Eric Hobsbawm

Eric Hobsbawm

male, 92 years old
Eric John Earnest Hobsbawm CH (born June 9, 1917 in Alexandria, Egypt) is a British Marxist historian and author. Hobsbawm was a long-standing...
Raoul Wallenberg

Raoul Wallenberg

male, 97 years old
Raoul Gustav Wallenberg was a Swedish humanitarian sent to Budapest, Hungary under diplomatic cover to rescue Jews from the Holocaust. He worked to...
Ivan Konev

Ivan Konev

male, deceased (1973)
Ivan Stepanovich Konev, was a Soviet military commander, who led Red Army forces on the Eastern Front during World War II, liberated much of...
Andrey Vyshinsky

Andrey Vyshinsky

male, deceased (1954)
Andrey Januaryevich Vyshinskiy (November 22, 1954), also spelt Vishinsky, Vyshinskii, was a Russian and Soviet jurist and later diplomat. He served...
Gao Gang

Gao Gang

male, deceased (1954)
Gao Gang (高岗) (pinyin: Gāo Gǎng, Wades-Giles: Kao Kang) (1905-1954) was a Chinese Communist political figure. A native of Hengshan, Shaanxi Provin...
Wang Lequan

Wang Lequan

male
Wang Lequan is the current secretary of the Communist Party of China of the Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region.
Xu Xiangqian

Xu Xiangqian

male, deceased (1990)
Xu Xiangqian (November 8, 1901 - September 21, 1990) was a prominent Communist military leader in the People's Republic of China. He was born in...
Polina Zhemchuzhina

Polina Zhemchuzhina

female, deceased (1970)
Polina Semyonovna Zhemchuzhina ; 1897 - 1970) was the wife of Vyacheslav Molotov. Born Pearl Karpovskaya (the word "pearl" in Russian is...
Dmitri Furmanov

Dmitri Furmanov

male, deceased (1926)
Dmitriy Furmanov (November 7 (N.S.), 1891- March, 1926) was a Russian writer. During the Russian Civil War he joined the Red Army and served as a...

Jaroslav Hašek

male, deceased (1923)
Jaroslav Hašek (April 30, 1883 in Prague - January 3, 1923 in Lipnice nad Sázavou) was a Czech humorist and satirist who became well-known mainly fo...