Memorial pages
Pages for people, events and places. Search by name, or narrow by kind and country.
229 pages
Marcel Proust
1871–1922
Novelist of "In Search of Lost Time"
Père-Lachaise Cemetery, division 85, Paris
Jeanne d'Arc
1412–1431
Peasant girl who led a French army at seventeen
Place du Vieux-Marché, Rouen, Normandy
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
1900–1944
Airmail pilot and author of "The Little Prince"
Lost at sea off Marseille; wreck found in 2000
Andrew Carnegie
1835–1919
Steel magnate who gave away his fortune
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, New York
Eleanor Roosevelt
1884–1962
Diplomat who chaired the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Rose garden, Springwood estate, Hyde Park, New York
Thomas Edison
1847–1931
Inventor and builder of the first industrial research laboratory
Glenmont, Llewellyn Park, West Orange, New Jersey
Ulysses S. Grant
1822–1885
General of the Union army, 18th President
General Grant National Memorial, Riverside Drive, New York City
The Lisbon Earthquake
1755
1755 · earthquake, tsunami and fire on All Saints' Day
Convento do Carmo, Lisbon
The Aberfan Disaster
1966
1966 · a colliery tip buried a school; 116 children died
Aberfan Memorial Garden, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
The Great Fire of London
1666
1666 · four days, 13,200 houses, six recorded deaths
The Monument, Fish Street Hill, London
The Normandy Landings
1944
1944 · 156,000 men landed on five beaches in one day
Omaha Beach, Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
1989
1989 · a border opened by a misread announcement
Bornholmer Straße crossing, Berlin
The Storming of the Bastille
1789
1789 · a prison with seven inmates and the start of a revolution
Place de la Bastille, Paris
The Golden Law: Abolition of Slavery in Brazil
1888
1888 · the last country in the Americas to abolish slavery
Paço Imperial, Praça XV, Rio de Janeiro
The First March of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
1977
1977 · fourteen women walking in a circle under a dictatorship
Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires
Jorge Luis Borges
1899–1986
Argentine writer of labyrinths and libraries
Cimetière des Rois, Plainpalais, Geneva, Switzerland
Eva Perón
1919–1952
Actress and first lady of Argentina
Duarte family vault, Cementerio de la Recoleta, Buenos Aires