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Lieutenant-General Bernard Cyril Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg, was a British-born New Zealand soldier and Victoria Cross recipient, who served as the 7th governor-general of New Ze…
Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg, New Zealand general and politician, 7th Governor-General of New Zealand (born…
Clyde Kennard was an American Korean War veteran and civil rights leader from Hattiesburg, Mississippi. In the 1950s, he attempted several times to enroll at the all-white Mississi…
Clyde Kennard, American activist and martyr (born 1927)
Pingali Venkayya was an Indian freedom fighter, known for designing the initial version of the Indian National Flag. Apart from his role in the independence movement, Venkayya was …
Pingali Venkayya, Indian activist, designed the Flag of India (born 1876)
George, Duke of Mecklenburg was the head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz from 1934 until his death. Through his father, he was a descendant of Emperor Paul I of Russia.
George, duke of Mecklenburg (born 1899)
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Blythe Thornhill Wakelam, known as Teddy Wakelam, was an English sports broadcaster and rugby union player who captained Harlequin F.C.
Teddy Wakelam, English rugby player and sportscaster (born 1893)
William Shaw Andrew MC was an Anglican priest in the mid 20th Century.
William Andrew, English priest (born 1884)
Ugo Cerletti was an Italian neurologist who discovered the method of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) used in psychiatry. Electroconvulsive therapy is a therapy in which electric cu…
Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist and academic (born 1877)
George August "Hooks" Dauss was an American professional baseball player from 1909 to 1926. He played 15 seasons of Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher for the Detroit …
Hooks Dauss, American baseball player (born 1889)
Garrett Augustus Morgan Sr. was an American inventor, businessman, and community leader. His most notable inventions were a protective "smoke hood" that he notably used in a 1916 t…
Garrett Morgan, American inventor (born 1877)
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Borgward was a German engineer and designer and the creator of the Borgward group, based in Bremen.
Carl Borgward, German engineer, founder of Borgward Group
Theodore Huebner Roethke was an American poet. He is regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential poets of his generation, having won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1…
Theodore Roethke, American poet (born 1908)
Oliver Hazard Perry La Farge II was an American writer and anthropologist. In 1925, he surveyed many early Olmec sites in Mexico, and later studied additional sites in Central Amer…
Oliver La Farge, American anthropologist and author (born 1901)
Sigrid Alfhild Maria "Signe" Salén was a Swedish doctor who was one of Sweden's first female physicians. She was known for specialising in treating venereal diseases as well as cam…
Signe Salén, Swedish doctor (born 1871)
Salvador Bacarisse Chinoria was a Spanish composer.
Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer (born 1898)
Ramon Vila Capdevila, sometimes known by various nicknames, including Caracremada, was a Catalan anarchist, member of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, and guerrilla fighter.
Ramon Vila Capdevila, last of the Spanish Maquis, holding out after the end of the Spanish Civil War (born 1908)
Patrick Bouvier Kennedy was the youngest child of United States president John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy. His elder siblings were Caroline, John Jr., and Arabell…
Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, American son of John F. Kennedy (born 1963)
Carey Estes Kefauver was an American politician from Tennessee. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1939 to 1949 and in the U.S. S…
Estes Kefauver, American lawyer and politician (born 1903)
Ernst Wetter was a Swiss politician.
Ernst Wetter, Swiss lawyer and jurist (born 1877)
Otto Wahle was an Austrian-American swimmer who took part in two Summer Olympic Games and won a total of three medals. Wahle coached the men's US swim team at the 1912 Olympics, an…
Otto Wahle, Austrian-American swimmer and coach (born 1879)
Eugène Louis Bastien was a French racing cyclist and fencer who competed in the late 19th century and early 20th century. He participated in Cycling at the 1900 Summer Olympics in …
Louis Bastien, French cyclist and fencer (born 1881)
Clifford Odets was an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor. In the mid-1930s, he was widely seen as the potential successor to Nobel Prize–winning playwright Eugene O'Neill…
Clifford Odets, American director, playwright, and screenwriter (born 1906)
Joan Kathleen Harding Eardley was a British artist noted for her portraiture of street children in Glasgow and for her landscapes of the fishing village of Catterline and surroundi…
Joan Eardley, British artist (born 1921)
Joan George Erardus Gijsbertus Voûte was a Dutch astronomer.
Joan Voûte, Dutch astronomer (born 1879)
William Richard Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, was an English motor manufacturer and philanthropist. He was the founder of Morris Motors Limited and is remembered for establishing …
William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, English businessman and philanthropist, founded Morris Motors (born 1877)