Francisco Goya died in exile in Bordeaux on 16 April 1828. The paintings he made for no one but himself […]

Samuel Beckett was born near Dublin on 13 April 1906 — Good Friday that year, a coincidence he never made

William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in Cumbria. In July 1798, on a walking tour along the River

Ezra Pound was born on 30 October 1885 in Idaho. In 1924 he settled in Rapallo, on the Ligurian coast,

Franz Liszt was born on 22 October 1811 in Raiding, then part of the Kingdom of Hungary. He became the

Christopher Wren, the architect who rebuilt London’s skyline after the Great Fire, was born on 20 October 1632 in Wiltshire.

Otto von Guericke, physicist and mayor of Magdeburg, was born there on 20 November 1602. He rebuilt the city after

Friedrich Schiller, poet and playwright, was born in Marbach am Neckar on 10 November 1759. The small Swabian town he

Voltaire was born François-Marie Arouet in Paris on 21 November 1694, and made himself into the sharpest pen in Europe

Charles I was born at Dunfermline Palace, Fife, on 19 November 1600 — the last monarch born in Scotland. The