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Kalle Juhonpoika Hakala was a Finnish newspaper editor, politician and member of the Parliament of Finland, the national legislature of Finland. A member of the Social Democratic P…
Kalle Hakala, Finnish politician (born 1880)
Zhang Lingfu was a high-ranking general of the Chinese National Revolutionary Army. He successfully fought against the Communists and the Imperial Japanese Army. In 1947, his unit …
Zhang Lingfu, Chinese general (born 1903)
Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard was a Hungarian–German experimental physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1905 for his work on cathode rays. This work led to his exp…
Philipp Lenard, Slovak-German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1862)
Georgios Siantos was a Greek politician and prominent figure of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) who served as acting general secretary of the party, and as a leader of the Nati…
Georgios Siantos, Greek sergeant and politician (born 1890)
Charles Ferdinand Ramuz was a French-speaking Swiss writer.
Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, Swiss author and poet (born 1878)
Edward Joseph Konetchy, nicknamed "Big Ed" and "the Candy Kid", was an American first baseman in Major League Baseball for a number of teams, primarily in the National League, from…
Ed Konetchy, American baseball player and manager (born 1885)
August Eigruber was an Austrian-born Nazi Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of Reichsgau Oberdonau and Landeshauptmann of Upper Austria. He was convicted of war crimes at Mauthausen-…
August Eigruber, Austrian-German politician (born 1907)
Georg Ludwig Ritter von Trapp was an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Navy who became the patriarch of the Trapp Family Singers. After their naturalisation as US citizens, the famil…
Georg von Trapp, Austrian captain (born 1880)
John Gretton, 1st Baron Gretton, was a British businessman and Conservative politician. Gretton won two gold medals in the 1900 Olympic Games. He served as a Member of Parliament (…
John Gretton, 1st Baron Gretton, English sailor and politician (born 1867)
Nils Olaf Chrisander was a Swedish actor and film director in the early part of the twentieth century.
Nils Olaf Chrisander, Swedish-American actor and director (born 1884)
Alexander Bethune, merchant, was the 12th Mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, serving from 1907 to 1908. He had previously served seven years as alderman.
Alexander Bethune, Canadian businessman and politician, 12th Mayor of Vancouver (born 1852)
Shigematsu Sakaibara was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, the Japanese garrison commander on Wake Island during World War II, and a convicted war criminal. He was respons…
Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral (born 1898)
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel was an American mobster who was a driving force behind the development of the Las Vegas Strip. Along with his childhood friend and fellow gangster Meyer Lan…
Bugsy Siegel, American mobster (born 1906)
James Evershed Agate was an English diarist and theatre critic between the two world wars. He took up journalism in his late twenties and was on the staff of The Manchester Guardia…
James Agate, English author and critic (born 1877)
Emil Seidel was an American woodworker, patternmaker and politician. Seidel was the mayor of Milwaukee from 1910 to 1912. The first Socialist mayor of a major city in the United St…
Emil Seidel, American politician, Mayor of Milwaukee (born 1864)
James Emerson Delaney, known professionally as Jimmy Doyle, was a welterweight boxer who died after a boxing match with Sugar Ray Robinson.
Jimmy Doyle, American boxer (born 1924)
Richard Bedford Bennett, 1st Viscount Bennett was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, philanthropist, and politician who served as the 11th prime minister of Canada from 1930 to 1935.
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Stanislav Kostka Neumann was a Czech poet, literary critic, journalist and translator. He was known for his anarchist and communist views, which influenced his work. He is the fath…
Stanislav Kostka Neumann, Czech writer, poet and journalist (born 1875)
Adolfo Müller-Ury, KSG was a Swiss-born American portrait painter and impressionistic painter of roses and still life.
Adolfo Müller-Ury, Swiss-American painter (born 1862)
Lucjan Żeligowski was a Polish general, politician, military commander and veteran of World War I, the Polish-Soviet War and World War II. He is mostly remembered for his role in Ż…
Lucjan Żeligowski, Polish-Lithuanian general and politician (born 1865)
James Melvin Lunceford was an American jazz alto saxophonist and bandleader in the swing era.
Jimmie Lunceford, American saxophonist and bandleader (born 1902)
Walter Donaldson was a prolific American popular songwriter and publishing company founder, composing many hit songs of the 1910s to 1940s, that have become standards and form part…
Walter Donaldson, American soldier and songwriter (born 1893)
Evald Tipner was an Estonian footballer widely regarded as one of the greatest Estonian goalkeepers of all time. He was capped 66 times for the Estonia national football team, 7 ti…
Evald Tipner, Estonian footballer and ice hockey player (born 1906)
U Razak was a Burmese politician and an educationalist. Of mixed Bamar-Indian ancestry, he was a cabinet minister in Aung San's pre-independence interim government, and was assassi…
U Razak, Burmese educator and politician (born 1898)