Emma Lazarus

Emma Lazarus

female, deceased (1887)
Emma Lazarus (July 22, 1849 - November 19, 1887) was an American poet born in New York City. She is best known for writing "The New Colossus", a...
Gustave Eiffel

Gustave Eiffel

male, deceased (1923)
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel was a French structural engineer and architect and a specialist of metallic structures. He is famous for designing the...
David Copperfield

David Copperfield

male, 53 years old
David Copperfield (born David Seth Kotkin) is a multi Emmy Award winning, American magician and illusionist best known for his combination of...

Frédéric Bartholdi

male, deceased (1904)
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi was a French sculptor. He is also known as Amilcar Hasenfratz. Born in Colmar, Alsace, he studied architecture in Co...
William Russell Grace

William Russell Grace

male, deceased (1904)
William Russell Grace (born May 10, 1832, Cobh (Ireland); died March 21, 1904, New York) was the first Roman Catholic mayor of New York and the...
Nevada Barr

Nevada Barr

female, 57 years old
Nevada Barr (born March 1,1952, Yerington, Nevada) is a mystery fiction author, known for her "Anna Pigeon" series of mysteries, set in National...
Maurice Koechlin

Maurice Koechlin

male, deceased (1946)
Maurice Koechlin was a French structural engineer. Born Buhl, Haut-Rhin, he studied at the lycée in Mulhouse then at the Swiss Federal Institute o...
Tito Kayak

Tito Kayak

male, 51 years old
Alberto De Jesus Mercado (born 1958) -better known as Tito Kayak- is an environmental activist from Jayuya, Puerto Rico. He was one of the most...
Peggy Fleming

Peggy Fleming

female, 61 years old
Peggy Gale Fleming (born July 27, 1948 in San Jose, California) is an American figure skater who won an Olympic gold medal in 1968.