Celebrities from Silesian Voivodeship
Silesian Voivodeship: 20 memorial pages
of people who were born or died here, or were laid to rest here
Memorial
Marian Kasprzyk
09/22/1939 – 02/02/2026
86 years
Polish boxer
Memorial
Jan Furtok
03/09/1962 – 11/26/2024
62 years
Polish footballer
Memorial
Franciszek Smuda
06/22/1948 – 08/18/2024
76 years
Polish football player and manager
Memorial
Józef Szmidt
née Josef Schmidt
03/28/1935 – 07/29/2024
89 years
Polish triple jumper
Memorial
Leszek Engelking
02/02/1955 – 10/22/2022
67 years
Polish writer and translator
Memorial
Egon Franke
10/23/1935 – 03/30/2022
86 years
Polish fencer
Memorial
Edward Babiuch
12/28/1927 – 02/02/2021
93 years
Polish politician
Memorial
Bjorg Lambrecht
04/02/1997 – 08/05/2019
22 years
Belgian competitive cyclist
Memorial
Kazimierz Kutz
02/16/1929 – 12/18/2018
89 years
Polish film director, author, journalist and politician
Memorial
Richard Pipes
07/11/1923 – 05/17/2018
94 years
American historian
Memorial
Alexander Imich
02/04/1903 – 06/08/2014
111 years
Polish-born American chemist, parapsychologist, and supercentenarians
Memorial
Zbigniew Pietrzykowski
10/04/1934 – 05/19/2014
79 years
Polish boxer
Memorial
Wojciech Kilar
07/17/1932 – 12/29/2013
81 years
Polish composer and pianist
Memorial
Stanisław Nagy
09/30/1921 – 06/05/2013
91 years
Roman Catholic archbishop
Memorial
Wilhelm Brasse
12/03/1917 – 10/23/2012
94 years
Polish photographer
Memorial
Jerzy Kulej
10/19/1940 – 07/13/2012
71 years
Polish boxer
Memorial
Henryk Mikołaj Górecki
12/06/1933 – 11/12/2010
76 years
Polish composer
Memorial
Sławomir Skrzypek
05/10/1963 – 04/10/2010
46 years
Polish central banker
Memorial
Edward Gierek
01/06/1913 – 07/29/2001
88 years
Polish politician
Memorial
Władysław Szpilman
12/05/1911 – 07/06/2000
88 years
(1911-2000) Polish pianist, composer, Holocaust survivor