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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)
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)
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)
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)
Elinor Glyn was a British novelist and scriptwriter who specialised in romantic fiction, which was considered scandalous for its time, although her works are relatively tame by mod…
Elinor Glyn, English author, screenwriter, and producer (born 1864)
Alexander Noble Hall, sometimes known as Sandy Hall, was a professional soccer player who played as a centre forward in the Scottish League for Dunfermline Athletic, Dundee, Mother…
Alexander Hall, Scottish-Canadian soccer player (born 1880)
Henri Claude Fertet was a French schoolboy and resistance fighter who was executed by the German occupying forces during World War II. He was posthumously awarded several national …
Henri Fertet, French Resistance fighter (born 1926)
Samuel Ruben was an American chemist who with Martin Kamen co-discovered the synthesis of the isotope carbon-14 in 1940.
Sam Ruben, American chemist and academic (born 1913)
Filippo Illuminato was an Italian partisan who died attacking Nazi German troops during the Four days of Naples in World War II. He was posthumously awarded the Gold Medal of Milit…
Filippo Illuminato, Italian partisan, Gold Medal of Military Valour (born 1930)
Franz Oppenheimer was a German-American sociologist and political economist, who published also in the area of the fundamental sociology of the state.
Franz Oppenheimer, German-American sociologist and economist (born 1864)
Sir John William Evans, CMG was an Australian politician, a member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly and Premier of Tasmania from 11 July 1904 to 19 June 1909.
John Evans, English-Australian politician, 21st Premier of Tasmania (born 1855)
Irena Morzycka-Iłłakowicz was a Polish second lieutenant of the National Armed Forces and intelligence agent. The daughter of Bolesław Morzycki and Władysława Zakrzewska and the si…
Irena Iłłakowicz, German-Polish lieutenant (born 1906)
Leon Joseph Roppolo was an American early jazz clarinetist, best known for his playing with the New Orleans Rhythm Kings. He also played saxophone and guitar.
Leon Roppolo, American clarinet player and composer (born 1902)
John Radclyffe-Hall, born as Marguerite Antonia Radclyffe-Hall and also known by her pen name Radclyffe Hall, was an English poet and author best known for her novel The Well of Lo…
Radclyffe Hall, English author and poet (born 1880)
Pieter Zeeman was a Dutch experimental physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Hendrik Lorentz for their discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effec…
Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1865)
Rudolf Beckmann was a German SS-Oberscharführer in the Sobibor extermination camp. He was stabbed to death during the uprising in Sobibor by inmates. Beckmann was a member of the N…
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Pere Areny Aleix was an Andorran man who was the last person to be executed by Andorra.
Pere Areny, Andorran convicted murderer, last person executed by Andorra (born 1913)
Camille Rosalie Claudel was a French sculptor known for her figurative works in bronze and marble. She died in relative obscurity. Later in the 20th century, she gained renewed att…
Camille Claudel, French sculptor and illustrator (born 1864)