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Wolfram Freiherr VON RICHTHOFEN
German Generalfeldmarschall (General Field Marshal) of the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) during the Second World War
1895 - 1945 -
H. G. WELLS
English writer, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre
1866 - 1946 -
Guillaume Apollinaire
French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, and art critic
1880 - 1918 -
F. Scott FITZGERALD
American author of novels and short stories
1896 - 1940 -
William FAULKNER
American writer and Nobel Prize laureate
1897 - 1962 -
Douglas FAIRBANKS
American actor, screenwriter, director and producer
1883 - 1939 -
Cecil B. DE MILLE
American film director and film producer
1881 - 1959 -
Isaac SINGER
American inventor, actor, and entrepreneur, founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company
1811 - 1875 -
Sigmund FREUD
Austrian neurologist who became known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
1856 - 1939 -
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet and playwright
1854 - 1900 -
Mary PICKFORD
Canadian motion picture actress, co-founder of the film studio United Artists
1893 - 1979 -
Henri MATISSE
French artist
1869 - 1954 -
Charles DICKENS
English writer and social critic
1812 - 1870 -
Agatha CHRISTIE
British crime writer of novels, short stories, and plays
1890 - 1976 -
Richard WAGNER
German composer, conductor, theatre director and polemicist
1813 - 1883 -
Groucho MARX
American comedian and film and television star
1890 - 1977 -
Jean Auguste Dominique INGRES
French Neoclassical painter
1780 - 1867 -
Lucien Louis BONAPARTE
French cardinal
1828 - 1895 -
SISSI (SISI)
Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary
1837 - 1898 -
General Tom Thumb
American with dwarfism who achieved great fame as a performer under circus pioneer P. T. Barnum
1838 - 1883