Gideon Welles

Gideon Welles

male, deceased (1878)
Gideon Welles (July 1, 1802 - February 11, 1878) was the United States Secretary of the Navy from 1861 to 1869. His buildup of the Navy to...
Agathocles

Agathocles

male
Agathocles, (From the Greek name "Αγαθοκλης" ("Agathokles") which was derived from the Greek "αγαθος" ("agathos") "good" and "κλεος" ("kleos...
John Howard Lawson

John Howard Lawson

male, deceased (1977)
John Howard Lawson (September 25, 1894 - August 11, 1977) was an American writer, and head of the Hollywood division of the American Communist...
Albert Lebrun

Albert Lebrun

male, deceased (1950)
Albert Lebrun was a French politician, President of France from 1932 to 1940, and as such was the last president of the Third Republic. He was a...
Philip Broke

Philip Broke

male, deceased (1841)
Sir Philip Bowes Vere Broke, 1st Baronet (9 September 1776 - 2 January 1841) was a distinguished officer in the British Royal Navy. Broke was born...
Ann Ronell

Ann Ronell

female, deceased (1993)
Ann Ronell (December 28, 1906 or 1908 Omaha, Nebraska - December 25, 1993) was an American composer and lyricist best known for the jazz standard...
Olga Berggolts

Olga Berggolts

female, deceased (1975)
Olga Fyodorovna Berggolts (also Berggoltz or Bergholz was a Soviet poet. She is most famous for her work on the Leningrad radio during the city's...
John Benbow

John Benbow

male, deceased (1702)
John Benbow, English admiral, the son of a tanner in Shrewsbury. He went to sea when very young, and served in the navy as master's mate and...

Álvaro de Bazán 1st Marquis of Santa Cruz

male, deceased (1588)
Don Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquis of Santa Cruz, was a Spanish admiral born at Granada. He was of an ancient family that originally settled in the va...
Vladimir Istomin

Vladimir Istomin

male, deceased (1855)
Vladimir Ivanovich Istomin (1809 - March 7(19), 1855) was a Russian rear admiral (1853) and hero of the Siege of Sevastopol. In 1827, Vladimir...