Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989), was a prominent Spanish surrealist born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in August 1931. Dalí’s expansive artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and photography…

Richard Feynman

Richard Feynman (May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist. For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman, jointly with Julian Schwinger and Shin’ichirō Tomonaga, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965.

Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert (12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880) was a French novelist. Highly influential, he has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country. He is known especially for his debut novel Madame Bovary (1857)…

Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893), was a Russian composer of the romantic period, whose works are among the most popular music in the classical repertoire. He was the first Russian composer whose music made a lasting impression internationally…

Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms (7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg , spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria. He composed for symphony orchestra, chamber ensembles, piano, organ, and voice and chorus.

Evita Peron

María Eva Duarte de Perón (7 May 1919 – 26 July 1952) was the wife of Argentine President Juan Perón and First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. She has become a part of international popular culture, most famously as the subject of the musical Evita (1976).

Marlene Dietrich

Marie Magdalene “Marlene” Dietrich (27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992) was a German-American actress and singer. Throughout her long career, which spanned from the 1910s to the 1980s, she continually reinvented herself.

Orson Welles

George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor, director, writer and producer who worked in theatre, radio and film. He is remembered for his work in film, Citizen Kane (1941), consistently ranked as one of the greatest films ever made.