Vitus Bering

Vitus Bering

male, deceased (1741)
Vitus Jonassen Bering (also, less correctly, "Behring") (August 1681-December 19, 1741) was a Danish-born navigator in the service of the Russian...
Lindsey Hughes

Lindsey Hughes

female, deceased (2007)
Lindsey A. J. Hughes was a historian of Russia. She was Professor of Russian History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES),...
Zurab Tsereteli

Zurab Tsereteli

male, 75 years old
Zurab Konstantinovich Tsereteli (born January 4, 1934 in Tbilisi) is a Russo-Georgian politician, painter, sculptor and architect who graduated...
Anna Leopoldovna

Anna Leopoldovna

female, deceased (1746)
Anna Leopoldovna (1718 - 18 March, 1746), also known as Anna Karlovna, regent of Russia for a few months (1740 - 1741) during the minority of her...
Isaac Of Dalmatia

Isaac Of Dalmatia

male, deceased (383)
Saint Isaac of Dalmatia (died May 30, 383) was a Byzantine monk who was imprisoned for denouncing the Roman emperor Valens for the heresy of...
Abram Petrovich Gannibal

Abram Petrovich Gannibal

male, deceased (1781)
Major-General Abram Petrovich Gannibal, also Hannibal or Ganibal, (1696 - 14 May 1781) was an African slave who was brought to Russia by Peter the...
Feofan Prokopovich

Feofan Prokopovich

male, deceased (1736)
Feofan/Theophan Prokopovich (June 18, 1681, Kiev-September 19, 1736, St. Petersburg) was an archbishop and statesman in the Russian Empire, of...
Frederik Ruysch

Frederik Ruysch

male, deceased (1731)
Frederik Ruysch was a Dutch botanist and anatomist, remembered for his developments in anatomical preservation and the creation of dioramas or...

John Bell

male, deceased (1780)
John Bell, Scottish doctor and traveller, was born at Antermony, near Milton of Campsie in Scotland in 1691. He studied medicine in Glasgow and in...
Laurence Rosenthal

Laurence Rosenthal

male, 83 years old
Laurence Rosenthal (born November 4 1926) is an American composer, arranger, and conductor for theater, television, and films. Born in Detroit,...