Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

male, deceased (1965) (United Kingdom)
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (Can) (30 November 1874 - 24 January 1965) was a British politician who served as...
John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

male, deceased (1963)
John Fitzgerald Kennedy , also referred to as John F. Kennedy, Kennedy, John Kennedy, Jack Kennedy, or JFK, was the thirty-fifth President of the...
Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin

male, deceased (1953) (Russia)
Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili ("Ioseb Besarionis Dze Jughashvili";, "Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili") (March 5 1953), better known by his...
Michael Howard

Michael Howard

male, 86 years old
Sir Michael Eliot Howard, OM, CH, CBE, MC (born 29 November 1922) is a retired British military historian, formerly Chichele Professor of the...
Orson Welles

Orson Welles

male, deceased (1985)
George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 - October 10, 1985) was an Academy Award-winning American screenwriter, a radio, film and theatre director, a...

John Brown

male
John Henry Owen Brown was a Non-Commissioned Officer in the Royal Artillery in the British army, who served in France at the beginning of the...
Alan Turing

Alan Turing

male, deceased (1954) (london)
This short on-line biography of Alan Turing is based on the entry I wrote for the British Dictionary of National Biography in 1995. The eight parts...
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

male
Jean-Jacques Rousseau is a Belgian absurdist film director. He was born in Souvret (Courcelles) after the Second World War. He defends "popular"...
Antony Beevor

Antony Beevor

male, 62 years old
Antony James Beevor (born December 14 1946) is a British historian, educated at Winchester College and Sandhurst. He studied under the famous...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

male, deceased (1945)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (February 4, 1906 - April 9, 1945) was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, participant in the German Resistance movement...