| | | Thomas Bowdler (July 11, 1754 - February 24, 1825) was an English physician who published an expurgated edition of William Shakespeare's work that... | | Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling was a Norwegian army officer and fascist politician. He held the office of Minister President in occupied N... | | Sheikh Safi-ad-din Is'haq Ardabili (of Ardabil) (1252-1334), eponym of the Safavid dynasty, was the spiritual heir and son in law of the great Sufi... | | James Clerk Maxwell (13 June 1831 - 5 November 1879) was a Scottish mathematician and theoretical physicist. His most significant achievement was... | | Prof. Dr. h.c. Ferdinand Porsche was an Austrian automotive engineer. Porsche was born in Vratislavice nad Nisou, Bohemia, which is now part of the... | | Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (May 28, 1738 - March 26, 1814) proposed on October 10, 1789 the use of a mechanical device to carry out death... | | Edward David Jones was a U.S. statistician. He was the co-developer and co-eponym of the Dow-Jones index with Charles Dow and Charles Bergstresser. | | Georges Albert Édouard Brutus Gilles de la Tourette (October 30 1857 in Saint-Gervais-les-Trois-Clochers near Poitou, France — May 26, 1904 in Lau... | | Carl David Tolmé Runge was a German mathematician, physicist, and spectroscopist. He was co-developer and co-eponym of the Runge-Kutta method (... | | James Gamble (1803-1891) was a US-based Irish soapmaker and industrialist. He was the co-founder and co-eponym of Procter & Gamble Company in 1837,... | |