| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Louis Althusser |
Philosopher |
16-Oct-1918 |
22-Oct-1990 |
Marxist theorist, anti-humanist |
| Jorge Amado |
Novelist |
10-Aug-1912 |
6-Aug-2001 |
Dona Flor and her Two Husbands |
| Kingsley Amis |
Novelist |
16-Apr-1922 |
22-Oct-1995 |
Lucky Jim |
| Louis Aragon |
Poet |
3-Oct-1897 |
24-Dec-1982 |
Communistic French poet |
| Lavrenty Beria |
Government |
29-Mar-1899 |
23-Dec-1953 |
Chief of the NKVD, 1940-46 |
| Algirdas Brazauskas |
Head of State |
22-Sep-1932 |
26-Jun-2010 |
Prime Minister of Lithuania, 2001-06 |
| Bertolt Brecht |
Playwright |
10-Feb-1898 |
14-Aug-1956 |
Mother Courage and Her Children |
| Nikolai Bukharin |
Economist |
9-Oct-1888 |
15-Mar-1938 |
Soviet theoretical economist |
| Albert Camus |
Novelist |
7-Nov-1913 |
4-Jan-1960 |
French author and Nobel laureate |
| Nicolae Ceausescu |
Head of State |
26-Jan-1918 |
25-Dec-1989 |
Dictator of Romania |
| Aimé Césaire |
Poet |
25-Jun-1913 |
17-Apr-2008 |
Return to My Native Land |
| Anatoly Dobrynin |
Diplomat |
19-Nov-1919 |
6-Apr-2010 |
Soviet Ambassador to the US, 1962-86 |
| Gilles Duceppe |
Politician |
22-Jul-1947 |
|
Leader, Bloc Qu�b�cois |
| Marguerite Duras |
Novelist |
4-Apr-1914 |
3-Mar-1996 |
Hiroshima mon Amour |
| Louis Durey |
Composer |
27-May-1888 |
3-Jul-1979 |
Carillons |
| Felix Dzerzhinsky |
Government |
11-Sep-1877 |
20-Jul-1926 |
The Black Pope of Bolshevism |
| George Ewart Evans |
Historian |
1-Apr-1909 |
11-Jan-1988 |
Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay |
| Carlos Fuentes |
Novelist |
11-Nov-1928 |
15-May-2012 |
La muerte de Artemio Cruz |
| Natalia Ginzburg |
Novelist |
14-Jul-1916 |
7-Oct-1991 |
La strada che va in citt� |
| Elian Gonzalez |
Victim |
6-Dec-1993 |
|
Cuban boy tug-o-war |
| Antonio Gramsci |
Activist |
23-Jan-1891 |
27-Apr-1937 |
Founder of the Italian Communist Party |
| J. B. S. Haldane |
Biologist |
5-Nov-1892 |
1-Dec-1964 |
Haldane's principle |
| Frank Hardy |
Novelist |
21-Mar-1917 |
28-Mar-1994 |
Power Without Glory |
| Denis Healey |
Politician |
30-Aug-1917 |
3-Oct-2015 |
Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1974-79 |
| Miguel Hernández |
Poet |
30-Oct-1910 |
28-Mar-1942 |
El rayo que no cesa |
| Christopher Hill |
Historian |
6-Feb-1912 |
23-Feb-2003 |
Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution |
| Eric Hobsbawm |
Historian |
9-Jun-1917 |
1-Oct-2012 |
The Age of Revolution |
| Enver Hoxha |
Head of State |
16-Oct-1908 |
11-Apr-1985 |
Ruler of Albania, 1944-85 |
| Elfriede Jelinek |
Novelist |
20-Oct-1946 |
|
Die Klavierspielerin |
| Frédéric Joliot |
Physicist |
19-Mar-1900 |
14-Aug-1958 |
Artificial radioactivity |
| Lionel Jospin |
Head of State |
12-Jul-1937 |
|
Prime Minister of France, 1997-2002 |
| Arthur Koestler |
Author |
3-Sep-1905 |
3-Mar-1983 |
Darkness at Noon |
| Leszek Kolakowski |
Philosopher |
23-Oct-1927 |
17-Jul-2009 |
Polish refugee philosopher |
| Nikolai Krylenko |
Government |
2-May-1885 |
29-Jul-1938 |
Soviet prosecutor executed during the Great Purge |
| Michel Leiris |
Author |
20-Apr-1901 |
30-Sep-1990 |
Surrealist, ethnographer, autobiographer |
| Maxim Litvinov |
Government |
17-Jul-1876 |
31-Dec-1951 |
Soviet foreign minister, ousted in nod to Hitler |
| Rosa Luxemburg |
Activist |
5-Mar-1871 |
15-Jan-1919 |
Co-Founder, Communist Party of Germany |
| Yuri Luzhkov |
Politician |
21-Sep-1936 |
|
Mayor of Moscow, 1992-2010 |
| Donald Maclean |
Spy |
25-May-1913 |
6-Mar-1983 |
Spy for Moscow, Cambridge Five |
| John Maynard Smith |
Biologist |
6-Jan-1920 |
19-Apr-2004 |
Applied game theory to evolutionary biology |
| Anastas Mikoyan |
Politician |
25-Nov-1895 |
21-Oct-1978 |
Knew where the shrimps stay in winter |
| Imre Nagy |
Head of State |
7-Jun-1896 |
16-Jun-1958 |
Twice Prime Minister of Hungary |
| Liam O'Flaherty |
Novelist |
28-Aug-1896 |
7-Sep-1984 |
Thy Neighbour's Wife |
| Cesare Pavese |
Poet |
9-Sep-1908 |
27-Aug-1950 |
La luna e i fal� |
| Pablo Picasso |
Painter |
25-Oct-1881 |
8-Apr-1973 |
Abstract painter and sculptor |
| Pol Pot |
Head of State |
19-May-1925 |
15-Apr-1998 |
Leader of the Khmer Rouge |
| Salvatore Quasimodo |
Poet |
20-Aug-1901 |
14-Jun-1968 |
Acque e terre |
| Wilhelm Reich |
Scientist |
24-Mar-1897 |
3-Nov-1957 |
Founder of Orgonomy |
| John Reid |
Politician |
8-May-1947 |
|
British MP, Airdrie and Shotts |
| Jaroslav Seifert |
Poet |
23-Sep-1901 |
10-Jan-1986 |
The Nightingale Sings Out of Tune |
| Hun Sen |
Head of State |
4-Apr-1951 |
|
Prime Minister of Cambodia |
| Mikhail Sholokhov |
Author |
24-May-1905 |
21-Feb-1984 |
The Silent Don |
| Dmitri Shostakovich |
Composer |
25-Sep-1906 |
9-Aug-1975 |
Symphony No. 7 |
| Ignazio Silone |
Novelist |
1-May-1900 |
22-Aug-1978 |
Anti-Fascist novelist, Pro-Fascist informant |
| Mário Soares |
Head of State |
7-Dec-1924 |
|
President of Portugal, 1986-96 |
| A. J. P. Taylor |
Historian |
25-Mar-1906 |
7-Sep-1990 |
The Origins of the Second World War |
| E. P. Thompson |
Historian |
3-Feb-1924 |
28-Aug-1993 |
The Making of the English Working Class |
| Ernst Toller |
Playwright |
1-Dec-1893 |
22-May-1939 |
Transformation |
| Andrei Vyshinsky |
Government |
10-Dec-1883 |
22-Nov-1954 |
Soviet Prosecutor General during the Great Purge |
| Anna Walentynowicz |
Activist |
13-Aug-1929 |
10-Apr-2010 |
Catalyst for the Solidarnosc union |
| Sylvia Townsend Warner |
Author |
6-Dec-1893 |
1-May-1978 |
Lolly Willowes |
| Helene Weigel |
Actor |
12-May-1900 |
6-May-1971 |
The Berliner Ensemble |
| Raymond Williams |
Critic |
31-Aug-1921 |
26-Jan-1988 |
Culture and Society |
| Zhelyu Zhelev |
Head of State |
3-Mar-1935 |
30-Jan-2015 |
President of Bulgaria, 1990-97 |
| Todor Zhivkov |
Head of State |
7-Sep-1911 |
5-Aug-1998 |
Leader of Bulgaria, 1954-89 |
| Georgi Zhukov |
Military |
1-Dec-1896 |
18-Jun-1974 |
Soviet commander during WWII |
| Grigory Zinoviev |
Government |
23-Sep-1883 |
25-Aug-1936 |
Old Bolshevik executed during the Great Purge |
