John Parker

male, deceased (1775)
John Parker (July 13, 1729 - September 17, 1775) was an American farmer, mechanic, and soldier who commanded the Massachusetts militia near...
Norman Cousins

Norman Cousins

male, deceased (1990)
Norman Cousins was a prominent political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate. Cousins was born in Union City, New Jersey. At...
Jean Vigo

Jean Vigo

male, deceased (1934)
Jean Vigo (April 26, 1905 - October 5, 1934) was a short-lived French film director, who helped in the establishment of poetic realism in film in...

Anne Brontë

female, deceased (1849)
Anne Brontë (January 17, 1820 - May 28, 1849) was a British novelist and poet, the youngest of the Brontë literary family. She used the pen name Ac...
Laurence Sterne

Laurence Sterne

male, deceased (1768)
Laurence Sterne (November 24, 1713 - March 18, 1768) was an Irish-born English novelist and an Anglican clergyman. He is best known for his novels...

René Dubos

male, deceased (1982)
René Jules Dubos, was a French-American microbiologist, experimental pathologist, environmentalist, humanist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author w...

Ceferino Namuncurá

male, deceased (1905)
Ceferino "Morales" Namuncurá (the Venerable Namuncurá) was a religious student and the object of a Roman Catholic "cultus" and veneration in no...
Annalena Tonelli

Annalena Tonelli

female, deceased (2003)
Annalena Tonelli was an Italian trained lawyer who for several years did remarkable humanitarian work in the Horn of Africa. She generally worked...
Baruch Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza

male, deceased (1677)
Baruch de Spinoza (lived November 24, 1632 – February 21, 1677) was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese Jewish origin. Revealing considerable sc...
Han Dongfang

Han Dongfang

male
Han Dongfang is the son of a peasant and, before the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, worked as a railroad electrician. Han Dongfang is known...