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Viktor Hermann Brack was a member of the Schutzstaffel (SS), a convicted Nazi war criminal and one of the prominent organisers of the involuntary euthanasia programme Aktion T4; th…
Viktor Brack, German physician (born 1904)
Karl Brandt was a German physician and Schutzstaffel (SS) officer in Nazi Germany. Trained in surgery, Brandt joined the Nazi Party in 1932 and became Adolf Hitler's "escort doctor…
Karl Brandt, German SS officer (born 1904)
Wolfram Sievers was a Nazi and convicted war criminal for medical atrocities carried out while he was managing director of the Ahnenerbe from 1935–1945. He was convicted of war cri…
Wolfram Sievers, German SS officer (born 1905)
The Lumière brothers, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas Lumière and Louis Jean Lumière, were French manufacturers of photography equipment, best known for their Cinématographe motion pic…
Louis Lumière, French film director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1864)
Shūji Tsushima , known by his pen name Osamu Dazai , was a Japanese novelist and author. A number of his most popular works, such as The Setting Sun and No Longer Human, are consid…
Osamu Dazai, Japanese author (born 1909)
William Edward Brooker was a Labor Party politician. He became the interim Premier of Tasmania on 19 December 1947 while Robert Cosgrove was facing corruption charges. He died on 1…
Edward Brooker, English-Australian politician, 31st Premier of Tasmania (born 1891)
Major General William Carey Lee was a senior United States Army officer who fought in World War I and World War II, during which he commanded the 101st Airborne Division, nicknamed…
William C
Dorothea Frances Bleek was a German–South African anthropologist and philologist known for her research on the Bushmen of Southern Africa.
Dorothea Bleek, South African anthropologist and philologist (born 1873)
Sultanzade Mehmed Sabahaddin was an Ottoman prince, sociologist, and intellectual. Because of his threat to the ruling House of Osman, of which he was a member, and his political a…
Prince Sabahaddin, Turkish-Swiss sociologist and academic (born 1879)
Achille Varzi was an Italian racing driver. He is remembered as the winner of the 1933 Monaco Grand Prix, as well as the winner of the first Formula One Grand Prix at the 1946 Turi…
Achille Varzi, Italian race car driver (born 1904)
José Bento Renato Monteiro Lobato was one of Brazil's most influential writers, mostly for his children's books set in the fictional Sítio do Picapau Amarelo but he had been previo…
Monteiro Lobato, Brazilian journalist and author (born 1882)
Carole Landis was an American actress. She worked as a contract player for Twentieth Century-Fox in the 1940s. Her breakout role was as the female lead in the 1940 film One Million…
Carole Landis, American actress (born 1919)
Petrus Josephus Mattheus "Piet" Aalberse Sr. was a Dutch politician of the General League of Roman Catholic Electoral Associations, later the Roman Catholic State Party (RKSP) and …
Piet Aalberse, Dutch politician (born 1871)
Louis Émile Clément Georges Bernanos was a French author, and a soldier in World War I. A Catholic with monarchist leanings, he was critical of elitist thought and was opposed to w…
Georges Bernanos, French soldier and author (born 1888)
John Joseph Pershing, nicknamed "Black Jack", was an American army general, educator, and founder of the Pershing Rifles. He served as the commander of the American Expeditionary F…
John J. Pershing, American general (born 1860)
Herman Gregorius Gummerus was a leading Finnish classical scholar, diplomat, and one of the founders of the Patriotic People's Movement (IKL).
Herman Gummerus, Finnish historian, academic, and politician (born 1877)
Arshile Gorky was an Armenian-American painter. At first influenced by Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Gorky's later work presaged and exerted a seminal influence on abstract…
Arshile Gorky, Armenian-American painter and illustrator (born 1904)
Rūdolfs Jurciņš was a Latvian basketball player. He played as a center.
Rūdolfs Jurciņš, Latvian basketball player (born 1909)
David Wark Griffith was an American film director. Considered one of the most influential figures in the history of the motion picture, he pioneered many aspects of film editing an…
D. W. Griffith, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1875)
Joel Woolf Barnato was a British financier and racing driver, one of the "Bentley Boys" of the 1920s. He achieved three consecutive wins out of three entries in the 24 Hours of Le …
Woolf Barnato, English race car driver and businessman (born 1898)
Joseph Bert Tinker was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played from 1902 through 1916 for the Chicago Cubs and Cincinnati Reds of Major League Baseball (MLB…
Joe Tinker, American baseball player and manager (born 1880)
The 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine was the first phase of the 1948 Palestine war. It broke out after the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a resolution on …
Civil War in Mandatory Palestine: The Jewish paramilitary group Haganah captured Haifa from the Arab Liberation Army
The Manchester Baby, also called the Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM), was the first electronic stored-program computer. It was built at the Victoria University of Mancheste…
The Manchester Baby (replica pictured), the world's first stored-program computer, ran its first program
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is an intergovernmental organisation with 38 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world t…
The Organisation for European Economic Co-operation, headquartered in Paris, was founded