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Väisälä, Yrjö, (1891 - 1971), Finnish astronomer and physicist
Vaaler, Johan, (March 15, 1866 - ????) inventor of the paperclip
Vadim, Roger, (1928 - 2000), journalist, actor, screenwriter, and director
Vadiz, Yolanda (1959-1986), gospel music singer, soprano
Vadnal, Alojzij[?], (1910 - 1987), Slovene mathematician.
Vaga, Pierin[?], (1499 - 1547), painter
Vainberg, Moisei[?], (1919 - 1996), composer
Valadon, Suzanne, (1865 - 1938), French painter
Valance, Holly, (May 11, 1983 - ), Australian musician
Valdemar, Erik Anthon, Siboni[?], composer
Valdemar I of Denmark, (1131 - 1182)
Valderrama, Carlos, (born September 2, 1961), Colombian football (soccer) player.
Valderrama, Carlos Pive[?], soccer player
Valdes, Rodrigo[?], world champion boxer
Valdez, Luis[?], film director
Valdivia, Pedro de, (1500 - 1553)
Vale, Angelica[?], actress
Vale, Raul[?], Venezuelan born Mexican citizen, comedian
Valens, (A.D. 328 - 378), Roman Emperor
Valens, Richie, musician
Valens, Ritchie, (May 13, 1941 - February 2, 1959), US pop singer
Valente, Caterina[?], (January 14, 1931 - ), singer, actress
Valente, Gary[?], musician
Valentin, Bobby[?], Puerto Rican Salsa music singer
Valentine, Jean[?], (Home Deep Blue)
Valentinian I, (?? - 375), Roman Emperor
Valentinian II, (?? - 392), Roman Emperor
Valentinian III, (July 2, 419 - 455), Roman Emperor
Valentino, Rudolph, (May 6, 1895 - August 23, 1926), Italian actor
Valentinus, Pope, (died 827)
Valenzuela, Fernando, baseball player
Valera, Eamon de, (14 October 1882 - 24 August 1975), leader of Ireland's struggle for independence from Britain in the early 20th Century, Irish president
Valeria[?], Supermodel
Valerian I, Roman Emperor
Valgardson, W.D.[?], The Girl with the Bottecelli Face
Valjavec, Matija[?], (1831 - 1897), Slovene poet
Valle, Raimondo[?]
Vallee, Rudy, (July 28, 1901 - July 3, 1986), United States singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer
Vallejo, Cesar, (March 16, 1892 - 1938), Peruvian poet
Vallières, Pierre[?], author, political activist
Vallotton, Felix[?], (1865 - 1925), Swiss painter trained in France
Valo, Ville, (b. November 22, 1976), Finnish musician
Dame Valois, Dame Ninette de, (June 6, 1898 - March 8, 2001), Irish founder of London's renowned Royal Ballet[?]
Valvano, Jim[?], (b. March 10, 1946), college basketball coach
Valvasor, Janez Vajkard, (1641 - 1693), Slovene nobleman, scholar, and polymath, member of the Royal Society.
Valéry, Paul, (October 30, 1871 - July 20, 1945), French author and poet of the Symbolist school
Valois, Dame Ninette de, ballet
Valois, Ninette de, (1898 - 2001 ??), ballet
Vamvakaris, Markos[?], (1905 - 1972), Greek musician
Van Allen, James, (September 7, 1914 - ), US astronomer
Van Asbroeck, Paul[?], marksman
Van Buren, Martin, (December 5, 1782 - July 24, 1862), Jacksonian Democratic President, 1829
van Basten, Marco, (October 31, 1964 - ), Dutch football player
Van Benga, Colin[?], comedian
Van Cauwenberghe, Jean-Claude[?], 2000-present
van Cleef, Lee, actor
Van Damme, Ivo[?], athlete
van Damme, Jean Claude, (October 18, 1960 - ), Belgian-born action action movie actor
Van Damme, Jean-Claude[?], actor
Van de Geyn, Hein[?]
Van den Berghe, Frits[?], expressionist
van den Berg, Lodewijk[?], astronaut
Van den Brande, Luc[?], (1992 - 1999), CVP
van den Broek, J.[?], architect
van der Waals, Johannes[?], physicist
Van De Walle, Robert[?], judoka
Vandross, Luther, (born 1951)
Van Duser, Guy[?], musician
Van Duyn, Mona[?], poet
Van Eps, Fred[?], musician
Van Eps, George[?], musician
van Eyck, Jan, (c. 1390 - July 9, 1441), Belgian painter
van 't Hoff, Jacobus Henricus, August 30, 1852 - March 1, 1911), Dutch physical and organic chemist, the winner of the first Nobel Prize in Chemistry
van der Weyden, Rogier, (1399 - 1464), (also known as Rog(i)er de la Pasture)
Van Halen, Eddie, (January 26, 1955 - ), guitarist and founding member of the heavy metal band Van Halen
Van Herk, Aritha[?], Canadian writer
van het Reve, Gerard, novelist
Van Himst, Paul[?], football player
van Hoften, James[?], astronaut
van Huysum[?], (1682 - 1749), painter
Van Impe, Jack[?], televangelist
Van Impe, Rexella[?], televangelist
Van Innis, Hubert[?], archer
Van Looy, Rik[?], cyclist
van Rysselberghe, Theo[?], neo-impressionist[?]
Van Sant, Gus, (July 24, 1952 - ), Hollywood film director
Van Steenbergen, Rik, (September 9, 1924 - May 15, 2003), Belgian cyclist
van Dongen, Kees, (1877-1968), (January 26, 1877 - May 28, 1968), Dutch painter, one of Les Fauves
van de Velde the Elder, Willem[?], (1611-1693), painter
van de Velde the Younger, Willem[?], (1633 - 1707), painter
van den Hoogenband, Pieter, (born 1978), swimmer
van der Lubbe, Marinus, (1909 - 1934), scapegoated for Reichstag fire
van der Rohe, Ludwig Mies, (1886 - 1969), architect
Van Susteren, Greta[?], host of On the Record with Greta Van Susteren[?] on FOX TV
van Veen, Herman[?], songwriter
van Vogt, A. E., (1912 - 2000), science fiction writer
van Zeeland, Paul, (1893 - 1973)
van't Hoff, J. H., (1852 - 1911), chemist
Vanbrugh, John, (1664 - 1726), architect
Vance, John Holbrook, (born 1916), author
Vandalos, Nia[?], actor/screenwriter, "My Big Fat Greek Wedding[?]"
Vandecaveye, Gella[?], judoka
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, (1794 - 1877)
Vandergaeghe, Guy[?], Canadian writer
Vanderhayden, Kees[?], Canadian writer
Vanderlip, Brain[?], Canadian writer
Vangelis, musician
Vanhanen, Matti, (born 1955), prime minister of Finland
Vanvitelli, Luigi[?], architect
van Zandt, Townes[?], musician
Varela, José Gregorio[?], president
Varela, Obdulio[?], athlete
Varese, Edgar, (1883 - 1965), composer
Vargas, Fernando, (born 1977), world champion boxer
Vargas, Getulio Dornelles, (1883 - 1954), president of Brazil
Vargas, José María[?], president
Vargas, Sergio[?], Merengue singer
Vargas, Wilfrido[?], Merengue singer, Sergio's brother
Varis, Tapani[?], musician
Varlaam[?], (1511 - 1521), Metropolitan of Moscow
Varley, John, author
Vartan, Sylvie
Varus, Publius Quinctilius (d. 9 AD), Roman general
Vasa, Pashko[?], poet
Vasarely, Victor[?], (1908 - 1997), painter
Vasari, Giorgio, (1511 - 1571), Italian architect
Vasic, Peter[?]
Vasilyevich, Grigory[?], (1915 - 1998), composer
Vasquez, Pepe[?], musician
Vassanji, M.G.[?], Canadian writer
Vassilieff, Marie, (1884 - 1957), painter
Vaste, Ilka[?], (1891 - 1967), author.
Vasyutin, Vladimir[?], astronaut
Vatanen, Ari[?], rally driver
Vathana, Kossamak Nearirat Serey[?]
Vatutin, Nikolay[?], general in the relief of Stalingrad
Vaucher, Gee, painter, illustrator
Vaughan, Henry, (1621 - 1695), poet
Vaughan, Sarah, (1924 - 1990), musician
Vaughan, Stevie Ray, (1954 - 1990), musician
Vaughan, Thomas, (~ 1410 - 1483), philosopher
Vaughan Williams, Ralph, (1872 - 1958), composer
Vaux, Calvert[?], landscape architect
Vazquez, Wilfredo, (born 1960), world champion boxer
Veach, Charles[?], astronaut
Veal, Reginald[?]
Veazey, Thomas W.[?], US governor
Veblen, Thorstein, (1857 - 1929), economist
Vedder, Eddie, (born 1964), singer-songwriter
Vega, Amelia (born approx. 1983) Miss Universe 2003
Vega, Jurij, (1754 - 1802), Slovene mathematician and artillery officer
Vega, Suzanne, US singer
Vegas, Johnny[?], comedian
Vegri, Saša[?], (born 1934), Slovene poet
Vei, Yiota[?], musician
Veit, Philipp, (1793 - 1877), painter
Vejvoda, Jaromir[?], author of the Beer Barrel Polka
Vela, Rodolfo Neri[?], astronaut
Velazquez, Diego, (1599 - 1660), Spanish painter
Velazquez, Jaci, (born 1979), gospel and pop singer, actress
Velde, Henry van de[?], painter
Veldkamp, Bart[?], speed skater
Velez, Ada world champion boxer
Vélez, Álvaro Uribe
Velikovsky, Immanuel, (1895 - 1979), fringe scientist
Veloso, Caetano, singer and composer
Veltman, Martinus[?], physicist
Vendler, Helen[?], poet
Veneziano, Domenico, (c. 1400 - 1461)
Venizelos, Eleutherios[?], prime minister
Venter, Craig, biologist
Ventris, Michael, (1922 - 1956), British
Ventura, Jesse, (born 1952), professional wrestler, former Minnesota governor
Ventura, Johnny[?], Merengue singer
Venturi, Robert, (born 1925), (John Rauch and Denise Scott-Brown)
Venuti, Joe[?], musician
Vercingetorix, Gallic chief
Verdaguer, Jacint, (1845 - 1902), poet
Verdi, Giuseppe, (1813 - 1901), Italian composer, opera composer
Verga, Giovanni[?], novelist
Vergara, Sofia[?], actress
Verges, Jacques, (born 1925)
Verhaeren, Emile, (1855 - 1916)
Verhoeven, Paul, (1901 - 1975), director
Verjus, Stanislaus[?]
Verkerk, Martin[?], (Netherlands)
Verlaine, Paul, (1844 - 1896), symbolist poet
Vermeer, Johannes, (1632-1675), painter
Vernant, Jean-Pierre[?], historian
Verne, Jules, (1828 - 1905), French author and forerunner of science fiction
Verner, Karl, (1846 - 1896), Danish linguist
Vernon, Jules[?], ventriloquist
Veronese, Italian painter
Verón, Anibal
Veronese, Paolo (1528 - 1588) Italian painter
Verrocchio, Andrea del, (c. 1435 - 1488), Italian sculptor, painter
Verwoerd, Hendrik[?], South African prime minister
Verwoerd, Hendrik Frensch[?], former Prime Minister
Very, Jonas[?], poet
Vesaas, Tarjei[?], author
Vesalius, Andreas, (1514 - 1564)
Vesco, Robert[?], fugitive financier
Vespasian, Roman Emperor
Vespucci, Amerigo, (1454 - 1512), discovered other parts of America and gave his name to the new continent
Vetrih, Polona[?], Slovene actress.
Vetterlund, Fredrik[?], Swedish writer
Vial, José Joaquín Prieto[?], president
Vian, Boris, (1920 - 1959), 20th century author
Vicente, Gil[?], (dramaturg)
Vicious, Sid, (1957 - 1979), punk rocker
Vickers, Jon[?], operatic tenor
Vickrey, William, (1914 - 1996), economist
Vico, Giambattista, (1668 - 1744), philosopher
Vico, Giuseppe Zatrillas[?]
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, (1869 - 1947)
Victoria Eugenia, Queen of Spain[?]
Victor I, Pope, (189 - 199)
Victor II, Pope, (1055 - 1057)
Victor III, Pope, (1086 - 1087)
Victor IV, Pope, antipope
Victor, Christophe[?], geographer
Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, (born 1977), heir apparent
Victoria, Queen, (1819 - 1901), of England
Victor, Paul-Emile[?], ethnologist
Vicuña, Francisco R.[?], president
Vidal, Christina, (born 1984), actress
Vidal, Gore, (born 1925), US writer
Vidal-Naquet, Pierre[?], historian and Civil Rights activist
Vidal, Salvatore[?], (Giovanni Andrea Contini)
Vidav, Ivan, (born 1918), Slovene mathematician
Videla, Gabriel González[?], president
vidents, Fatima[?]
Vidmar, Maja[?], (born 1961), Slovene poetess
Vidmar, Milan, (1885- 1962), Slovene electrical engineer, chess player and chess theorist
Vidmar, Tit[?], (1929 - 1999), Slovene poet
Vidor, King, (1894 - 1982), film director
Vidrio, Manuel[?], soccer player
Viehboeck, Franz[?], astronaut
Vieira, Patrick, (born 1976), athlete
Vieira, Siza[?], (born 1933), (architect)
Viele-Griffin, Francis[?], (symbolist)
Viereck, Peter[?], poet
Viete, Francois[?], (1540 - 1603), mathematician
Vietoris, Leopold, (1891 - 2002), mathematician
Vigee-Lebrun, Elisabeth, (1755 - 1842), painter
Vigeland, Gustav, (1869 - 1943), sculptor
Vigilius, Pope, (537 - 555)
Vigneault, Gilles[?], singer
Vignola, Frank[?], musician
Vignola, Giacomo Barozzi da[?], architect
Vigo, Jean, (1905 - 1934), film director
Vigoreaux, Luis, (1929-1983), slain producer, show host
Vigoreaux, Luisito Puerto Rican actor, show host, producer, son of Luis Vigoreaux
Vike-Freiberga, Vaira[?], president
Viktorenko, Alexander[?], astronaut
Vilar, Pierre[?], historian
Vilas, Guillermo[?], (Argentina)
Vilfan, Peter[?], Slovene basketball player.
Vilhena, Filipa de[?]
Villa Lobos, Heitor, (1887 - 1959), classical musician and composer
Villa, Pancho, (1878 - 1923), Mexican Revolutionary
Villain, Raoul[?], assassin of Jean Jaures
Villa-Lobos, Heitor, (1887 - 1959), classical musician and composer
Villareal, Alicia singer
Villaret de Joyeuse, Louis Thomas, (1750 - 1812), naval commander
Villechaize, Herve, (1943 - 1993), actor
Villehardouin, Geoffroi de, (c. 1160 - 1212), historian
Villeneuve, Gilles, (1950 - 1982), race car driver
Villeneuve, Jacques, (born 1971), race car driver
Villiger, Kaspar, (born 1941), Swiss Federal Councilor
Villiers, George, 1st Duke of Buckingham, (1592 - 1628), British minister and royal favorite
Villiers, George, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, (1627 - 1687), British minister and wit, member of the Cabal
Villon, François, (1431 - c. 1474), poet
Villon, Jacques, (1875 - 1963), French painter
Vincent, Angela
Vincent, Gene, (1935 - 1971), musician
Vinci, Leonardo da, (1452 - 1519), Italian painter, sculptor and inventor
Vinding, Mads[?]
Vine, David[?], television presenter
Vine, Jeremy[?], television presenter
Vine, Tim[?], British comedian
Vinge, Joan D.[?], author
Vinge, Vernor, (born 1944), US science fiction author
Vinje, Aasmund Olavsson[?], author
Vinogradov, Pavel[?], astronaut
Vinterberg, Thomas, (born 1969), Danish film director
Viollet-le-Duc, Eugene, French architect
Viorst, Judith[?], Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Vipotnik, Cene[?], (1914 - 1972), Slovene poet
Virchow, Rudolf, (1821 - 1902), biologist
Virén, Lasse[?], runner
Virgil - Publius Vergilius Maro
Virk, Jani[?], (born 1962), Slovene poet
Virk, Jožef[?], (1810 - 1880), poet
Virtanen, Artturi Ilmari[?], Finnish chemist, Nobelist
Virtanen, Artturi Ilmari, (1895 - 1973), –- chemist, Nobelist
Visconti, Luchino, (1906 - 1976), Italian film director
Viseur, Gus[?], musician
Vishnyakov, Ivan Yakovlevich[?], (1699 - 1761), painter
Vital du Four[?], scholastic philosopher
Vitale, Don[?], comedian
Vitale, Thomas[?], comedian
Vitalian, Pope, (657 - 672)
Voigt, Vilhelm[?], German impostor
Vitellius, (15 - 61), Roman Emperor
Vitous, Miroslav[?]
Vitruvius, architect
Vitry, Jacques de[?], scholastic philosopher
Vitry, Philipe de[?], (1291 - 1361), composer
Vitti, Monica[?], actor
Vittone, Bernardo[?], architect
Vittori, Roberto[?], astronaut
Vittorini, Elio[?], novelist
Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy, Kings of Albania, (1939 - 1943), Albanian king
Vivaldi, Antonio, (1678 - 1741), composer
Vivanet, Filippo[?]
Vivasvat, architect
Vivekananda, Swami, (1863 - 1902)
Viviani, René[?], (1914 - 1915)
Vixie, Paul, BIND
Vizenor, Gerald[?], writer and academic
Vladimir[?], (1898 - 1912), Metropolitan of Moscow
Vladislav I[?], (1109 - 1117), Bohemian aristocrat
Vladislav II[?], (1140 - 1172, king from 1158), Bohemian aristocrat
Vladislav, Stefan[?], (1234 - 1243), Serbian monarch
Vladislav, Stefan, I, (1234 - 1243), Serbian monarch
Vladislav, Stefan, II, (1321 - about 1325), Serbian monarch
Vladivoj[?], (1002 - 1003), Bohemian aristocrat
Vlaminck, Maurice[?], (1876 - 1958), painter
Vlasov, Andrey[?], Lieutenant general and German-backed Russian Liberation Army
Vlieger, Simon de[?], (1601 - 1653), painter
Vodnik, Anton[?], (1901 - 1965), Slovene poet
Vodnik, France[?], (1903 - 1986), Slovene poet
Vodnik, Valentin[?], (1758 - 1819), Slovene poet, journalist, philologist.
Vodpivec, Lujo[?], (born 1951), Slovene sculptor.
Vodusek, Božo[?], (1905 - 1978), Slovene poet
Voegelin, Eric, (1901 - 1985), philosopher
Voevodsky, Vladimir, mathematician
Vogel, Ezra
Vogel, Hans-Jochen[?], SPD
Vogel, Herman[?], (1941 - 1989), Slovene poet
Vogel, Hermann Carl[?], (1841 - 1907), astronomer
Vogel, Julius, (1835 - 1899)
Vogelweide, Walter von der, poet
Vogelweide, Walther von der, (c. 1170 - c. 1230), poet
Vogel, Zygmunt[?], Polish painter
Vogt, Jørgen Herman[?], (1857 - 1858), Norwegian Prime Minister
Vogts, Berti[?], footballer
Voight, Jon, (born 1938), actor
Voiture, Vincent, (1598 - 1648), poet
Volarič, Ivan Feo[?] (born 1948), Slovene poet
Volarič, Jože[?], (born 1932), Slovene poet
Volarič, Zlata[?], (born 1930), Slovene poetess
Volk, Igor[?], astronaut
Volkenrath, Elisabeth[?], (1919 - 1945), she was a sadistic murderer of numerous Jewish prisoners at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
Volkov, Alexander[?], astronaut
Volkov, Vladislav, (1935 - 1971), astronaut
Völler, Rudi[?], footballer
Vollmer, August, (1876 - 1955)
Volonté, Gian Maria[?], actor
Volta, Alessandro, (1745 - 1827), eletricity pioneer
Voltaire, (1694 - 1778), French philosopher, writer, satirist
Volynov, Boris, (born 1934), astronaut
Von Amsdorf, Nicolaus, (1483 - 1565)
von Blücher, Gebhard Leberecht, (1742 - 1819), German soldier
von Bohlen und Halbach, Gustav Krupp[?], (1870 - 1950), German industrialist and weapons manufacturer
von Bulow, Vicco, (born 1923)
von Daniken, Eric, author
von_Däniken, Erich, (born 1935), Swiss Ancient Astronauts writer
von Fersen, Axel, senior, (1755 - 1810), Field Marshal
von_Gesner, Konrad, (1516 - 1565)
von Fersen, Fabian, (1626 - 1677), Swedish soldier
von Köchel, Ludwig, (1800 - 1877), writer, composer, botanist, music historian
von Königsmarck, Hans Christoff, (1605 - 1663), Swedish soldier
von Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Sorb mathematician, philosopher
von Leyden, Lucas[?], (1494 - 1533), painter
von Moltke, Helmuth, (1800 - 1891), German soldier
von Neumann, John, (1903 - 1957), economist, physicist
Von Ranke, Leopold[?], historian
von Schmoller, Gustav, economist
von Sydow, Max, (born 1929), Swedish actor
von Trapp, Georg Ritter, (1880 - 1947), head of Sound of Music family
von Trier, Lars, (born 1956), director
Vonnegut, Kurt, (born 1922), US author
von_Moos, Ludwig, (1910 - 1990), Swiss Federal Councilor
von_Orelli, Johann Caspar, (1787 - 1849)
von_Steiger, Eduard, (1881 - 1962), Swiss Federal Councilor
von Stroheim, Erich[?], film director
Von_Tilzer, Albert, (1878 - 1956), songwriter
Von_Tilzer, Harry, (1872 - 1946), songwriter
von Weizsäcker, Karl[?], astronomer
Voorhies, Lark, (born 1974), actress
Voroshilov, Kliment Yefremovich, (1881 - 1969), Marshal
Voroshilov, Pyotr Klimentyevich[?], (1914 - 1984), Red Army leader and commander
Voss, James[?], astronaut
Voss, Janice[?], astronaut
Vostell, Wolf, (1932 - 1998), painter
Vouet, Simon[?], (1590 - 1649), painter
Voynet, Dominique[?], Physician and Green politician
Voznesensky, Andrei[?], (born 1933), poet
Vrancx, Sebasdtian[?], (1573 - 1647), painter
Vratislav I, (915 - 921), Bohemian aristocrat
Vratislav II[?], (1061 - 1092, king from 1085), Bohemian aristocrat
Vraz, Stanko[?], (1810 - 1851), Slovene poet
Vrhovnik, Boštjan[?], (born 1949), Slovene film director
Vroom, Cornelisz[?], (1600 - 1661), painter
Vu, Cuong[?], musician
Vuillard, Edouard[?], (1868 - 1940), painter
Vurnik, Ivan[?], (1884 - 1971), Slovene architect and town planner
Vygotsky, Lev, (1896 - 1934), psychologist

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