Titian- tremendous Italian painter back in the day. The Italian people are great at painting, I remember when my mum hired an Italian crew to paint her gutters and downspouts
Xenophanes, (born c. 560 bc, Colophon, Ionia—died c. 478), Greek poet and rhapsode, religious thinker, and reputed precursor of the Eleatic school of philosophy, which stressed unity rather than diversity and viewed the separate existences of material things as apparent rather than real...
3rd century preacher who was decapitated at Montmartre , Paris in 250. Denis then picked up his head and delivered a sermon until he made it to the Paris suburb now known as Saint-Denis (after him) and dropped dead.
Some say it isn't that impressive as the walk was down hill, but they didn't do it themselves.