Famous People

Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (1858 - 1924) is regarded as one of the gr ...

Rembrandt

One of the great Dutch painters and printmakers of the 17th century, Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-166 ...

Johanna Spyri

Johanna Spyri (1827-1901) Spends several summers in the area around Chur (especially Jenins and M ...

Karl Marx

Karl Marx (1818-1883) known as the father of communism, he meant that countries applying his theo ...

Franz Joseph Haydn

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809) is the father of the Viennese Classic. Haydn was not born in Vie ...

Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born in Prague and most of his life spent there, but he was one of th ...


Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939) is bound to be mentioned sooner or later whenever psychology is discu ...

Erno Rubik

Ernö Rubik was born in 1944 in Budapest, Hungary from father a mechanic-engineer, specialist ...

Joze Plecnik

Joze Plecnik (1872-1957) Slovenia's greatest architect, also achieved a prominent place in wo ...

Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla's (1856-1943) birthday, July 10th, is proclaimed by the United Nations - Nikola ...

Richard Wagner

Richard Wagner (1813-1883) is not only known because of his 13 operas and numerous other composit ...

Galileo Galilei

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was an Italian astronomer, astrologer, physicist, and philospher clos ...

Napoleon Bonaparte

Louis Napoleone di Buonaparte (1769-1821) was born in Ajaccio in to a family of Corsican nobility ...

Vincent Van Gogh Museum

A visit to the Van Gogh Museum is a unique experience of your visit to Amsterdam. The museum cont ...

Johannes Gutenberg

Johannes Gutenberg (1395-1468) is considered the inventor of movable metallic type that made prin ...

Emil Zatopek

Emil Zatopek was born in Czechoslovakia in 1922. At the age of 16 he went to work in a factory. A ...

Sergio Leone

Sergio Leone (1929-1989) was an Italian film director, well known for his Dollars Trilogy, which ...

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was a Swiss-French philosopher, writer, political theorist, and ...

Faust Vrancic

Croatian Faust Vrancic (1551- 1617), jumped from a Venice tower in 1617 wearing his "Homo Vo ...

Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), the most popular of all opera composers, was born to a poor family in ...

Henri Matisse

Using colors, contrasts, and the human form in his works, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) went down in ...

Paul Cezanne

Paul  Cézanne (1839 - 1906) is the father of Modern art, and one of the most famous f ...

J. Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German poet, playwright, novelist, and natural philosophe ...

Anne Frank House

For more than two years Anne Frank and her family lived in the annex of the building at Prinsengr ...

Rudolf Diesel

Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel (1858 - 1913) is the father of diesel engines, born in the Victorian ...

Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht ( 1898-1956), was bored by regular schooling, but during his years in exile he had ...

Milos Forman

Miloš Forman was born in 1932 in ÄŚáslav in Czechoslovakia and he is one of the few ...

Ludwig Van Beethoven

Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) was the crucial figure in the transition between the Classical ...

Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) owes his name to the town of Vinci near Florence. ...

Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolas Copernic (1473-1543) developed the heliocentric theory of the Solar System that displaced ...

Marco Polo

Marco Emilio Polo (1254-1324) born in island Korcula, Croatia and was the first European traveler ...

Jean Henri Dunant

Henri Dunant (1828- 1910) from Switzerland, established the International Committee of the Red Cr ...

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (1881-1938), the founder of the Turkish Republic and its first President, i ...

Ivan Cankar

Ivan Cankar (1876-1918) is the greatest Slovenian short story writer and dramatist, a universal r ...

Baruch de Spinoza

Baruch (Benedictus) de Spinoza (1632-1677) sprang from a Jewish family of Portugal or Spain, whic ...

Frederic Chopin

Frederic Chopin, (1810 -1849) a world-famous composer, can be defined as a Pole, or essentially F ...

Sandor Petofi memorial Museum

Sandor Petofi, one of the greatest Hungarian poets and probably the greatest revolutionary poets ...

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein is a renowned name not only among physicists and scientists but to the whole worl ...

Antonin Dvorak

 (1841 - 1904) made so special is that he was able to take folk tradition that people s ...

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

For Saint-Exupery (1900-1944) flying wasn't just piloting an airplane and The Little Prince w ...