Joë Bousquet

male, deceased (1950)
Joë Bousquet was a French poet. Wounded on May 27, 1918 at Vailly near the Aisne battlelines at the end of the First World War, he was paralysed f...

Eli Boggs

male
Eli Boggs (d. 1857?) was an American pirate, one of the last active ocean-going pirates operating off the coast of China during the 1850s. Based...

John Perkins Cushing

male, deceased (1862)
John Perkins Cushing (b. April 22 1787 - d.1862), called "Ku-Shing" by the Chinese, was a very wealthy Boston sea merchant, opium smuggler, and...
Albert Calmette

Albert Calmette

male, deceased (1933)
Léon Charles Albert Calmette was a French physician, bacteriologist and immunologist, and an important officer of the Pasteur Institute. He d...

Lancelot Dent

male, deceased (1853)
Lancelot Dent was a 19th century British merchant in the Far East. He was christened on August 4, 1799 in Crosby Ravensworth, Westmoreland,...
Francis Blackwell Forbes

Francis Blackwell Forbes

male, deceased (1908)
Francis Blackwell Forbes (1839 - 1908) was a China merchant, opium trader and botanist. He and other members of the Forbes family were active in...
Chang Apana

Chang Apana

male, deceased (1933)
Chang Apana (December 26, 1871-1933) was a Chinese-Hawaiian police officer in Honolulu, Hawaii, and the officially-acknowledged inspiration for the...

Mário de Sá-Carneiro

male, deceased (1916)
Mário de Sá-Carneiro was a Portuguese poet and novelist. Born in Lisbon into a military family, he lost his mother at the age of two and his gr...
Elizabeth Porter

Elizabeth Porter

female, deceased (1752)
Elizabeth Jervis Porter (1689-1752) was the wife of Samuel Johnson. Born Elizabeth Jarvis (or Jervis - Boswell lists both), her first marriage was...

Kubaba

female
Kubaba (in the Weidner "Chronicle"), or Kug-Baba, or elsewhere as Kubau, is the name of the only queen in the Sumerian king list. "The house of...