- female, deceased (1862)
- Jeanne Duval was a mulatto actress, dancer, and muse to French poet and art critic Charles Baudelaire, for twenty years. They met in 1842, when...
- male, deceased (1951)
- Du Yuesheng, commonly known as "Big-Eared Du", (1887-1951) was a gangster who spent most of his life in Shanghai, China. He involved his gang in...
- male, deceased (1820)
- The Jiaqing Emperor was the sixth emperor of the Manchu Qing dynasty, and the fifth Qing emperor to rule over China, from 1796 to 1820. Son of the...
- male, deceased (1841)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Adam Sertürner (born 19 June 1783 in Neuhaus (near Paderborn), died 20 February 1841 in Hamelin) was a German pharmacist, who d...
- male
- Roy Moxham is a British writer, author of historical books highlighting little known historical facts. He recently retired from London University...
- male, deceased (1930)
- John Christopher Wood (7 April, 1901 - 21 August, 1930), often called Kit Wood, was an English painter born in Knowsley, near Liverpool. Wood...
- male
- Xi Sheng Mo 席勝魔 also known as "Pastor Hsi", was a Chinese Christian leader. He was born "Xi Liaozhi" in a village near Linfen, became a Confuc...
- male, deceased (1985)
- Phoumi Nosavan (1920-1985) was a Lao military and political figure of the Second Indochina War. Backed by the CIA and the Programs Evaluation...
- male, deceased (1919)
- Jacques Vaché was a friend of André Breton, the founder of surrealism. Vaché was one of the chief inspirations behind the Surrealist movement. As...
- male, deceased (1897)
- Little Pete (1864-January 23, 1897) was a prominent leader of the Som Yop Tong during the Tong wars of San Francisco's Chinatown in the 1890s. Born...
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