Norman Borlaug

Norman Borlaug

male, 95 years old
Norman Ernest Borlaug (born March 25 1914) is an American agricultural scientist, humanitarian, Nobel laureate, and has been called the father of...
Big Bear

Big Bear

male, deceased (1888)
Big Bear or Mistahimaskwa (c.1825 - 17 January 1888) was born in the Canadian Northwest, and became Chief of the Plains Cree First Nation during...
Pius Ncube

Pius Ncube

male, 53 years old
Pius Alick Mvundla Ncube (born 1946) is the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, widely known as a human rights advocate and an...
Ancel Keys

Ancel Keys

male, deceased (2004)
Ancel Benjamin Keys (January 26, 1904 - November 20, 2004) was an American scientist who studied the influence of diet on health. In particular, he...
Ana Carolina Reston

Ana Carolina Reston

female, deceased (2006)
Ana Carolina Reston Macan was a Brazilian fashion model of part Lebanese heritage. Macan was born to a middle class family in JundiaĆ­, on the o...
Franciszek Gajowniczek

Franciszek Gajowniczek

male, deceased (1995)
Franciszek Gajowniczek (1901 - March 13, 1995) was a Polish army sergeant whose life was spared by the Nazis when Saint Maximilian Kolbe sacrificed...
Thomas Chatterton

Thomas Chatterton

male, deceased (1770)
Thomas Chatterton was an English poet and forger of pseudo-medieval poetry. Committing suicide by arsenic rather than die of starvation at the...
Adolphus Greely

Adolphus Greely

male, deceased (1935)
Adolphus Washington Greely (1844 - 1935) was an American Polar explorer. Born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, he entered the United States Army at...
Salomon Morel

Salomon Morel

male, deceased (2007)
Salomon (also Solomon or Shlomo) Morel was a Polish Jew, who, between February and November 1945, was a member of Communist State Security, known...
Eliza Fraser

Eliza Fraser

female
Eliza Fraser was a Scottish woman whose ship was shipwrecked on the coast of Queensland, Australia, on May 22, 1836, and who was captured by...