Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov

Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov

male, deceased (1845)
attempt suicide, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, typhoid, University of St. Petersburg, comparative anatomy, Heligoland…opium
Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov was born on May 16, 1845, in a village near Kharkoff in Russia. He was the son of an officer of the Imperial Guard, who was a...
Christopher Hughes

Christopher Hughes

male, 62 years old
CJ De Mooi, from Ponders End, International Mastermind, Eggheads, Brain of Britain, Contestant in British game shows…opium
Christopher Hughes (born 1947) is one of Britain's leading quizzers. Hughes has been a winner of "Mastermind", 1983, "International Mastermind",...
Rex Applegate

Rex Applegate

male, deceased (1998)
United States Army officer, World War II, Gangster, taiping rebellion, rebellion, triad…opium
Colonel Rex Applegate (1914-1998) worked in the Office of Strategic Services where he trained allied special forces in close-quarter combat during...

Isabella Clark

female, deceased (1857)
hugh, prime minister of canada, Addiction, province of canada, opium, grandmother
Isabella Clark (1811-1857) was the first wife of John A. Macdonald, the premier of the Province of Canada in 1856 (after Clark's death he went on...
Edward Granville Browne

Edward Granville Browne

male, deceased (1926)
Uley, Stouts hill, Baha'i, From Gloucestershire, Baha'i Faith, opium…effects of opium
Edward Granville Browne (1862-1926) born in Stouts Hill, Uley, Gloucestershire, England, was a British orientalist who published numerous articles...
Abdul Jabbar Naeemi

Abdul Jabbar Naeemi

male
Politician of Afghanistan, politician, pashtun, taliban, diplomat, opium
Abdul Jabbar Naeemi is an Afghan diplomat and politician. He at one time served as a representative from Kandahar Province to the Loya Jirga (Grand...
Camilo Pessanha

Camilo Pessanha

male, deceased (1926)
poet, macau, coimbra, opium, universidade de coimbra, Portuguese
Camilo Pessanha (September 7, 1867, Coimbra-March 1, 1926, Macau) was born the illegitimate son of a law student and a maid on September 7, 1867 in...
Albert Abdullah David Sassoon

Albert Abdullah David Sassoon

male, deceased (1896)
opium, drug smuggler, iraqi, From baghdad, Jewish, British Iraqis
Sir Albert Abdullah David Sassoon, 1st Baronet, KCB, CSI, (1818-1896), a British Iraqi philanthropist and merchant, was born in Baghdad on 25 July...

Fuzûlî

male, deceased (1556)
hashish, Najaf, mufti, azerbaijani, nomadic, middle east…opium
Fuzûlî is generally believed to have been born around 1483 in what is now Iraq, when the area was under Ak Koyunlu Turkmen rule; he was probably bo...

George Hewston

male, deceased (1891)
University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania alumni, opium, Mayor of San Francisco, San Francisco Board of Supervisors, american civil war
George Hewston (September 11, 1826 - September 4, 1891) was appointed the 16th Mayor of San Francisco upon the death of James Otis. He was sworn in...