Famous people died in 14 January

Shelley Winters was a two-time ‘Academy Award’ winning American actress

Peter Finch was an English-born Australian actor, who became the first person to win an Academy Award posthumously

Alan Rickman is a renowned stage actor also known for his film performances

Lewis Carroll was an English writer, mathematician and photographer

Edmond Halley was a British astronomer and mathematician, known for calculating the orbit of Halley’s Comet

Kurt Gödel was a well-known mathematician and philosopher

Charles Hermite was a noted 19th century French mathematician known for his work on number theory, quadratic forms, and elliptic functions

Go through the biography of one of the leading opera composers, Francesco Cavalli, and learn all about his childhood, life and timeline.

Ammon Hennacy was an Irish American pacifist and social activist prominently known for his work as a Christian anarchist

Friedrich von Amerling was one of the great and renowned Austro-Hungarian portrait painters of the 19th century