John Cockerill

John Cockerill

male, deceased (1840)
John Cockerill (August 3, 1790 - June 9, 1840) was a British entrepreneur, the founder of the company Cockerill-Sambre. He was born at Haslingden,...
D. F. Lewis

D. F. Lewis

male, 61 years old
D. F. Lewis (born January 18, 1948) is an English author who has had approximately 1,500 short fictions published in print from 1986 to 2000, some...
Vannoccio Biringuccio

Vannoccio Biringuccio

male, deceased (1539)
Vannoccio Biringuccio, sometimes spelt Vannocio Biringuccio, (1480-1539) was an Italian metallurgist. He is best known for his manual on...

Charles Newbold

male
Charles Newbold was an American blacksmith born in 1780 in Chesterfield, New Jersey. On June 26, 1797, Newbold received the first patent for a cast...

Peter Forney

male, deceased (1834)
Peter Forney (1756 - 1834) was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born near Lincolnton, North Carolina, April 21, …
George Tryon

George Tryon

male, deceased (1893)
Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon, KCB (4 January 1832- 22 June 1893) was a British admiral who died when his flagship HMS "Victoria" collided with HMS...
Robert Plot

Robert Plot

male, deceased (1696)
Robert Plot (13 December 1640-April 30 1696) was an English naturalist, first Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, and the first...
James W. Brown

James W. Brown

male, deceased (1909)
James W. Brown (July 14, 1844-October 23, 1909) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. James W. Brown...
Henry Clifton Sorby

Henry Clifton Sorby

male, deceased (1908)
Henry Clifton Sorby (May 10, 1826 - March 9, 1908), English microscopist and geologist, was born at Woodbourne near Sheffield in Yorkshire. He...
Ouyang Ziyuan

Ouyang Ziyuan

male, 74 years old
Ouyang Ziyuan, born in 1935, Ji'an, Jiangxi Province, People's Republic of China, is a cosmochemist and geochemist, Research professor, Institute...