1660) Margit Vnouček

Margit Vnouček (? - 1995). Wife of Hungarian actor and comedian Géza Hofi (born Géza Hoffmann, 1936 - 2002).
Hoffman met Vnouček at a ballet school while he was serving as a clerk in the army. Their families were initially against the relationship, but eventually changed their minds and they married in 1959. Vnouček supported her husband in everything, and when she died in 1995, it was a great blow for him.


. "Hofi a katonaság idején már erősen udvarolt Gittinek, aki csodaszép, tejfehér bőrű, vörös hajú lány volt." [During his military service, Hofi had already been courting Gitti, who was a beautiful girl with milky white skin and red hair.] https://24.hu/szorakozas/2013/04/07/igy-gyaszolta-imadott-feleseget-hofi-geza/

- "Hofi a házasságkötés után közel negyven évig kitartott a vörös hajú nő mellett, akit „vörös dög”-nek becézett." [Hofi stuck by the red-haired woman, whom he nicknamed "red bitch," for nearly forty years after their marriage.] https://valodihirek.hu/2023/11/14/hofi-geza-szerelme-sokaig-tarto-nagy-szerelem-hofi-geza-legendas-humorista

Margit Vnouček and Géza Hofi on their wedding day

 

1659) Silvio Furlani

Silvio Furlani (1921 - 2001). Italian librarian and historian.
Born of an Italian father and an Austrian mother, he attended primary school in Graz and continued his studies in Italy, first in Vicenza and then in Teramo. In 1946 he graduated with honours in Letters and Philosophy at 'La Sapienza' University.
In 1947, he won the competition for titles and examinations announced by the Constituent Assembly, for a post as secretary of the Library of the Chamber of Deputies, and contributed to the reorganisation of the institute during Umberto Collamarini's provisional directorship, until Furlani himself became director.
In the course of his career, in addition to studying librarianship, he worked on parliamentary history and electoral history.

 

- "Nel libro di Gianni Sofri, L'anno mancante. Arsenio Frugoni nel 1944-45, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2021, Silvio Furlani è identificato nel “normalista dai capelli rossi”..." [In the book by Gianni Sofri L'anno mancante, Arsenio Frugoni nel 1944-1945... Silvio furlani is identified he 'red-haired normalista'..." https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvio_Furlani

 
"Normalista' is anyone who studies or graduated at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. This nickname was given to Furlani by mistake, since he did study in Pisa, but at the university's Faculty of Letters, not at the Scuola Normale.

 

 

1658) Raffaella Carrà

 Raffaella Maria Roberta Pelloni (1943 – 2021), known professionally as Raffaella Carrà. Italian singer, dancer, actress, television presenter and model. She is often widely considered a pop culture icon in Europe and Latin America.
Carrà released 25 studio albums in 37 countries, between Europe and Latin America, selling over 60 million records worldwide, which includes "A far l'amore comincia tu", "Fiesta", "Forte forte forte", "Pedro", "Tanti auguri" and "Tuca Tuca", singing in Italian, Spanish, English and French.
She became a successful TV host and personality in Italy, Spain and Argentina, being recognized with several awards,. After an acclaimed acting debut in Italy, Carrà signed an acting deal with 20th Century Fox in Hollywood, also starring in French and Spanish films, working with Mario Monicelli, Marcello Mastroianni, Frank Sinatra, Edward Mulhare, Trevor Howard, Jean Marais and James Coburn.

- "Chi la ricorda agli esordi, Raffaella Carrà, il cui vero nome era Raffaella Maria Roberta Pelloni, aveva capelli rosso mogano ondulati." [Those who remember her at the beginning, Raffaella Carrà, whose real name was Raffaella Maria Roberta Pelloni, had wavy mahogany red hair.] https://gerardorussillolab.com/2021/07/08/raffaella-carra-icona-di-stile/ 

 

- "Raffaella nasce con dei capelli ondulati di colore rosso mogano..." [Raffaella was born with wavy, mahogany red hair] https://issuu.com/edizioniprinted/docs/feltrinonews_dic21/s/14202179

 

1657) Saint Sava

Saint Sava (1169 or 1174 – 1235/6), known as the Enlightener or the Illuminator. Serbian prince and Orthodox monk, the first Archbishop of the autocephalous Serbian Church, the founder of Serbian law, and a diplomat.
Sava, born as Rastko Nemanjić, was the youngest son of Serbian Grand Prince Stefan Nemanja (founder of the Nemanjić dynasty), and ruled the appanage of Zachlumia briefly in 1190–92. He then left for Mount Athos, where he became a monk tonsured with the name Sava (Sabbas). At Athos he established the monastery of Hilandar, which became one of the most important cultural and religious centres of the Serbian people. In 1219 the Patriarchate exiled in Nicea recognized him as the first Serbian Archbishop, and in the same year he authored the oldest known constitution of Serbia, the Zakonopravilo nomocanon, thus securing full religious and political independence. Sava is regarded as the founder of Serbian medieval literature.
He is the patron saint of Serbia, Serbs, Serbian education and medicine. The Church of Saint Sava in Belgrade is dedicated to him, built on the site where the Ottomans burnt his remains in 1594, during an uprising in which Serbs used icons of Sava as their war flags; the church is one of the largest church buildings in the world.
In order to distinguish him from other saints and canonized Serbian archbishops of the same name, he is also posthumously titled Saint Sava I of Serbia.

 

1656) Te Whatuiāpiti

Te Whatuiāpiti (circa 1620 - ?). Māori rangatira (chieftain) of Ngāti Kahungunu from the Hawke’s Bay region of New Zealand and the ancestor of the Ngāti Te Whatuiāpiti hapū.

As a member of Te Hika a Pāpāuma, Te Whatuiāpiti was locked in a multi-generational feud with his cousins in Te Hika a Ruarauhanga. As a result, in his youth he was driven out of the Hawke’s Bay region, finding sanctuary in the Wairarapa. Later, he returned and, after a conflict with a rival chief named Pokia, he established himself at Te Kauhanga (modern Haumoana) and on Lake Rotoatara (near Te Aute). After further conflict, he fell in love with Te Huhuti, daughter of Te Rangitaumaha of Te Hika a Ruarauhanga, who married him and ended the feud between the two families. Their courtship is considered to be one of the great romances of Māori tradition.

 

- "Te Whatuiāpiti had red hair, and is said to have been one of the most handsome chiefs of his time... Te Whatuiāpiti heard that he had been called a kumukumu (red gurnard), on account of his red hair." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Te_Whatui%C4%81piti

 

1655) Jim McCarthy

James (Jim) Stephen McCarthy (1924 – 2015). Irish rugby union player who played for Munster, the Irish national team, and the British and Irish Lions. He was a member of the Grand Slam winning Irish squad in the 1948 Five Nations Championship.

 

- ""A flying redhead, he was an invaluable ally to Jack Kyle..." https://www.independent.ie/sport/rugby/munster-legend-jim-mccarthy-dies-aged-90-a-great-character-and-an-even-greater-player/31161646.html 

 

- "The red head of McCarthy popped up everywhere,” https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/rugby/arid-20325368.html 

 

- "... his red hair and all-action displays making him stand out in the Irish back row..." https://www.irishrugby.ie/2015/04/21/jim-mccarthy-a-rugby-life-in-quotes/

 

 

1654) Roei Sadan

Roei Sadan (1982 – 2021). Israeli adventurer who became famous worldwide for cycling around the world.
Roei’s worldwide cycling voyage started in July 2007, in Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay, a voyage that lasted four and a half years.
Sadan next planned a kayak trip across the West Coast of North America. In 2015, while taking a break from his training for the trip, he vacationed in India where he was seriously injured in a mountain climbing accident in the Stok Kangri mountain range. After being stabilized, he was flown to Israel where he was hospitalized at Sheba Medical Center and was in a coma for more than a month before awakening. He had to undergo lengthy rehabilitation and physical therapy.
On 11 March 2021, while riding his bicycle near Rosh Hanikra, Sadan was hit by a bus and suffered permanent brain damage. He died at the hospital the next day.

 

- "An inspiring interview with a courageous Israeli red-head who is about to go cycling around the world for the second time." https://www.outlooktraveller.com/explore/adventure/back-to-faith-an-interview-with-roei-sadan 

 

1653) Liu Yuan

Liu Yuan (died in 310), also known by his posthumous name as the Emperor Guangwen of Han (Zhao). Founding emperor of the Xiongnu-led Han-Zhao dynasty of China during the Sixteen Kingdoms period. Due to Tang dynasty naming taboo, he is referred to by his courtesy name as Liu Yuanhai in the Book of Jin.
With the dissolution of the Southern Xiongnu in 216, the last vestiges of their power were divided into Five Divisions in Bing province around modern-day Shanxi. Liu Yuan was born into the aristocracy of the Five Divisions and was sent to the Chinese capital, Luoyang as a hostage during his youth, where he became highly sinicized and later held several government offices under the Western Jin dynasty. As the War of the Eight Princes weakened Jin authority in northern China, Liu Yuan was called upon by the Five Divisions to lead their rebellion, and in 304, he declared independence from the Jin and founded the Han-Zhao dynasty, one of the first of the Sixteen Kingdoms. His declaration, along with the founding of the Cheng-Han dynasty in Sichuan that same year, marked the formal end of the Western Jin's brief unification of China following the Three Kingdoms period.

 

- "In the Book of Wei, Chinese author Wei Shou notes that Liu Yuan was over six feet tall and that he had strands of red hair in his long beard." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Yuan_(Han-Zhao)#Physical_appearance 

 

1652) Edith Harms

Edith Harms (1893 - 1918). Wife of Austrian painter Egon Schiele.
She and her sister Adéle met Schiele in 1914. They lived with their parents across the street from his studio in the Viennese district of Hietzing. They were a middle-class family and Protestant by faith; their father was a master locksmith. In 1915, Schiele chose to marry Edith, who asked him to break his relatioship with her model and lover Wally Neuzil.
The couple died of Spanish flu in 1918. Edith was six months pregnant with their first child. 

 

Judging from the two paintings below, Adéle too might have had reddish hair (although the two sisters looked very similar and so it is sometimes difficult for art critics to distinguish one sister from the other).

 

1651) Gertrude Schiele

Gertrude Schiele (1894-1981). Younger sister of the Austrian painter Egon Schiele (1890 - 1918) and one of his first models. 

In 1914, she married the painter Anton Emanuel Peschka and their son, Anton, (1914–1997), also became a painter.

Below, some of the portrait paintings made by Egon Schiele.  

 

 

1650) Alfred Bruyas

Alfred Bruyas (born Jacques Louis Bruyas,1821 – 1877). French art collector and personal friend of many important artists of his time, among them Gustave Courbet and Alexandre Cabanel. He donated his collection to the Musée Fabre, in Montpellier.
He was the son of a wealthy banker in Montpellier. His interest in art was clear even at school. In 1840 he studied at the studio of Charles Matet, however he soon recognized the limits of his own talents and shifted his focus to the promotion and collection of contemporary art.

Portrait by Alexandre Cabanel

 

1649) Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri

Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri (1942 – 2020). Iraqi politician, army officer and field marshal. He served as Vice Chairman of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council until the 2003 invasion of Iraq by the United States and was regarded as the closest advisor and deputy under President Saddam Hussein. He led the Iraqi resistance group Naqshbandi Army.
Al-Douri was the most high-profile Ba'athist official to successfully evade capture after the invasion of Iraq, and was the "king of clubs" in the infamous U.S. deck of most-wanted Iraqi playing cards. Al-Douri continued to lead elements of the Iraqi resistance such as the Naqshbandi Army against the then-occupation forces and waged an insurgency against the current regime in Baghdad. Following the execution of Saddam Hussein on 30 December 2006, al-Douri was confirmed as the new leader of the banned Iraqi Ba'ath Party on 3 January 2007.
In April 2015, the Shiite militant organization Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq claimed they had killed al-Douri and his nine bodyguards during a military operation near the Al-Alaas oil fields in Hemreen east of Tikrit. The group further alleged that his body had been transported to Baghdad to confirm its identity on 17 April 2015. Though the story was carried by the BBC, they also noted that the Iraqi Ba'ath party denied that al-Douri had died, while a Kurdish news source reported that Iraq did not have al-Douri's DNA to confirm his death. Al-Douri subsequently appeared in videos talking about events that took place after his supposed death. On 26 October 2020, news of his death was again carried by both local and international media, this time based on announcements by the Iraqi Ba-ath party and Raghad Hussein, the daughter of Saddam Hussein.

 

- "Pictures had emerged of the body of a red-haired man bearing some resemblance to Saddam's feared deputy..." https://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/baath-party-tv-releases-recording-of-saddam-deputy-thought-to-be-dead

 

- "A photo supposedly taken of the dead man by soldiers involved in the operation and distributed on Twitter closely resembled al Douri, including notable red hair and a red beard." https://archive.triblive.com/news/world/report-iraqi-security-forces-kill-saddam-aide-al-douri-but-dna-will-confirm/ 

 

 

1648) Robert Herbin

Robert Herbin (1939 – 2020). French football defender and manager. A one-club man as a player AS Saint-Étienne, he later managed the team for eleven years. He won five Ligue 1 titles as a player and four as a manager, and his team lost the 1976 European Cup Final to FC Bayern Munich at Hampden Park.

 

- "He was recognisable for his large red hair, and for his reserved personality he was known as "Le Sphinx". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Herbin 

 

- "... as the 18-year-old Herbin arrived in Loire complete with a thick mop of auburn hair that would later morph into his distinctive wispy ginger afro." https://www.getfootballnewsfrance.com/2020/classic-teams-1-st-etienne-1970-76/

 

1647) Carl Larsson and Brita

Carl Olof Larsson (1853 – 1919). Swedish painter, representative of the Arts and Crafts movement. His many paintings include oils, watercolors, and frescoes. He is principally known for his watercolors of idyllic family life.
After several years working as an illustrator of books, magazines, and newspapers, Larsson moved to Paris in 1877, where he spent several frustrating years as a hardworking artist without any success.
After spending two summers in Barbizon, the refuge of the plein-air painters, he settled down with his Swedish painter colleagues in 1882, in Grez-sur-Loing at a Scandinavian artists' colony outside Paris. It was there that he met the artist Karin Bergöö (1859–1928), who soon became his wife. This was to be a turning point in Larsson's life. In Grez, Larsson painted some of his most important works, now in watercolour and very different from the oil painting technique he had previously employed.
Carl and Karin Larsson had eight children: Suzanne (b. 1884), Ulf (b. 1887), Pontus (b. 1888), Lisbeth (b. 1891), Brita (b. 1893), Mats (b. 1894), Kersti (b. 1896) and Esbjörn (b. 1900). His family became Larsson's favourite models. Many of the interiors depicted were the work of Karin Larsson, who also worked as an interior designer.

Brita as Iduna

Brita and the Marmelade Jar

Self-portrait

Brita and I

 

1646) Pedro Campaña

Pedro Campaña (1503–1586). Flemish painter of the Renaissance period, mainly active in Italy and Spain. His actual name was Pieter de Kempeneer, translated into French as Champaigne, and was also known as Peter van de Velde.
Born in Brussels, he trained there with Bernard Van Orley. His early life appears to have been spent in Italy, where he carefully studied the paintings of Raphael, and declared himself as his pupil. In 1530 he was at work at some scene-painting, representing a triumphal arch to be erected on the occasion of the coronation of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor in Bologna, and he then left for Spain, on the advice, it is said, of Cardinal Domenico Grimani, and spent the rest of his life in that country, only returning to Brussels about 1563 or 1565.

 

Self-portrait

 

1645) Al-Hakam II

Al-Hakam II, also known as Abū al-ʿĀṣ al-Mustanṣir bi-Llāh al-Hakam b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ( 915 – 976). Caliph of Córdoba. He was the second Umayyad Caliph of Córdoba in Al-Andalus, and son of Abd-al-Rahman III and Murjan. He ruled from 961 to 976.
Al-Hakam II succeeded to the Caliphate after the death of his father Abd-ar-Rahman III in 961. He secured peace with the Catholic kingdoms of northern Iberia, and made use of the stability to develop agriculture through the construction of irrigation works. Economic development was also encouraged through the widening of streets and the building of markets.
Hakam himself was very well versed in numerous sciences. He had books purchased from Damascus, Baghdad, Constantinople, Cairo, Mecca, Medina, Kufa, and Basra.
During his reign, a massive translation effort was undertaken, and many books were translated from Latin and Greek into Arabic. He formed a joint committee of Muwallad Muslims and Mozarab Catholics for this task.

- "Físicamente rubio, pero tirando a pelirrojo, con nariz aguileña, grandes ojos negros... [Physically blond, but almost red-haired, with an aquiline nose and large black eyes...]" https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alhak%C3%A9n_II#Semblanza_del_Califa

- "Su cabello pelirrojo, ojos oscuros y tez clara revelaban una mezcla de sangres común en los omeyas andalusíes, pues su madre era una cristiana llamada Maryan. [His red hair, dark eyes and fair complexion revealed a mixture of blood common among the Andalusian Umayyads, as his mother was a Christian named Maryan.]" https://historia.nationalgeographic.com.es/a/califato-cordoba-esplendor-al-andalus_19598

- "Le sucedió su hijo Al Hakam II, que tomó de su padre el cabello pelirrojo y la tez clara... [He was succeeded by his son Al Hakam II, who took his father's red hair and fair complexion...]" https://memoriadelfuturo.eu/por-que-lamine-yamal-es-espanol-pero-himex-ii-era-moro/

 

 

1644) Joachim Wtewael

Joachim Anthoniszoon Wtewael (1566 – 1638), also known as Uytewael. Dutch Mannerist painter and draughtsman, as well as highly successful flax merchant, and town councillor of Utrecht. Wtewael was one of the leading Dutch exponents of Northern Mannerism, and his distinctive and attractive style remained largely untouched by the naturalistic developments happening around him, "characterized by masterfully drawn, highly polished figures often set in capricious poses". Wtewael was trained in the style of late 16th-century Haarlem Mannerism and remained essentially faithful to it, despite painting well into the early period of Dutch Golden Age painting.
He was very prosperous as a merchant of flax (for the manufacture of linen and canvas), which no doubt occupied much of his time, but was also famous as a painter in his own day, with his reputation reaching as far as Prague, where Emperor Rudolf II obtained his The Golden Age (now Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York). His large house on one of the main canals of Utrecht remains, though remodelled, and as well as family portraits the Utrecht museum has two very fine pieces of his furniture. He had several children, and seems to have stopped painting for almost the last decade of his life, perhaps influenced by the illness and death of his wife. Like his brother he was a city councillor; as a member of the main Dutch Reformed Church he was involved in the struggles with the Remonstrants. His best known work, and almost his largest, is the near life-size Perseus and Andromeda in the Louvre. Producing his highly finished small paintings was probably not very economic, and he was not short of money; his own pleasure and fame were probably his main motivations. His granddaughter still owned 30 of his paintings in 1669.

Self-portrait

 

Detail

 

1643) Joos van Cleve

Joos van Cleve (also Joos van der Beke; c. 1485–1490 – 1540/1541). Leading painter active in Antwerp from his arrival there around 1511 until his death in 1540 or 1541. Within Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, he combines the traditional techniques of Early Netherlandish painting with influences of more contemporary Renaissance painting styles.
An active member and co-deacon of the Guild of Saint Luke of Antwerp, he is known mostly for his religious works and portraits, some of royalty. He ran a large workshop, with at least five pupils and other assistants, which produced paintings in a variety of styles over his career. As a skilled technician, his art shows sensitivity to color and a unique solidarity of figures. His style is highly eclectic: he was one of the first to introduce broad world landscapes in the backgrounds of his paintings, sometimes collaborating with Joachim Patinir, which would become a popular technique of sixteenth century northern Renaissance paintings. Some works reflect the popular style of Antwerp Mannerism, while others are variations on early Netherlandish masters of two or more generations before, or reflect recent Italian painting.

 

Self-portrait

 

1642) Alan Howard

Alan MacKenzie Howard (1937 – 2015). English actor. He was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1966 to 1983 and played leading roles at the Royal National Theatre between 1992 and 2000.
His uncle was Leslie Howard, the film star. On his mother's side he was also a great-nephew of the actress Fay Compton and the novelist Sir Compton Mackenzie.
He received three Plays and Players awards, two Evening Standard Awards for Best Actor and Society of West End Theatre award for Best Actor.
He appeared in several TV shows an TV series (such as Notorious Woman, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Midsomer Murders and Foyle's War) and supplied the voice of Sauron and the One Ring in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

- "Six foot and with a flowing mane of red hair, Howard was perfectly suited to playing the Lancastrian kings and shone in Hands's RSC productions of Henry IV parts I and II..." https://www.thetimes.com/article/alan-howard-q0lzgbxvkcr

- "He runs a slim hand through his long red hair." http://alanhoward.org.uk/crown.htm

- "Thin, with longish, untidy red hair and heavy spectacles..." http://alanhoward.org.uk/herohamlet.htm

 

1641) Ljuba Welitsch

Ljuba Welitsch (born Veličkova; 1913 – 1996). Operatic soprano. She was born in Borisovo, Bulgaria, studied in Sofia and Vienna, and sang in opera houses in Austria and Germany in the late 1930s and early and mid-1940s. In 1946 she became an Austrian citizen.
Welitsch became best known in the title role of Richard Strauss's Salome, in which she was coached by the composer. Her international career was short, its start delayed by the Second World War and its end hastened by vocal problems. It took off in 1947 in London and continued in New York from 1949, but her starring days were over by the mid-1950s. Her international career was just before the days when complete studio recordings of operas were common, and although some live recordings survive from broadcasts, her recorded legacy is not extensive.
From the mid-1950s, Welitsch sang character roles in operas and acted in stage plays. She also featured in 21 film between 1953 and 1976.

- "Welitsch not only looked young and glamorous with her gorgeous red hair, but she sounded like a beautiful teenager..." https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-ljuba-welitsch-5601321.html

- "Welitsch’s flaming red hair, “silvery-sounding voice,” and charismatic persona..." https://www.metopera.org/discover/archives/notes-from-the-archives/from-the-archives-salome-at-the-met/

- "Known for her red hair and exuberant vivacity..." https://opera-guide.ch/highlights/show_record.php?id=76&uilang=en&iframe=true