Graeme Pollock (1944)

Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, is a Mexican convicted drug lord who was one of the founders of the Guadalajara Cartel, which controlled much of the drug trafficking in Mexico and the corridors along…

Marie-Claire Blais was a Canadian writer, novelist, poet, and playwright from the province of Quebec. In a career spanning more than sixty years, she wrote novels, plays, collections of poetry and…

Patricia Lee Smith is an American singer, songwriter, poet, painter, author, and photographer. Her 1975 debut album Horses made her an influential member of the New York City–based punk rock movement.

Lorenz Oken was a German naturalist, botanist, biologist, and ornithologist. He became a professor of natural history at the University of Jena and from 1833 at the newly founded University of Zurich.

Johan Gadolin was a Finnish chemist, physicist and mineralogist. Gadolin discovered a “new earth” containing the first rare-earth compound yttrium, which was later determined to be a chemical element.

Luke Kelly was an Irish singer, folk musician and actor from Dublin, Ireland. Born into a working-class household in the city, he moved to England in his late teens and became involved in the folk…