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Frumka Płotnicka was a Jewish Polish resistance fighter during World War II; activist of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ŻOB) and member of the Labour Zionist organization Dror. …
Frumka Płotnicka, Polish resistance fighter during World War II (born 1914)
Joseph James Kelley was an American left fielder in Major League Baseball (MLB) who starred in the outfield of the Baltimore Orioles teams of the 1890s. Making up the nucleus of th…
Joe Kelley, American baseball player and manager (born 1871)
Ali Agha Ismail Agha oghlu Shikhlinski was an Azerbaijani lieutenant-general of the Imperial Russian Army, Deputy Minister of Defense and General of the Artillery of Azerbaijan Dem…
Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Azerbaijani general (born 1865)
Sir William Hill Irvine was an Australian politician and judge. He served as Premier of Victoria (1902–1904), Attorney-General of Australia (1913–1914), and Chief Justice of Victor…
William Irvine, Irish-Australian politician, 21st Premier of Victoria (born 1858)
Henrik Pontoppidan was a Danish realist writer who shared with Karl Gjellerup the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1917 for "his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark.…
Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1857)
Antonio Alice was an Argentine portrait painter. He was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1904.
Antonio Alice, Argentinian painter and educator (born 1886)
Ettore Muti was an Italian aviator and Fascist politician. He was party secretary of the National Fascist Party from October 1939 until shortly after the entry of Italy into World …
Ettore Muti Italian aviator, adventurer and politician (born 1902)
Simone Adolphine Weil was a French philosopher, mystic, political activist and labourer. Despite her short life, her ideas concerning religion, spirituality and politics have remai…
Simone Weil, French philosopher and activist (born 1909)
Bîmen Şen was a composer and lyricist of Armenian descent.
Bîmen Şen, Turkish composer and songwriter (born 1873)
Georg Hellat was an Estonian architect.
Georg Hellat, Estonian architect (born 1870)
Boris III was the Tsar of the Kingdom of Bulgaria from 1918 until his death in 1943.
Boris III of Bulgaria (born 1894)
Eduard Karel Alexander de Neve was a Dutch footballer who played as a forward for Velocitas Breda, HBS Craeyenhout and the Netherlands national team.
Eddy de Neve, Indonesian-Dutch footballer and lieutenant (born 1885)
Eustáquio van Lieshout, SSCC was a Dutch Catholic missionary priest in Brazil from the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
Eustáquio van Lieshout, Dutch priest and missionary (born 1890)
Charles Atangana, also known by his birth name, Ntsama, and his German name, Karl, was the paramount chief of the Ewondo people.
Charles Atangana, Cameroonian ruler (born 1880)
Marsden Hartley was an American Modernist painter, poet, and essayist. Hartley developed his painting abilities by observing Cubist artists in Paris and Berlin.
Marsden Hartley, American painter and poet (born 1877)
Marie Louise "Mary" Karadja was a Swedish writer, spiritual medium and aristocrat, a central figure in Western esotericism during the Belle Époque. Born in Stockholm to the busines…
Mary Karadja, Swedish writer, spiritualist and princess (born 1868)
Julius Fučík was a Czech journalist, critic, writer, and active member of Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. For his part at the forefront of the anti-Nazi resistance during the Se…
Julius Fučík, Czech journalist (born 1903)
Carlo Bergamini was an Italian admiral.
Carlo Bergamini, Italian admiral (born 1888)
Charles McLean Andrews, Ph.D, L.H.D. was an American historian and professor at Yale University whose Colonial Period of American History, vol. 1 of 4, was awarded the Pulitzer Pri…
Charles McLean Andrews, American historian, author, and academic (born 1863)
Jacob Gens was the head of the Judenrat and Jewish Ghetto Police of the Vilna Ghetto. Originally from a merchant family, he joined the Lithuanian Army shortly after the independenc…
Jacob Gens, head of the Vilnius Ghetto government (born 1903)
Friedrich Zickwolff was a German general during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany.
Friedrich Zickwolff, German general (born 1893)
Dysentery, historically known as the bloody flux, is a type of gastroenteritis that results in bloody diarrhea. Other symptoms may include fever, abdominal pain, and a feeling of i…
After suffering train derailments, defections, and outbreaks of dysentery and typhoid fever which killed two members, th
The Emilia Plater Independent Women's Battalion was a unit of the Soviet First Polish Army during the Second World War. It was created in 1943 with the intention of serving as a fr…
The all-female Emilia Plater Independent Women's Battalion was formed in the Soviet Union's First Polish Army.
World War II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated. Tanks and air…
Second World War: The Royal Navy submarine HMS Seraph began Operation Mincemeat to deceive Germany about the upcoming in