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Thank you for allowing me an opportunity to answer your interesting
question. Here are some posthumously famous people that I was able to
ferret out for you. For your convenience each link contains a brief
excerpt of the story behind the person?s belated fame:
Carl Fredrik Hill - artist
http://www.hubin.org/news/column/lucc1_creativity/cf_hill_en.html
Hill got famous only after his death, and the works from his healthy
period attracted attention in the first place. Later Gunnar Ekelöf and
several other Swedish poets played an essential role for the
reassessment of the art from Hill´s ill period. Just like in the case
of Ernst Josephson this art became an important source of inspiration
to the artists of Modernism.
Nakahara Chuya ? poet
http://www.city.yamaguchi.yamaguchi.jp/english/body/figure/figures.html
A modern poet Nakahara Chuya, who contributed great achievements to
the history of Japanese Literature, was born at Yudaonsen Yamaguchi
city on 29th of April in 1907. He devoted his 30 years of life to make
poems. He died in obscurity in a unfamiliar land and his poems gained
fame only after his death. However, as time has passed, his poems have
become highly valued. Chuya has recently been recognized as one of the
best modern lyric poets.
Billy Tipton ? Jazz Musician
http://www.lezbeout.com/BillyTiptonmusicianormagician.htm
During his lifetime, you probably never heard of the immensely
talented jazz musician, Billy Tipton. Unfortunately Billy would become
famous world wide only after his death?. immediately after his death
[and only then when it was discovered that ?he? was really a ?she?].
Innokenty Annensky ? poet
http://www.300.years.spb.ru/eng/3_spb_3.html?id=94
Innokenty Annensky's literary fate was unusual. Throughout his
lifetime, the poet was hardly known outside of Tsarskoye Selo, where
he lived during the last years of his life. Annensky became known and
famous only after his death.
Thomas Eakins ? painter
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/eakins_t.html
When Thomas Eakins died in 1916, he left behind a body of work
unprecedented in American art for its depth, strength, perception,
character, and commitment to realism. Yet during his life, Eakins sold
less than thirty paintings. Rejected by the public and the art
establishment of his day, it was only after his death that a new
generation of scholars and critics recognized Eakins as one of
America's greatest painters.
Nathaniel Hale ? patriot
http://www.justmorons.com/articles/day030606.html
Moments before his execution, he expressed regret that he couldn't be
hanged more than once. This remark catapulted him to posthumous fame
(but only after his death), and Nathan Hale is revered to this day.
Emily Dickinson ? poet
http://troy.gc.peachnet.edu/www/bstrickl/lit/dickinso.htm
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson became famous only after her death. In her
adult life, she was a recluse who only rarely ventured out of her
house. A lover of poetry and a great reader, Dickinson tentatively
became a poet herself, with the encouragement of some prominent
writers and editors. However, during her lifetime, only seven of her
short, haunting, innovative poems were published. After her death,
though, her poetic legacy proved to be glorious.
http://www.skygaze.com/content/facts/literature.shtml
It was only after her death that volumes of her writings were
discovered, and it was not until 1890, four years after she died, that
the first collection of her work was published.
Billy Holliday ? entertainer
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/holiday_b.html
During her lifetime she had fought racism and sexism, and in the face
of great personal difficulties triumphed through a deep artistic
spirit. It is a tragedy that only after her death could a society, who
had so often held her down, realize that in her voice could be heard
the true voice of the times.
James Dean ? actor
http://members.shaw.ca/giant/Jimmy.htm
It's sad that his fame and popularity bolstered after he died in that
car crash on September 30, 1955. An example to show how unknown Dean
was when he was alive. Just before the fatal car crash, Dean was
pulled over for speeding, and the officer giving him the ticket didn't
even know who he was when Dean said he worked for Warner Brothers.
Vincent (Willem) van Gogh ? artist
http://gallery.sjsu.edu/paris/breaking_away/bio_vangogh.htm
Van Gogh sold only one painting, Red Vineyard at Arles, during his
lifetime. He was little known to the art world at the time of his
death, but his paintings became famous after he died. He had a
significant impact on Expressionism, Fauvism and early abstraction, as
well as other aspects of 20th-century art.
http://www.gsn.org/gsh/past/hakuna/report04.html
?he only started painting in the last 10 years of his life, and that
he was so upset by his condition of epilepsy, that he took his own
life at 47. His work only became famous after he died.
Dr. James Naismith ? inventor of basketball
http://www.athletics.mcgill.ca/varsity_sports_article.ch2?article_id=110
What would he think of multi-million dollar player contracts and
sponsorship deals and the never-ending season of the National
Basketball Association which was founded in 1946, seven years after he
died?
Christopher Columbus ? explorer
http://www.rit.edu/~kecncp/Courses/160-1999-3/columbus1.doc
Columbus did not really discover America. People were living in
America before Columbus arrived, but he was the first explorer in
recorded history to cross the Atlantic Ocean. He did not know he had
found a new continent and thought he had reached the Indies. He only
became famous after he died.
Johann Sebastian Bach ? composer
http://projects.cbe.ab.ca/riverbend/classical/research.html
He composed for the glory of God and his own pleasure. Bach was more
famous for his harpsichord and organ playing than his composing?
Bach?s compositions became more famous after he died.
http://www.platforma.pl/bach/eng/index.phtml
He was not famous as a compositor during his life, only further
generations discovered his genius.
Clarice Cliff ? artist, pioneer of the Art Deco genre
http://www.bbc.co.uk/antiques/collectorsguide/features/clarice_cliff.shtml
Clarice continued to promote her ware as Artistic Director at the
pottery and was rewarded with seeing some of her work become
collectors pieces in the 1960s. But it was not until several years
after her death in 1972, that Art Deco was rediscovered by the larger
antique-buying community, and her enormous influence on British
pottery truly acknowledged.
Sacagawea - Native American Explorer whose face now appears on the US dollar coin
http://www.washingtonhistory.org/wshm/lewisandclark/sacagawea.htm
Sacagawea's factually documented personal worth is proudly acclaimed
by her Fort Hall Reservation, Idaho, Lemhi descendants who "want the
world to know that she is Lemhi Shoshoni."
Tom Thomson - Canada's premier landscapist and colourist.
http://www.sandrashaw.com/tt2003.htm
Tom Thomson was not famous during his life-time, and so no one thought
to photograph him.
Gregor Mendel ? scientist, ?The Father of Genetics?
http://134.174.17.106/develop/vanvactor/heredity.html
Unlike Darwin, Mendel didn't travel very much at all, and was never
famous or noteworthy during his life time.
Willebrord Snell - Dutch mathematician who is best known for his
discovery of refraction
http://www.qerhs.k12.nf.ca/projects/physics/snell.html
Willebrord's biggest contribution to science, however, is the law of
refraction, even though it wasn't published until almost 70 years
after he died.
George Davis ? early baseball player
http://www.thebaseballpage.com/past/pp/davisgeorge/
He was elected to the Hall of Fame 89 years after he retired and 58
years after he died.
El Greco ? artist
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m0HTZ/2_133/104835375/p1/article.jhtml
After his death, El Greco's paintings lost their popularity and were
soon forgotten. The quality of his paintings was rediscovered,
however, in the 19th century, when French artists Eugene Delacroix and
Edgar Degas admired his work and had examples of his paintings in
their own art collections. More recently, most artists, especially
Modern Artists called "Expressionists," recognized how great his
paintings really were--400 years after he died.
King ?Tut? Tutankhamun ? Egyptian Monarch
http://www.theculturedtraveler.com/Heritage/Archives/Qin_Army.htm
Thirty centuries after his death, the boy-king, Tut, became a far
greater legend than he had been in his own time.
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