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Archbishop Damaskinos Papandreou, born Dimitrios Papandreou, was the archbishop of Athens and All Greece from 1941 until his death in 1949. He was also the regent of Greece between…
Damaskinos of Athens, Greek archbishop and politician, 137th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1891)
Klaus Heinrich Thomas Mann was a German writer and anti-fascist activist. He was the son of Thomas Mann, a nephew of Heinrich Mann and brother of Erika Mann and Golo Mann.
Klaus Mann, German-American novelist, playwright, and critic (born 1906)
Jan Frans De Boever was a Belgian Symbolist painter, known for his paintings of voluptuous nude women in morbid contexts. Skeletons, death and eroticism flood his oeuvre. He made i…
Jan Frans De Boever, Belgian painter and illustrator (born 1872)
Alexey Victorovich Shchusev was a Russian and Soviet architect who was successful during three consecutive epochs of Russian architecture – Art Nouveau, Constructivism, and Stalini…
Alexey Shchusev, Russian architect, designed Lenin's Mausoleum and Moscow Kazanskaya railway station (born 1873)
LeRoy Robert Ripley was an American cartoonist, entrepreneur, and amateur anthropologist, who is known for creating the Ripley's Believe It or Not! newspaper panel series, televisi…
Robert Ripley, American cartoonist, publisher, and businessman, founded Ripley's Believe It or Not! (born 1890)
Emmanuel Célestin Suhard was a French cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Paris from 1940 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1935. He w…
Emmanuel Célestin Suhard, French cardinal (born 1874)
Sigrid Undset was a Danish-born Norwegian novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928.
Sigrid Undset, Danish-Norwegian novelist, essayist, and translator, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1882)
Albert II was a male rhesus macaque monkey who was the first primate and first mammal to travel to outer space. He flew from Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, United States, t…
Albert II, rhesus macaque, animal astronaut, and first mammal in space
Frank Elbridge Webb was an American engineer who served as the Farmer–Labor Party's presidential candidate in 1928. In the 1932 presidential election, he was initially renominated …
Frank Elbridge Webb, American engineer and presidential candidate (born 1869)
Syed Zafarul Hasan was a Pakistani Islamic philosopher.
Syed Zafarul Hasan, Indian philosopher and academic (born 1885)
John Frank "Buck" Freeman was an American right fielder in Major League Baseball at the turn of the 20th century. Listed at 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) and 169 lb (77 kg), he both batted an…
Buck Freeman, American baseball player (born 1871)
James J. Steen was an American water polo player who competed with the New York Athletic Club and won a team gold medal in the 1904 St. Louis Olympics. He later lived in New Rochel…
James Steen, American water polo player (born 1876)
Themistoklis Sofoulis or Sophoulis was a prominent centrist and liberal Greek politician from Samos Island, who served three times as Prime Minister of Greece, with the Liberal Par…
Themistoklis Sofoulis, Greek politician, 115th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1860)
Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild, also known as Baron Édouard de Rothschild was an aristocrat, French financier and a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of Franc…
Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild, French financier and polo player (born 1868)
Fritz Bennicke Hart was an English composer, conductor, teacher and unpublished novelist, who spent considerable periods in Australia and Hawaii.
Fritz Hart, English-Australian composer and conductor (born 1874)
Douglas Ross Hyde, known as An Craoibhín Aoibhinn, was an Irish academic, linguist, scholar of the Irish language, politician, and diplomat who served as the first president of Ire…
Douglas Hyde, Irish scholar and politician, 1st President of Ireland (born 1860)
Kim Ku, also known by his art name Paekpŏm, was a Korean independence activist and statesman. He was a leader of the Korean independence movement against the Empire of Japan, head …
Kim Koo, South Korean educator and politician, 13th President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (bo
Francis Sydney Smythe, better known as Frank Smythe or F. S. Smythe, was an English mountaineer, author, photographer and botanist. He is best remembered for his mountaineering in …
Frank Smythe, English botanist and mountaineer (born 1900)
François Antoine Brandt was a Dutch rower who competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris. Brandt was part of the Dutch eight team that won a bronze medal with Hermanus Brockmann…
François Brandt, Dutch rower and engineer (born 1874)
Walter Francis Kuhn was an American painter and an organizer of the famous Armory Show of 1913, which was America's first large-scale introduction to European Modernism.
Walt Kuhn, American painter and academic (born 1877)
Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov was a Russian poet, playwright, Classicist, and senior literary and dramatic theorist of the Russian Symbolist movement. He was also a philosopher, tran…
Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russian poet and playwright (born 1866)
Vítězslav Augustín Rudolf Novák was a Czech composer and academic teacher at the Prague Conservatory. Stylistically, he was part of the neo-romantic tradition, and his music is con…
Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer and educator (born 1870)
Francisco Javier Arana Castro was a Guatemalan military leader and one of the three members of the revolutionary junta that ruled Guatemala from 20 October 1944 to 15 March 1945 du…
Francisco Javier Arana, Guatemalan Army colonel and briefly Guatemalan head of state (born 1905)
Rainier III was Prince of Monaco from 1949 to his death in 2005. Rainier ruled the Principality of Monaco for almost 56 years.
Rainier III became Prince of Monaco, beginning a 56-year reign, which would make him one of the longest ruling monarchs