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Robert Adair was an American-born British actor. He was born in San Francisco. He was also known as Robert A'Dair, the name by which he was billed in Journey's End (1930).
Robert Adair, American-born British actor (born 1900)
Demetrius Constantine Dounis, also known as D. C. Dounis, was an influential teacher of violin and string instrument technique, as well as violinist, violist, and mandolin player.
Demetrius Constantine Dounis, Greek violinist and mandolin player (born 1886)
Hugo Eckener was the manager of Luftschiffbau Zeppelin during the inter-war years, and also the commander of the famous Graf Zeppelin for most of its record-setting flights, includ…
Hugo Eckener, German pilot and airship designer (born 1868)
Alcide Amedeo Francesco De Gasperi was an Italian politician and statesman who founded the Christian Democracy party and served as prime minister of Italy in eight successive coali…
Alcide De Gasperi, Italian journalist and politician, 30th Prime Minister of Italy (born 1881)
Jaan Sarv was an Estonian mathematician and educator. Most of his life he worked as a professor at the University of Tartu. Sarv laid the foundation of Estonian language mathematic…
Jaan Sarv, Estonian mathematician and scholar (born 1877)
Getúlio Dornelles Vargas was a Brazilian military officer, lawyer, and politician who served as the 14th and 17th president of Brazil, from 1930 to 1945 and from 1951 until his sui…
Getúlio Vargas, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 14th President of Brazil (born 1882)
Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, was an Italian Catholic prelate and professed member of the Benedictines who served as the Archbishop of Milan from 1929 until his death. He took the re…
Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, Italian cardinal (born 1880)
Elsa Barker (1869–1954) was an American novelist, short-story writer and poet. She became best known for Letters from a Living Dead Man (1914), War Letters from the Living Dead Man…
Elsa Barker, American author and poet (born 1869)
Marika Kotopouli was a Greek stage actress during the first half of the 20th century.
Marika Kotopouli, Greek actress (born 1887)
Harry Conway "Bud" Fisher was an American cartoonist who created Mutt and Jeff, the first successful daily comic strip in the United States.
Bud Fisher, American cartoonist (born 1885)
Franz Leopold Neumann was a German political activist, Western Marxist theorist, and labor lawyer who became a political scientist in exile and is best known for his theoretical an…
Franz Leopold Neumann, German lawyer and political scientist (born 1900)
Eugen Schiffer was a German lawyer and liberal politician. He served as Minister of Finance and deputy head of government in the Weimar Republic from February to April 1919. From O…
Eugen Schiffer, German lawyer and politician, Vice-Chancellor of Germany (born 1860)
André Derain was a French artist, painter, sculptor and co-founder, with Henri Matisse, of Fauvism. His paintings of 1905–1906 are characterized by riotous colourism in the Fauve s…
André Derain, French painter and sculptor (born 1880)
Peter Anders was a German operatic tenor who sang a wide range of parts in the German, Italian, and French repertories. He began by singing lyric roles and later took dramatic role…
Peter Anders, German tenor and actor (born 1908)
Kokichi Mikimoto was a Japanese entrepreneur who is credited with creating the first cultured pearl and subsequently starting the cultured pearl industry with the establishment of…
Mikimoto Kōkichi, Japanese businessman (born 1858)
Ellen Crosby Roosevelt was an American tennis player. Roosevelt was a daughter of John Aspinwall Roosevelt, an estate proprietor, and Ellen Murray Crosby. She started playing tenni…
Ellen Roosevelt, American tennis player (born 1868)
George Schwartz Welch was a World War II triple ace, a Distinguished Service Cross recipient, and an experimental aircraft pilot after the war. Welch is best known for having been …
George Welch, American soldier and pilot (born 1918)
Jibanananda Das was a Bengali poet, writer, and educationist widely regarded as one of the major figures of twentieth-century Bengali modernist poetry. Often called Rupashi Banglar…
Jibanananda Das, Bangladeshi-Indian author and poet (born 1899)
Oxford is a cathedral city and non-metropolitan district in Oxfordshire, England, of which it is the county town.
At Oxford's Iffley Road Track, English runner Roger Bannister became the first person to run the mile in under four minu
J. Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. He is often called the …
The security clearance of American nuclear physicist J
Diane Susan Leather Charles, née Leather, was an English athlete who was the first woman to run a sub-5-minute mile.
Diane Leather became the first woman to run a mile in less than five minutes
P. N. Gadgil Jewellers Limited, also known as Purshottam Narayan Gadgil Jewellers, is an Indian jewellery company founded by Ganesh Gadgil in Sangli in 1832. It is one of the oldes…
Purshottam Narayan Gadgil, Indian jeweller and namesake of P. N. Gadgil Jewellers (born 1874)
In baseball, batting is the act of facing the opposing pitcher and trying to produce offense for one's team. A batter or hitter is a person whose turn it is to face the pitcher. Th…
Batting for the Milwaukee Braves against Vic Raschi of the St
Dungannon is a town in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is the second-largest town in the historic county and had a population of 16,282 at the 2021 Census. Since 2015, the town…
A convoy of circus wagons carrying lions, horses, ponies and an ass lost control and overturned into some shop fronts in