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Esteban Terrades i Illa also known as Esteve Terradas, was a Spanish mathematician, scientist and engineer. He researched and taught widely in the fields of mathematics and the phy…
Esteban Terradas i Illa, Spanish mathematician and engineer (born 1883)
Belle da Costa Greene was an American librarian who managed and developed the personal library of J. P. Morgan. After Morgan died in 1913, Greene continued as librarian for his son…
Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian and bibliographer (born 1883)
Daniel Ciugureanu was a Romanian politician from Bessarabia, deputy in Sfatul Țării from Chișinău, Prime Minister of the Moldavian Democratic Republic from 29 January [O.S. 16 Janu…
Daniel Ciugureanu, Romanian physician and politician, Prime Minister of Moldova (born 1884)
Alfonso Quiñónez Molina was a Salvadoran politician and physician who served as the 24th President of El Salvador from 1923 to 1927. He also served as the country's acting presiden…
Alfonso Quiñónez Molina, Salvadoran politician, physician, and three-time president of El Salvador (born 1874)
Field Marshal Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell was a senior officer of the British Army. He served in the Second Boer War, the Bazar Valley Campaign and the First World W…
Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, English field marshal and politician, 43rd Governor-General of India (born 1883)
Muiris Ó Súilleabháin, anglicised as Maurice O'Sullivan, was an Irish author famous for his Irish language memoir of growing up on the Great Blasket Island and in Dingle, County Ke…
Muiris Ó Súilleabháin, Irish police officer and author (born 1904)
Milada Horáková was a Czech politician and a member of the underground resistance movement against Nazi Germany and then against the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. She was focu…
Milada Horáková, Czech politician, victim of judicial murder (born 1901)
Émile Jaques-Dalcroze was a Swiss composer, musician, and music educator who developed Dalcroze eurhythmics, an approach to learning and experiencing music through movement. Dalcro…
Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, Swiss composer and educator (born 1865)
Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen was a Finnish and American architect, designer, and urban planner. Saarinen worked in a diverse range of styles in his native Finland and, after emigrating …
Eliel Saarinen, Finnish-American architect, co-designed the National Museum of Finland (born 1873)
Thomas William Burgess was the second person to successfully complete a swim of the English Channel after Matthew Webb, following sixteen attempts. Burgess was British but spent mo…
Thomas William Burgess, English swimmer and water polo player (born 1872)
Theodore "Fats" Navarro was an American jazz trumpet player and a pioneer of the bebop style of jazz improvisation in the 1940s. A native of Key West, Florida, he toured with big b…
Fats Navarro, American trumpet player and composer (born 1923)
Othmar Spann was a conservative Austrian philosopher, sociologist and economist. His radical anti-liberal and anti-socialist views, based on early 19th century Romantic ideas expre…
Othmar Spann, Austrian sociologist, economist, and philosopher (born 1878)
Richard Fontaine Maury was an American railway engineer and naturalized Argentine. He became known for the project of the Argentine "Ramal C-14" of the Ferrocarril General Manuel B…
Richard Maury, American-Argentinian engineer (born 1882)
Elsie de Wolfe, Lady Mendl was an American actress who became a prominent interior designer and author. Born in New York City, de Wolfe was acutely sensitive to her surroundings fr…
Elsie de Wolfe, American actress, author, and interior decorator (born 1865)
Evangeline Cory Booth OF was a British evangelist and the fourth General of The Salvation Army from 1934 to 1939. She was the first woman to hold the post.
Evangeline Booth, English 4th General of The Salvation Army (born 1865)
Antonie Nedošinská was a Czech film actress. She appeared in 89 films between 1916 and 1947.
Antonie Nedošinská, Czech actress (born 1885)
Carl Clinton Van Doren was an American critic and biographer. He was the brother of critic and teacher Mark Van Doren and the uncle of Charles Van Doren.
Carl Clinton Van Doren, American critic and biographer (born 1885)
William Lyon Mackenzie King was the tenth prime minister of Canada for three non-consecutive terms from 1921 to 1926, 1926 to 1930, and 1935 to 1948. A Liberal, he was the dominant…
William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canadian economist and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Canada (born 1874)
Shigenori Tōgō was Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Empire of Japan at both the start and the end of the Pacific War. He also served as Minister of Colonial Affairs in 1941, an…
Shigenori Tōgō, Japanese politician and diplomat, Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1882)
Sir Fergus McMaster was an Australian businessman and aviation pioneer. He was one of the three founders of the Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited, the airli…
Fergus McMaster, Australian businessman, founded Qantas (born 1879)
Giovanni Giorgi was an Italian physicist and electrical engineer who proposed the Giorgi system of measurement, the precursor to the International System of Units (SI).
Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist and engineer (born 1871)
Kirk Bryan was an American geologist on the faculty of Harvard University from 1925 until his death in 1950.
Kirk Bryan, American geologist and academic (born 1888)
Joseph Gibson Fry was a British racing driver. He became the primary driver for the Shelsley Special "Freikaiserwagen", created by his cousin David Fry and Hugh Dunsterville, with …
Joe Fry, English race car driver (born 1915)
Julien-Victor Lahaut was a Belgian politician and trade unionist who served as chairman of the Communist Party of Belgium from 1945 to 1950. An important figure during the German o…
Julien Lahaut, Belgian soldier and politician (born 1884)