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Sir Roy George Douglas Allen, CBE, FBA was an English economist, mathematician and statistician, also member of the International Statistical Institute.
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Freda Josephine Baker, also spelled Joséphine Baker, was an American and French dancer, singer, and actress. Her career was centered primarily in Europe, mostly in France. She was …
Josephine Baker, French actress, singer, and dancer; French Resistance operative (died 1975)
Robert Walter Vivian Robins was an English cricketer and cricket administrator, who played for Cambridge University, Middlesex, and England. A right-handed batsman and right-arm le…
Walter Robins, English cricketer and footballer (died 1968)
Max August Zorn was a German mathematician. He was an algebraist, group theorist, and numerical analyst. He is best known for Zorn's lemma, a method used in set theory that is appl…
Max August Zorn, German mathematician and academic who is noted for Zorn's Lemma (died 1993)
Robert Klark Graham was an American eugenicist and businessman who made millions by developing shatterproof plastic eyeglass lenses and who later founded the Repository for Germina…
Robert Klark Graham, American eugenicist and businessman, founded Repository for Germinal Choice (died 1997)
Sandro Penna was an Italian poet.
Sandro Penna, Italian poet (died 1977)
Bruno de Finetti was an Italian probabilist statistician and actuary, noted for the "operational subjective" conception of probability. The classic exposition of his distinctive th…
Bruno de Finetti, Austrian-Italian mathematician and statistician (died 1985)
William Gordon Welchman was an English mathematician. During World War II, he worked at Britain's secret decryption centre at Bletchley Park, where he was one of the most important…
Gordon Welchman, English-American mathematician and author (died 1985)
Léon Joseph Marie Ignace Degrelle was a Belgian Walloon politician and Nazi collaborator. He rose to prominence in Belgium in the 1930s as the leader of the Rexist Party (Rex). Dur…
Léon Degrelle, Belgian SS officer (died 1994)
Alan Geoffrey Fairfax was an Australian cricketer who played in ten Test matches from 1929 to 1931. He was an all rounder.
Alan Fairfax, Australian cricketer (died 1955)
Sir Ernst Boris Chain was a German-born British biochemist. He shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Alexander Fleming and Howard Florey "for the discovery of…
Ernst Boris Chain, German-Irish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1979)
Knut "Knutte" Kroon was a Swedish footballer who played as a striker.
Knut Kroon, Swedish footballer (died 1975)
Hermann Julius Walther Rauff, also Walther Rauff was a mid-ranking SS commander in Nazi Germany. From January 1938, he was an aide of Reinhard Heydrich firstly in the Security Serv…
Walter Rauff, German SS officer (died 1984)
Robert Wade King was an American athlete, who won a gold medal in the high jump at the 1928 Summer Olympics with a jump of 1.93 m. His personal best was 1.997 m, achieved earlier …
Bob King, American high jumper and obstetrician (died 1965)
Sir William Reid FRSE FIME DSc DCL was a 20th-century Scottish businessman and mining engineer. He served as President of the Mining Institute of Scotland 1951/2 and as President o…
William Reid, Scottish mining engineer (died 1985)
Grete Sultan was a German-American pianist.
Grete Sultan, German-American pianist (died 2005)
William Calvert Kneale was an English logician best known for his 1962 book The Development of Logic, a history of logic from its beginnings in Ancient Greece written with his wif…
William Kneale, English logician and philosopher (died 1990)
Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh was an American writer and aviator. She was the wife of decorated pioneer aviator Charles Lindbergh, with whom she made many exploratory flights.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American pilot and author (died 2001)
Billy Wilder was an Austrian and American film director and screenwriter. His career in Hollywood spanned five decades, and he is regarded as one of the most versatile filmmakers o…
Billy Wilder, Austrian-born American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2002)
Tribhuvan Bir Bikram Shah, was the King of Nepal from 1911 until his death in 1955, excluding a brief period of exile between November 1950 and January 1951.
Tribhuvan of Nepal (died 1955)
Pierre Léon Marie Fournier was a French cellist who was called the "aristocrat of cellists" on account of his elegant musicianship and majestic sound.
Pierre Fournier, French cellist and educator (died 1986)
Willard Maas was an American experimental filmmaker and poet.
Willard Maas, American poet and educator (died 1971)
Alberto Rabagliati was an Italian jazz singer.
Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer (died 1974)
Viktor Schreckengost was an American industrial designer as well as a teacher, sculptor, and artist. His wide-ranging work included noted pottery designs, industrial design, bicycl…
Viktor Schreckengost, American sculptor and educator (died 2008)