James Brown
Born May 3, 1933, James Brown is an American singer, dancer, songwriter, songwriter, musician and producer considered the pioneer of funk music after his blues and jazz debut,…
Albert Camus
Albert Camus was born in 1913 in Algeria to a family of modest origins, his father is a workman and his mother is illiterate and partly deaf in…
Simone de Beauvoir
It was at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Paris that Simone de Beauvoir met Jean-Paul Sartre with whom she forged a legendary relationship, “a necessary…
Winston Churchill
Distinguished painter, Nobel Prize for literature, brave soldier, officer, journalist, committed politician, deputy, minister, prime minister, great speaker, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was above all the man…
Nina Simone
Eunice Kathleen Waymon (born February 21, 1933 in Tryon, North Carolina in the United States) is an American musician, pianist and singer who has merged almost every musical…
Gustav Klimt
“All art is erotic. » Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), a leading artist of Viennese symbolism, is world-renowned for his precious compositions in which gold dominates. In the wake of…
Malcolm X
Malcolm Little, born in Omaha, USA, is the son of a Baptist carpenter, who died in 1931. Malcolm is convinced that his father was killed by militants close…
Pablo Picasso
Born in 1881 Picasso grew up with the French Impressionist revolution that painted what she saw and not what others like to see, to free herself from classical…
Charles Bukowski
Henry Charles Bukowski (Heinrich Karl Bukowski) is an American novelist and poet born in 1920 in Germany and died in 1994 in Los Angeles. A drunk claimed, he…
Albert Einstein
In 1900 the scientific community considered that everything had been discovered and that the world would remain as it was. Five years later, a physicist in his 25s,…
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway is an American writer and journalist. He was born on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, United States and died by suicide on July…
Claude Monet
Is Claude Monet (1840-1926) the last great master of the 19th century or the first great painter of the 20th century? His innovative art, like that of his…
Francis Ford Coppola
Coppola’s pure genius was expressed in four films made in a row between 1972 and 1979 (The Godfather I, The Conversation, The Godfather II and Apocalypse Now) which…
La Callas
Beautiful, Greek, mesmerizing and bewitching, a unique tone of voice on nearly three octaves, a magnetic stage presence, Sophia Cecelia Kalos called Maria Callas or La Callas revolutionized…
Stanley Kubrick
In just 13 films and nearly 50 years of career, Kubrick has posed the genre in all the major themes of cinema. War, horror, violence, peplum, mafia, period…
Jacques Prévert
Libertarian poet, subversive, anti-militarist and anticlerical, anarchist and resistant, Jacques Prévert went through life with an eternal cigarette on his lips. His always sad air hid well the…
Stephen Hawking
Born in 1942 on the day of Galilee’s death and died 76 years later on the day of Einstein’s birth, Stephen Hawking spent his life trying to unify…
Amy Winehouse
Divine diva Amy left too early, on July 23, 2011 at the cursed age of 27, like Kurt, Otis, Janis, Brian and so many other geniuses of the…
Romain Gary
The only author to have twice won the Prix Goncourt (the deception will not be known until after his death), France’s highest literary distinction, under the names Romain…
Bob Marley
Disappeared at the age of only 36 (9 years older than the famous cursed geniuses who died at 27, Otis, Janis, Amy, Kurt, Brian and others we are…
Marie Curie
Marie Curie is both the first but also the only woman to have received two Nobel Prizes. She is also the only recipient to date, men and women…
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