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Oscar-Claude Monet (14th November - 5th December 1926)

Claude Monet was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting.

Gioachino Antonio Rossini (Pesaro, February 29, 1792 – Passy, November 13, 1868)

Gioachino Antonio Rossini was a popular Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as sacred music and chamber music. His best known works include Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville), La Cenerentola and Guillaume Tell (William Tell).

George Eliot (22 November1819-22 December 1880)

English writer, the real name was Mary Ann Evans.

Adrian Pintea (9 October - 8 June 2007)

Adrian Virgil Pintea was a remarcable Romanian film and theatre actor.

Marcus Cocceius Nerva (November 8, 30 - January 27, 98)

Marcus Cocceius Nerva was a Roman Emperor who briefly reigned from 96 until his death in 98. Nerva acceded to this position at the advanced age of 66, after a lifetime of imperial service under emperor Nero and the rulers of the Flavian dynasty,...

Albert Camus (November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960)

Albert Camus (November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960) was a French author and philosopher who won the Nobel prize in 1957.

Zaharia Stancu (October 5, 1902 - December 5, 1974)

Zaharia Stancu was a Romanian prose writer, novelist, poet, and philosopher.

Marcel Duchamp (July 28, 1887 – October 2, 1968)

Marcel Duchamp was a French artist (he became an American citizen in 1955) whose work and ideas had considerable influence on the development of post-World War II Western art, and whose advice to modern art collectors helped shape the tastes of the...

Paul Goma (October 2nd, 1935)

Paul Goma (b. October 2, 1935) is a Romanian writer and leading anti-communist dissident.Currently he resides in France as a stateless political refugee.

Anton Bacalbasa (21st February 1865-1st October 1899)

Anton Bacalbasa wasa Romania jurnalist, novelist and translater. Together with ion luca Caragiale, he publish the magazine-Moftul roman.

Federico Fellini, Cavaliere di Gran Croce (January 20, 1920 – October 31, 1993)

Federico Fellini, Cavaliere di Gran Croce was one of the most influential and widely revered film-makers of the 20th century.

Eugen Lovinescu (31st October 1881 - 16th July, 1943)

Eugen Lovinescu (31 October 1881 - 1943) was a Romanian modernist literary historian, literary critic, academic, and novelist, who in 1919 established the Sburătorul literary club. He was the father of Monica Lovinescu, and the uncle of Horia...

John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821)

John Keats was one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement. During his short life, his work received constant critical attacks from the periodicals of the day, but his posthumous influence on poets such as Alfred Tennyson has been...

Duiliu Zamfirescu (October 30th 1858 - February 25th, 1922)

Duiliu Zamfirescu was Romanian writer, member and vice president of The Romanian Academy.

Qeen Marie of Romania (October 29th, 1875-July, 18th 1938)

She was born on October 29, 1875, at Eastwell Park in Kent, the eldest daughter of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia. Her father was the second-eldest son of Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert...