Albert Pick

male, 87 years old
Albert Pick (born 15 May 1922, Cologne) is a retired German numismatist. An internationally acknowledged specialist author on the subject of paper...

George Smith

male, deceased (1876)
George Smith (Chelsea, London March 26, 1840 - August 19, 1876), was a pioneering English Assyriologist who first discovered and translated the...
Bettina von Arnim

Bettina von Arnim

female, deceased (1859)
Bettina Brentano von Arnim (the Countess of Arnim) (4 April 1785, Frankfurt am Main - 20 January 1859, Berlin), born as Elisabeth Catharina...
Jacob Perkins

Jacob Perkins

male, deceased (1849)
Jacob Perkins (9 July 1766 - 30 July 1849) was an American inventor, mechanical engineer and physicist born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and was...
Erik Bruun

Erik Bruun

male, 83 years old
Erik Bruun is a Finnish graphic designer. Bruun spent his childhood in village of Säiniö on the Carelian isthmus. In the war years his family was fo...

Elias Lönnrot

male, deceased (1884)
Elias Lönnrot ; "Kalevala", 1835–1836 (possibly "Land of Heroes"; better known as the "old" Kalevala); "Kanteletar", 1840 ("the Kantele Mai...

Väinö Linna

male, deceased (1992)
Väinö Linna (December 20, 1920 – April 21, 1992) was one of the most influential Finnish authors of the 20th century. He shot to immediate lite...

Czesław Słania

male, deceased (2005)
Czesław Słania (22 October 1921-17 March 2005) was an accomplished postage stamp and banknote engraver. According to the "Guinness Book of World Re...
Catherine Flon

Catherine Flon

female
Catherine Flon sewed the first Haitian flag on May 18, 1803, the last day of the Congress of Arcahaie. Flon was the goddaughter of Jean-Jacques...

George Reid

male, deceased (1815)
George Reid was born in Londonderry, New Hampshire, and was a farmer by trade. He married Mary Washburn in 1765 who was noted for her skill in...