American singer, songwriter, actor, record producer and film producer who, along with Jon and Jordan Knight, McIntyre and Wood, was the a member of the…
French mime, teacher and silent film actor who performed in more than forty films between 1907 and 1922. Wague taught pantomime, notably to the writer…
American rock music guitarist, songwriter and author best known for his work with Alice Cooper, Lou Reed, and Kiss. He also fronted his own Michigan-based…
Edward A. Wagner: A Luminary in Astrology and Human Design Edward A. Wagner, born on November 15, 1906, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is renowned as an…
Diplomat, lawyer, philosopher, historian and writer who devoted his life to the service of culture and Peruvian foreign policy. He is considered one of the…
American engineer, writer, government official, married once, four children. He died on July 14, 1990, in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Austrian regional writer, teacher, soldier, illustrator, and novelist, famous for his Christmas stories and his lyrical and short stories. Many of them were humorous. After…
German singer-songwriter (“Liedermacher”). In the 1970s, Hannes Wader became one of the stars of the political left through his provocative songs. He was a member…
British writer and researcher of the lives of great musicians. He is the author of “A New Look at Segovia, His Life, His Music,” Vol.…
American sportsman and physician who founded the Gay Olympics in 1982 in San Francisco. The international sporting event was later renamed the Gay Games after…
American film director, screenwriter and producer. She works with her sister Lana Wachowski (born Laurence “Larry” Wachowski). They are both openly transgender women. They made…
Dutch spy for the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) who had more than eighty victims. Antonius (Tom) van der Waals was the youngest child of Gerardus van der…
Indian film and television writer, who graduated from the National School of Drama. Also associated with Ekjute theatre, Vyas has written the scripts for Bharat…
Soviet singer, songwriter, poet, and actor whose career had an immense and enduring effect on Russian culture. He became widely known for his unique singing…
French stage and film actor, scriptwriter, and “sociétaire” of the Comedie Française. He received 2 Moliere awards, born to a magician/ Link to Wikipedia biography
French writer and filmmaker, he won the Goncourt prize in 2017 with “L’Ordre du jour”. Link to Wikipedia biography
Dutch-American hematologist, celebrated poet, painter and illustrator. He was the son of Jewish parents: Samuel Jacob Vroman (4 Jan 1875, Rotterdam – 5 January 1942,…
Dutch writer, translator, poet and critic. He was the youngest son of the Liberal Jewish merchant Adolph Isidore van Vriesland (31 March 1859 3 AM…
French writer. After founding a small theatre company in 1950, he turning to writing, publishing his first novel “Arban” in 1954. In 1963, he received…
Dutch Christian teacher and prolific writer of educational children’s books, most known for “Bartje”, “Reis door de nacht” and his children’s bible. Anne de Vries…
French writer, cartoonist, illustrator, publisher, journalist, critic, art theorist and historian of the French letter and typography. He died on 18 December 1974 in Lurs.…
French singer and composer, spent his childhood with his mother, dancer from Guadeloupe, in the suburb of Paris. Then he began his career as guitarist…
German physician and writer who used the pseudonyms “Hermann van Vloten”, “Hermann Grether” and “Grether Vortisch.” https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Vortisch
French cult leader and writer, the author of books of messages given to him by an extraterrestrial in 1996 that led to world-wide centers, the…
American singer-songwriter, musician, visual artist, performance artist and writer. Voog is the former front woman of The Blue Up?, a pop rock band from the…
American writer, a master of science-fiction. His novels include “Piano Player,” 1952 “Sirens of Titan,” 1959 and “Slaughterhouse Five,” 1969, which was made into a…
German film director, producer, screenwriter and author of several books including an autobiography. He served until 1944 as a tank driver in Hitler’s army, was…
German poet, hymnist and writer, also known as Filip Cösius or Caesius. Some of his works are published under his pen name Ritterhold von Blauen.…
German writer. Von Stach wrote plays, novels, fairy tales, and lyric poetry. Her most famous work, a Christmas play, Das Christ-Elflein (The Christmas Elf), dates…
German poet and dramatist. Platen made the acquaintance of many of the leading writers of the time, including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. He became a…
German writer, traveller and garden designer. He owned a vast estate astride what is now the German-Polish border. After touring English gardens in 1816 be…
German playwright widely influential in popularizing poetic drama, into which he instilled melodramatic sensationalism and sentimental philosophizing. Kotzebue’s first comedy gave him entrée into court…
German writer and storyteller. She lived in the Ottoman Empire for 20 years, and as the daughter of a Prussian officer serving at the Sultan’s…
German writer. Before she became famous as a writer and narrator of Turkish fairy tales, she had already published stories, essays, translations, novels and a…
German satirical and humorous writer. He never married. Died 23 April 1796. Link to Wikipedia biography
German actress, author and film director of Prussian aristocratic origin. Despite her privileged childhood, von Harbou had the desire to earn a living on her…
Austrian singer-songwriter and world musician, real name Hubert Achleitner. With his mix of rock music and elements of traditional Volksmusik he has become a prominent…
German Romantic writer who was one of the leading figures of Roman Catholic political journalism. Görres was sympathetic to the ideals of the French Revolution…
Luise von François: A Historical Novelist with a Generative Design Luise von François, born on June 27, 1817, in Elster, Germany, was a renowned German…
Norwegian ceramist, non-fiction writer, and educator. He ran a ceramics workshop in Oslo in cooperation with his wife, Margrethe von der Lippe, and many of…
American heiress and socialite. Sunny was the only child of utilities magnate George Crawford (a former chairman of Columbia Gas & Electric Company) and his…
Italian writer, lawyer, poet, novelist and social critic. He died on 23 August 1994 in Ancona. Link to Wikipedia biography
Italian writer, actor, voice actor, radio and television presenter and screenwriter. In 2002 he debuted as an actor in Alessandro D’Alatri’s movie “Casomai”. He was…
British singer and songwriter with the group, “Curiosity Killed the Cat,” formed in 1983. Their LP in mid-1986 failed to reach the charts but they…
German philologist, archaeologist, poet, playwright, screenwriter, and aircraft designer. He is most famous for writing the script of the elaborate religious spectacle-pantomime film The Miracle…
German modernist painter, also noted as the wife of the painter Hans Purrmann. Like most successful women artists of the time, she was ignored or…
American musician, singer and songwriter, one of the two leaders of the “Turtles,” a big group in the ’60s that had about eight big hits.…
German philologist who published five books. He was editor of Kritischer Jahresbericht über die Fortschritte der romanischen Philologie, an annual compilation (Critical annual report on…
French writer , philosopher and classical linguist of Russian ancestry . He produced both literary works for adults and spy novels for young readers under…
Canadian singer, songwriter, actor, and radio and television host, Voisine writes and performs in both English and French. In 1994 he won the Juno Award…