Freda Utley

Freda Utley

female, deceased (1978)
Winifred (Freda) Utley (January 23, 1898 London, England - January 21, 1978 Washington, DC) was a British scholar and author. A card-carrying...
Merab Kostava

Merab Kostava

male, deceased (1989)
Merab Kostava was a Georgian dissident, musician and poet; one of the leaders of the National-Liberation movement in Georgia. He was born in 1939...
Vasily Klyuchevsky

Vasily Klyuchevsky

male, deceased (1911)
Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky dominated the Russian historiography at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. He is still regarded as one of three...
Innokenty Smoktunovsky

Innokenty Smoktunovsky

male, deceased (1994)
Innokentiy Mikhailovich Smoktunovsky (b. March 28, 1925, d. August 3, 1994) was a Russian actor acclaimed as the "king of Soviet actors". He was...

Aleksandra Sokolovskaya

female, 137 years old
Aleksandra L'vovna Sokolovskaya (1872 - 1938?) was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and Leon Trotsky's first wife. She perished in the Great Purges...
Sergei Sedov

Sergei Sedov

male, deceased (1937)
Sergei Sedov (1908 - 1937) was Leon Trotsky's younger son by his second wife, Natalia Sedova, and an engineer. He perished in the Great Purges....
Semyon Dezhnyov

Semyon Dezhnyov

male, deceased (1673)
Semyon (Semнon, Semion, Simon) Ivanovich Dezhnev was a Russian explorer who in 1648 led the expedition that doubled the known extent of the e...
Lera Auerbach

Lera Auerbach

female, 36 years old
Lera Auerbach (b. October 21, 1973 in Chelyabinsk, Russia) is one of the most widely performed composers of the new generation. She was born in...
Samuel Bentham

Samuel Bentham

male, deceased (1831)
Sir Samuel Bentham (11 January 1757 in England - 31 May 1831 in London, England) was a noted English mechanical engineer credited with numerous...