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Franz Kafka was a German-language Jewish Czech writer and novelist born in Prague, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature, his…
Franz Kafka, Czech-Austrian lawyer and author (born 1883)
William James Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie was a leading British shipbuilder and businessman. He was chairman of Harland & Wolff, shipbuilders, between 1895 and 1924, and also serve…
William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie, Irish businessman and politician, Lord Mayor of Belfast (born 1847)
Giacomo Matteotti was an Italian socialist, anti-fascist politician and an opposition leader, who was the secretary of the Unitary Socialist Party (PSU) from 1922 to 1924. Born in …
Giacomo Matteotti, Italian lawyer and politician (born 1885)
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British novelist and story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language and – though he did not speak English fluently u…
Joseph Conrad, British novelist (born 1857)
Sándor Bródy was a Hungarian author and journalist.
Sándor Bródy, Hungarian journalist and author (born 1863)
Thomas Kingston Kendall was an Australian cricketer, who played in two Test matches in 1877, including the inaugural Test which was played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in March …
Tom Kendall, English-Australian cricketer and journalist (born 1851)
Heinrich Berté, born Heinrich Bettelheim was an Austrian-Hungarian composer of operas and operettas.
Heinrich Berté, Slovak-Austrian composer (born 1856)
Mariano Malia Álvarez was a Filipino revolutionary and statesman. He was the first Municipal President of Noveleta.
Mariano Álvarez, Filipino general and politician (born 1818)
Velma Caldwell Melville was an American editor, and writer of prose and poetry from Wisconsin. She edited the Practical Farmer and the Wisconsin Farmer. Melville was one of the mos…
Velma Caldwell Melville, American editor, and writer of prose and poetry (born 1858)
Todor Aleksandrov Poporushov, anglicised as Todor Alexandrov, was a Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary, Bulgarian army officer, and teacher. He initially favoured the annexation of…
Todor Aleksandrov, Bulgarian soldier (born 1881)
Noe Khomeriki was a Georgian politician involved in the Social Democrat movement who was arrested for anti-soviet activity and shot during an uprising against the Soviet state.
Noe Khomeriki, Georgian Social Democrat politician (born 1883)
Francis Herbert Bradley was a British idealist philosopher. His most important work was Appearance and Reality (1893).
F. H. Bradley, English philosopher and author (born 1846)
Alexander Chalmers Bannerman was an Australian cricketer who played in 28 Test matches between 1879 and 1893.
Alick Bannerman, Australian cricketer and coach (born 1854)
Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov was a Russian poet, prose writer, dramatist, translator, critic and historian. He was one of the principal members of the Russian Symbolist movement.
Valery Bryusov, Russian author, poet, and critic (born 1873)
Anatole France was a French poet, journalist, and novelist. Several of his books were best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of lette…
Anatole France, French journalist, novelist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1844)
Louis Vorow Zborowski was a British racing driver and automobile engineer, best known for creating a series of aero-engined racing cars known as the "Chitty-Bang-Bangs", which prov…
Louis Zborowski, English race car driver and engineer (born 1895)
Mehmet Ziya Gökalp was a Turkish sociologist, writer, poet, and politician. After the 1908 Young Turk Revolution that reinstated constitutionalism in the Ottoman Empire, he adopted…
Ziya Gökalp, Turkish sociologist, poet, and activist (born 1876)
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett was a British-American novelist and playwright. She is best known for the three children's novels Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), A Little Princess (19…
Frances Hodgson Burnett, English-American novelist and playwright (born 1849)
The University of Chicago is a private research university in the Hyde Park community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States.
University of Chicago students Nathan Leopold Jr
Toastmasters International (TI) is a US-headquartered nonprofit educational organization that operates clubs worldwide to promote communication, public speaking, and leadership ski…
The educational non-profit organization Toastmasters International was founded at a YMCA in Santa Ana, California.
A private member's bill is a bill introduced into a legislature by a legislator who is not acting on behalf of the executive branch. The designation "private member's bill" is used…
A private senator's bill by Herbert Payne to introduce compulsory voting in Australia became law.
The United States Army Air Service (USAAS) was the aerial warfare service component of the United States Army between 1918 and 1926 and a forerunner of the United States Air Force.…
A team of U.S. Army Air Service aviators landed in Seattle, Washington, to complete the first aerial circumnavigation…
The Daily Mail, often known simply as the Mail, is a British daily middle-market tabloid-size conservative newspaper founded in 1896 and published in London. Its sister paper The M…
The Daily Mail published the Zinoviev letter, a hoax purported to be a directive from Moscow to increase communist…
George VI was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death in 1952. He was also the last Emperor of India from 193…
The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey