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino

male, deceased (1923) (San)
Italo Calvino (1923-1985), one of Europe's greatest and most popular writers, was born in Cuba and grew up in San Remo, Italy. He was a member of...
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

female, deceased (1953) (St. Augustine, Florida, United States)
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was an American author who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. Her best known work,...
Bebe Daniels

Bebe Daniels

female, deceased (1971)
Bebe Daniels (January 14, 1901 - March 16, 1971) was an American actress. She began in Hollywood in the silent movie era and later gained fame on...
Maya Deren

Maya Deren

female, deceased (1961)
Maya Deren, born Eleanora Derenkowsky, was an American avant-garde filmmaker and film theorist of the 1940s and 1950s. Deren was also a...
Gabriele D'Annunzio

Gabriele D'Annunzio

male, deceased (1938)
Gabriele d'Annunzio, born Gaetano Rapagnetta (12 March 1863 - 1 March 1938) was an Italian poet, journalist, novelist, dramatist, womanizer and...
Mantan Moreland

Mantan Moreland

male, deceased (1973)
Mantan Moreland (3 September 1902 - 28 September 1973) was a comic and actor most popular in the 1930s and 1940s. Some of his roles are now...
Lynne Thigpen

Lynne Thigpen

female, deceased (2003)
Lynne Thigpen (December 22, 1948 - March 12, 2003) was a Tony Award-winning, Image Award-nominated American film and television actress.
Roland Topor

Roland Topor

male, deceased (1997)
Roland Topor (1938-1997), was a French illustrator, painter, writer and filmmaker, known for the surreal nature of his work. He was of Polish...
Jacques Demy

Jacques Demy

male, deceased (1990)
Jacques Demy was one of the most approachable filmmakers of the French New Wave. Uninterested in the formal experimentation of Alain Resnais, or...
Arthur Schnitzler

Arthur Schnitzler

male, deceased (1931)
Arthur Schnitzler (May 15, 1862 - October 21, 1931) was an Austrian writer and doctor.