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120 famous people found
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MATA HARI
Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy for Germany during World War I
1876 - 1917 -
Joan Riudavets Moll
Spanish centenarian
1889 - 2004 -
Alice LIDDELL
Acquaintance and photography subject of Lewis Carroll
1852 - 1934 -
Sophie Charlotte VON WITTELSBACH
Duchess of Alençon
1847 - 1897 -
David FREEMAN-MITFORD
English landowner and was the father of the Mitford sisters
1878 - 1958 -
Joseph MEISTER
First person to be inoculated against rabies by Louis Pasteur
1876 - 1940 -
Ferdinand de LESSEPS
French developer of the Suez Canal
1805 - 1894 -
Betsy Balcombe
British author, friend of Napoleon I during his exile at Saint Helena
1802 - 1871 -
Edith CAVELL
British nurse celebrated for saving the lives of soldiers from both sides without discrimination and in helping some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium during the First World War
1865 - 1915 -
Marie DÉNARNAUD
French servant
1868 - 1953 -
Méry LAURENT
French demi-mondaine
1849 - 1900 -
Joachim MARTIN
French carpenter
1842 - 1897 -
Marguerite STEINHEIL
French woman famous for her many love affairs with important men
1869 - 1954 -
CASQUE D'OR
French prostitute
1878 - 1933 -
Joseph Pujol
French flatulist (professional farter) and entertainer
1857 - 1945 -
MERE DENIS
French advertisement actress
1893 - 1989 -
Marie-Thérèse BARDET
French supercentenarian
1898 - 2012 -
Paule BRONZINI
French supercentenarian
1900 - 2012 -
Madame GUÉRIN
Originator of the Remembrance Poppy Day
1878 - 1961 -
Léonard BURLAT
French arboriculturist, inventor of the Burlat cherry
1872 - 1953