Vincent van Gogh – One of the Greatest Painters in History

Vincent van Gogh Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853, Groot-Zundert, Netherlands - July 29, 1890, Auvers-sur-Oise near Paris, France) (aged 37) Nationality: Netherlands Category: Art Creators Occupation: Painters Specification: Post-impressionism, Expressionism Unique...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – One of the greatest composers of all time

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart (27 January 1756, Salzburg, Austria -  5 December 1791, Vienna, Austria) Nationality: Austria Category: Art Creators Occupation:  Composers Specification: Classical music, Chamber music Unique...

Titian – One of the greatest High Renaissance Painters

Titian Tiziano Vecellio or Vecelli (c. 1488/1490, Pieve di Cadore, Venice, Italy – 27 August 1576,  Venice, Italy) (aged 84-86) Nationality: Italy Category: Art Workers Occupation: Architects, Sculptors,...

Gian Bernini – One of the greatest Italian sculptor and architect

Gian Bernini Gian (Giovanni) Lorenzo Bernini ( 7 December 1598, Naples, Italy — 28 November 1680, Rome) (aged 81) Nationality: Italy Category: Art workers Occupation: Architects, Sculptors, Painters Specification: Italian...

Goethe – The great German Poet and the key figure of European Culture

Goethe Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (28 August 1749, Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (now Germany) – 22 March 1832 Weimar, Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Germany) (aged...

Gustav Fechner – Founder of psychophysics

Gustav Fechner Gustav Theodor Fechner (April 19, 1801, Groß Särchen, near Muskau, Lower Lusatia, (now  Żarki Wielkie in commune Trzebiel, Poland) - November 28, 1887, Leipzig,...

Elton John – Famous Pop superstar and Composer

Elton John Sir Elton Hercules John born Reginald Kenneth Dwight ( March 25, 1947, Pinner, Middlesex, England) Nationality: United Kingdom Category: Celebrities Occupation: Singers, pianists, composers Unique distinction: The...

Edouard Manet – One of the founders of Impressionism

Edouard Manet (23 January 1832, Paris, France 30 April 1883, 1883 Paris, France) (aged 51) Nationality: France Category: Art workers Occupation: Painters Specification:  Realism, Impressionism Unique distinction: Leading artist...

Michelangelo – Giant of the High Renaissance

Michelangelo Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (March  6, 1475 Caprese, near Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy – Feb 18, 1564  Rome, Papal States, Italy) (aged 88) Nationality: Italy Category: Art...

Johann Sebastian Bach – The Great German Composer

Johann Sebastian Bach (March 21, 1685, Eisenach, Thuringia, Ernestine Saxon Duchies (now Germany)  – July 28, 1750, Leipzig, Germany) (Age 65) Nationality: Germany Category: Art Creators Occupation:...

Enheduanna – First female poet and author in history

Enheduanna Enheduana, En-hedu-ana (ca. 2285-2250 B.C.E. City of Ur, Sumeria) Nationality: Iraq Category: Art workers Occupation: Poets, Writers, Priestess Unique distinction: The first writer and poet in history, the...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky – The greatest psychologist in world literature

Fyodor Dostoyevsky Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky (November 11, 1821, Moscow, Russia – February 9, 1881, Saint Petersburg, Russia) (aged 59) Nationality: Russia Category: Art Creators Occupation: Writers Unique distinction: One...