Dr. Carl Adolph Douai

male, deceased (1888)
Carl Adolf Douai(1819-1888). Carl was a notable German Texan. He was an educational reformer, abolitionist, newspaper editor, and labor leader, was...
Charles Bourseul

Charles Bourseul

male, deceased (1912)
Charles Bourseul was born in Brussels, Belgium on the 28th of April 1829, and grew up in Douai, France. He is sometime credited with being an...
Bernard Tapie

Bernard Tapie

male, 66 years old
Bernard Tapie is a French businessman, politician and occasional actor, singer, and TV host. He was "Ministre de la Ville" (Minister of City...
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

female, deceased (1859)
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore was a French poet. She was born in Douai. Following the French Revolution, her family emigrated to Guadeloupe. In 1817...
Adam de la Halle

Adam de la Halle

male, deceased (1288)
Adam de la Halle, also known as Adam le Bossu (Adam the Hunchback was a French-born trouvère, poet and musician, who broke with the l...
Henri-Edmond Cross

Henri-Edmond Cross

male, deceased (1910)
Henri-Edmond Cross, was a French pointillist painter. Cross was born in Douai and grew up in Lille. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts. His e...

John Southworth

male, deceased (1654)
John Southworth (also called Saint John Southworth, 1592, Lancashire, England - June 28 1654, Tyburn, London) was an English Catholic martyr.

John Nelson

male, deceased (1578)
Blessed John Nelson (1534-Feb. 3, 1578) was an English Jesuit martyr who was executed during the reign of Elizabeth I. Nelson was from Skelton,...

Alban Butler

male, deceased (1773)
Alban Butler (October 24 NS, 1710 - St-Omer, France May 15, 1773), English Roman Catholic priest and hagiographer, was born at Appletree,...

Thomas Worthington

male, deceased (1627)
Thomas Worthington, D.D. (born 1549 at Blainscough Hall, near Wigan, Lancashire, died 1627 at Biddulph Hall, Staffordshire) was an English Catholic...