Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov

male, deceased (1904) (New York, United States)
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian short story writer and playwright. He was born in Taganrog, southern Russia, on, and died of tuberculosis at...
Robert Musil

Robert Musil

male, deceased (1942)
Robert Musil (November 6, 1880, Klagenfurt, Austria - April 15, 1942, Geneva, Switzerland) was an Austrian writer. His unfinished long novel "The...
Michael Fried

Michael Fried

male, 70 years old
Michael Fried (born 1939, New York City) is an influential Modernist art critic and art historian. He studied at Princeton University and Harvard...
Basil Bunting

Basil Bunting

male, deceased (1985)
Basil Cheesman Bunting was a British modernist poet. He had a lifelong interest in music and this led him to emphasise the sonic qualities of...
Will Alsop

Will Alsop

male, 61 years old
Will (William) Alsop (born 12 December 1947) is a British architect based in London. He is responsible for several distinctive and controversial...
Aldo Rossi

Aldo Rossi

male, deceased (1997)
Aldo Rossi, (May 3, 1931- September 4, 1997 Milan, Italy) was an Italian architect who accomplished the unusual feat of achieving international...
Archibald MacLeish

Archibald MacLeish

male, deceased (1982)
Archibald MacLeish (May 7, 1892 - April 20, 1982) was an American poet, writer and the Librarian of Congress. He is associated with the modernist...
Bruno Taut

Bruno Taut

male, deceased (1938)
Bruno Julius Florian Taut, was a prolific German architect, urban planner and author active in the Weimar period. Taut is best known in the...
Gordon Bunshaft

Gordon Bunshaft

male, deceased (1990)
Gordon Bunshaft was a 20th century architect educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Born in Buffalo, New York where he attended...
Dorothy Richardson

Dorothy Richardson

female, deceased (1957)
Dorothy Miller Richardson (17 May 1873 - 17 June 1957) was the first writer to publish an English-language novel using what was to become known as...