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Anton Wachter Prize

The Anton Wachter Prize (Anton Wachterprijs) is a biennial Dutch literary prize, awarded since 1977 in Harlingen for the best Dutch-language prose debut and considered the most prestigious debut prize.

Anton Webern

Anton Webern (1883–1945), Austrian composer and conductor of the Second Viennese School with Schoenberg and Berg; 31 opus works under five hours, rigorous twelve-tone technique, shot by an American soldier in 1945, postwar model for serialism.

Sep 19, 2026

Anton Westbergh

Anton Westbergh, born 1985, is a Swedish video game executive who co-founded Coffee Stain in Skövde in 2010 and has been its chief executive ever since, creating Goat Simulator.

Oct 10, 2026

Anton Wildgans

Anton Wildgans (1881–1932) was an Austrian poet, playwright, and jurist whose social dramas and 1930 radio speech Rede über Österreich gave the First Republic a cultural self-description.

Sep 24, 2026

Anton Wilhelm Amo

Anton Wilhelm Amo was a philosopher born near Axim on the Gold Coast around 1700, brought to Europe as a child, who taught at German universities and argued against the legality of enslaving Africans.

Anton Yelchin (Антон Викторович Ельчин)

Anton Yelchin (Антон Викторович Ельчин), 1989–2016, Russian-born American actor known as Chekov in the rebooted Star Trek films and for Like Crazy and Green Room; died at 27 in a Jeep rollaway accident.

Anton Zeilinger

Anton Zeilinger, born 1945 in Austria, is a quantum physicist at the University of Vienna who performed the first quantum teleportation and shared the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Antonee Robinson

Antonee Robinson, nicknamed "Jedi", American left back born 1997 in Milton Keynes; Fulham FC and USMNT defender, 2022 World Cup starter, 2024 U.S. Soccer Male Player of the Year.

Antonela Roccuzzo

Antonela Roccuzzo (born 1988, Rosario, Argentina) is an Argentine entrepreneur, model, and influencer, wife of Lionel Messi since their 2017 Rosario wedding; mother of Thiago, Mateo, and Ciro; co-founder of children's brand Enfans.

Oct 21, 2026

Antonella Bellutti

Antonella Bellutti, Italian track cyclist born 1968 in Bolzano; two Olympic golds (pursuit Atlanta 1996, points race Sydney 2000), later seventh in bobsleigh at Salt Lake City 2002.

Antonello Bonci

Antonello Bonci is an Italian neuropsychopharmacologist whose laboratory first showed that drugs like cocaine produce lasting changes in connections between neurons, and who led NIDA's research program in Baltimore before founding GIA Miami.

Antonello da Messina

Antonello da Messina (c. 1430–1479) was an Italian painter from Messina who adopted Netherlandish oil technique and transformed Venetian portraiture during his documented stay in Venice, 1475 to 1476.

Antonello Pietrangelo

Antonello Pietrangelo (born 1956) is an Italian physician-scientist and professor of internal medicine at the University of Modena whose work established hereditary hemochromatosis as a family of iron-loading disorders centered on hepcidin.

Sep 23, 2026

Antong

Antong (安童) was a Yuan dynasty statesman and fourth-generation descendant of the general Mu Huali, who served as right chancellor of the Secretariat under Kublai Khan.

Oct 20, 2026

Antongil Bay

Antongil Bay (French: Baie d'Antongil) is the largest bay in Madagascar, a 2,800 km² embayment on the northeastern coast sheltered by the Masoala Peninsula and a major humpback whale breeding ground.

Antoni Barrientos

Antoni Barrientos is a professor of neurology, biochemistry, and molecular biology at the University of Miami who studies mitochondrial complex assembly in health, disease, and aging.

Antoni Chruściel

Antoni Chruściel (1895–1960), known by the nom de guerre "Monter", was a Polish brigadier general who commanded the Polish insurgent forces in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising.

Oct 10, 2026

Antoni Dudek

Antoni Dudek is a Polish historian and political scientist, born in Kraków in 1966, who studies post-war Poland and was among the first to treat post-1989 Poland academically.

Oct 10, 2026

Antoni Emil Karbowiak

Antoni Emil ("Toni") Karbowiak (1923–2011) was a Polish-born telecommunications engineer who led the waveguide group at STL in Harlow, where Charles K. Kao started under him.

Antoni Gaudí

Antoni Gaudí i Cornet, or Antoni Gaudí y Cornet, was a Catalan architect and leading figure of Modernisme; seven of his Barcelona-area buildings are UNESCO World Heritage sites.

Antoni K. Oppenheim

Antoni Kazimierz Oppenheim (1915–2008) was a Polish-born mechanical engineer at the University of California, Berkeley, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1978 for his research on combustion and the gas dynamics of explosions.

Antoni Llobet

Antoni Llobet, born in Sabadell in 1960, is a Spanish inorganic chemist who leads a research group at ICIQ in Tarragona and works on catalysts for artificial photosynthesis.

Antoni Madaliński

Antoni Madaliński (1739–1804) was a Polish cavalry general who, ordered to disband his brigade, marched it from Ostrołęka toward Kraków in March 1794, triggering the Kościuszko Insurrection.

Antoni Porowski

Antoni Porowski, Canadian TV personality born in Montreal to Polish emigrants, food and wine expert on Netflix's Queer Eye, four-time Emmy nominee, NYT bestselling author of Antoni in the Kitchen, host of Easy-Bake Battle and No Taste Like Home.

Antoni Ribas

Antoni Ribas is a Spanish-born, Barcelona-trained physician-scientist at UCLA who led pivotal melanoma trials of vemurafenib and pembrolizumab and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2020.

Oct 21, 2026

Antoni Szymanowski

Antoni Szymanowski ("Czoper"), born 1951 in Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Polish right back for Wisła Kraków, Gwardia Warszawa, and Club Brugge; 82 caps for Poland 1970–1980, Olympic gold 1972, silver 1976, World Cup bronze 1974, Polish Footballer of the Year 1975.