Max Bill
Swiss architect, artist, typeface designed, industrial designer, & graphic designer bornin 1908.
Heinrich Nordhoff
German engineer born in 1899. Led the Volkswagen company as it was rebuilt after WW II.
Gilles Deleuze
French renowned philosopher known for co-writing Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Anti-Oedipus (1972).
Edouard Dhorme
French Assyriologist, Semitologist, and translator of the Bible born in 1881.
Jule Charney
American meteorologist born in 1917. Played important role in developing numerical weather prediction.
Hélène Martin
French singer, songwriter, & TV director born in 1928.
François Broussais
French physician born in 1772. Passionate advocate of using leeches for bloodletting.
Frances Power Cobbe
Anglo-Irish writer, philosopher, religious thinker, anti-vivisection activist, & suffragist born in 1822.
Benjamin Creme
Scottish artist, author, esotericist, & editor of Share International magazine.
Roland Barthes
French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, & semiotician born in 1915.