British physician and medical biographer. He was the son of writer Mark Rutherford. During the First World War he was a colonel in the RAMC…
American writer, a journalist and novelist who shot to worldwide fame as the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning book, “Roots” in 1976. Haley preferred…
American noted family, the daughter of nightclub manager, Rachel Uchitel, and insurance underwriter and former Penn State fullback, Matt Hahn, who married on 2 October…
French singer-songwriter and composer. He died in Paris on 17 April 2002. Link to Wikipedia biography (French)
American voice actor, actor, director, screenwriter and producer. He played a safari photographer named Bart Jason on the television series Daktari from 1968 to 1969.…
Norwegian author, translator, screenwriter, actor, and director. He debuted with the poem collection “Slik tenker jeg på dere” (‘This is how I think of you’)…
American musician, country-western singer and songwriter. Haggard’s rough-hewn down-home style reached its peak on the country music charts in the 1960s and 1970s. Once a…
German-American actress and the daughter of new wave/punk singer Nina Hagen and musician Ferdinand Karmelk. Her grandmother is actress Eva-Maria Hagen, and her step-grandfather is…
Nina Hagen: The Enigmatic Punk Diva Nina Hagen, born on March 11, 1955, in Berlin, Germany, is a renowned German singer, songwriter, and actress. Her…
French astrologer calling himself Hadès, pseudonym of Alain Yaouanc. Not to be confused with the French painter and sculptor Alain Le Yaouanc, born 18 May…
Icelandic writer who came from the sea-girt Western Fiords of Iceland, where he was a fisherman before attending secondary school. Later, he lectured on Iceland…
French-Dutch actress and chansonnier (songwriter). She was the lover of the great poet, Martinus Nijhoff. She died August 23, 1995 at The Hague, Netherlands, age…
Swedish centenarian and the youngest daughter of writer August Strindberg. Anne-Marie Hagelin died on 17 August 2007, aged 105, one of Sweden’s oldest people.
French poet, songwriter, playwright and song editor. He died in Paris on 9 December 1917.
German attorney and key politician of the socialist left-wing political party The Left (Die Linke). He was the last leader of the Socialist Unity Party…
French pianist, songwriter and singer. He is best known in France for his live performances – four of his albums were recorded live – and…
French-American filmmaker, a screenwriter, director and producer. Guy-Blanche was the world’s first female director and possibly the first director of either sex to bring story-film…
Italian actress and comedienne, the daughter of writer and politician Paolo and the younger sister of comics Sabina and Corrado Guzzanti. Link to Wikipedia biography…
Costa Rican writer who won multiple awards, and whose children’s book Cocorí has been translated into ten languages. In addition to writing children’s books, Gutiérrez…
Norwegian pictorial artist, in particular of graphics and sketches who contributed with several public decorations and book illustrations. He taught sketching and graphics, and from…
German novelist and dramatist who was a pioneer of the modern social novel in Germany. Gutzkow began his career as a journalist. In 1835 he…
A.B. Guthrie Jr.: A Literary Trailblazer and Manifesting Generator A.B. Guthrie Jr., an eminent American novelist, screenwriter, historian, and literary historian, is celebrated for his…
American singer, songwriter, humanitarian, businessman and actor. Guthrie performs as a storyteller, folksinger, and humorist at folk festival stages around the country. By 1994, he…
French writer. A former teacher of literature, he began writing in the late ’40s. He grew increasingly successful in the ’50s, with a series of…
German writer whose only book, the romantic novel Die Heilige und ihr Narr (The Saint and Her Fool), has achieved almost legendary success, having been…
German gymnastics and dance educator and professional writer, co-founder the Günther School in Munich with Carl Orff. She died 18 September 1975. Link to Wikipedia…
Australian pro astrologer and author. She was editor of the FAA Journal in 1986-87 and 1991-93, as well as editing and writing for the magazine,…
American writer and Elvis Presley fan. The first record he owned, at 15, was Elvis. A decade later, in 1967, he first wrote about Elvis.…
American writer, a poet and educator, teaching at UCLA. A noted expert in the field of American trade bindings, Gullans co-authored, with John Espey, “Margaret…
Sean Gullette: A Multifaceted Talent and His Human Design Sean Gullette, an American actor, screenwriter, and expatriate, is a renowned figure in the world of…
Italian film, television ad stage actor, voice actor, comedian, writer and TV personality. In his long career as actor, Leo Gullotta has starred in about…
Turkish singer-songwriter whose debut album, Be Adam (1996), brought her to the attention of the music industry, but she preferred to take a break from…
Indian Hindi-language film director. She is the only daughter of famous lyricist and poet Gulzar and actress Raakhee. She wrote a book titled “Because He…
American writer, director, editor, composer and VFX artist known for his work on such productions as the 2021 TV miniseries Barbarian & Monk.
Scottish mathematician, physicist, educator and writer. Gunn was a professor of Physics and Astronomy and taught at the University of Glasgow. He wrote papers on…
Spanish Nobel-nominated writer in the Catalan language. His work is known for bringing together under romantic aspects the main elements of realism. He is considered…
American comic writer of the syndicated cartoon strip “Cathy,” published in more than 500 papers. Her work spun off into 12 books by 1990, greeting…
French actress, the fourth of the five wives of actor and writer Sacha Guitry and the wife with which he received the sacrament of Catholic…
French actor, one of his country’s greatest actors in the drama of modern reality. In 1885, while living in Saint Petersburg, he appeared at the…
French writer, literary translator, interpreter and journalist known for his Social Realist novels describing working class life and political struggles in the mid-twentieth century. His…
French writer known for combining his passion for writing with his love of the sea. His most famous work was Les Choses de la Vie,…
Mexican political activist, allegedly the Subcomandante Marcos or Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, noms de guerre used by him in his capacity as the main ideologist and…
Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of ’27, as well as a university teacher, scholar and literary critic. In 1957-1958 he delivered the Charles…
Cuban poet, journalist, political activist, and writer. He is best remembered as the national poet of Cuba. Born in Camagüey, he studied law at the…
French metallurgist known for his work on stainless steels in the early 20th century. He was the grandfather of Christian Guillet, a French writer born…
French writer, a poet and essayist. At 17, when his first poem was published his mother slapped him in the face for such an exhibition…
French actress, writer, co-producer, ex-wife of actor Gérard Depardieu. They separated in 1992, and after the divorce in 2006 she went back to her birth…
American writer of fiction, non-fiction, paperbacks, mysteries, sex and shock, radio scripts and TV presentations. He wrote a column in the Hollywood Reporter and worked…
French neurologist and prolific writer. In 1920 with his friend Jean Barré (1880-1967), he published a major work titled Travaux neurologiques de guerre, a book…