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Lisa Marie Presley (February 1, 1968 – January 12, 2023) was an American singer and songwriter. She was the only child of singer and actor Elvis Presley and actress Priscilla Presley, as well as the sole ...
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Maurice Ernest Gibb CBE (22 December 1949 – 12 January 2003) was a British musician, singer, songwriter and record producer who achieved fame as a member of the Bee Gees. Although his elder brother Barry ...
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Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a fascist collaborator in Italy during ...
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Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim ( 4 June 1867 – 27 January 1951) was a Finnish military leader and statesman. Mannerheim served as the military leader of the Whites in the Finnish Civil War of 1918 ...
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Saensak Muangsurin (13 August 1950 – 16 April 2009) was a professional boxer from Phetchabun, Thailand. He was a former WBC light welterweight champion, who set a world record by winning a world title ...
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Otto (German: Otto Wilhelm Luitpold Adalbert Waldemar; 27 April 1848 – 11 October 1916) was King of Bavaria from 1886 until 1913. However, he never actively reigned because of alleged severe mental illness ...
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Gheorghe Vrănceanu (June 30, 1900 – April 27, 1979) was a Romanian mathematician, best known for his work in differential geometry and topology. He was titular member of the Romanian Academy and Vice- ...
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James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry and 1st Duke of Dover (18 December 1662 – 6 July 1711) was a Scottish nobleman and a leading politician of the late 17th and the early 18th centuries. As Lord ...
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Rodolfo Ignacio Quezada Toruño (8 March 1932 – 4 June 2012) was a Guatemalan cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was Archbishop of Guatemala City, having previously served as Bishop of Zacapa y Santo Cristo ...
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Percival Drayton (August 25, 1812 – August 4, 1865) was a career United States Navy officer who served during the American Civil War. He commanded naval forces against Confederate forts defended by his ...
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George Teasdale (8 December 1831 – 9 June 1907) was a Mormon missionary and a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
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Hồ Văn Trung (1984 – 2 November 2019) was one of only 29 known people in medical history to reach a height of 8 feet (244 cm) or more. He had a standing height of at least 8 ft 5.25 in (257.2 cm) ...
Cape Verdean activist, medical laboratory scientist and First Lady of Cape Verde
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Antonina Mascarenhas Monteiro, more popularly known as Tuna Mascarenhas, (June 13, 1944 – September 9, 2009) was a Cape Verdean activist and medical laboratory scientist. She served as the First Lady of ...
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Winter (c.– November 11, 2021) was a bottlenose dolphin at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium in Clearwater, Florida and was widely known for having a prosthetic tail. Winter was the subject of the book Dolphin ...
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Thomas Sanford Gathright (January 5, 1829 – May 24, 1880) was an American educator and the first president of the State Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, now known as Texas A&M University ...