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Alexander Osipovich Gelfond was a Soviet mathematician. Gelfond's theorem, also known as the Gelfond–Schneider theorem, is named after him.
Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician and cryptographer (died 1968)
Karl Humenberger was an Austrian association football player and manager, the brother of fellow player Ferdinand Humenberger.
Karl Humenberger, Austrian footballer (died 1989)
Primo Carnera was the first Italian Heavyweight Champion boxer, holding the title from 1933 to 1934. Nicknamed the Ambling Alp, he was best known for his immense size and status as…
Primo Carnera, Italian boxer and actor (died 1967)
Peter Blume was an American painter and sculptor. His work contained elements of folk art, Precisionism, Parisian Purism, Cubism, and Surrealism.
Peter Blume, Belarusian-American painter and sculptor (died 1992)
Earle Cabell was an American politician who served as the 48th mayor of Dallas from 1961 to 1964. Cabell was mayor at the time of the assassination of United States President John …
Earle Cabell, American banker and politician, Mayor of Dallas (died 1975)
Kazuo Ohno was a Japanese dancer who became a guru and inspirational figure in the dance form known as Butoh. He is the author of several books on Butoh, including The Palace Soar…
Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer and educator (died 2010)
Fredric Brown was an American science fiction, fantasy, and mystery writer. He is known for his use of humor and for his mastery of the "short short" form—stories of one to three …
Fredric Brown, American author (died 1972)
Emilio Giuseppe "Nino" Farina was an Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1950 to 1956. Farina won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in its inaugural 1…
Giuseppe Farina, Italian race car driver (died 1966)
Hans Otto Georg Hermann Fegelein was a high-ranking commander in the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany. He was Adolf Hitler's liaison officer to Heinrich Himmler and brother-in-law to Eva …
Hermann Fegelein, German general (died 1945)
Alexander Gottfried Friedrich Gode-von Aesch was a German-born American linguist, translator and the driving force behind the creation of the auxiliary language Interlingua.
Alexander Gode, German-American linguist and translator (died 1970)
Luis Martín García was a Spanish Jesuit, elected the twenty-fourth Superior General of the Society of Jesus.
Luis Martín, Spanish religious leader, 24th Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (born 1846)
Pierre Curie was a French physicist and chemist, and a pioneer in crystallography and magnetism. He shared one half of the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife, Marie Curie, f…
Pierre Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1859)
Spencer William Gore was an English tennis player who won the first Wimbledon tournament in 1877 and a first-class cricketer who played for Surrey County Cricket Club (1874–1875).
Spencer Gore, English tennis player and cricketer (born 1850)
John Knowles Paine was the first American-born composer to achieve fame for large-scale orchestral music. The senior member of a group of composers collectively known as the Boston…
John Knowles Paine, American composer and educator (born 1839)
Oscar Leopold von Gebhardt was a German Lutheran theologian, born in the Baltic German settlement of Wesenberg in the Russian Empire.
Oscar von Gebhardt, German theologian and academic (born 1844)
Carl Christian Schurz was a German-American revolutionary and an American statesman, journalist, and reformer. He migrated to the United States after the German revolutions of 1848…
Carl Schurz, German-American general, journalist, and politician, 13th United States Secretary of the Interior (born 182
Gabriel Dumont (1837–1906) was a Métis political figure best known for being a prominent leader of the Métis people. Dumont was well known for his movements within the North-West R…
Gabriel Dumont, Canadian Métis leader (born 1837)
Henrik Johan Ibsen was a Norwegian playwright. He is considered one of the world's pre-eminent writers of the 19th century and is often referred to as "the father of modern drama".…
Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian director, playwright, and poet (born 1828)
John Riley Maxwell was an American golfer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.
John Maxwell, American golfer (born 1871)
George Chetwynd Griffith-Jones was a British writer. He was active mainly in the science fiction genre—or as it was known at the time, scientific romance—in particular writing many…
George Griffith, British writer (born 1857)
Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann was a German philosopher, independent scholar and writer. He was the author of the influential Philosophy of the Unconscious (1869). von Hartmann's …
Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher and author (born 1842)
Richard John Seddon was a New Zealand politician who served as the 15th premier of New Zealand from 1893 until his death in 1906. In office for thirteen years, he is to date New Ze…
Richard Seddon, English-New Zealand politician, 15th Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1845)
John Clayton Adams or J. Clayton Adams was an English landscape artist.
John Clayton Adams, English painter (born 1840)
William Snodgrass was a Canadian Presbyterian minister and the sixth Principal of Queen's College, now Queen's University.
William Snodgrass, Canadian minister and academic (born 1827)