Dutch bacteriologist and Professor of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. His parents were Johan Theodor Dinger (24 Aug 1858, Amsterdam – 6 September 1929, Hilversum) and…
Australian Aboriginal actor and comedian with a magnetic screen presence who has broken new ground in the popular presentation of his native culture during an…
German writer and Nazi politician. From 1906 to 1908 he worked as a director at the city theatre in Rostock and the Schillertheater in Berlin,…
Dutch astrologer, the writer of a column on astrology for a gossip magazine in Holland. Although some professional astrologers disapproved, she was skilled at her…
Frisian writer and reciter. Waling Dykstra was widely honored as the great man of the Frisian movement . He died 15 January 1914. Link to…
Italian singer, writer, and television host, also known as Boosta. He is the co-founder of the alternative rock band Subsonica. Link to Wikipedia biography
German writer. She was a very productive and widely-read Saarland writer. From 1903 to 1962 Liesbet Dill wrote more than a hundred novels and stories,…
American writer and an adjunct English instructor at The University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg and Westmoreland County Community College. Her poems and essays have appeared…
French writer. His father died when he was very young, and his mother was ill and addicted to drugs. She was frequently incapable of taking…
German-American actress and singer who achieved 62 years of international fame as an immortal screen goddess in German and American films. She received the U.S.…
Former American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head coach at Louisiana State University (1955–1961), the United States Military Academy…
French actor, screenwriter, film director and novelist. Dieudonné made his acting debut in silent film in The Assassination of the Duke of Guise (1908), with…
Peruvian writer and journalist. Precursor of urban realism in Peru. Luis Alberto Sanchez remembered him as “a smart young, bohemian, aristocratic but penniless … mixture…
Swiss writer. He was maried 3 times and died on 29 November 1979 from cancer. Link to Wikipedia biography (German)
French illustrator, painter and writer. He died 4 February 1965. Link to Wikipedia biography (French)
Cuban poet praised for his lyric poetry and short stories. Diego, the father of writer Eliseo Alberto, won the Mexican Juan Rulfo Prize in 1993.…
Dutch physician and writer, subject of the 2008 biography, “Evart van Dieren: een kroniek van het falen.” He died on 18 May 1940 in Amsterdam.
American actor, comedian and writer best known for his involvement in the sketch comedy group Derrick Comedy, an Internet sketch comedy group from New York…
Norwegian television presenter, actor, song writer, and revue historian. Link to Wikipedia biography
Norwegian revue and film actor and theatre manager. He worked for the revue theatre Chat Noir from 1934 to 1942, and then for the Edderkoppen…
Norwegian singer and song text-writer who was a member of the group Three Hits in the early 1960s. Diesen died on 11 March 2016 aged…
German-American actor, screenwriter, film director and producer of German and American films. Dieterle was the youngest of nine children raised in a poverty-stricken family. He…
Emily Dickinson: The Reclusive Poet and Her Human Design Emily Dickinson, born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts, is celebrated as one of the…
English-born New Zealand playwright and screenwriter, best known for creating the groundbreaking television drama series Pukemanu (1971-1972) and writing TV children’s show Sea Urchins (1980-1984).…
French assassin of a political figure, Rene Bousquet. Didier was an unsuccessful writer who drew some attention through demonstrations which he orchestrated during civil events.…
American novelist, journalist, and screenwriter whose writing during the 1960s through the late 1970s engaged audiences in the realities of the counterculture of the ’60s…
Cameroonian jazz singer, radio host, misician and songwriter, he played the saxophone. After reaching France very early (Marseille) he became widely known through America for…
English writer from a noted family. He was the first child of the novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine. A failed businessman, he became…
British writer and editor, perhaps the greatest of the English novelists and one of the most celebrated writers of his time describing life in Victorian…
English writer. The eldest daughter of English novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine, she was nicknamed ‘Mamie.’ She wrote a book of reminiscences about…
Welsh singer and songwriter. Diamandis has described herself as an “indie artist with pop goals.” Born in Brynmawr and raised in nearby Pandy, she moved…
French director, producer and screenwriter, who directed 48 films between 1913 and 1959, produced 17 between 1925 and 1967 and wrote 21 screenplays between 1916…
American writer and editor, known as the author of the books Searching for John Hughes: Or Everything I Thought I Needed to Know about Life…
American pop singer and songwriter who released his album Diamonds Are Forever after gaining fame from his YouTube performances in the 2000s.
American singer and songwriter, a bass-baritone popular from the ’60s with compositions that include “Sweet Caroline,” “Song Sung Blue” and “Touching You, Touching Me.” An…
Cuban dissident writer, resided in Havana, frequently presence in the anti-Castro blogosphere.
American actress, producer, writer, and fashion model, named in 2013 as the highest-paid actress over 40 in Hollywood. As of 2018, the U.S. domestic box…
Italian poet, songwriter, playwright and fascist intellectual, one of the signers of the Manifesto of the Fascvist Intellectuals. Di Giacomo is credited as being one…
Italian singer-songwriter. He won the Castrocaro Festival in 1991 and the Cantagiro in the Youth Section of the 1993 Sanremo Festival. He has written songs…
Italian writer. He is most famous for his only novel, Il Gattopardo (first published posthumously in 1958, translated as The Leopard), which is set in…
Italian writer, the author of one novel, “Passage in Shadow,” which was published posthumously after her early death at 40. It was an immediate success,…
Italian model, actress and writer. Di Lazzaro started as a fashion model and as a subject of world famous photographers such as Andy Warhol, then…
Thomas Di Leva is a Swedish singer-songwriter. Link to Wikipedia biography
Brazilian musician, poet and artist, a singer-songwriter with a catalogue of more than 400 songs. In the early ’90s, he suffered a motorcycle accident, which…
Italian TV presenter, actress and writer. Link to Wikipedia biography (Italian)
Peruvian poet and writer, and a former journalist for alternative newsmagazine La Tortuga. Link to Wikipedia biography (Spanish)
American poet and artist, who participated in the emerging Beat movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s in Manhattan, New York. She was also…