Karl Eugen Neumann

Karl Eugen Neumann

male, deceased (1915)
Karl Eugen Neumann and one of the pioneers of European Buddhism. When Neumann was born, his father, Angelo Neumann, was a tenor at the Vienna Court...
V. V. Giri

V. V. Giri

male, deceased (1980)
Varahagiri Venkata Giri (August 10 1894 - June 23 1980), commonly known as V. V. Giri, was the fourth president of the Republic of India (August 24...

James Knox

male, deceased (1983)
James Robert Cardinal Knox was the Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne from 1967 to 1974. Knox had been the Apostolic lnternuncio to India and the...

John Carson

male, 82 years old
John Carson (born 28 February 1927 in Ceylon) is a British actor noted for his appearances in film and television. His film roles include: "The...
Swami Satyananda Saraswati

Swami Satyananda Saraswati

male, 86 years old
Swami Shivalingam Saraswati , Master of Yoga (Yogacharya), initiated into the Original Yoga (Tantra), has been practicing Yoga for 60 years and...

Dominicus Corea

male, deceased (1596)
Dominicus Corea (Sinhalese family name Edirille Bandara) also known as Domingos Corea was the son of Jeronimo Corea. He was born in Colombo in...
Eric Shipton

Eric Shipton

male, deceased (1977)
Eric Shipton (1 August 1907 - 28 March 1977) was an English Himalayan mountaineering legend. Born in Ceylon and educated in England, Shipton began...
Walter Spies

Walter Spies

male
Walter Spies was a Russian-born German primitivist painter. In 1923 he came to Java, living first in Yogyakarta and then in Ubud, Bali starting in...
George Bennett

George Bennett

male, deceased (1893)
George Bennett (January 31 1804-September 29 1893) was an English-born Australian physician and naturalist. Bennett was born at Plymouth, England....

Gratien Fernando

male
Gratien Fernando was the leader of the Cocos Islands Mutiny, an agitator for the freedom of Sri Lanka from the British and a hero of the Sri Lanka...