André Morellet

male, deceased (1819)
André Morellet was a French economist and writer. He was one of the last of the "philosophes", and in this character he figures in many memoirs, s...

Richard James Morrison

male, deceased (1874)
Richard James Morrison was an English astrologer, commonly known by his pseudonym Zadkiel. Morrison served in the Royal Navy, but resigned with the...

Thomas Dempster

male, deceased (1625)
Thomas Dempster (August 23, 1579 - September 6, 1625) was a Scottish scholar and historian. Born into the aristocracy in Aberdeenshire, which...

Six Hungry Families

male
"Six hungry families" was a phrase used in the 1880s and 1890s to describe six of the most prominent and powerful families in colonial Western...

Jimmy Fidler

male, deceased (1988)
Jimmy Fidler (August 24, 1900 - August 9, 1988) was a Hollywood gossip columnist and a radio-television personality. Born in St. Louis, Missouri,...

Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin

male, deceased (1590)
Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet, was born at Balingen in Württemberg, where his father was parish minister. He was e...

Edward Adeane

male, 70 years old
(George) Edward Adeane, CVO, Private Secretary to the Prince of Wales 1979 to 1985. Adeane was born 1939, son of Michael Adeane, later Private...

Juan Pérez de Montalbán

male, deceased (1638)
Juan Pérez de Montalbán, Spanish dramatist, poet and novelist, was born at Madrid. At the age of eighteen he became a licentiate in theology, was or...

Eustace Clare Grenville Murray

male, deceased (1881)
Eustace Clare Grenville Murray (1824 - 20 December 1881), English journalist, was the illegitimate son of Richard Grenville, 2nd Duke of...
Victor Mishcon Baron Mishcon

Victor Mishcon Baron Mishcon

male, deceased (2006)
Victor Mishcon, Baron Mishcon, QC, DL (14 August 1915-28 January 2006) was a leading British solicitor and a Labour politician. He acted as lawyer...