John Baskerville

John Baskerville

male, deceased (1775)
John Baskerville was born in the village of Wolverley, near Kidderminster in Worcestershire and was a printer in Birmingham, England. He was a...
Jacob Tonson

Jacob Tonson

male
Jacob Tonson, 18th-century British publisher best known for having obtained a copyright on the plays of William Shakespeare by buying up the rights...

William Thomson

male, 409 years old
William Thomson ("fl." 1695 - 1753) was a Scottish folk song collector and singer. He is said to have been the son of Daniel Thomson, one of the...
Margaret Mee

Margaret Mee

female, deceased (1988)
Margaret Ursula Mee was a botanical artist who specialized in plants from the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. She studied art at St. Martin's School...

Nicholas Tooley

male, deceased (1623)
Nicholas Tooley (c. 1575 - June 1623) was a Renaissance actor in the Lord Chamberlain's Men and King's Men, the acting companies for which...

Madeleine Doran

female, deceased (1996)
Madeleine Doran (1905-1996) was an American literary critic and poet who taught at the University of Wisconsin from the early 1930s until her...
Richard Jugge

Richard Jugge

male, deceased (1577)
Richard Jugge was an eminent printer, who kept a shop at the sign of the Bible, at the North door of St Paul's Cathedral, though his residence was...
Aylmer Bourke Lambert

Aylmer Bourke Lambert

male, deceased (1842)
Aylmer Bourke Lambert (February 2, 1761 - January 10, 1842) was a British botanist, one of the first fellows of the Linnean Society. He is best...
Adam Bly

Adam Bly

male, 28 years old (New York, New York, United States)
Adam Bly (born 1981 in Montreal, Canada) is the founder and editor-in-chief of "Seed" and the Chairman/CEO of Seed Media Group. Bly was formerly...
Giulio Bartolocci

Giulio Bartolocci

male, deceased (1687)
Giulio Bartolocci (born at Celleno April 1 1613; died October 191687) was an Italian Cistercian Hebrew scholar and author of the four volume...