Lawrence Montaigne

Lawrence Montaigne

male, 78 years old
Lawrence Montaigne (b. February 26, 1931 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actor, writer, dancer, and occasional stuntman. As an actor, he is...
John Florio

John Florio

male, deceased (1625)
John Florio (b. London 1553; d. Fulham, near London, 1625), known in Italian as Giovanni Florio, was an accomplished linguist and lexicographer, a...
Charles de Coster

Charles de Coster

male, deceased (1879)
Charles-Theodore-Henri De Coster was a Belgian novelist whose efforts laid the basis for a native Belgian literature. He was born at Munich; his...

Étienne de la Boétie

male, deceased (1563)
Étienne de La Boétie was a French judge, writer, political philosopher and friend of Montaigne, author of the "Discourse on Voluntary Servitude" ("...
Diogenes Laertius

Diogenes Laertius

male
Diogenes Laërtius, the biographer of the Greek philosophers, is supposed by some to have received his surname from the town of Laerte in Cilicia, a...
Miguel Torga

Miguel Torga

male, deceased (1995)
Miguel Torga, pseudonym of Adolfo Correia da Rocha was one of the greatest Portuguese writers of the 20th century. He wrote poetry, short stories,...

Léon Brunschvicg

male, deceased (1944)
Léon Brunschvicg was a French Idealist philosopher who co-founded "Revue de metaphysique et de morale" with Xavier Leon in 1893. In 1909 he became p...
Joan Fuster

Joan Fuster

male
Joan Fuster i Ortells. In 1952 he began his collaborations with the press of "Valencia, "Combustible per a falles" ("Combustible for Falles")...

Sabahattin Eyüboğlu

male, deceased (1973)
Sabahattin Eyüboğlu was a Turkish writer, principally a widely popular essayist, as well as a translator into Turkish of several important works of...
Edward Blount

Edward Blount

male, deceased (1632)
Edward Blount (or Blunt) (1565-1632?), was the printer, in conjunction with Isaac Jaggard, of "Mr William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories and...