Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

male, deceased (1900)
brilliant wit, incarcerated celebrity, socialist, Playwright, writer, novelist…Victorian poetry, Victorian pederasty, victorian era, Victorian
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories. Known for his barbed wit, he was one of...
John Ruskin

John Ruskin

male, deceased (1900)
poet, artist, Academic, Essayist, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Conchologist…victorian era, Victorian
John Ruskin (February 8, 1819 - January 20, 1900) is best known for his work as an art critic and social critic, but is remembered as an author,...
Robert Browning

Robert Browning

male, deceased (1889)
buried at Westminster Abbey, Victorian poetry, British, From Surrey, Victorian, English…Victorian literature
Robert Browning (May 7, 1812 - December 12, 1889) was a British poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic...
Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin

male, deceased (1977)
Hitler moustache, Silent film actor, toothbrush mustache, music hall performer, British film actor, British silent film actor…Victorian, victorian era
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. KBE (April 16, 1889 - December 25, 1977), better known as Charlie Chaplin, was an English comedy actor. Chaplin...
Ian Smith

Ian Smith

male, 69 years old
Victorian state politician, Ian Winton Smith, Division of Wannon, Electoral division of Warrnambool, electoral district of Polwarth, Geelong Grammar…Victorian
Ian Winton Smith (born 25 November 1939) was a Liberal Party of Australia politician who represented the Division of Warrnambool in the Victorian...
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

male, deceased (1822)
poet, The Revolt of Islam, Romantic poet, To a Skylark, Ozymandias, Adonais…victorian era, Victorian
Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is widely considered to be among the finest lyric poets of the English...
Francis Galton

Francis Galton

male, deceased (1911)
electrocardiograph, Darwin-Wedgwood family, fingerprints, forensic science, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, Intelligence researcher…victorian era, Victorian
Sir Francis Galton F.R.S. (February 16, 1822 - January 17, 1911), half-cousin of Charles Darwin, was an English Victorian polymath, anthropologist,...
Robert Lawson

Robert Lawson

male, deceased (1902)
Scottish New Zealander, Canterbury, New Zealand, gothic, architecture, mental institution, victorian era…Victorian
Robert Arthur Lawson (1 January 1833 - 3 December 1902) was one of New Zealand's most eminent 19th century architects. He has been described as the...
Tim Holding

Tim Holding

male, 37 years old
1st Commando Regiment, Victorian state politician, Springvale, Young Labor, Haileybury College, Melbourne, Electoral district of Lyndhurst…Victorian Legislative Assembly, Victorian
Tim Holding (born 21 August, 1972) is an Australian politician, currently serving as the Minister for Finance in Victoria's state parliament. Prior...
John Sutherland

John Sutherland

male, 71 years old
english literature, Oxford Companion to Popular Fiction, Academic of the University of Edinburgh, Alumni of the University of Leicester, Academic of University College London, Dot Mobile…Victorian, victorian era
John Sutherland (born 1938) is an English lecturer, emeritus professor, newspaper columnist and author. Now Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of...