Basel
Basel is a city on the Rhine River in northwest Switzerland, close to the country's borders with France and Germany. Its medieval old town centers around Marktplatz, dominated by the 16th-century, red-sandstone Town Hall. Its 12th-century Gothic cathedral has city views, and contains the tomb of the 16th-century Dutch scholar, Erasmus. The city's university houses some of Erasmus' works.
People died in Basel (First 49 people) - Page 1
Theodor Zwinger
Swiss physician
Johann II Bernoulli
Mathematician
Nicolaus I Bernoulli
Swiss mathematician
Raymond Battegay
Psychiatrist
Andreas Speiser
Swiss mathematician
Ruedi Walter
Swiss comedian
Emanuel Hoffmann
Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche's son
Walter Jakob Gehring
Swiss genetic biologist
Paul Sacher
Swiss conductor
Ambrosius Holbein
German artist
Alice Betty Stern
Otto Frank's mother
Helene Frank
Otto Frank's sister
Samuel Braun
Actor
Iris von Roten
Swiss journalist
Werner Lutz
Swiss author
Rémy Zaugg
Swiss painter
Gottlieb Burckhardt
Swiss psychiatrist
Gustav von Bunge
Physiologist
Jürg Laederach
Swiss writer
Felix Plater
Swiss physician
Karl Schefold
Archaeologist
Werner Weisbach
German art historian
Corfitz Ulfeldt
Danish statesman
Alfred Rasser
Swiss comedian
Johann Jakob Balmer
Swiss mathematician
Gottlieb Göller
German football player
Silvia Reize
Actress
Konrad von Würzburg
German poet
Hans Denck
German theologian
Ilse Fürstenberg
German actress
Lucius Burckhardt
Swiss sociologist
David Goodall
Botanist
Wilhelm Wackernagel
Jacob Wackernagel's father
Jan Milic Lochman
Czechoslovakian-Swiss theologian
Emmanuel Stupanus
Swiss physician
Thomas Platter the Younger
Swiss physician
Carl Meissner
Swiss botanist
Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper
Botanist
Melchior Berri
Swiss architect
Peter Merian
Swiss geologist
Martin Eichler
Paul Degen
Swiss illustrator
Erich Elias
Buddy Elias' father
Josef Hügi
Swiss footballer
Johann Froben
Publisher
Tadeus Reichstein
Polish-Swiss chemist
Klaus Seybold
German theologian