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 2
Conrad Beck
Swiss composer
Jacob Wackernagel
Swiss linguist
H. W. J. Thiersch
German philologist
Georg von Schnitzler
Walther von Wartburg
Swiss lexicographer
Markus Kutter
Author
Emilie KempinSpyri
Attorney at law
Meta von Salis
Swiss historian
Paul Camenisch
Swiss painter
Peter Von Der Muhll
Philologist
Niklaus Stoecklin
Artist
Max Alioth
Architect
Gottfried Schatz
Swiss-Austrian biochemist
Johann Amerbach
Printer
Johannes Oporinus
Sigismund Gelenius
Czech scholar
Charlotte Susa
Actress
Eugen M. Dombois
Eduard Thurneysen
Swiss theologian
Daniel Buess
Swiss drummer
Simeon Bavier
Swiss Politician
Tilo von Berlepsch
German actor
Johannes Oecolampadius
Theologian
Hans Saner
Philosopher
August Wenzinger
Cellist
Karin Himboldt
German film actress
Zenta Mauriņa
Latvian writer
Vaçe Zela
Albanian singer
Herbert Leupin
Swiss graphic designer
Irène Zurkinden
Swiss painter
Ernst Reiss
Swiss mountaineer
Fritz Delius
German film actor
Gottfried Dienst
Swiss association football referee
Ernst Herzfeld
German archaeologist
Hans Hunziker
Swiss psychiatrist
Julian Dillier
Writer
Kuno Raeber
Swiss author
Livio Vacchini
Swiss architect
Max Knapp
Swiss film actor
Peter Ochs
Author
Peter Roten
Swiss politician
Hans-Peter Tschudi
Former President of the Swiss Confederation
Franz Overbeck
German theologian
Otto Abt
Swiss painter
Rainer Brambach
German-Swiss writer
luzia von wyl robert suter
Composer
Selmar Bagge
German composer
