100 Notable Alumni of the University of Pavia [Sorted List]

Cesare Lombroso

Born in: Italy
Years: 1835-1909 (aged 74)
Occupations: criminologistwriteruniversity teacheressayistpsychiatrist
Biography: Cesare Lombroso was an Italian eugenicist, criminologist, phrenologist, physician, and founder of the Italian school of criminology. He is considered the founder of modern criminology by changing the Western notions of individual responsibility.

Maria De Filippi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1961-.. (age 65)
Occupations: television presenter
Biography: Maria De Filippi is an Italian television host and the owner of the television production company Fascino PGT. She is regarded as one of the most popular presenters in Italy.

Sixtus IV

Born in: Italy
Years: 1414-1484 (aged 70)
Occupations: Catholic priest
Biography: Pope Sixtus IV (or Xystus IV, Italian: Sisto IV; born Francesco della Rovere; (21 July 1414 – 12 August 1484) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 9 August 1471 until his death in 1484. His accomplishments as pope included the construction of the Sistine Chapel and the creation of the Vatican Library. A patron of the arts, he brought together the group of artists who ushered the early Renaissance into Rome with the first masterpieces of the city's new artistic age.

Cesare Beccaria

Born in: Italy
Years: 1738-1794 (aged 56)
Enrolled in the University of Pavia: Graduated with Juris Doctor
Occupations: economistcriminologistjuristphilosopher
Biography: Cesare Bonesana di Beccaria, Marquis of Gualdrasco and Villareggio was an Italian criminologist, jurist, philosopher, economist, and politician who is widely considered one of the greatest thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment. He is well remembered for his treatise On Crimes and Punishments (1764), which condemned torture and the death penalty, and was a founding work in the field of penology and the classical school of criminology. Beccaria is considered the father of modern criminal law and the father of criminal justice.

Carlo Goldoni

Born in: Italy
Years: 1707-1793 (aged 86)
Occupations: poet lawyerdirectorwriterprose writerlibrettist
Biography: Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty. His plays offered his contemporaries images of themselves, often dramatizing the lives, values, and conflicts of the emerging middle classes. Though he wrote in French and Italian, his plays make rich use of the Venetian language, regional vernacular, and colloquialisms. Goldoni also wrote under the pen name and title Polisseno Fegeio, Pastor Arcade, which he claimed in his memoirs the "Arcadians of Rome" bestowed on him.

Charles Borromeo

Born in: Italy
Years: 1538-1584 (aged 46)
Occupations: preacherpriestCatholic priestinquisitordiplomat
Biography: Charles Borromeo was an Italian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Milan from 1564 to 1584. He was made a cardinal in 1560.

Lucia Azzolina

Born in: Italy
Years: 1982-.. (age 44)
Enrolled in the University of Pavia: Graduated with laurea in jurisprudence
Occupations: teacherpolitician
Biography: Lucia Azzolina is an Italian politician and teacher. She was the Minister of Education during the Conte II Cabinet.

Gerolamo Cardano

Born in: Italy
Years: 1501-1576 (aged 75)
Enrolled in the University of Pavia: Studied in 1520-1522
Occupations: astrologerphilosophermathematicianengineerinventor
Biography: Gerolamo Cardano was an Italian polymath whose interests and proficiencies ranged through those of mathematician, physician, biologist, physicist, chemist, astrologer, astronomer, philosopher, music theorist, writer, and gambler. He became one of the most influential mathematicians of the Renaissance and one of the key figures in the foundation of probability; he introduced the binomial coefficients and the binomial theorem in the Western world. He wrote more than 200 works on science.

Umberto Bossi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1941-.. (age 85)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Umberto Bossi is an Italian politician and former leader of Lega Nord (Northern League), a party seeking autonomy or independence for Northern Italy or Padania. He is married to the Sicilian Manuela Marrone, and has four sons, of whom one was from his first wife.

Camillo Golgi

Awards: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1906
Born in: Italy
Years: 1843-1926 (aged 83)
Enrolled in the University of Pavia: 1860-1865 graduated with laurea in medicine
Occupations: politiciancell biologistanatomistneurologistprofessor
Biography: Camillo Golgi was an Italian biologist and pathologist who was awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his works on the central nervous system. He studied medicine at the University of Pavia (where he later spent most of his professional career) between 1860 and 1868 under the tutelage of Cesare Lombroso. Inspired by pathologist Giulio Bizzozero, he pursued research in the nervous system. His discovery of a staining technique called black reaction (sometimes called Golgi's method or Golgi's staining in his honour) in 1873 was a major breakthrough in neuroscience. Several structures and phenomena in anatomy and physiology are named for him, including the Golgi apparatus, the Golgi tendon organ and the Golgi tendon reflex.

Umberto Veronesi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1925-2016 (aged 91)
Occupations: oncologistpoliticiansurgeon
Biography: Umberto Veronesi M.D. Knight Grand Cross OMRI was an Italian oncologist, physician, scientist, and politician, internationally known for his contributions on prevention and treatment of breast cancer throughout a career spanning over fifty years. He was the founder and president of the Umberto Veronesi Foundation. He also founded and held the role of scientific director and scientific director emeritus of the European Institute of Oncology. During his life and career, Veronesi was awarded a number of prizes for his contributions.

Dionysios Solomos

Born in: Greece
Years: 1798-1857 (aged 59)
Enrolled in the University of Pavia: In 1817 studied law
Occupations: poetwriter
Biography: Dionysios Solomos was a Greek poet from Zakynthos, who is considered to be Greece's national poet. He is best known for writing the Hymn to Liberty (Greek: Ὕμνος εἰς τὴν Ἐλευθερίαν, Ýmnos eis tīn Eleutherían), which was set to music by Nikolaos Mantzaros and became the Greek and Cypriot national anthem in 1865 and 1966 respectively. He was the central figure of the Heptanese School of poetry. He is considered the national poet of Greece, not only because he wrote the national anthem, but also because he contributed to the preservation of earlier poetic tradition and highlighted its usefulness to modern literature. Other notable poems include Ὁ Κρητικός (The Cretan), Ἐλεύθεροι Πολιορκημένοι (The Free Besieged). A characteristic of his work is that no poem except the Hymn to Liberty was completed, and almost nothing was published during his lifetime.

Lorenzo Valla

Born in: Italy
Years: 1407-1457 (aged 50)
Occupations: Latin Catholic priestRenaissance humanistwriteruniversity teacherphilologist
Biography: Lorenzo Valla was an Italian Renaissance humanist scholar, rhetorician, educator, and Catholic priest. He is best known for his historical-critical textual analysis that proved that the Donation of Constantine was a forgery, therefore attacking and undermining the presumption of temporal power claimed by the papacy. Lorenzo is sometimes seen as a precursor of the Reformation.

Gregory XIV

Born in: Italy
Years: 1535-1591 (aged 56)
Occupations: Catholic bishopCatholic priestpolitician
Biography: Pope Gregory XIV, born Niccolò Sfondrato or Sfondrati, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 5 December 1590 to his death, in October 1591.

Giulio Tremonti

Born in: Italy
Years: 1947-.. (age 79)
Occupations: university teacherpolitician
Biography: Giulio Tremonti is an Italian politician. He served in the government of Italy as Minister of Economy and Finance under Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi from 1994 to 1995, from 2001 to 2004, from 2005 to 2006, and from 2008 to 2011.

Gianni Brera

Born in: Italy
Years: 1919-1992 (aged 73)
Occupations: writerpartisanjournalisttelevision personality
Biography: Giovanni Luigi "Gianni" Brera was an Italian sports journalist and novelist.

Emanuele Severino

Born in: Italy
Years: 1929-2020 (aged 91)
Occupations: university teacherphilosopher
Biography: Emanuele Severino was an Italian philosopher.

Beppe Severgnini

Born in: Italy
Years: 1956-.. (age 70)
Occupations: writerjournalistpoet lawyerradio personality
Biography: Giuseppe "Beppe" Severgnini OBE, Commendatore OMRI is an Italian journalist, essayist, and columnist.

Elena Bonetti

Born in: Italy
Years: 1974-.. (age 52)
Occupations: university teacherpolitician
Biography: Elena Bonetti is an Italian politician and mathematician who served as Minister for Family and Equal Opportunities between 2019 and 2022.

Carlo Cattaneo

Born in: Italy
Years: 1801-1869 (aged 68)
Occupations: philosopherlinguistpolitical scientistwriterhistorian
Biography: Carlo Cattaneo was an Italian philosopher, writer, and activist, famous for his role in the Five Days of Milan in March 1848, when he led the city council during the rebellion.

Ippolito Nievo

Born in: Italy
Years: 1831-1861 (aged 30)
Occupations: science fiction writerwriterjournalistgaribaldinopoet
Biography: Ippolito Nievo was an Italian writer, journalist and patriot. His Confessions of an Italian is widely considered the most important novel about the Italian Risorgimento.

Agostino Gemelli

Born in: Italy
Years: 1878-1959 (aged 81)
Occupations: religiousphysician
Biography: Agostino Gemelli OFM was an Italian Capuchin friar, physician and psychologist, who was also the founder and first rector of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart) of Milan.

Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

Born in: Italy
Years: 1922-2018 (aged 96)
Occupations: population geneticistuniversity teacherbiologistanthropologistgeneticist
Biography: Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza was an Italian geneticist. He was a population geneticist who taught at the University of Parma, the University of Pavia and then at Stanford University.

Francesco Alberoni

Born in: Italy
Years: 1929-2023 (aged 94)
Occupations: sociologistwriterjournalist
Biography: Francesco Alberoni was an Italian journalist and a professor of sociology. He was a board member and senior board member (chairman) of RAI, the Italian state television network, from 2002 to 2005.

Lia Quartapelle

Born in: Italy
Years: 1982-.. (age 44)
Enrolled in the University of Pavia: In 2012 graduated with Doctor of Theology in development economics
Occupations: researchereconomistpolitician
Biography: Lia Quartapelle is an Italian politician of the Democratic Party (PD).

Alberto Arbasino

Born in: Italy
Years: 1930-2020 (aged 90)
Occupations: politicianwriterjournalist
Biography: Nino Alberto Arbasino was an Italian writer, essayist, and politician.

Gian Marco Centinaio

Born in: Italy
Years: 1971-.. (age 55)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Gian Marco Centinaio is an Italian politician for Lega, serving as Vice President of the Senate of the Republic. He served as Minister of Agriculture and Tourism in the Conte Cabinet from 1 June 2018 to September 2019.

Giuseppe Zanardelli

Born in: Italy
Years: 1826-1903 (aged 77)
Occupations: lawyerpolitician
Biography: Giuseppe Zanardelli was an Italian jurist and political figure. He served as the Prime Minister of Italy from 15 February 1901 to 3 November 1903. An eloquent orator, he was also a Grand Master freemason. Zanardelli, representing the bourgeoisie from Lombardy, personified the classical 19th-century liberalism, committed to suffrage expansion, anticlericalism, civil liberties, free trade and laissez-faire economics. Throughout his long political career, he was among the most ardent advocates of freedom of conscience and divorce.

Mino Martinazzoli

Born in: Italy
Years: 1931-2011 (aged 80)
Occupations: lawyerpolitician
Biography: Fermo "Mino" Martinazzoli was an Italian lawyer, politician, and former minister. He was the last secretary of the Christian Democracy (DC) party and the first secretary of the Italian People's Party (PPI) founded in 1994.

Alberto Mantovani

Born in: Italy
Years: 1948-.. (age 78)
Occupations: physicianoncologistimmunologist
Biography: Alberto Mantovani Commendatore OMRI is an Italian physician and immunologist. He is Scientific Director of Istituto Clinico Humanitas (Humanitas Clinical and Research Center), President and Founder of the Fondazione Humanitas per la Ricerca, and Professor of Pathology at the State University of Milan. He is known for his works in the roles of the immune system in the development of cancer. His research on tumor-associated macrophages (TAM, an acronym he coined) established inflammation as one of the causes of cancer. He was the first to identify monocyte chemotactic protein - 1 / CCL2 in 1983, and PTX3 in 1997. His works revealed the existence of decoy receptors in cell-signalling. He has been the most cited scientist in Italy, and one of the ten most cited immunologists worldwide.

Benedetto Cairoli

Born in: Italy
Years: 1825-1889 (aged 64)
Occupations: diplomatpolitician
Biography: Benedetto Cairoli was an Italian politician, who served as Prime Minister of Italy for 2 years.

Christian Greco

Born in: Italy
Years: 1975-.. (age 51)
Occupations: archaeologistegyptologistcoptologist
Biography: Christian Greco is an Italian Egyptologist. Since 2014, he has been the director of Museo Egizio in Turin.

Sergio Bardotti

Born in: Italy
Years: 1939-2007 (aged 68)
Occupations: lyricistsinger-songwritersingerrecord producer
Biography: Sergio Bardotti was an Italian lyricist, composer and record producer.

Pellegrino Rossi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1787-1848 (aged 61)
Occupations: economistjuristdiplomatpolitician
Biography: Pellegrino Luigi Odoardo Rossi was an Italian economist, politician and jurist. He was an important figure of the July Monarchy in France, and the minister of justice in the government of the Papal States, under Pope Pius IX.

Virginio Rognoni

Born in: Italy
Years: 1924-2022 (aged 98)
Occupations: university teacherlawyerpolitician
Biography: Virginio Rognoni was an Italian politician, who was a prominent member of Christian Democracy. He was several times Interior Minister, Minister of Defense and Minister of Justice. From 2002 to 2006 he was vice-president of the High Council of the Judiciary.

Alessandro Cattaneo

Born in: Italy
Years: 1979-.. (age 47)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Alessandro Cattaneo is an Italian politician. He is a member of the centre-right party Forza Italia and served as Mayor of Pavia from June 2009 to May 2014.

Mauro Nespoli

Born in: Italy
Years: 1987-.. (age 39)
Occupations: archer
Biography: Mauro Nespoli is an Italian archer. He won individual silver at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics and was a member of the Italian teams that won gold at the 2012 Summer Olympics and silver at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Anthony Maria Zaccaria

Born in: Italy
Years: 1502-1539 (aged 37)
Occupations: Catholic priestphysician
Biography: Anthony Maria Zaccaria, CRSP was an Italian Catholic priest and early leader of the Counter-Reformation. He was the founder of the Barnabites and a promoter of devotion to the Passion of Christ and the Eucharist and of renewal of the religious life among the laity. He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church, which celebrates his feast day on 5 July.

Willibald Pirckheimer

Born in: Germany
Years: 1470-1530 (aged 60)
Enrolled in the University of Pavia: Studied in 1488-1495
Occupations: juristwriterpolitician
Biography: Willibald Pirckheimer was a German Renaissance lawyer, author and Renaissance humanist, a wealthy and prominent figure in Nuremberg in the 16th century, imperial counsellor and a member of the governing City Council for two periods. One of the most important cultural patrons of Germany in his own right, he was the closest friend of the artist Albrecht Dürer, who made a number of portraits of him, and a close friend of the great humanist and theologian Erasmus.

Gianfranco Contini

Born in: Italy
Years: 1912-1990 (aged 78)
Enrolled in the University of Pavia: Studied in 1933
Occupations: romanistliterary critictranslatorpartisanphilologist
Biography: Gianfranco Contini was an Italian academic and philologist.

Temistocle Solera

Born in: Italy
Years: 1815-1878 (aged 63)
Occupations: librettistpoetcomposer
Biography: Temistocle Solera was an Italian opera composer and librettist.

Eugenio Beltrami

Born in: Italy
Years: 1835-1900 (aged 65)
Enrolled in the University of Pavia: Studied in 1853-1856
Occupations: geodesistuniversity teachersurveyormathematicianpolitician
Biography: Eugenio Beltrami was an Italian mathematician notable for his work concerning differential geometry and mathematical physics. His work was noted especially for clarity of exposition. He was the first to prove the consistency of non-Euclidean geometry by modelling it on a surface of constant curvature, the pseudosphere, and in the interior of an n-dimensional unit sphere, the so-called Beltrami–Klein model. He also developed singular value decomposition for matrices, which has been subsequently rediscovered several times. Beltrami's use of differential calculus for problems of mathematical physics indirectly influenced the development of tensor calculus by Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro and Tullio Levi-Civita.

Federico Zandomeneghi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1841-1917 (aged 76)
Occupations: painter
Biography: Federico Zandomeneghi was an Italian Impressionist painter.

Lelio Basso

Born in: Italy
Years: 1903-1978 (aged 75)
Occupations: lawyerjournalistpoliticiananti-fascist
Biography: Lelio Basso was an Italian democratic socialist politician.

Franco Tatò

Born in: Italy
Years: 1932-2022 (aged 90)
Occupations: managerpolitician
Biography: Francesco Tatò was an Italian businessman. He was known as "Kaiser Franz" for the tough management methods he used to achieve economic turnarounds at the companies where he was appointed CEO. He was married to Italian writer and television author and producer Sonia Raule.

Mino Milani

Born in: Italy
Years: 1928-2022 (aged 94)
Occupations: writercomics artisthistoriancomics creatorjournalist
Biography: Mino Milani was an Italian writer, cartoonist, journalist and historian. During his career he also used several pseudonyms, including Stelio Martelli, Eugenio Ventura, Piero Selva, Mungo Graham Alcesti and T. Maggio.

Giovanni Muzio

Born in: Italy
Years: 1893-1982 (aged 89)
Occupations: university teacherarchitect
Biography: Giovanni Muzio was an Italian architect. Muzio was born and died in Milan. He was closely associated with the Novecento Italiano artists group.

Giovanni Battista Grassi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1854-1925 (aged 71)
Occupations: entomologistzoologistuniversity teacherparasitologistphysician
Biography: Giovanni Battista Grassi was an Italian physician and zoologist, best known for his pioneering works on parasitology, especially on malariology. He was Professor of Comparative Zoology at the University of Catania from 1883, and Professor of Comparative Anatomy at Sapienza University of Rome from 1895 until his death. His first major research on the taxonomy and biology of termites earned him the Royal Society's Darwin Medal in 1896.

Giuliana Luigia Evelina Mameli Calvino

Born in: Italy
Years: 1886-1978 (aged 92)
Occupations: botanistscientific collectormycologistuniversity teacherjournalist
Biography: Giuliana Luigia Evelina Mameli, was an Italian botanist, and naturalist.

Eduard Rüppell

Born in: Germany
Years: 1794-1884 (aged 90)
Occupations: numismatistzoologistichthyologistornithologistbotanist
Biography: Wilhelm Peter Eduard Simon Rüppell, also spelled Rueppell was a German naturalist and explorer, best known for his collections and descriptions of plants and animals from Africa and Arabia.

Emanuele Pozzolo

Born in: Italy
Years: 1985-.. (age 41)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Emanuele Pozzolo is an Italian politician. Since 13 October 2022, he has been a member of Italy's Chamber of Deputies.

Agostino Bassi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1773-1856 (aged 83)
Occupations: botanistentomologist
Biography: Agostino Bassi, sometimes called de Lodi, was an Italian entomologist. He preceded Louis Pasteur in the discovery that microorganisms can be the cause of disease (the germ theory of disease). He discovered that the muscardine disease of silkworms was caused by a living, very small, parasitic organism, a fungus that would be named eventually Beauveria bassiana in his honor. In 1844, he stated the idea that not only animal (insect), but also human diseases are caused by other living microorganisms; for example, measles, syphilis, and the plague.

Tommaso Grossi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1790-1853 (aged 63)
Occupations: writerpoetpoet lawyernotary
Biography: Tommaso Grossi was an Italian poet and novelist.

Simion Bărnuţiu

Born in: Romania
Years: 1808-1864 (aged 56)
Occupations: university teacherpoliticianhistorianjournalistphilosopher
Biography: Simion Bărnuțiu was a Romanian historian, academic, philosopher, jurist, and liberal politician. A leader of the 1848 revolutionary movement of Transylvanian Romanians, he represented its Eastern Rite Catholic wing. Bărnuțiu lived for a large part of his life in Moldavia, and was for long a professor of philosophy at Academia Mihăileană and at the University of Iași.

Sergio DellaPergola

Born in: Italy
Years: 1942-.. (age 84)
Occupations: demographerstatistician
Biography: Sergio Della Pergola is an Italian-born Israeli demographer, statistician, and professor. He is an expert in demography and statistics related to the global Jewish population.

Ezio Vanoni

Born in: Italy
Years: 1903-1956 (aged 53)
Occupations: politicianeconomist
Biography: Ezio Vanoni was an Italian economist and politician who served as Minister of Finance from May 1948 to January 1954 and Minister Budget from January 1954 until February 1956.

Joseph M. Young

Years: 1964-.. (age 62)
Occupations: diplomat
Biography: Joseph M. Young is an American diplomat who served as the chargé d'affaires ad interim at the U.S. Embassy Tokyo from July 22, 2019, to June 17, 2021, after the resignation of Bill Hagerty. Young is a career member of the U.S. Foreign Service and served as the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo from 2017 to 2019, and as the Director for Japanese Affairs at the United States Department of State from 2012 to 2014. He served at the second time Chargé d'affaires ad interim at the U.S. Embassy Tokyo from February 9 to April 18, 2025.

Francesco Viganò

Born in: Italy
Years: 1966-.. (age 60)
Occupations: juristpolitician
Biography: Francesco Viganò is an Italian judge and criminal law professor at the Bocconi University in Milan. He was appointed Judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy by president Sergio Mattarella, and sworn in on 8 March 2018.

Alfio Quarteroni

Born in: Italy
Years: 1952-.. (age 74)
Enrolled in the University of Pavia: Studied in 1975-1979
Occupations: mathematicianuniversity teacher
Biography: Alfio Quarteroni is an Italian mathematician.

Daniele D'Anza

Born in: Italy
Years: 1922-1984 (aged 62)
Occupations: film directorscreenwriter
Biography: Daniele D'Anza was an Italian director, playwright and screenwriter.

Giuseppe Acerbi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1773-1846 (aged 73)
Occupations: archaeologistdiplomatbotanistgeographercomposer
Biography: Giuseppe Acerbi was an Italian naturalist, explorer and composer.

Francesco Forte

Born in: Italy
Years: 1929-2022 (aged 93)
Occupations: economistjournalistuniversity teacherpolitician
Biography: Francesco Forte was an Italian politician, academic and economist. He was a member of the Socialist Party.

Luigi Cremona

Born in: Italy
Years: 1830-1903 (aged 73)
Enrolled in the University of Pavia: Studied in 1849-1853
Occupations: mathematicianprofessorpolitician
Biography: Antonio Luigi Gaudenzio Giuseppe Cremona was an Italian mathematician. His life was devoted to the study of geometry and reforming advanced mathematical teaching in Italy. He worked on algebraic curves and algebraic surfaces, particularly through his paper Introduzione ad una teoria geometrica delle curve piane ("Introduction to a geometrical theory of the plane curves"), and was a founder of the Italian school of algebraic geometry.

Carlo Forlanini

Born in: Italy
Years: 1847-1918 (aged 71)
Occupations: university teacherphysicianpolitician
Biography: Carlo Forlanini was a medical doctor and professor at the Universities of Turin and Pavia. He was also the inventor of artificial pneumothorax, which was the primary treatment method of pulmonary tuberculosis for the first half of the 20th century and remained in use for severe cases of tuberculosis into the 1970s.

Giuseppe Prina

Born in: Italy
Years: 1766-1814 (aged 48)
Occupations: lawyerpolitician
Biography: Count Giuseppe Prina was an Italian statesman killed in the Milan riots of 1814.

Paolo Gorini

Born in: Italy
Years: 1813-1881 (aged 68)
Occupations: mathematiciangeologist
Biography: Paolo Gorini was an Italian mathematician, professor, scientist, and politician renowned as a pioneer of cremation in Europe, primarily in the United Kingdom.

Henri Cernuschi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1821-1896 (aged 75)
Occupations: economistbusinesspersonart collectorpoliticianjournalist
Biography: Henri Cernuschi was a major French-Italian banker, economist and Asian art collector, who began public life as a politician in Italy in 1848–1850.

Monica Boggioni

Born in: Italy
Years: 1998-.. (age 28)
Occupations: swimmer
Biography: Monica Boggioni is an Italian Paralympic swimmer who competes in international level events. She competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, winning bronze medals in the 100 metre freestyle S5, and 200 metre freestyle S5.

Francesco Brioschi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1824-1897 (aged 73)
Enrolled in the University of Pavia: Studied in 1845
Occupations: university teachermathematicianpolitician
Biography: Francesco Brioschi was an Italian mathematician who contributed to the study of mathematical physics.

Andrea Moro

Born in: Italy
Years: 1962-.. (age 64)
Occupations: university teacherlinguistneuroscientist
Biography: Andrea Carlo Moro is an Italian linguist, neuroscientist and novelist.

Barthélemy de Chasseneuz

Years: 1480-1541 (aged 61)
Occupations: lawyerjurist
Biography: Barthélemy de Chasseneuz was a French jurist. His name has also been recorded as Cassaneus Bertalan, Bartholomaeus Cassaneus, Bartholomäus Cassaneus, Barthelemy de Chassenée, de Chassaneo, Bartholm Chasseneux, Chassanæus, Chassanaeus, Hassanaus, or Bartholomew Cassaneus.

Giuseppe Ferrari

Born in: Italy
Years: 1811-1876 (aged 65)
Occupations: historian of Modern Agewriteruniversity teacherphilosopherpolitician
Biography: Giuseppe Ferrari was an Italian philosopher, historian and politician.

Andrea Maffei

Born in: Italy
Years: 1798-1885 (aged 87)
Occupations: librettistpoetwritertranslatorpolitician
Biography: Andrea Maffei was an Italian poet, translator and librettist. He was born in Molina di Ledro, Trentino. A follower of Vincenzo Monti, he formed part of the 19th-century Italian classicist literary culture. Gaining laurea in jurisprudence, he moved for some years to Verona, then to Venice and finally to Milan, where in 1831 he married contessa Clara Spinelli. They separated by mutual consent on 15 June 1846.

Gabriele Mandel

Born in: Italy
Years: 1924-2010 (aged 86)
Occupations: psychotherapistwritertranslatorcalligrapherpsychologist
Biography: Gabriele Mandel was an Italian Islamist, psychologist, writer, and artist of Afghan descent. He was also known as Gabriele Mandel Khān and as Gabriele Sugana.

Tomaso Staiti di Cuddia delle Chiuse

Born in: Italy
Years: 1932-2017 (aged 85)
Occupations: journalistpolitician
Biography: Tomaso Staiti di Cuddia delle Chiuse was an Italian journalist and politician.

Mario Vegetti

Born in: Italy
Years: 1937-2018 (aged 81)
Occupations: university teachermedical historianphilosopherphilosophy historiantranslator
Biography: Mario Vegetti was an Italian historian of philosophy.

Giulio Bizzozero

Born in: Italy
Years: 1846-1901 (aged 55)
Occupations: university teacherpoliticianpathologistanatomistphysician
Biography: Giulio Bizzozero was an Italian doctor and medical researcher. He was a pioneer of histology and is credited with the coining of the term platelets and identifying their function in coagulation.

Gianluca Galimberti

Born in: Italy
Years: 1968-.. (age 58)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Gianluca Galimberti is an Italian professor and politician.

Agostino Bertani

Born in: Italy
Years: 1812-1886 (aged 74)
Occupations: politicianphysician
Biography: Agostino Bertani was an Italian revolutionary and physician during Italian unification. He played a significant role in the development of Italy's public healthcare system during the 19th century. He is best known for organising medical services for Garibaldi's army and for co-founding the radical party Estrema sinistra storica. He was a close collaborator of Mazzini and Garibaldi. His contribution to the unification of Italy resulted in participation in most of the important military campaigns of the era.

Contardo Ferrini

Born in: Italy
Years: 1859-1902 (aged 43)
Occupations: juristuniversity teacher
Biography: Contardo Ferrini was a noted Italian jurist and legal scholar. He was also a fervent Roman Catholic, who lived a devout life of prayer and service to the poor. He has been beatified by the Catholic Church.

Vittorio Erspamer

Born in: Italy
Years: 1909-1999 (aged 90)
Occupations: university teacherpharmacologistchemist
Biography: Vittorio Erspamer was an Italian pharmacologist and chemist, known for the identification, synthesis and pharmacological studies of more than sixty new chemical compounds, most notably serotonin and octopamine.

Luigi Valentino Brugnatelli

Born in: Italy
Years: 1761-1818 (aged 57)
Occupations: physicianinventorprofessorchemist
Biography: Luigi Valentino Brugnatelli was an Italian chemist and inventor who discovered the process for electroplating in 1805.

Rodolfo Morandi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1902-1955 (aged 53)
Occupations: partisaneconomistpolitician
Biography: Rodolfo Morandi was an Italian socialist politician and economist. He was a member of the Socialist Party and was one of its leading figures following World War II. He served as the minister of industry and commerce in the cabinets led by Prime Minister Alcide De Gasperi in the period 1946–1947.

Alfonso Giacomo Gaspare Corti

Born in: Italy
Years: 1822-1876 (aged 54)
Occupations: anatomistscientistphysician
Biography: Alfonso Giacomo Gaspare Corti was an Italian anatomist. He was born in Gambarana, near Pavia in 1822.

Elio Veltri

Born in: Italy
Years: 1938-.. (age 88)
Occupations: physicianpoliticianjournalist
Biography: Cornelio "Elio" Veltri is an Italian journalist and politician. He has been an author of several books and reports about illegality in the Italian economical and political world.

Antonio Greppi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1894-1982 (aged 88)
Occupations: playwrightjuristwriterdramaturgeopinion journalist
Biography: Antonio Greppi was an Italian writer, politician and dramaturge who served as Mayor of Milan from 1945 to 1951. He was the first mayor of Milan after its liberation in April 1945.

Alfredo Pizzoni

Born in: Italy
Years: 1894-1958 (aged 64)
Occupations: bankerpartisanpolitician
Biography: Alfredo Pizzoni was an Italian banker and politician who was president of the Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale Alta Italia (National Liberation Committee of Northern Italy, CLNAI) during the late stages of World War II.

Adelchi Negri

Born in: Italy
Years: 1876-1912 (aged 36)
Occupations: physicianpathologistmicrobiologistuniversity teacher
Biography: Adelchi Negri was an Italian pathologist and microbiologist born in Perugia.

Andrea Beltratti

Born in: Italy
Years: 1959-.. (age 67)
Occupations: economistmanagerbankeruniversity teacher
Biography: Andrea Beltratti is professor at Bocconi University, director of the Executive Master in Finance - EMF at SDA Bocconi School of Management and Chairman of Eurizon Capital. He has been Chairman of the Management Board of Intesa Sanpaolo until May 2013.

Fabio Pusterla

Born in: Switzerland
Years: 1957-.. (age 69)
Occupations: translatorpoetliterary criticwriter
Biography: Fabio Pusterla is a Swiss translator, poet and writer.

Paolo Di Stefano

Born in: Italy
Years: 1956-.. (age 70)
Occupations: writernovelistjournalistuniversity teacher
Biography: Paolo Di Stefano is an Italian novelist and journalist.

Giorgio Biandrata

Born in: Italy
Years: 1515-1588 (aged 73)
Occupations: physician
Biography: Giorgio Biandrata or Blandrata was an Italian-born Transylvanian physician and polemicist, who came from the De Biandrate family, powerful from the early part of the 13th century. He was an antitrinitarian.

Ottaviano-Fabrizio Mossotti

Born in: Italy
Years: 1791-1863 (aged 72)
Occupations: astronomerpoliticianphysicisttheoretical physicistmathematician
Biography: Ottaviano-Fabrizio Mossotti was an Italian physicist who was exiled from Italy for his liberal ideas. During the First Italian War of Independence, he led a "battalion of students", part of a delegation from the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. He later taught astronomy and physics at the University of Buenos Aires. His name is associated with a type of multiple-element lens for correcting spherical aberration and coma, but not chromatic aberration. His studies on dielectrics led to important results: the Clausius-Mossotti formula is partly named after him, and his views on dielectric behaviour helped lead James Clerk Maxwell to devise his theory of the displacement current, which led in turn to the theoretical prediction of electromagnetic waves.

Manfredi Rizza

Born in: Italy
Years: 1991-.. (age 35)
Occupations: kayaker
Biography: Manfredi "Mampe" Rizza is an Italian canoeist. He finished sixth in the K-1 200 metres event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. He won a silver medal in Men's K-1 200 metres, at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Achille Loria

Born in: Italy
Years: 1857-1943 (aged 86)
Occupations: economistteacherpolitician
Biography: Achille Loria was an Italian political economist.

Joseph Frank

Born in: Germany
Years: 1771-1842 (aged 71)
Occupations: university teacherphysician
Biography: Joseph Frank was a German physician.

Edoardo Bassini

Born in: Italy
Years: 1844-1924 (aged 80)
Occupations: physicianpoliticiansurgeon
Biography: Edoardo Bassini was an Italian surgeon born in Pavia.

Thomas Basin

Born in: France
Years: 1412-1491 (aged 79)
Occupations: historianCatholic bishopCatholic priest
Biography: Thomas Basin was a French bishop of Lisieux and historian.

Marcello Candia

Born in: Italy
Years: 1916-1983 (aged 67)
Occupations: missionary
Biography: Marcello Candia was an Italian Roman Catholic industrialist and entrepreneur who became active in the missions in Brazil. He worked to protect Jewish people during World War II and was involved in preventing their deportation by the creation of new documents that would save the Italian Jews' lives by making pass them as non-Jewish Italians, in particular for kids by hiding them in homes and industries or helping them to safety relocate to the UK or America. In 1950, at his father's death and at the end of WWII, Marcello Candia assumed full management of his family chemical industrial factory headquartered in Milan with full control of its operation across Italy. After experiencing the world devastation of WWII, Marcello developed a deep awareness for the plight of the poor people, concern that prompted him to sell his factory in 1964 (creating a rift with his younger brother Riccardo) and moved to Brazil to assist the people in need living in the Amazons. In Brazil he worked for the needs of the poor, supporting social justice initiatives and the work of the local charities. Candia was subject to suspicion in the beginning from those missionaries who were confused at someone from a rich background coming to serve the poor as a poor man. He shrugged off those suspicions and considered himself a disciple of the poor who wished to alleviate their suffering and social conditions.

Gaspare Aselli

Born in: Italy
Years: 1581-1626 (aged 45)
Occupations: anatomistphysiciansurgeon
Biography: Gaspare Aselli was an Italian physician noted for the discovery of the lacteal vessels of the lymphatic system. Aselli discovered (or rediscovered) the chylous vessels, and studied systematically the significance of these vascular structures.