Hans Henning Otto Harry Baron von Voigt, best known by his nickname Alastair, was a German artist, composer, dancer, mime, poet, singer...

Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo, born 11 May 1871, was a Spanish fashion designer based in Venice, who opened his couture house in 1906. He is...

The Night Climbers of Cambridge were a group of students who climbed the colleges and town buildings of Cambridge, England, in the 1930s....

Gertrude Jekyll VMH, born 29 November 1843, was a British horticulturist, garden designer, craftswoman, photographer, writer and artist....

Paul Spencer Swan, born June 5, 1883, was an American painter, sculptor, dancer, poet and actor. Once billed as "the most beautiful man...

Luisa, Marchesa Casati Stampa di Soncino, born Luisa Adele Rosa Maria Amman; 23 January 1881, was an Italian heiress, muse, and patroness...

The Ballets Russes was an itinerant ballet company based in Paris that performed between 1909 and 1929 throughout Europe and on tours to...

Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, Lady Penrose, born April 23, 1907, was an American photographer and photojournalist. Miller was born in...

Edythe A. Baker, born August 25, 1899, was an American jazz pianist. For a more detailed account of her life then read the article on...

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE FRSL, 3 January 1892, was an English writer, poet, philologist, and academic, best known as the author of...

Lord Edward Christian David Gascoyne-Cecil, CH, born 9 April 1902, was a British biographer, historian, and scholar. David Cecil was the...

George Platt Lynes, born April 15, 1907, was an American fashion and commercial photographer who worked in the 1930s and 1940s. He...

The Inklings were an informal literary discussion group associated with J. R. R. Tolkien at the University of Oxford for nearly two...

Ottilie Ethel Leopoldine Herbert, Countess of Carnarvon née Losch, born November 15, 1903, known professionally as Tilly Losch, was an...

Maxine "Blossom" Miles, born 22 September 1901 as Maxine Forbes-Robertson, was a British aviation engineer, socialite, and businesswoman....

Anna May Wong, born Wong Liu Tsong; January 3, 1905, was an American actress, considered to be the first Chinese American Hollywood movie...

Bronislava Nijinska, born January 8, 1891, was a Polish ballet dancer, and an innovative choreographer. She came of age in a family of...

William Burges ARA, born 2 December 1827, was an English architect and designer. Among the greatest of the Victorian art-architects, he...

Lady Ottoline Violet Anne Morrell, born 16 June 1873, was an English aristocrat and society hostess. Her patronage was influential in...

Dame Margaret Evelyn de Arias DBE (née Hookham) born 18 May 1919, known by the stage name Margot Fonteyn, was an English ballerina. She...