Marie Curie

Marie Curie

female, deceased (1934)
Maria Skłodowska-Curie (born Maria Skłodowska; known in France and most other countries as Marie Curie; November 7, 1867 - July 4 1934) was a Po...
Roman Polanski

Roman Polanski

male, 76 years old
Roman Polanski (born August 18, 1933) is a film director, writer, actor and producer. After beginning his career in Poland, he became a celebrated...

Joseph Babiński

male, deceased (1932)
Joseph Jules François Félix Babinski was a Polish neurologist. He is best known for his 1896 description of the Babinski sign, a pathological pl...

Irène Joliot-Curie

female, deceased (1956)
Irène Joliot-Curie née Curie, (12 September, 1897 - 17 March, 1956) was a French scientist, the daughter of Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Cur...
Pierre Klossowski

Pierre Klossowski

male, deceased (2001)
Pierre Klossowski was a French writer, translator and artist. Born in Paris, Pierre Klossowski wrote full length volumes on the Marquis de Sade and...
Georges Charpak

Georges Charpak

male, 85 years old
Georges Charpak is a Polish-French physicist and Nobel Prize in Physics winner. Charpak was born in the village of Dąbrowica in Poland (modern D...
Guillaume Apollinaire

Guillaume Apollinaire

male, deceased (1918)
Guillaume Apollinaire (August 26, 1880 - November 9, 1918) was a French poet, writer, and art critic born in Italy to a Polish mother. Among the...
Louis Marcoussis

Louis Marcoussis

male, deceased (1941)
Louis Marcoussis, formerly Ludwik Kazimierz Wladyslaw Markus or Ludwig Casimir Ladislas Markus, (born 1878 or 1883, Warsaw - died October 22, 1941,...

Ève Curie

female, 104 years old
Ève Denise Curie Labouisse is a French author and writer. She is the second daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie and wrote an acclaimed biography of h...
Edward Gierek

Edward Gierek

male, deceased (2001)
Edward Gierek was a Polish communist politician. He was born in Zagórze, outside of Sosnowiec. He lost his father to a mining accident in a pit at t...