Italian fashion designer and founder of Versace, an international fashion house that produces accessories, fragrances, make-up, home furnishings, and clothes. He also designed costumes for…
Italian entrepreneur and noted family, the brother of Gianni Versace. He is a manager of the Versace House of Design. There were no bequests for…
Belgian poet and priest who studied astrology and taught literature. While living in Austria, he wrote symbolic poems, a biography of Jesus, many historic novels…
French soccer player. He played for RC Roubaix, and earned 14 caps for the France national football team, and scored a goal in the 1934…
Belgian professor of medicine at the Catholic University of Louvain, whose research focused on finding a connection between the human voice, breathing and the rhythm…
Belgian mathematician, Professor at the University of Louvain. Verriest was a pupil of Charles-Jean de La Vallée Poussin. Although he did not produce a significant…
American banker and politician. He was the youngest of the six children of Gulian Verplanck (1698–1751) and Mary Crommelin Verplanck. After graduating from King’s College…
American self-professed shaman and author of the book “Spirit Hacking: Shamanic Keys to Reclaim Your Personal Power, Transform Yourself, and Light Up the World.” His…
Italian administrator for Alitalia. Link to Wikipedia biography
French serial killer, onetime gendarme and police officer, nicknamed Le Grêlé (the pockmarked man). He is known for the murder of 11-year-old Cécile Bloch and…
French senior editor. She worked at Grasset from 1964 to 1982, then joined Gallimard, 1982-1986. In 1986, she became editorial director and head of audiovisual…
Italian ecclesiastic called “the little flying nun,” as she was the first sister in Europe to take flying lessons; she has always had a passion…
Italian comedian who formed the popular comedy duo ‘Malandrino e Veronica’ with Roberto Malandrino in 1991 while living and working in Bologna. Their career began…
French naval officer who became a Minister of the Navy and Colonies in the Cabinet of General Cavaignac (28 June 1848 to 20 December 1848),…
French actress who appeared in 40 films between 1948 and 1970, including three films that were entered into the main competition at the Cannes Film…
American actress whose most memorable role was as Louise Tate on the hit television series Bewitched from 1964 until 1966. Her career had began with…
French film actress who appeared in more than forty movies released between 1922 and 1940. She died on 24 January 1997, aged 95, in Moulins,…
French stage and film actress whose movies include Les Roquevillard (1922), Golgotha (1935) and Les Musiciens du ciel (1940). She died in Villefranche-sur-Mer, Alpes-Maritimes, on…
Isabella Verney: A Pioneering Italian Model and Her Unique Human Design Isabella Verney, born on July 19, 1925, in Mestre, Italy, is celebrated as a…
French actor who has repeatedly worked with Claude Chabrol, Henri Verneuil and Claude Lelouch, Georges Lautner and Jacques Deray. In 2008 he portrayed Charles de…
French diplomat and businessman, who served as ambassador to the USA, 1981-1984.
French painter of battles, portraits, and Orientalist Arab subjects. He died on 17 January 1863. Link to Wikipedia biography
Italian musician and record producer. He plays guitar with the band Aeroplanitaliani. Link to Wikipedia biography (Italian)
French dancer.
French painter, the son of painter Claude Joseph Vernet, and the father of painter Horace Vernet. Vernet was a pupil of his father and of…
French painter, who for twenty years lived in Rome, producing views of seaports, storms, calms, moonlights, and large whales, becoming especially popular with English aristocrats,…
French physician who served as Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Paris, and was a Member of the Committee on Historical…
French physician, specialist in Cardiac surgery; Honorary Professor of the Faculty of Medicine of Marseille; Member of the Economic and Social Council (1959-1974), Institute (Academy…
French banker. He died on 4 April 1996.
Italian boxer.
French historian and anthropologist, specialist in ancient Greece. Influenced by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Vernant developed a structuralist approach to Greek myth, tragedy, and society which would…
French graduate from the École Polytechnique and astrologer who founded an astrology school before distancing himself from the astrological circle. Vernay is the author of…
Belgian botanist who spent several years in the Belgian Congo studying plant diseases. He died in París on 17 December 1922.
French stage and film actor who began his career on the stages of the Grand Guignol theatre in the Quartier Pigalle area of Paris in…
French fighter pilot in World War II, awarded the title of ‘Compagnon de la Libération’ (English: Companion of the Liberation). He disappeared in aerial combat…
Belgian archery expert, he placed fourth in the Atlanta Olympics individual competition in 1996. Link to Wikipedia biography
French Professor at the Faculty of Medecine in Nancy, appointed Chair of the Obstetrical Clinic in 1943. He died on 15 June 1968, aged 77.
Dutch composer and music journalist. At the age of fourteen he wrote a letter to his brother stating that he had had a kind of…
French road and track cyclist, who won the gold medal in the men’s team road race at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, alongside…
American football player, the current head coach of the St. Louis Rams; he was named to the position on 1/22/1997. Vermeil began his coaching career…
Dutch painter of the Baroque Period who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. His best known masterpiece is the oil painting Girl with…
Belgian professor, philosopher, totally anti-astrology. Link to Wikipedia biography
French politician, principally known for having been the companion (1932–1947) and then the wife (1947–1964) of Maurice Thorez, general secretary of the French Communist Party…
Dutch football player and administrator, a.k.a. Rat Verlegh, who is best known for his association with NAC Breda, whose Rat Verlegh Stadion is named in…
Belgian soccer football player, the goal keeper on Brugge team in the 1994 World Cup. Link to Wikipedia biography
French hostage, sound engineer at Radio France, he was killed in Mali. Link to Wikipedia biography (French)
French stage and film actress who was managing director of the Théâtre Gramont from August 1945 until her untimely death. She died in the 1952…
French soccer player.
French poet famous for symbolism, subtle tenderness and delicate quality. Many of his poems have been set to music by Faure and Debussy. His first…