Attila Özdemiroğlu (5 January 1943 – 20 April 2016) was a Turkish composer,  arranger  and music producer. He was best known for his award winning film scores in the 1970s and 1980s. Mehmet Atilla Özdemiroğlu (5 Ocak 1943, Ankara - 20 Nisan 2016, İstanbul), Türk besteci, söz yazarı ve aranjördür. 

Şenay Yüzbaşıoğlu (née Ekiz, 19 January 1947– 4 January 2013), commonly known as Şenay, was a Turkish singer-songwriter. Şenay Yüzbaşıoğlu, (19 Ocak 1947, İstanbul - 4 Ocak 2013, İstanbul), Türk şarkıcı ve söz yazarı. Sev Kardeşim ve Hayat Bayram Olsa şarkıları ile tanınmıştır.

Happy Birthday to BARAN Kurdish-Iranian singer who turns 35 today, January 4, 2023.

Happy Birthday to FILIZ AKIN Turkish actress who turns 80 today, January 2, 2023.

Mehmet Barış Manço (born Tosun Yusuf Mehmet Barış Manço; 2 January 1943 – 1 February 1999), better known by his stage name Barış Manço, was a Turkish rock musician, singer, composer, actor, television producer and show host. Beginning his musical career while attending Galatasaray High School, he…

Machi Tawara (俵 万智, Tawara Machi, born December 31, 1962) is a contemporary Japanese writer, translator and poet. Tawara is most famous as a contemporary poet. She is credited with revitalizing the tanka for modern Japanese audiences. Her skill as a translator consist of translating classical…

Happy Birthday to PSY Korean singer who turns 45 today, December 31, 2022.

Osman Hamdi Bey (30 December 1842, in Istanbul  – 24 February 1910 was an Ottoman administrator, intellectual, art expert and also a prominent and pioneering painter. He was also an accomplished archaeologist, and is regarded as the pioneer of the museum curator's profession in Turkey. He was the…

Jun Ishikawa (石川 淳, Ishikawa Jun, 7 March 1899 – 29 December 1987) was the pen name of a modernist author, translator and literary critic active in Shōwa period Japan. His real name (written in the same kanji) was Ishikawa Kiyoshi.

Shen Congwen (28 December 1902 – 10 May 1988), formerly romanized as Shen Ts'ung-wen, was a Chinese writer who is considered one of the greatest modern Chinese writers, on par with Lu Xun. Regional culture and identity plays a much bigger role in his writing than that of other major early modern…