François de la Rochefoucauld

male, deceased (1645)
François de la Rochefoucauld was a French Cardinal and an "important figure in the French Counter Reformation church". He was one of four sons of C...
Rita R. Colwell

Rita R. Colwell

female
Rita R. Colwell (born 1934) is an environmental microbiologist and scientific administrator. She became 11th Director of the United States National...

Ibycus

male
Ibycus, of Rhegium in Italy, was a Greek lyric poet. He was included in the canonical list of nine lyric poets by the scholars of Hellenistic...
Cyril Jackson

Cyril Jackson

male, deceased (1819)
Cyril Jackson was Dean of Christ Church, Oxford 1783-1809. Jackson was born in Yorkshire, and educated at Westminster School and the University of...
Domenico Gabrielli

Domenico Gabrielli

male, deceased (1690)
Domenico Gabrielli (15 April 1651 or 19 October 1659 - 10 July 1690) was an Italian Baroque composer and virtuoso violoncello player. Born in...
John Blund

John Blund

male
John Blund (c.1175–1248) was an English scholastic philosopher, known for a translation of the "De Anima" by Aristotle. Maurice Powicke calls him th...
Robert de Sorbon

Robert de Sorbon

male, deceased (1274)
Robert de Sorbon was a French theologian and founder of the Sorbonne college in Paris. Born into a poor family in Sorbon, in what is now the...
Maurice de Sully

Maurice de Sully

male, deceased (1196)
Maurice de Sully was Bishop of Paris from 1160 until his death. He was born of humble parents at Sully-sur-Loire (Soliacum), near Orléans, at the b...

Basil Valentine

male, 615 years old
Basilius Valentinus, also known under the Anglicized version of his name, Basil Valentine, was a 15th-century alchemist. He was the Canon of the...
Thomas Sprat

Thomas Sprat

male, deceased (1713)
Thomas Sprat (1635 - May 20, 1713), English divine, was born at Beaminster, Dorset, and educated at Wadham College, Oxford, where he held a...