Francis Drake

Francis Drake

male, deceased (1596)
Sir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral, (c. 1540 - January 27 1596) was an English privateer, navigator, slave trader, politician and civil engineer of...
Nathaniel Bacon

Nathaniel Bacon

male, deceased (1676)
Nathaniel Bacon (January 2, 1647 - October 26, 1676) was an early plantation owner of the Virginia Colony, famous as the instigator of Bacon's...
Kiyoshi Shiga

Kiyoshi Shiga

male, deceased (1951)
"' (7 February 1871–25 January 1951) was a Japanese physician and bacteriologist. Dr. Shiga was born in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture. His original fa...

Theaetetus

male
Theaetetus (ca. 417 B.C. - 369 B.C.) of Athens, son of Euphronius, of the Athenian deme Sunium, was a classical Greek mathematician. His principal...
Sydney Parkinson

Sydney Parkinson

male, deceased (1771)
Sydney Parkinson ("c." 1745 - 26 January 1771) was a Scottish Quaker, botanical illustrator and natural history artist. Parkinson was employed by...
Max Theiler

Max Theiler

male, deceased (1972)
Max Theiler (January 30, 1899 - August 11, 1972) was a South African virologist, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1951...
Samuel Wallis

Samuel Wallis

male, deceased (1795)
Samuel Wallis (April 1728 - January 21, 1795) was a Cornish navigator who circumnavigated the world. Wallis was born near Camelford, Cornwall. In...
Maria Celeste

Maria Celeste

female, deceased (1634)
Sister Maria Celeste, born Virginia Gamba on August 16, 1600, was the daughter of Galileo Galilei and Marina Gamba. She was the eldest of three...
Majorian

Majorian

male, deceased (461)
Iulius Valerius Maiorianus (November 420 - 7 August 461), commonly known as Majorian, was Western Roman Emperor (457 - 461). He had distinguished...
Sadamichi Hirasawa

Sadamichi Hirasawa

male, deceased (1987)
was a Japanese painter who was sentenced to death, convicted of mass cyanide poisoning. On January 26, 1948 a man calling himself Jiro Yamaguchi...