- Glenn Danzig
Glenn Danzig is an American singer, songwriter and musician who is largely considered to be the founding father of the Horrorpunk genre of music. He is the founder of The Misfits (original incarnation, 1977-1983), Samhain, and Danzig. He is often associated with the Devilock, a distinctive hairstyle for which he and fellow band members of The Misfits and Samhain were known. He also owns the Evilive record label and Verotik, an adult-oriented comic book publishing company. - Allison Danzig
Allison Danzig was an American sportswriter who specialized in writing about tennis but also covered U.S. college football, squash, many Olympic Games, and rowing. Danzig covered every tournament in the Grand Slam — the U.S. Open, the Australian Open, Wimbledon, and the French Open — as well as many others. Danzig was later inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, RI becoming the first journalist in the Hall. - Jon Danzig
Jon Danzig (1947? - June 1, 2005) was the founder of the Debian based Libranet Linux distribution. - Evelyn Danzig
Evelyn Danzig Levine was an American songwriter best known for writing the music to for the popular folk song, "Scarlet Ribbons", which was recorded by Harry Belafonte, Jo Stafford, Perry Como, Dinah Shore, Joan Baez, The Kingston Trio, Wayne Newton, Danny Thomas and Sinéad O'Connor, among many others. The song came to life in 1949 in the Port Washington, New York home of Ms Danzig, where she collaborated with lyricist Jack Segal. - Babe Danzig
- Avraham Danzig
"Chayei Adam" deals with the laws discussed in the Orach Chayim section of the Shulchan Aruch. It is divided into 224 sections - 69 dealing with daily conduct and prayer, and 155 with Shabbat, and holidays. In this work, Rabbi Danzig collected and critically sifted the Acharonic material, in the field of halakha written in the more than two and a half centuries since the appearance of the Shulchan Aruch. Chayei Adam was intended primarily "for the cultured layman", … - Richard Danzig
Richard is currently the Nunn Prize Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC, a senior fellow at the CNA Corporation, and a consultant to the Department of Defense. Richard served as the 71st Secretary of the Navy from 1998 to 2001. He was the Undersecretary of the Navy from 1993 to 1997. He is currently a director at National Semiconductor Corporation, Human Genome Sciences Corporation, and Saffron Hill Ventures. - Eerie Von
Eerie Von was born on August 25, 1964. Eerie was the drummer for Rosemary's Babies, a Hardcore punk band from Lodi, New Jersey. During his tenure in that band, Von struck a friendship with Glenn Danzig and The Misfits, becoming the band's roadie and photographer, and was once asked to join the Misfits, but declined. After The Misfits broke up, Von played bass guitar for Glenn's band Samhain from 1983-1988, … - John Christ
John Christ is a musician, born on February 19, 1965. Christ attended Towson University studying Jazz before dropping out to join Samhain, which became the heavy metal band Danzig from 1988 to 1995. He has been known for his bluesy metal sound and frequent use (like Zakk Wylde) of the pinch harmonic. His self released debut solo album is entitled Flesh Caffeine.He is ranked 99 on digital dream doors 100 greatest hard rock/metal guitarists - Chuck Biscuits
Chuck Biscuits (real name Charles Montgomery) (born April 17, 1965) was a drummer for Victorian Pork, D.O.A., Pointed Sticks, The Subhumans (of Canada), Randy Rampage, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Descendents, Brown Sound, Red Hot Chili Peppers (in 1986), Weirdos (one San Francisco show), Fear, Floorlords, Samhain, Danzig, The Four Horsemen and, most recently, Social Distortion. He has left the music business since quitting Social Distortion in 1999. - Steve Zing
Steve Zing (born 29 June 1964) drummed for Implosion, Mourning Noise, and The Undead before joining Samhain. He graduated from Lodi High School in 1982 with Eerie Von. Steve left Samhain in July 1985 shortly after the "Unholy Passion" EP was released. He was replaced by London May and returned briefly to The Undead in 1986. He later formed Chyna and played briefly for Rubella Umbrella in 1996. In 1999, Steve returned to Samhain for the reunion tour, … - Joey Castillo
Joey Castillo is an American drummer currently playing in Queens of the Stone Age. He joined the band in 2002 after the departure of Dave Grohl. A native of southern California, Castillo began playing drums at age fifteen, influenced by War, Al Green, Led Zeppelin, and Black Flag. Prior to Queens, he’d completed an eight-year tenure with Danzig, preceded by stints with Wasted Youth, Sugartooth, and the Mark Lanegan Band. - Johnny Kelly
Johnny Kelly (born March 9, 1968), is the drummer for the gothic-doom band Type O Negative from Brooklyn, New York, and is the current drummer for the hard rock band, Danzig. He joined the band in 1994 to replace Sal Abruscato. He currently endorses Pearl Drums, Sabian cymbals, Easton Ahead drumsticks and Attack drum heads. Contributing to his long music history, he lent his drumming skill to the song Blood and Flames from Roadrunner United: The All Star Sessions. - Albert Forster
Albert Maria Forster (July 26, 1902 - February 28, 1952) was a Nazi German politician. - Kenny Hickey
Kenneth Shaun Hickey (born May 22nd, 1966 in New York) is a guitarist for the gothic-doom band Type O Negative from Brooklyn, New York. He is also the vocalist and guitarist for heavy metal band Seventh Void, and the guitarist for Danzig. Both bands also feature fellow Type O Negative member Johnny Kelly on drums. He currently plays a custom Fernandes Monterey and has been seen with a Fernandes Vertigo. Kenny uses the Fernandes Sustainer system extensively. - Bevan Davies
Bevan Davies is a drummer. He got his start with hard rock/heavy metal band Still Rain from Fayetteville, North Carolina in the early 1990s. Still Rain also included vocalist Donnie Hamby, (Doubledrive) guitarist Troy McLawhorn (Doubledrive and Dark New Day) guitarist Clint Lowery, (Sevendust and Dark New Day) and bassist Corey Lowery (Stuck Mojo, Life of Agony, Stereomud, Dark New Day). - Mac Danzig
Mac Danzig (born January 2, 1980 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American professional mixed martial arts fighter and instructor, and is a former lightweight champion for the King of the Cage and Gladiator Challenge mixed martial arts organizations. As an amateur mixed martial artist, Danzig was the lightweight Extreme Challenge Trials 2001 U.S. MMA National Champion. Mac Danzig was the winner of the The Ultimate Fighter 6, and is currently under contract with the UFC. - Daniel Chodowiecki
Graphic artist Daniel Niklaus Chodowiecki, was a painter and printmaker, who is most famous as an etcher, and was director of the Berlin Academy of Art. Daniel Chodowiecki, a long-time Berliner until his death in 1801, was born in Danzig (Gdańsk) in Poland, on October 16, 1726. He always proudly remembered his Polish and Huguenot ancestry, as his father, Gottfried Chodowiecki was Polish and his mother, born in Switzerland, was a Huguenot. - Justin Broadrick
Justin Broadrick (born 1969 in Birmingham, England) is a founding member of the band Godflesh, one of the first bands to crossover elements of rock and industrial music. - Andreas Gryphius
Andreas Gryphius was a German lyric poet and dramatist. Gryphius was born as Andreas Greif in Głogów (Großglogau) in Silesia, where his father was a clergyman. The family name was Greif, latinized, according to the prevailing fashion, as Gryphius. Left early an orphan and driven from his native town by the troubles of the Thirty Years' War, he received his schooling in various places, … - Andreas Schlüter
Andreas Schlüter was a baroque sculptor and architect associated with the Petrine Baroque style of architecture and decoration. His early life is obscure. He may have been born in Hamburg, where his father was from, but it is certain that he received training in Danzig (Gdańsk) in Poland, and may have been born there, (another Andreas Schlüter died in Danzig in 1664). His first known work was the decoration of the facade of the Danzig Royal Chapel, in 1681. - Mark Chaussee
Mark Chaussee is an American professional guitarist. Was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The adherent of heavy metal and hard rock. Played guitar in The Coup De Grace, Fight, Danzig, Jimmy Coup, Marilyn Manson. - Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff was a German poet and novelist. - Winrich von Kniprode
Winrich von Kniprode was the 22nd Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights. He was the longest serving Grand Master, holding the position for 31 years (1351-82). Von Kniprode was born in 1310 in Monheim am Rhein near Cologne. He served as the Komtur of Danzig (1338-1341), of Balga (1341-1343), and in 1341 was promoted to be the Grand Marshal. Von Kniprode was elected Grand Master in 1351. He constantly fought with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania to gain access to Livonia. - Matthias Habich
Matthias Habich is a German actor. Habich was born in Danzig (Gdańsk) and lives in Paris. He played the part of General (later Field Marshal) Friedrich Paulus in the 2001 film "Enemy at the Gates" and Werner Haase in the 2004 film "Downfall". - Adolf Butenandt
Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt (March 24, 1903 - January 18, 1995) was a German biochemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1939 for his "work on sex hormones." He was initally forced by the Nazi government to decline the award, but accepted it in 1949 after World War II. (Source: "The Human Brain," Isaac Asimov) Born in Lehe, near Bremen, he started his studies at the University of Marburg. - Daniel Gralath
Daniel Gralath (* 30 May 1708 in Danzig (Gdansk); † 23 July 1767 in Danzig) was a German physicist and Bürgermeister (mayor) of Danzig. Gralath was from a well-to-do Danzig trade family. He had studied law and philosophy in Halle, then in Leyden and Marburg from 1728 to 1734. Later he became "Ratsherr" (councilman) and, in 1763, "Bürgermeister" (mayor) of Danzig. - Howie Weinberg
Howie Weinberg is a music mastering engineer who has worked with numerous bands. He has worked at Masterdisk, New York City, since 1977. His client list includes: * 3 Colours Red ("The Union of Souls"- 2004) * Aerosmith ("Done with Mirrors" - 1985) * Arrested Development ("3 Years, … - Siegfried von Feuchtwangen
Siegfried von Feuchtwangen was the 15th Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, serving from 1303-11. Von Feuchtwangen was born in Feuchtwangen in Middle Franconia, and was a relative of the earlier Grand Master Konrad von Feuchtwangen. He took the office after his predecessor, Gottfried von Hohenlohe, had abdicated. Von Hohenlohe's rule was marked by internal strife within the Order. - Erhard Milch
Erhard Milch (March 30, 1892 - January 25, 1972) was a German field marshal of Jewish ancestry who oversaw the development of the Luftwaffe as part of the re-armament of Germany following World War I. - Tiedemann Giese
Tiedemann Giese was a member of the patrician Giese family of Danzig (Gdańsk). The brother of the Hanseatic League merchant Georg Giese and relative of Albrecht Giese became Bishop of, as known in English the time,"Culm" (now Chelmno and Bishop of Warmia (Ermeland). At age 24, Giese (and Mauritius Ferber) became a priest at the Catholic Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, … - Johannes Daniel Falk
Johannes Daniel Falk was a German poet. Falk was born in Danzig (Gdańsk) in the Polish province of Royal Prussia. In 1816 he wrote the German text "O du fröhliche.." to the melody of one of the most popular Christmas songs, "O Sanctissima". Falk was the founder of the "Falk'sche Institute", a public education place for orphans in Weimar. He died in that city in 1826. - F.K. Waechter
Friedrich Karl Waechter (born 3 November 1937 in Danzig, died 16 September 2005 in Frankfurt) was a renowned German cartoonist, author, and playwright. - Rudolf Spanner
Rudolf Spanner was a German doctor at the Danzig Anatomical Institute during World War II. Spanner designed, on his own initiative, a process to produce soap from human fat in 1943-44 and a limited quantity of the soap was produced on his order to clean autopsy rooms. Allegations of large scale human soap production is a myth with origins dating back to World War I. However, … - Werner Lorenz
Werner Lorenz was a German Waffen-SS general, an SS-Obergruppenführer, and a leader of the "Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle" (sometimes translated "Repatriation Office for Ethnic Germans"), an organization charged with settling ethnic Germans in the Reich from other parts of Europe. A forest warden's son, he went to a cadet school and served in World War I as a cavalry officer and pilot. Afterwards, until June 1919, he worked as a border guard and a farmer. - Matt Holt
Matt Holt is the current vocalist of Nothingface, and ex-member of "Kingdom of Snakes" where he was a vocalist and guitarist (one of three). Matt was raised in Washington, D.C. During high school he met Tommy Sickles through mutual friends. Matt, Tommy, and two other friends merged to form a band known as "Ingredient 17", where he played guitar and was the vocalist. After playing a show with a band known as Nothingface, the two bands became familiar with one another. - Ferdinand Schichau
Ferdinand Schichau (1814-1896) was born and died in Elbing, West Prussia. Schichau, whose father was a smith and iron worker in Elbing, studied engineering in Berlin. He visited the Rhineland and England, before starting his own company in Elbing in 1837. The "Schichau-Werft" became a large industrial complex, which employed several thousand people. Schichau made hydraulic presses, industrial machines and steam engines. - Henryk Sucharski
Gen. bryg.Henryk Sucharski was a Polish military officer and a major in the Polish Army. At the outbreak of World War II, he was one of the commanders of the Westerplatte position in Danzig, which troops under his command defended for seven days against overwhelming odds. Although Sucharski survived the war and was posthumously promoted to the rank of General, his deeds did not match those of his troops. - Charlie Quintana
Charlie Quintana (a.k.a. "Chalo Quintana") is the current drummer for the old school punk band Social Distortion, who joined in 2000 as the replacement of Chuck Biscuits (of D.O.A. and Danzig), following the death of the band's former guitarist Dennis Danell. He was present on their latest and long-awaited sixth album "Sex, Love and Rock 'n' Roll" (2004) and their next album that is due for release sometime in 2007. - Emil Fischer
Emil Fischer was a famous German dramatic bass, born in Brunswick. He made his début in 1857 in Graz in Boieldieu's "Jean de Paris". After that he filled various engagements in Pressburg, Stettin, and Brunswick. From 1863 to 1870 he was director of the opera at Danzig. From 1875-80 he sang in Rotterdam, and from 1880-85 in Dresden. The period from 1885 to 1891 at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, marks the culmination of his artistic triumphs.
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