Biographies

Hippocrates Hippocrates of Cos (ca. 460/ 450 BC , Island of  Cos, Ancient Greece - 377/370 BC, Larissa, Thessaly, Greece) Nationality: Greece Category: Scientists Occupation: Physicians, Philosophers Unique distinction:...

Wilhelm Wundt Wilhelm Maximilian (Max) Wundt (August 16, 1832, Nekarau, near Mannheim, Baden -31 August 1920, Großbothen near Leipzig, Germany) Nationality: Germany Category: Scientists Occupation:  Physiologists, Psychologists Specification: Experimental psychology Unique...

Christopher Columbus Cristoforo Colombo (in Italian), Cristobal Colon (in Spanish) (25 August - 31 October 1451, Genoa, Italy  - 20 May 1506, Valladolid, Spain) (aged 54) Nationality:...

Zlata Ognevich Inna Leonidovna Bordyug (born 12 January 1986, Murmansk, Russian SSR) Nationality: Ukraine Category: Celebrities Occupation: Singers Specification: Pop-music Unique distinction: She was representating Ukraine at the Eurovision Song...

Lindsey Vonn Lindsey C. Kildow (née Kildow) (October 18, 1984, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA) Nationality: United States of America Category: Athletes Occupation: Alpine Skiers Unique distinction: She is the...

Thales Thales of Miletos (625/624 BC, Miletus, Asia Minor (Now Balat, Turkey) - 546/545 BC, Miletus, Asia Minor) Nationality: Greece Category: Scientists Occupation: Philosophers Unique distinction: First Greek and...

Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15, 1452, the town of Vinci, near Florence - May 2, 1519, Chateau Clos-Luce near...

István Magyari-Beck (1 October, 1941, Budapest, Hungary - 18 August, 2022 Budapest, Hungary) (aged 81) Citizenship: Hungary Occupation: Psychologist, educator, professor and researcher in creatology, psychology, and...

Angela Merkel Angela Dorothea Kasner Born on 17 July 1954, Hamburg, West Germany Nationality: Germany Category: Leaders Occupation: Politicians Unique distinction: The first female Chancellor of Germany, the de...

Irnerius Guarnerius or Warnerius (c. 1050 – after 1125) Nationality: Italy Category: Scientists Occupation: Lawyers Unique distinction: Founder of the School of Glossators, 1088 (later University of Bologna), the...

Claude Bernard (July 12, 1813, Saint-Julien - February 10, 1878, Paris, France) (Aged 64) Nationality: France Category: Scientists Occupation: Physiologists, Physicians Unique distinction: The founder of experimental medicine,  the...

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Mihaly Robert Csikszentmihalyi (Pronounced: "cheek-sent-me-high-ee"). (September 29, 1934, Fiume, Kingdom of Italy (now Rijeka, Croatia) - October 20, 2021, Claremont, California, U.S.) (Aged 87) Nationality: American,...