Philodemus

male
Philodemus of Gadara (in Greek) (Gadara, Coele-Syria, c. 110 BCE-probably Herculaneum c. 40/35 BCE) was an Epicurean philosopher and poet who...
Haraldur Sigurdsson

Haraldur Sigurdsson

male, 70 years old
Haraldur Sigurdsson was born May 31, 1939 and grew up in Iceland where he developed an interest in volcanoes and their activity. He studied geology...

Michael Grant

male, deceased (2004)
Michael Grant CBE (21 November 1914 - 4 October 2004) was an English classicist and numismatist. According to his obituary he was "one of the few...
Caesius Bassus

Caesius Bassus

male, deceased (79)
Caesius Bassus was a Roman lyric poet, who lived in the reign of Nero. He was the intimate friend of Persius, who dedicated his sixth satire to...
Lucius Caecilius Iucundus

Lucius Caecilius Iucundus

male
Lucius Caecilius Iucundus was a banker who lived in the Roman town of Pompeii in the first century AD. His house still stands and can be seen in...
Giorgio Sommer

Giorgio Sommer

male, deceased (1914)
Giorgio Sommer was born in Frankfurt am Main (in modern day Germany), and became one of Europe’s most important and prolific photographers of the 19...
Giuseppe de Nittis

Giuseppe de Nittis

male, deceased (1884)
Giuseppe De Nittis was an Italian painter whose work merges the styles of Salon art and Impressionism. De Nittis was born in Barletta, where he...
Giya Kancheli

Giya Kancheli

male, 74 years old
Giya Kancheli, born August 10 1935 in Tbilisi, is a Georgian composer resident in Belgium. Kancheli is his country's most famous living composer...
Gaius Valerius Flaccus

Gaius Valerius Flaccus

male
Gaius Valerius Flaccus (died ca AD 90) was a Roman poet who flourished in the "Silver Age" under the emperors Vespasian and Titus and wrote a Latin...
Carl Ludwig Sprenger

Carl Ludwig Sprenger

male
Carl Ludwig Sprenger was a German botanist, born on 30 November 1846 at Güstrow, Mecklenburg and died 13 December 1917 on the island of Corfu. S...