César Baldaccini
French sculptor, born in 1921, at the forefront of the Nouveau Réalisme movement.
Maxime Jacob
Italian former racing cyclist , world champion, & Olympic silver medalist (1992).
Max Papart
French painter & printmaker born in 1911. Known for semi-cubist style.
Mika Waltari
Finnish writer born in 1908. Best known for his best-selling novel The Egyptian.
Leo Strauss
German-American political philosopher, classicist, professor, & author born in 1899.
Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, writer, and Jewish Holocaust survivor born in 1919.
Thomas Berger
American novelist born in 1924 & best known for his novel Little Big Man.
Jules Renard
French author born in 1864 & best known for his work Poil de carotte and Les Histoires Naturelles.
Margaret of Valois
French princess of the Valois dynasty born in 1553. Queen consort of France & Navarre as wife of Henry IV.
Henri Pourrat
French writer & folklore collector born in 1887. Published over 100 works in his lifetime.