Tycho Brahe

Tycho Brahe

male, deceased (1601) (Greenwich, United States)
Tycho Brahe, born Tyge Ottesen Brahe, was a Danish nobleman from the region of Scania (in modern-day Sweden), best known today as an early...
Ivan Turgenev

Ivan Turgenev

male, deceased (1883)
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a major Russian novelist and playwright. His novel "Fathers and Sons" is regarded as a major work of 19th-century...
William The Silent

William The Silent

male, deceased (1584)
Prince William I of Orange, Count of Nassau, also widely known as William the Silent, was born in the House of Nassau. He became Prince of Orange...

George Douglas

male, deceased (1589)
George Douglas (d. 1589) was a late medieval Scottish nobleman and prelate. A son of Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus, he was elected by the...
Antoine Lavoisier

Antoine Lavoisier

male, deceased (1794)
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier, born on August 26, 1743, and executed on May 8, 1794, the "father of modern chemistry"," was a French nobleman...
Jan Zamoyski

Jan Zamoyski

male, deceased (2002)
Count Jan Zamoyski was a Polish nobleman and politician. Jan became the 16th Ordynat of Zamość estate. During the Second World War he served as a so...
Andrea Palladio

Andrea Palladio

male, deceased (1580)
Andrea Palladio, was an Italian architect, widely considered the most influential person in the history of Western architecture. He was born Andrea...
Carlo Gesualdo

Carlo Gesualdo

male, deceased (1613)
Carlo Gesualdo, known as Gesualdo da Venosa (?March 8, 1566 - September 8, 1613), Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, was an Italian music...
Mary Robinson

Mary Robinson

female, deceased (1800)
Mary Robinson, née Darby the English poet and novelist, was also known for her role as Perdita (heroine of Shakespeare's "A Winter's Tale") in 1...
Richard Lovelace

Richard Lovelace

male, deceased (1657)
Richard Lovelace was an English poet and nobleman, born in Lovelace Place, Bethersden , Kent. He was one of the Cavalier poets, and a noted...