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Walter Percy Chrysler was an American industrial pioneer in the automotive industry, automotive industry executive, and the founder and namesake of American Chrysler Corporation.
Walter Chrysler, American businessman, founded Chrysler (born 1875)
Hermann Obrecht was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1935–1940).
Hermann Obrecht, Swiss lawyer and politician (born 1882)
Ernest Lawrence Thayer was an American writer and poet who wrote the poem "Casey", which is "the single most famous baseball poem ever written" according to the Baseball Almanac, a…
Ernest Thayer, American poet and author (born 1863)
Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge was an English physicist and electrical engineer whose investigations into electromagnetic radiation (EMR) contributed to the development of radio. He ident…
Oliver Lodge, English physicist and academic (born 1851)
Jean d'Orléans was Orléanist pretender to the defunct French throne as Jean III. He used the courtesy title of Duke of Guise.
Prince Jean, Duke of Guise (born 1874)
Georges Gauthier was a French Canadian archbishop of Montreal and the first rector of the Université de Montréal.
Georges Gauthier, Canadian archbishop (born 1871)
DeLancey Walker Gill was an American drafter, landscape painter, and photographer. Gill first became noted for his landscape illustrations and watercolors, featuring subjects such …
DeLancey W. Gill, American painter (born 1859)
Lev Davidovich Trotsky, better known as Leon Trotsky, was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician and political theorist. He was a key figure in the 1905 Revolution, the October…
Leon Trotsky, Russian theorist and politician, founded the Red Army (born 1879)
Gerald Paul Joseph Cajetan Carmel Antony Martin Strickland, 6th Count della Catena, 1st Baron Strickland,, usually known between 1897 and January 1928 as Sir Gerald Strickland, was…
Gerald Strickland, 1st Baron Strickland, Maltese lawyer and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Malta (born 1861)
Paul Julius Gottlieb Nipkow was a German electrical engineer and inventor. He invented the Nipkow disk, which laid the foundation of television, since his disk was a fundamental co…
Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Polish-German technician and inventor, invented the Nipkow disk (born 1860)
Sir Joseph John Thomson was a British physicist. He received the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics "in recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations …
J. J. Thomson, English physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1856)
George William de Carteret was a Norman language journalist and writer from Jersey.
George William de Carteret, French-English journalist and author (born 1869)
Thomas Harte was the first of seven Irish Republican Army (IRA) members executed by Irish forces in Mountjoy Prison and Portlaoise Prison prisons between 1940 and 1944.
Thomas Harte (Irish republican) (born 1915)
Patrick MacGrath was born into an old Dublin republican family and took part in the 1916 Rising, as did two of his brothers. He was sent to Frongoch Internment Camp after the 1916…
Patrick McGrath (Irish republican) (born 1894)
José Félix Estigarribia Insaurralde was a Paraguayan military officer and politician who served as the 34th President of Paraguay from 1939 until his death in a plane crash on 7 Se…
José Félix Estigarribia, Paraguayan soldier and politician, President of Paraguay (born 1888)
Herman "Hemmo" Kallio was a Finnish stage and film actor and playwright.
Hemmo Kallio, Finnish actor (born 1863)
Issy Smith was a British-Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to eligible forces of the Com…
Issy Smith, British-Australian soldier and Jewish recipient of the Victoria Cross (born 1890)
Charles Wallace Alexander Napier Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington,, was a British politician and colonial administrator who served as Governor of Queensland from 1896 to 1901,…
Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington, English-Scottish politician, 8th Governor of Queensland (born 1860)
William Brockman Bankhead was an American politician who served as the 42nd speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1936 to 1940, representing Alabama's 10th and…
William B. Bankhead, American lawyer and politician, 47th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (born…
Hale Holden was president of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CB&Q) from 1914 to 1918 and 1920 to 1929, and chairman of the board of directors for Southern Pacific Rail…
Hale Holden, American businessman (born 1869)
Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German philosopher, cultural critic, media theorist, and essayist. An eclectic thinker who combined elements of German idealism, Jewish myst…
Walter Benjamin, German philosopher and critic (born 1892)
Julius Wagner-Jauregg was an Austrian physician who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1927, and is the first psychiatrist to have done so. His Nobel award was "for h…
Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian physician and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1857)
Chiungtze C. Tsen, given name Chiung, was a Chinese mathematician born in Nanchang, Jiangxi. He is known for his work in algebra. He was one of Emmy Noether's students at the Unive…
Chiungtze C. Tsen, Chinese mathematician (born 1898)
Ballington Booth was a British-born American Christian minister who co-founded Volunteers of America, a Christian charitable organization, and became its first General (1896-1940).…
Ballington Booth, English-American activist, co-founded the Volunteers of America (born 1857)