Also ranks #9 on Monarchs Who Walked Away From The Crown And Why Thomas Jefferson Dec. at 83 (1743-1826) Thomas Jefferson, one of the most influential Founding Fathers of the United States, was born on April 13, 1743, in Shadwell, Virginia. Raised in a well-to-do family with six ...
Since we’ve just celebrated Halloween, let’s finish out the Rock/Pop section with something spooky: the third album from Romanian producer Borusiade. This falls within the general category of “electronic body music,” but it’s hard to imagine anyone dancing to it in anything but the most...
Rakovsky's political career took him throughout the Balkans and into France and Imperial Russia; for part of his life, he was also a Romanian citizen. A lifelong collaborator of Leon Trotsky, he was a prominent activist of the Second International, involved in politics with the Bulgarian ...
Arsenie Boca (Romanian pronunciation: [arˈseni.e ˈboka]; 29 September 1910 – 28 November 1989) was a Romanian Orthodox monk, theologian, mystic, and artist. He was persecuted by the Communists and named among the 100 greatest Romanians.He was born in Vața de Sus, Hunedoara Count...
Paul Celan (; German: [ˈtseːlaːn]; 23 November 1920 – c. 20 April 1970) was a Romanian-born German language poet and translator. He was born as Paul Antschel to a Jewish family in Cernăuți (German: Czernowitz), in the then Kingdom of Romania (now Chernivtsi, Ukrain...
Nicolae Ceaușescu (, Romanian: [nikoˈla.e tʃe̯a.uˈʃesku] (listen); 26 January 1918 – 25 December 1989) was a Romanian communist politician and leader. He was the General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989 and hence the second and last Communis...
She was born Edna Kilimnik to Emalia and Isadore, two Romanian Jews who settled in the Bronx near New York City. In 1939, she became a model and soon took a picture with Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. She changed her name to "Edna Ford" to hide her Jewish background. After getting to ...
Franz Joseph died on 21 November 1916, after ruling his domains for almost 68 years as one of the longest-reigning monarchs in modern history. He was succeeded by his grandnephew Charles. Birthplace: Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna, Austria Nationality: Austrian Empire, Austria-Hungary Works: The ...