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Yaroslav Oleksandrovych Halan was a Soviet Ukrainian writer, playwright, and publicist.
Yaroslav Halan, Ukrainian playwright and publicist (died 1949)
Albert Namatjira was an Arrernte painter from the MacDonnell Ranges in Central Australia, widely considered one of the most notable Australian artists. As a pioneer of contemporary…
Albert Namatjira, Australian painter (died 1959)
Sir George Oswald Browning "Gubby" Allen CBE was a cricketer who captained England in eleven Test matches. In first-class matches, he played for Middlesex and Cambridge University.…
Gubby Allen, Australian-English cricketer and soldier (died 1989)
Pope Cyril VI was the 116th Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark from 10 May 1959 until his death in 1971.
Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria (died 1971)
Regina Jonas was a Berlin-born Reform rabbi. In 1935, she became the first woman to be ordained as a rabbi. Jonas was murdered in the Holocaust.
Regina Jonas, German rabbi (died 1944)
James David Buttolph Jr. was an American film composer who scored over 300 movies in his career.
David Buttolph, American film composer (died 1983)
William Anthony Hallahan was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball during the 1920s and 1930s. Nicknamed "Wild Bill" because of his lack of control on the mound—…
Bill Hallahan, American baseball player (died 1981)
Sir Karl Raimund Popper was an Austrian–British philosopher, academic and social commentator. One of the 20th century's most influential philosophers of science, Popper is known fo…
Sir Karl Popper, Austrian-English philosopher and academic (died 1994)
Sir Karl Raimund Popper was an Austrian–British philosopher, academic and social commentator. One of the 20th century's most influential philosophers of science, Popper is known fo…
Karl Popper, Austrian-English philosopher and academic (died 1994)
Mina Spiegel Rees was an American mathematician. She is known for her assistance to the US Government during WWII, as well as making several breakthroughs for women in science. Her…
Mina Rees, American mathematician (died 1997)
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac was an English theoretical physicist who is considered to be one of the founders of quantum mechanics. Dirac laid the foundations for both quantum electro…
Paul Dirac, English-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1984)
René-Charles "Zino" Francescatti was a French virtuoso violinist, renowned for his lyrical playing style.
Zino Francescatti, French violinist (died 1991)
Panteleimon Kondratyevich Ponomarenko was a Soviet statesman and politician and one of the leaders of Soviet partisan resistance in Belarus. He served as an administrator at variou…
Panteleimon Ponomarenko, Russian general and politician (died 1984)
Edith Norma Shearer was a Canadian-American actress who was active on film from 1919 through 1942. Shearer often played spunky, sexually liberated women. She appeared in adaptation…
Norma Shearer, Canadian-American actress (died 1983)
Curt Siodmak was a German-American novelist, screenwriter and director. He is known for his work in the horror and science fiction film genres, with such films as The Wolf Man and …
Curt Siodmak, German-English author and screenwriter (died 2000)
Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius was a Swedish biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1948 "for his research on electrophoresis and adsorption analysis, especially for his …
Arne Tiselius, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1971)
Alfredo Binda was an Italian road cyclist of the 1920s and 1930s. He was the first to win five editions of the Giro d'Italia, and a three-time world champion. In addition he won Mi…
Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (died 1986)
Lloyd Benedict Nolan was an American stage, film and television actor who rose from a supporting player and B-movie lead early in his career to featured player status after creatin…
Lloyd Nolan, American actor (died 1985)
Christian Marie Ferdinand de la Croix de Castries was a French general and the commander of forces at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954.
Christian de Castries, French general (died 1991)
Mohammad Hatta was an Indonesian statesman, nationalist, and independence activist who served as the country's first vice president as well as the third prime minister. Known as "T…
Mohammad Hatta, Indonesian statesman, 1st Vice President of Indonesia (died 1980)
Felix Heinrich Wankel was a German mechanical engineer and inventor after whom the Wankel engine was named. Wankel joined various radical antisemitic organizations after World War …
Felix Wankel, German engineer (died 1988)
Jan Remco Theodoor Campert was a Dutch journalist, theater critic and writer who lived in Amsterdam. During the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II Campert was arr…
Jan Campert, Dutch journalist and critic (died 1943)
Georgette Heyer was an English novelist and short-story writer, in both the Regency romance and detective fiction genres. Her writing career began in 1921, when she turned a story …
Georgette Heyer, English author (died 1974)
Wallace Henry Thurman was an American novelist and screenwriter active during the Harlem Renaissance. He also wrote essays, worked as an editor, and was a publisher of short-lived …
Wallace Thurman, American author and playwright (died 1934)