Caleb Greenwood

male
"Old" Caleb Greenwood was a Western U.S. fur trapper and trail guide. In 1844 he, along with Isaac Hitchcock, guided the influential...

Mascha Kaléko

female
Mascha Kaléko, born Golda Malka Aufen on June 7th 1907 in Krenau (today Chrzanow), Austria (today Poland); died January 21st 1975 in Zürich) was a...
Katie Melua

Katie Melua

female, 25 years old
Ketevan "Katie" Melua is a British-Georgian singer and musician, who was born in Georgia, but moved to Northern Ireland at the age of eight and...
Francis Asbury

Francis Asbury

male, deceased (1816)
Francis Asbury was one of the first two bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States. Born at Hamstead Bridge, Staffordshire,...

Ödön von Horváth

male, deceased (1938)
Ödön (Edmund Josef) von Horváth, born December 9 1901 in Susak, a suburb of Fiume, Austria-Hungary (today called Rijeka, Croatia), and killed by a f...
Pavel Tigrid

Pavel Tigrid

male, 92 years old
Pavel Tigrid (born October 27, 1917 in Prague, Czechoslovakia as Pavel Schoenfeld, died August 31, 2003 in Héricy near Paris, France. Publicist, p...
Leo Perutz

Leo Perutz

male, deceased (1957)
Leopold Perutz was a German language novelist and mathematician. He was born in Prague and was thus a citizen of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He...
Jacques Necker

Jacques Necker

male, deceased (1804)
Jacques Necker (September 30, 1732 - April 9, 1804) was a French statesman of Swiss origin and finance minister of Louis XVI.
Peter Doig

Peter Doig

male, 50 years old
Peter Doig is a Scottish painter. He´s one of Europe's most expensive living painters.
Hermann Scherchen

Hermann Scherchen

male, deceased (1966)
Hermann Scherchen was a German conductor. Born in Berlin, he conducted in Riga from 1914 to 1916 and in Konigsberg from 1928 to 1933, after which...