People You May Have Never Heard of : Part III

Eero Saarinen. He lived from 1910-1961 and was an American architect. He designed airport terminals, embassies, university buildings, and monuments.

Paul Sabatier. Sabatier was a French chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry with Victor Grignard in 1912. They were awarded the award for their research on the role of catalysts in organic syntheses. He died in 1941.

Franco Sacchetti. He lived from about 1330-1400. He was an Italian writer and poet.

Hans Sachs. Sachs lived from 1494-1576. He was a German poet who created the Meistersinger, who were master craftsmen who wrote poems and songs as a hobby.

Victoria Mary Sackville-West. She was born in 1892 and died in 1962. She wrote the novel The Edwardians.

Moshe Safdie. Safdie was a Canadian architect who essentially designed prefabricted, multiple unit housing structures (86). He designed the Habitat that was on display at the Expo '67 in Montreal.

Claudio Salamasius. Salamasius lived from 1588-1653 and was a renown French classicist. He is best known for arguing with John Milton over the divine right of kings.

Samoset. Samoset died around 1653. He was a sachem of the Pemaquid (Mohegan) tribe.

George Sandys. He was an English poet, famous traveler, and Virginia colonist. He translated the first ten books of Ovid's Metamorphases. He also write A Paraphrase upon the Psalms of David and Upon the Hymnes Dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments (1636).

Francisco de Paula Santander. Santander's dates are from 1792-1840. He is regarded as the founder of New Grenada, now Colombia.

Nathalie Sarraute. Sarraute was a French novelist who is reponsible for the "anti-novel." She wrote Portrait of a Man Unknown (1958), Tropisms (1964), Martereau (1959), and The Golden Fruits (1964). Note: These are the English translations of her works. The French editions came out earlier.

Sato Eisaku. Sato lived from 1901 until 1975. He was the Japanese prime minister from 1964-1972.

Michael Joseph Savage. Savage was born in 1872 and died in 1940. While he was born in Australia,he emigrated to New Zealand and became that country's prime minster from 1935-1940.

Girolamo Savonarola. Savonarola lived from 1452-1498. He was an Italian friar and religious reformer.

Encyclopedia Americana
Volume 24
Grolier, Incorporated
Danbury, CT: 1983