Emil Artin

Emil Artin

male, deceased (1962)
Emil Artin was an Austrian mathematician. His father, also Emil Artin, was an art-dealer, and his mother was the opera singer Emma Laura-Artin. He...
Reinhard Bendix

Reinhard Bendix

male, deceased (1991)
Reinhard Bendix (February 25, 1916-February 28, 1991) was an accomplished sociologist born in Berlin, Germany. As a teenager, he briefly belonged...
Brigitte Helm

Brigitte Helm

female, deceased (1996)
Brigitte Eva Gisela Schittenhelm was a German actress, most famous for her role as Maria in Fritz Lang's 1927 silent film, "Metropolis". After...
Hans Adolf Krebs

Hans Adolf Krebs

male, deceased (1981)
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs was a German, later British medical doctor and biochemist. Krebs is best known for his identification of two important...
Sherry Lansing

Sherry Lansing

female, 65 years old
Sherry Lansing (born July 31, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois as Sherry Lee Heimann) is the former CEO of Paramount Pictures and the first woman to head...
Virginia Dighero-Zolezzi

Virginia Dighero-Zolezzi

female, deceased (2005)
Virginia Dighero-Zolezzi (December 24, 1891 - December 28, 2005), having lived for 114 years and four days, is the oldest person in the history of...

André Masson

male, deceased (1987)
André-Aimé-René Masson was a French artist. Masson was born in Balagny-sur-Thérain, near Senlis in Picardy, but was brought up in Belgium. He stud...
Joe Slovo

Joe Slovo

male, deceased (1995)
Joe Slovo (May 23 1926 - January 6 1995) was a South African Communist politician and long time leader of the South African Communist Party (SACP)...
Maria von Trapp

Maria von Trapp

female, deceased (1987)
Maria Augusta von Trapp was the matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers. Her story and that of her family's escape from the Nazis after the Anschluss...
Benjamin Mountfort

Benjamin Mountfort

male, deceased (1898)
Benjamin Woolfield Mountfort (13 March 1825-15 March 1898) was an English emigrant to New Zealand, where he became one of that country's most...