H. R. Giger

H. R. Giger

male, 69 years old
Hans Ruedi Giger (born at Chur, Grisons canton, February 5, 1940) is an Academy Award-winning Swiss painter, sculptor, and set designer best known...

Jörg Jenatsch

male, deceased (1639)
Georg Jenatsch, commonly called Jürg or Jörg Jenatsch, was a Swiss political leader during the Thirty Years' War. One of the most striking fi...
Walo Lüönd

Walo Lüönd

male, 82 years old
Walo Lüönd is a Swiss movie actor, best known for his role in the movie "The Swissmakers" ("Die Schweizermacher") along with comedian Emil St...
Giorgio Biandrata

Giorgio Biandrata

male, deceased (1588)
Giorgio Biandrata or Blandrata (c. 1515 - 1588), Italian physician and polemic, who came of the De Biandrate family, powerful from the early part...
Gottfried Heinrich Graf Zu Pappenheim

Gottfried Heinrich Graf Zu Pappenheim

male, deceased (1632)
Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, field marshal of the Holy Roman Emperor in the Thirty Years' War, was born at the little town of Pappenheim...
Peter Kaiser

Peter Kaiser

male, deceased (1864)
Peter Kaiser (October 1, 1793 - February 23, 1864) was a historian and statesman from Liechtenstein. Kaiser was born in Mauren, in the Principality...

Jerome 2nd Count de Salis

male, deceased (1794)
Jerome de Salis, 2nd Count de Salis-Soglio (1709-1794), was sometime British Resident in the Grisons and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was also...
Philippe Paul comte de Ségur

Philippe Paul comte de Ségur

male, deceased (1873)
Philippe-Paul, comte de Ségur, French general and historian, son of Louis Philippe, comte de Ségur, was born in Paris. He enlisted in the cavalry in...
Bertold Of Regensburg

Bertold Of Regensburg

male, deceased (1272)
Bertold of Regensburg (c. 1220-1272), the greatest German preacher of the later Middle Ages, was a native of Regensburg, and entered the Franciscan...
Pedro Henriquez de Acevedo Count of Fuentes

Pedro Henriquez de Acevedo Count of Fuentes

male, deceased (1643)
Don Pedro Henriquez d'Azevedo y Toledo, Count of Fuentes was a Spanish general and statesman. He was page at the court of Philip II, partook in the...