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Saint Benno was Bishop of Meissen from 1066 until his death. Venerated since the 13th century, he was canonized in 1523.....
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Eftekhar Dadehbala , known as Mahasti was an Iranian singer. She was the younger sister of singer Hayedeh.....
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Ikky was an eccentric, iconoclastic Japanese Zen Buddhist monk and poet. He had a great impact on the infusion of Japanese art and literature with Zen attitudes and ideals.....
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Caesar Kaluaiku Kamakaehukai Kahana Keola Kapaakea was a Hawaiian chief who was the patriarch of the House of Kalkaua that ruled the Kingdom of Hawai i from 1874 to 1893. The name Kapaakea translates as the coral or limestone surface in Hawaiian.....
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Nassar is an Indian film actor, director and producer, who mainly works in the South Indian film industry. He is the incumbent president of the Nadigar Sangam.....
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Norberto Anbal Napolitano, commonly known by his stage name Pappo , was an Argentinian guitarist, singersongwriter and composer. He is regarded as one of the best popular artists of his country. He had been considered by B.B. King as one of the best guitarists of all time.....
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Paracelsus , born Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, was a Swiss German philosopher, physician, botanist, astrologer, and general occultist. He is credited as the founder of toxicology. He is also a famous revolutionary for utilizing observations of nature, rather than referring to ancient texts, something of radical defiance during his time. He is credited for giving zinc its name, calling it zincum. Modern psychology often also credits him for being the first to note that....
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Rodolfo Vera Quizon, Sr., OGH , known by his screen names Dolphy, Pidol, and Golay , was a Filipino comedianactor in the Philippines. He is widely regarded as the countrys King of Comedy for his comedic talent embodied by his long roster of works on stage, radio, television and movies.....
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Domenico Zampieri was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School, or Carracci School, of painters.....
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Moshe ben Maimon , or Ms ibn Maymn , acronymed Rambam , and Graecized Moses Maimonides , a preeminent medieval Sephardic Jewish philosopher and astronomer, became one of the most prolific and influential Torah scholars and physicians of the Middle Ages. Born in Cordova , Almoravid Empire on Passover Eve, 1135 or 1138, he died in Egypt on December 12, 1204, whence his body was taken to the lower Galilee and buried in Tiberias. He worked as a rabbi, physician, and philosopher in Morocco and Egypt....
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Kaumuali i was the last independent ali i nui of Kaua i and Ni ihau before becoming a vassal of Kamehameha I of the unified Kingdom of Hawai i in 1810. He was the 23rd high chief of Kaua i, reigning from 17941810.....
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Franktienne is a writer, poet, playwright, painter, musician, activist and intellectual. is recognized as one of Haitis leading writers and playwrights of both French and Haitian Creole, and is known as the father of Haitian letters. As a painter, he is known for his colorful abstract works, often emphasizing the colors blue and red. He was a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2009, made a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et Lettres , and was named UNESCO Artist for Peace in 2010.....
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Asrar ul Haq Majaz was an Indian Urdu poet. He was known for his romantic and revolutionary poetry. He composed ghazals and nazms in Urdu.....
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Datuk Mohammad Nor Khalid , more commonly known as Lat, is a Malaysian cartoonist. Winner of the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize in 2002, Lat has published more than 20160volumes of cartoons since he was 13160years old. His works mostly illustrate Malaysias social and political scenes, portraying them in a comedic light without bias. Lats best known work is The Kampung Boy , which is published in several countries across the world. In 1994, the Sultan of Perak bestowed the honorific title of datuk ....
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Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola 11 January 1503160 24 August 1540 was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker active in Florence, Rome, Bologna, and his native city of Parma. His work is characterized by a refined sensuality and often elongation of forms and includes Vision of Saint Jerome and the iconic if somewhat untypical Madonna with the Long Neck , and he remains the best known artist of the first generation whose whole careers fall into the Mannerist period.....
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Domitian was Roman emperor from 81 to 96. Domitian was the third and last emperor of the Flavian dynasty.....
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Hsinbyushin was king of the Konbaung dynasty of Burma from 1763 to 1776. The second son of the dynasty founder Alaungpaya is best known for his wars with China and Siam, and is considered the most militaristic king of the dynasty. His successful defense against four Chinese invasions preserved Burmese independence. His invasion of Siam ended Siams Ayutthaya Dynasty. The near simultaneous victories over China and Siam has been referred to as testimony to a truly astonishing elan unmatched sinc....
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Alcuin of York also called Ealhwine, Albinus or Flaccus was an English scholar, ecclesiastic, poet and teacher from York, Northumbria. He was born around 735 and became the student of Archbishop Ecgbert at York. At the invitation of Charlemagne, he became a leading scholar and teacher at the Carolingian court, where he remained a figure in the 780s and 90s. He wrote many theological and dogmatic treatises, as well as a few grammatical works and a number of poems. He was made Abbot of Tours in....
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ystein Aarseth , who went by the pseudonym Euronymous, was a Norwegian guitarist and cofounder of the Norwegian black metal band Mayhem. He was also founder and owner of the extreme metal record label Deathlike Silence Productions and record shop Helvete.....
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Raden Maladi was an Indonesian athlete, songwriter, and politician. Interested in football from a young age, Maladi played in the Indonesian leagues beginning in 1930. In the 1940s he dabbled in songwriting and broadcasting before joining the pemuda troops during the Indonesian National Revolution. After a period heading the Football Association of Indonesia, he was selected as Minister of Information and, later, Minister of Sports.....
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