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Name Year of birth Year of death Description Devorah Baron [1] 1887 1956 Hebrew author, Reclusion 1922-1956 Syd Barrett [2] [3] 1946 2006 English singer-songwriter, former leader of the band Pink Floyd: Marlon Brando [4] [5] 1924 2004 American actor Maria Callas [6] [7] 1923 1977 Greek opera singer Huguette Clark [8] [9] 1906 2011
Physiognomy of the melancholic temperament (drawing by Thomas Holloway, c.1789, made for Johann Kaspar Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy). Melancholia or melancholy (from Greek: µέλαινα χολή melaina chole, [1] meaning black bile) [2] is a concept found throughout ancient, medieval, and premodern medicine in Europe that describes a condition characterized by markedly depressed mood ...
Numerous notable people have had some form of mood disorder. This is a list of people accompanied by verifiable sources associating them with some form of bipolar disorder (formerly known as "manic depression"), including cyclothymia, based on their own public statements; this discussion is sometimes tied to the larger topic of creativity and mental illness. In the case of dead people only ...
About Category:People with mental disorders and related categories: This category's scope contains articles about People with mental disorders, which may be a contentious label. Subcategories This category has the following 19 subcategories, out of 19 total.
However, historian of medicine Owsei Temkin argues that Aristotle had in fact made a list of melancholics and had only associated Heracles with the "Sacred Disease". [2] Taxil goes on to add his own names: Roman Emperor Caligula, Drusus (tribune of the Roman people), and Petrarch. Neurologist John Hughes concluded that the majority of famous ...
The word is derived from the Latin celebrity, from the adjective celeber ("famous," "celebrated"). Being a celebrity is often one of the highest degrees of notability, although the word notable is mistaken to be synonymous with the title celebrity, fame, prominence etc.
Very little is known of Dowland's early life, but it is generally thought he was born in London; some sources even put his birth year as 1563.Irish historian W. H. Grattan Flood claimed that he was born in Dalkey, near Dublin, [1] [b] but no corroborating evidence has been found either for that or for Thomas Fuller's claim that he was born in Westminster. [2]
This is a list of lists of people by occupation. Each is linked to a list of notable people within that profession. Lists of lists. Actors. Star Wars actors;