Chiam See Tong was born on 1935-03-12.

"Life Lion"

(And I'm sure he spells it 'Chaim Leib', not 'Chiam Lieb'.)

If you mean Lechayim (also spelled L'chayim), it means "to life"

Otherwise, La chiam doesn't mean anything.

Chiam Soutine was a somewhat successful Russian painter, there is no count on his work since he would go back over canvases and change them and he destroyed alot of his work because he didn't like it.

The traditional Jewish toast is l'chiam, pronounces sort of like your transliteration. The ch is pronounced like the ch in the names Bach and Loch Ness. The word chiam means life, and the prefix l' means to, so the correct translation is "to life."