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Hüseyin Avni Lifij was a Turkish impressionist painter of Circassian origin. He is known for landscapes with architectural features.
Hüseyin Avni Lifij, Turkish painter (born 1886)
Charles Archibald Cecil Birkin was an English motorcycle racer, brother of Tim Birkin, one of the "Bentley Boys" of the 1920s.
Archie Birkin, English motorcycle racer (born 1905)
Edmund James Flynn was a Canadian lawyer, politician and the tenth premier of Quebec, from 1896 to 1897.
Edmund James Flynn, Canadian lawyer and politician, 10th Premier of Quebec (born 1847)
Victoria Claflin Woodhull, later Victoria Woodhull Martin, was an American leader of the women's suffrage movement who ran for president of the United States in the 1872 election. …
Victoria Woodhull, American activist for women's rights (born 1838)
William Attewell was a cricketer who played for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club and England. Attewell was a medium pace bowler who was renowned for his extraordinary accuracy a…
William Attewell, English cricketer (born 1861)
Ottavio Bottecchia was an Italian cyclist and the first Italian winner of the Tour de France.
Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (born 1894)
Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humorist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889). Other works include the essay collections Idle Thoughts of …
Jerome K
Armand Guillaumin was a French Impressionist painter and lithographer.
Armand Guillaumin, French painter (born 1841)
Smaragd Marie Charles Henry Jullien "Gérard" de Courcelles was a French racing driver who won the 24 Hours of Le Mans for the French Lorraine-Dietrich automobile company, along wit…
Gérard de Courcelles, French race car driver
Ludwig Karl Martin Leonhard Albrecht Kossel was a German biochemist and pioneer in the study of genetics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1910 for his …
Albrecht Kossel, German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1853)
Magnus Gustaf "Gösta" Mittag-Leffler was a Swedish mathematician. His mathematical contributions are connected chiefly with the theory of functions that today is called complex ana…
Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician and academic (born 1846)
John Drew Jr., commonly known as John Drew during his life, was an American stage actor noted for his roles in Shakespearean comedy, society drama, and light comedies. He was consi…
John Drew, Jr., American actor (born 1853)
Ahmed Kemaleddin, widely known as Mimar Kemaleddin was a Turkish architect, and one of the leading figures of the First National architectural movement, alongside Vedat Tek.
Mimar Kemaleddin Bey, Turkish architect and academic, designed the Tayyare Apartments (born 1870)
Ferdinand I, nicknamed the Unifier, was King of Romania from 10 October 1914 until his death in 1927. Ferdinand was the second son of Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern, and Infanta A…
Ferdinand I, king of Romania (born 1865)
Colonel Reginald Edward Harry Dyer, was a British military officer in the Bengal Army and later the newly constituted British Indian Army. His military career began in the regular …
Reginald Dyer, British brigadier general (born 1864)
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa , art name Chōkōdō Shujin (澄江堂主人), was a Japanese writer active in the Taishō period in Japan. He is regarded as the "father of the Japanese short story", and J…
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japanese author (born 1892)
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian immigrants and anarchists, controversially accused of murdering Alessandro Berardelli and Frederick Parmenter, a guard and a payma…
Nicola Sacco, Italian anarchist convicted of murder (born 1891)
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian immigrants and anarchists, controversially accused of murdering Alessandro Berardelli and Frederick Parmenter, a guard and a payma…
Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist convicted of murder (born 1888)
Andranik Ozanian, commonly known as General Andranik or simply Andranik, was an Armenian military commander and statesman, widely regarded as the preeminent fedayi and a seminal fi…
Andranik, Armenian general (born 1865)
Umegatani Tōtarō II was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Toyama City, Toyama Prefecture. He was the sport's 20th yokozuna. Umegatani had a great rivalry with fellow yoko…
Umegatani Tōtarō II, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 20th Yokozuna (born 1878)
William A. Libbey III was an American professor of physical geography at Princeton University. He was twice a member of the U.S. Olympic Rifle Team, and rose to the rank of colonel…
William Libbey, American target shooter and geographer (born 1855)
Sarah Frances Whiting was an American physicist and astronomer. In February 1896 Whiting founded both the physics and astronomy departments; and was the first professor of physics …
Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (born 1847)
Angela Isadora Duncan was an American-born dancer and choreographer, who was a pioneer of modern contemporary dance and performed to great acclaim throughout Europe and the United …
Isadora Duncan, American-Russian dancer and choreographer (born 1877)
Michael Peter Ancher was a Danish realist artist, widely known for his paintings of fishermen, the Skagerrak and the North Sea, and other scenes from the Danish fishing community i…
Michael Ancher, Danish painter (born 1849)