Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie

male, 62 years old
al qaeda target, theWest, the east, Western world, magical realism, ayatollah…The Satanic Verses controversy, The Satanic Verses, has looked to the West for his inspiration, elected to the Board of American PEN in 2002, joined the Cambridge Footlights theatre company
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is a British-Indian novelist and essayist. He first achieved fame with his second novel, "Midnight's Children" (1981),...
Max Weber

Max Weber

male, deceased (1920)
political science, German philosopher, sociologist of religion, public administration, German, occident…theWest, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force
Maximilian Carl Emil Weber (April 21, 1864 - June 14, 1920) was a German political economist and sociologist who is considered one of the founders...
Ravi Shankar

Ravi Shankar

male, 89 years old
Performer of Hindu music, Robi Shôngkor, British India, From Varanasi, benares, film score composer…theWest, The Beatles, west
Ravi Shankar ("Robi Shôngkor", (born April 7, 1920, in Benares, United Provinces, British India) is an Indian composer best known for his v...
Yoweri Museveni

Yoweri Museveni

male, 65 years old
Christian, Western world, Second Congo War, Ntungamo, theWest, Great Lakes Region…civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rebellion in the north of Uganda
Yoweri Kaguta Museveni (born c. 1944, Ntungamo, Uganda) has been the President of Uganda since January 29, 1986. Museveni was involved in the war...

John McDonald

male, deceased (1917)
Maryland politician, county kerry, american civil war, naturalized citizen of the United States, United States Army, Native American…Member of the Maryland House of Delegates, Army of the Potomac, theWest
John McDonald (May 24, 1837 - January 30, 1917) was an American soldier and politician. Born in Dingle, County Kerry, Ireland, McDonald attended...
Paramahansa Yogananda

Paramahansa Yogananda

male, deceased (1952)
yoga, Autobiography of a Yogi, kriya yoga, Yogi, buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, From Gorakhpur…theWest
Paramahansa Yogananda (Bengali: পরমহংস যোগানন্দ "Pôromôhongsho Joganondo", Hindi: परमहंस योगानन्‍द; January 5, 1893-March 7, 1952),...
Suleiman The Magnificent

Suleiman The Magnificent

male, deceased (1566)
al‐Qānūnī, Süleymân I, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Sultans of the Ottoman Empire, middle east, Goldsmith…theWest, the Lawgiver
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...
Julius Evola

Julius Evola

male, deceased (1974)
Holy Grail, From Rome, Nazi, Occultist, fascist, Occult writer…the east, theWest
Julius Evola born Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola, aka Baron Evola (May 19, 1898-June 11, 1974), was an Italian esotericist and occult author, who wrote...
N. Scott Momaday

N. Scott Momaday

male, 75 years old
Navarre Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn, N(avarre) Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, theWest…battle of the little bighorn
Navarre Scott Momaday (born February 27, 1934) is a Native American (Kiowa) writer. He is the son of the writer Natachee Scott Momaday and the...
Tony Jaa

Tony Jaa

male, 33 years old
Thai Muay Thai practitioner, Surin province, theWest, Tom-Yum-Goong, Cinema of Thailand, The Protector
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...