Jean-Jacques Lefranc marquis de Pompignan

Jean-Jacques Lefranc marquis de Pompignan

male, deceased (1784)
Jean-Jacques Lefranc, marquis de Pompignan (August 7, 1709 - 1784), was a French poet. He was born at Montauban, where his father was president of...

Alexander Walker

male, deceased (1852)
Alexander Walker (1779-1852) was a Scottish physiologist, aesthetician, encyclopaedist, translator, novelist, and journalist. He was the founder...

Élie Catherine Fréron

male, deceased (1776)
Élie Catherine Fréron, was a French critic and controversialist. He was born at Quimper in Brittany and educated by the Jesuits. He made such ra...
Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin

Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin

female, deceased (1777)
Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin was a French hostess who played an interesting part in French literary and artistic life. She was born in Paris. Her fa...
Louise-Victorine Ackermann

Louise-Victorine Ackermann

female, deceased (1890)
Louise-Victorine Ackermann, "née" Choquet was a French poet. She was born in Paris, but spent her younger days in more rural surroundings near M...
Charles Bossut

Charles Bossut

male, deceased (1814)
Charles Bossut was a French mathematician, "confrere" of the Encyclopaedists. He was born at Tartaras near Rive de Gier, and died in Paris. Works...

Opanas Slastion

male
Opanas Georgievych (Heorhiiovych) SLASTION (Slast'on, Slasten), (1855 - 1933), was born in the Ukrainian port town of Berdyans'k on the Berdyans'k...
Francisco Manoel de Nascimento

Francisco Manoel de Nascimento

male, deceased (1819)
Francisco Manoel de Nascimento (December 21 1734 - February 25 1819), Portuguese poet, better known by the literary name of Filinto Elysio,...
Jimmy Wales

Jimmy Wales

male (St. Petersburg, Florida)
Jimmy Wales is an Internet entrepreneur and wiki enthusiast, and founder of the Wikipedia project. Jimmy was born in Huntsville , Alabama in 1966,...

Nicolas Joseph Laurent Gilbert

male, deceased (1780)
Nicolas Joseph Laurent Gilbert was a French poet born at Fontenoy-le-Château in Lorraine in 1751. Having completed his education at the college of D...