Monsignor Juan José Gerardi Conedera

Monsignor Juan José Gerardi Conedera (27 December 1922 – 26 April 1998) was a Guatemalan Roman Catholic bishop and human rights defender.
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Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray (26 December 1716 – 30 July 1771), was an English poet, classical scholar and professor at Cambridge University.

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William Mark Felt

William Mark Felt, Sr. (August 17, 1913 – December 18, 2008) was an agent of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, who retired in 1973 as the Bureau’s Associate Director. After thirty years of denying his involvement with reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Felt revealed himself on May 31, 2005 to be the Watergate scandal whistleblower called “Deep Throat.”
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Peter Michael Falk

Peter Michael Falk (born 16 September 1927) is an American actor, best known for his role as Lieutenant Columbo in the television series Columbo. He has been Academy Award-nominated twice, and won the Emmy Award on five occasions and the Golden Globe award once.
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Konrad Gessner

Konrad Gessner (Conrad Gessner, Conrad Geßner, Conrad von Gesner, Conradus Gesnerus, Conrad Gesner; 26 March 1516 – 13 December 1565) was a Swiss naturalist and bibliographer. His five-volume Historiae animalium (1551-1558) is considered the beginning of modern zoology, and the flowering plant genus Gesneria (Gesneriaceae) is named after him.
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Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch

Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch (11 December 1843 – 27 May 1910) was a German physician. He became famous for isolating Bacillus anthracis (1877), the tuberculosis bacillus (1882) and the vibrio cholera (1883) and for his development of Koch’s postulates.
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Gardel Carlos

Carlos Gardel (11 December 1887/18901 - 24 June 1935 Medellín, Colombia) is perhaps the most prominent figure in the history of tango. Although his birthplace is disputed between Uruguay, Argentina & France, he lived in Argentina from childhood and acquired Argentine citizenship in 1923. He grew up in the Abasto neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, located near the Central Market of Fruit and Vegetables, an enormous art-deco styled building which today is a shopping mall. He attended Pio IX Industrial high-school located in the Almagro neighbourhood. He died in an airplane crash at the height of his career, becoming an archetypal tragic hero mourned throughout Latin America. For many, Gardel embodies the soul of the tango style that originated in the barrios of Buenos Aires and Montevideo at the end of the 19th century. He is commonly referred to as “Carlitos”, “The King of Tango”, “El Mago” (The Magician) and, ironically “El Mudo” (The Mute).
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Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David

Edward VIII (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David; later The Duke of Windsor; 23 June 1894 – 28 May 1972) was King of the United Kingdom and the British dominions, and Emperor of India from 20 January 1936, following the death of his father, George V, until his abdication on 11 December 1936. He was the second monarch of the House of Windsor, his father having changed the name of the royal house from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1917.
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Flaubert Gustave

Flaubert, Gustave (1821-80), French novelist of the realist school, noted for his objective approach and painstaking perfection of style, characteristics of Madame Bovary, his most famous work.
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Henry VI

Henry VI (6 December 1421 – 21 May 1471) was King of England 1422–1461 (though with a Regent until 1437) and then 1470–1471, and a claimant to the kingdom of France 1422–1453.
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