Category: Les Caractères

Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the […]

Albert Schweitzer (Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer), born January 14, 1875 in Kaysersberg (Alsace-Lorraine) and died September 4, 1965 in Lambaréné (Gabon), is a physician, pastor […]

Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein was a Soviet film director and film theorist, a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage. He is noted in particular […]

Stephen William Hawking (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018) was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the […]

Maximilian Maria Kolbe (born Rajmund Kolbe, 8 January 1894 – 14 August 1941), venerated as Saint Maximilian Kolbe, was a Polish Catholic priest and Conventual […]

David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer-songwriter and actor.

Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer; 5 January 1876 – 19 April 1967 was a German statesman who served as the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic […]

Dziga Vertov, whose real name was David Abelevich Kaufman (Białystok, January 2, 1896 – Moscow, February 12, 1954), was an avant-garde Soviet filmmaker, first a […]

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and […]

Jean Tenenbaum, known as Jean Ferrat, born on December 26, 1930 in Vaucresson and died on March 13, 2010 in Aubenas, is a French singer-songwriter. […]