LOCATION

Official Website:
http://www.comune.milano.it/

Population:
1,300,000 (2004)

SCHOOLS

School	Founded
University of Milan	1923
Milan Conservatory

ORCHESTRA

Orchestra	Founded
Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi	1993

OPERA

Opera	Founded
La Scala	1778

COMPANY HEADQUARTERS

Company	Founded
Telecom Italia	1994
Dolce & Gabbana	1985
Versace	1978
Prada	1913

BIRTHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Diego Abatantuono	Actor	20-May-1955		Mediterraneo
Claudio Abbado	Conductor	26-Jun-1933	20-Jan-2014	Conductor of La Scala, 1968-86
Renata Adler	Journalist	19-Oct-1938		Gone: The Last Days of the New Yorker
Maria Gaetana Agnesi	Mathematician	16-May-1718	9-Jan-1799	Instituzioni Analitiche
Giuseppe Arcimboldo	Painter	1527	11-Jul-1593	Painter of metamorphic imagery
Cesare Beccaria	Philosopher	15-Mar-1738	28-Nov-1794	On Crimes and Punishments
Silvio Berlusconi	Head of State	29-Sep-1936		Former Prime Minister of Italy
Tinto Brass	Film Director	26-Mar-1933		Caligula
Charles L. Caccia	Politician	29-Apr-1930	4-May-2008	Former Canadian MP, Davenport
Roberto Calvi	Business	13-Apr-1920	17-Jun-1982	Vatican banker who died mysteriously
Caravaggio	Painter	28-Sep-1573	18-Jul-1610	Temperamental painter
Stefano Casiraghi	Business	9-Aug-1960	3-Oct-1990	Second husband of Princess Caroline
Felice Cavallotti	Politician	6-Oct-1842	6-Mar-1898	Italian radical politician
Adriano Celentano	Singer	6-Jan-1938		The Taming of the Scoundrel
Pope Celestine IV	Religion	?	10-Nov-1241	Roman Catholic Pope, 1241
Riccardo Chailly	Conductor	20-Feb-1953		Director, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Valentina Cortese	Actor	1-Jan-1925		La Nuit Américaine
Bettino Craxi	Head of State	24-Feb-1934	19-Jan-2000	Prime Minister of Italy, 1983-87
Alberto Cribiore	Business	c. 1946		Brera Capital Partners
Fabio	Model	15-Mar-1959		Can't believe it's not butter
Alberto Lattuada	Film Director	13-Nov-1913	3-Jul-2005	Stay As You Are
Alessandro Manzoni	Poet	7-Mar-1785	22-May-1873	I Promessi Sposi
Isa Miranda	Actor	5-Jul-1905	8-Jul-1982	Summertime
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta	Activist	20-Sep-1833	10-Feb-1918	Founder of the Lombard League
Pope Pius IV	Religion	31-Mar-1499	9-Dec-1565	Roman Catholic Pope 1560-65
Carlo Ponti	Film/TV Producer	11-Dec-1910	10-Jan-2007	Doctor Zhivago
Dino Risi	Film Director	23-Dec-1916	7-Jun-2008	The Easy Life
Nino Rota	Composer	3-Dec-1911	10-Apr-1979	Film composer, The Godfather
Greta Scacchi	Actor	18-Feb-1960		The Player
Silvio Scaglia	Business	1958		FastWeb, Bablegum
Pope Urban III	Religion	?	19-Oct-1187	Roman Catholic Pontiff, 1185-87
Allegra Versace	Relative	30-Jun-1986		Waify Versace heiress
Luchino Visconti	Film Director	2-Nov-1906	17-Mar-1976	La Terra Trema
Mike Volpi	Business	c. 1966		CEO of Joost

DEATHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Nicola Abbagnano	Philosopher	15-Jul-1901	9-Sep-1990	Italian existentialist
St. Ambrose	Religion	c. 340 AD	4-Apr-397 AD	Church Father, fought Arianism
Giuseppe Arcimboldo	Painter	1527	11-Jul-1593	Painter of metamorphic imagery
Cesare Beccaria	Philosopher	15-Mar-1738	28-Nov-1794	On Crimes and Punishments
Arrigo Boito	Composer	24-Feb-1842	10-Jun-1918	Mefistofele
Ambrogio Borgognone	Painter	c. 1455	1524	Milanese Renaissance painter
Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich	Astronomer	18-May-1711	13-Feb-1787	Theoria philosophiae naturalis
John Carradine	Actor	5-Feb-1906	27-Nov-1988	In over 200 B movies
Walter Chiari	Actor	2-Mar-1924	20-Dec-1991	Bellissima
Franco Corelli	Singer	8-Apr-1921	29-Oct-2003	Operatic tenor
Umberto Eco	Scholar	5-Jan-1932	19-Feb-2016	Foucault's Pendulum, The Name of the Rose
Gianfranco Ferrè	Fashion Designer	15-Aug-1944	17-Jun-2007	Italian fashion designer
Dario Fo	Playwright	26-Mar-1926	13-Oct-2016	Italian playwright and Nobel laureate
Tommaso Grossi	Poet	20-Jan-1791	10-Dec-1853	The Lombards in the First Crusade
Bernardino Luini	Painter	c. 1481	1532	Painter of the Lombard School
Alessandro Manzoni	Poet	7-Mar-1785	22-May-1873	I Promessi Sposi
Marino Marini	Musician	11-May-1924	20-Mar-1997	Innovative pop music bandleader
Dimitri Mitropoulos	Conductor	1-Mar-1896	2-Nov-1960	Conductor, NY Philharmonic, 1949-58
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta	Activist	20-Sep-1833	10-Feb-1918	Founder of the Lombard League
Eugenio Montale	Poet	12-Oct-1896	12-Sep-1981	Ossi di seppia
Giuseppe Parini	Poet	22-May-1729	15-Aug-1799	Il Mattino
Amilcare Ponchielli	Composer	31-Aug-1834	16-Jan-1886	La Gioconda
Cecil Powell	Physicist	5-Dec-1903	9-Aug-1969	Discovered the pi-meson
Renato Ruggiero	Politician	9-Apr-1930	4-Aug-2013	Director-General of the WTO, 1995-99
Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli	Astronomer	14-Mar-1835	4-Jul-1910	Discovered canals on Mars
Giuseppe Verdi	Composer	9-Oct-1813	27-Jan-1901	La Traviata
Elio Vittorini	Novelist	23-Jul-1908	13-Feb-1966	Conversations in Sicily

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