Ann Cole Lowe , born 14 December 1898, was an American fashion designer. Best known for designing the ivory silk taffeta wedding dress...

Charles William Haines, born 2 January 1900, was an American actor and interior designer. Haines was born in Staunton, Virginia, the...

George Martin Battersby, born 12 February 1914, was a British trompe-l'œil artist and theatrical set decorator who became an expert on...

Doris Clare Zinkeisen, born 31 July 1897, was a Scottish theatrical stage and costume designer, painter, commercial artist, and writer....

Ernest Frederic Graham Thesiger, CBE, born 15 January 1879, was an English stage and film actor. He is noted for his performance as...

Lionel George Henricus Wendt, born 3 December 1900, was a pianist, photographer, filmmaker and critic from Sri Lanka. He was the leader...

Christian William Miller, born William Henry Miller; 7 August 1921, was an American artist and model whose contemporaries qualified as...

Maurice Denton Welch, born 29 March 1915, was a British writer and painter, admired for his vivid prose and precise descriptions. Welch...

Jacques Fath, born 6 September 1912 in Maisons-Laffitte, France, was a French fashion designer who was considered one of the three...

Maharajadhiraj Raj Rajeshwar Sawai Shri Sir Yeshwant Rao II Holkar XIV Bahadur, born 6 September 1908 in Indore, was the Maharaja of...

Nicolas Louis Alexandre de Gunzburg, born 12 December 1904, also known as Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg, was a French-born magazine editor...

Brian Julian Warry Stonehouse MBE, born 29 August 1918, was an English painter and Special Operations Executive agent during World War...

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...

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...