Person    | Male  Born 4/7/1953  Died 2/9/2007

Harry Vardon

Golfer. Born Henry William Vardon in Grouville, Jersey, Channel Islands. He won the British Open championship six times, the U.S. Open in 1900 and the German Open in 1911. He is remembered for his ...

Person, Sport / Games, Channel Islands, Germany, USA

Werner Robert Valentin Picht

German sociologist. An early historian of English settlements. Published 'Toynbee Hall and the English Settlement Movement' in 1913. Werner Robert Valentin Picht was born on 28 September 1887 in B...

Person, History, Social Welfare, Germany

Anglo-German Family History Society

Group, Community / Clubs, History, Germany

Ada Van Dantzig

Dantzig was a Dutch Jew who came to London to study. She returned to the Netherlands intending to help her family flee the Nazis. Instead she was captured and killed in Auschwitz, with most of her ...

Person, Tragedy, Germany, Netherlands

Sir Ove N. Arup

Born Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, son of the Danish Consul and was educated in Germany and later Denmark. Civil engineer who collaborated with many modern architects on projects such as the Sydney Opera ...

Person, Architecture, Engineering, Denmark, Germany