Jack Black

Jack Black

male
Jack Black was rat-catcher and mole destroyer by appointment to Her Majesty Queen Victoria during the middle of the Nineteenth Century. Black cut a...
Daniele da Volterra

Daniele da Volterra

male, deceased (1566)
Daniele Ricciarelli (c. 1509 - April 4 1566), better known as Daniele da Volterra, was an Italian mannerist painter and sculptor. He is best...
John Rann

John Rann

male, 159 years old
John "Sixteen String Jack" Rann (1750-November 30, 1774) was an English criminal and highwayman during the mid-18th century. Known as a prominent...
Vivica Genaux

Vivica Genaux

female (Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States)
Vivica Genaux is an American mezzo-soprano. Her father, an American of Belgian-Welsh descent, was a biochemistry professor at the University of...
Margherita Durastanti

Margherita Durastanti

female
Margherita Durastanti was an Italian singer of the 18th century. Vocally, she is best described as a soprano, though later in her career her...
Charlotte Charke

Charlotte Charke

female, deceased (1760)
Charlotte Charke (née Cibber, also Charlotte Secheverell, aka Charles Brown was an English actress, playwright, novelist, autobiographer, and n...
Anne Bracegirdle

Anne Bracegirdle

female, deceased (1748)
Anne Bracegirdle, (c. 1671 - September 121748), was an English actress. Little is known of Bracegirdle's early life. Her precise date of birth is a...
Kimberly Barber

Kimberly Barber

female
Kimberly Barber (born December 21, 1959, Guelph, Ontario) is a Canadian mezzo-soprano and vocal pedagogue. She studied with Patricia Kern at the...

Jarmila Novotná

female, deceased (1994)
Jarmila Novotná was a celebrated Czech soprano and, from 1940 to 1956, a star of the Metropolitan Opera. A student of Emmy Destinn, Novotná made he...

Elizabeth Boutell

female, deceased (1715)
Elizabeth Boutell, née Davenport (early 1650s?—1715), was a British actress. Her dates of birth and death are not known. She joined the King's Com...