Władysław Szpilman (1911)
Władysław Szpilman was a Polish Jewish pianist, classical composer and Holocaust survivor. Szpilman is widely known as the central figure in the Roman Polanski film The Pianist, which was based on…
Władysław Szpilman was a Polish Jewish pianist, classical composer and Holocaust survivor. Szpilman is widely known as the central figure in the Roman Polanski film The Pianist, which was based on…
María del Pilar Pallete Alvarado, known professionally as Pilar Pallete, is a Peruvian-born American painter and occasional actress. She became well-known through her marriage to the actor John Wayne.
Sir Francis Christopher Buchan Bland was a British businessman and politician. He was deputy chairman of the Independent Television Authority (1972), which was renamed the Independent Broadcasting…
Shashi Tharoor is an Indian politician, author, public intellectual and diplomat. A member of the Indian National Congress, he has represented Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, in the Lok Sabha since 2009.
William Patrick Anthony Crawford was an Australian cricketer who played in four Tests, including one in England at Lord’s in 1956 and three in India in 1956–57. He was born in Dubbo, New South Wales.
Otto II, called the Illustrious, was the Duke of Bavaria from 1231 and Count Palatine of the Rhine from 1228. He was the son of Louis I and Ludmilla of Bohemia and a member of the Wittelsbach dynasty.
Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Weizsäcker was a German physicist and philosopher. He was the longest-living member of the team which performed nuclear research in Nazi Germany during the Second World…