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Mordecai Menahem Kaplan was an American Conservative rabbi, writer, Jewish educator, professor, theologian-philosopher, activist, and religious leader who founded the Reconstructio…
Mordecai Kaplan, Lithuanian rabbi, founded Reconstructionist Judaism (died 1983)
Margarita Maria “Maggie” Gripenberg was a pioneer of modern dance in Finland. She was the first to introduce Dalcroze Eurhythmics to Finland and modeled her early works on the impr…
Maggie Gripenberg, Finnish dancer and choreographer (died 1976)
Kesago Nakajima was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, Japanese forces under Nakajima's command committed the 1937 Nanjing Ma…
Kesago Nakajima, Japanese lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army (died 1945)
Tommy Burns was a Canadian professional boxer. He remains the only Canadian-born fighter to win the World Heavyweight Championship and is the shortest champion in the division's hi…
Tommy Burns, Canadian boxer and promoter (died 1955)
Zoltán Imre Ödön Halmay de Erdőtelek was a Hungarian Olympic swimmer. He competed in four Olympics, winning the following medals:1900: silver, bronze 1904: gold 1906: gold, silve…
Zoltán Halmay, Hungarian swimmer (died 1956)
Maginel Wright Enright Barney was an American children's book illustrator and graphic artist. She was the younger sister of Frank Lloyd Wright, architect, and the mother of Elizabe…
Maginel Wright Enright, American illustrator (died 1966)
Old Style (O.S.) and New Style (N.S.) indicate dating systems before and after a calendar change, respectively. Usually, they refer to the change from the Julian calendar to the Gr…
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George Shiels was an Irish dramatist whose plays were a success both in his native Ulster and at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. His most famous plays are The Rugged Path, The Passi…
George Shiels, Irish-Canadian author, poet, and playwright (died 1949)
Ya'akov Cahan or Kahan was an Israeli poet, playwright, translator, writer and Hebrew linguist.
Ya'akov Cohen, Israeli linguist, poet, and playwright (died 1960)
Harry Herbert Frazee was an American theatrical agent, producer, and director, and owner of Major League Baseball's Boston Red Sox from 1916 to 1923. He is well known for selling B…
Harry Frazee, American director, producer, and agent (died 1929)
Curt Sachs was a German musicologist. He was one of the founders of modern organology. Among his contributions was the Hornbostel–Sachs system, which he created with Erich von Horn…
Curt Sachs, German-American composer and musicologist (died 1959)
Sir Edward Battersby Bailey FRS FRSE MC was an English geologist.
Edward Battersby Bailey, English geologist (died 1965)
Royal Hurlburt Weller was an American politician and attorney who was a United States representative from New York from 1923 to 1929. He was assistant district attorney of New York…
Royal Hurlburt Weller, American lawyer and politician (died 1929)
Ulysses Simpson Grant III was a United States Army officer and planner. He was the son of Frederick Dent Grant, and the grandson of General of the Armies and American President Uly…
Ulysses S. Grant III, American general (died 1968)
Isabel Martin Lewis was an American astronomer who was the first woman hired by the United States Naval Observatory as assistant astronomer. In 1918, Lewis was elected a member of…
Isabel Martin Lewis, American astronomer and author (died 1966)
Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova was a Russian avant-garde artist, painter, costume designer, writer, illustrator, and set designer. Goncharova's lifelong partner was fellow Russian av…
Natalia Goncharova, Russian theatrical costume and set designer, painter and illustrator (died 1962)
John Bannerman McLean was a Canadian professional baseball catcher between 1901 until 1915. During his years in Major League Baseball, he played with five different teams. Beginnin…
Larry McLean, Canadian-American baseball player (died 1921)
Friedrich Dessauer was a German physicist, a philosopher, a socially engaged entrepreneur and a journalist.
Friedrich Dessauer, German physicist and philosopher (died 1963)
Augusta Fox Bronner was an American psychologist and criminologist, best known for her work in juvenile psychology. She co-directed the first child guidance clinic, and her researc…
Augusta Fox Bronner, American psychologist, specialist in juvenile psychology (died 1966)
Hans Fischer was a German organic chemist and the recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize for Chemistry "for his researches into the constitution of haemin and chlorophyll and especially…
Hans Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1945)
Otto Toeplitz was a German mathematician working in functional analysis. In addition to his mathematical research, Toeplitz is well known for the popular mathematics book The Enjoy…
Otto Toeplitz, German mathematician and academic (died 1940)
Major General Smedley Darlington Butler was a United States Marine Corps officer and, later, an anti-war advocate. During his 34-year military career, he fought in the Philippine–A…
Smedley Butler, American general, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1940)
Leopoldo Antonio Carrillo was an American actor, vaudevillian, political cartoonist, and conservationist. He was notable for playing Pancho in the television series The Cisco Kid (…
Leo Carrillo, American actor (died 1961)
Sir Alexander Fleming was a Scottish physician and microbiologist. He shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Howard Florey and Ernst Chain "for the discovery of…
Alexander Fleming, Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1955)