Memorial pages
Pages for people, events and places. Search by name, or narrow by kind and country.
229 pages
Alberto Santos-Dumont
1873–1932
Aviation pioneer
Cemitério São João Batista, Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro
Machado de Assis
1839–1908
Novelist, founder of the Brazilian Academy of Letters
Cemitério São João Batista, Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro
The Cry of Dolores
1810
1810 · the start of the Mexican war of independence
Parish church of Dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
1648–1695
Nun, poet and scholar of New Spain
Former convent of San Jerónimo, Mexico City
Diego Rivera
1886–1957
Muralist
Rotonda de las Personas Ilustres, Panteón Civil de Dolores, Mexico City
Johannes Gutenberg
1400–1468
Goldsmith who brought printing with movable type to Europe
Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate — his grave is lost
Albert Einstein
1879–1955
Physicist, born in Ulm
Ashes scattered at an undisclosed place near Princeton, New Jersey
Sophie Scholl
1921–1943
Student of the White Rose resistance group
Perlacher Forst Cemetery, Munich, Bavaria
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1749–1832
Poet, playwright and natural scientist
Ducal Vault, Historical Cemetery, Weimar, Thuringia
Ludwig van Beethoven
1770–1827
Composer who went deaf and kept writing
Zentralfriedhof, group 32A, Vienna, Austria
Johann Sebastian Bach
1685–1750
Composer and cantor of St Thomas's, Leipzig
St Thomas's Church, Leipzig, Saxony
Ada Lovelace
1815–1852
Mathematician who wrote the first algorithm for a machine
Church of St Mary Magdalene, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire