Claude Fauchet (1530)
Claude Fauchet was a sixteenth-century French historian, antiquary, and pioneering romance philologist. Fauchet published the earliest printed work of literary history in a vernacular language in…
Similar Posts
Ron Clarke (1937)
Ronald William Clarke was an Australian athlete, writer, and the Mayor of the Gold Coast from 2004 to 2012. He was one of the best-known middle- and long-distance runners in the 1960s, notable for…
Anton Fig (1952)
Anton Fig is a South African session drummer perhaps best known as the drummer and second-in-command for Paul Shaffer and the World’s Most Dangerous Band. David Letterman, for whom the band served…
Mohammad Reza Aref (1951)
Mohammad Reza Aref is an Iranian engineer, academic and reformist politician who is the eighth and current first vice president of Iran since 2024, under President Masoud Pezeshkian; he previously…
Lotte Lenya (1898)
Lotte Lenya was an Austrian-American singer, diseuse, and actress, long based in the United States. In the German-speaking and classical music world, she is best remembered for her performances of…
Judy Finnigan (1948)
Judith Adele Finnigan is an English television presenter and writer. She co-presented ITV’s This Morning and the Channel 4 chat show, Richard & Judy (2001–2008) alongside her husband Richard Madeley.
Mary Hogg (1947)
The Honourable Dame Mary Claire Hogg, is a British lawyer and former High Court judge. She is the daughter of Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, and his wife, Mary Evelyn Martin, and…