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Karl Emil Julius Ulrich Salchow was a Danish-born Swedish figure skater, who dominated the sport in the first decade of the 20th century.
Ulrich Salchow, Danish-Swedish figure skater (born 1877)
Benjamin Rice Faunce Jr. (1873–1949) was an American druggist and businessman who created the soft drink Boost! and established the Boost! Company.
Benjamin Faunce, American druggist and businessman (born 1873)
Frederick Ingram Walden was an English professional footballer who played outside right for Northampton Town, Tottenham Hotspur and at international level for England during the 19…
Fanny Walden, English footballer and cricketer (born 1888)
Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck, also known as Count/Comte Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He wa…
Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian-French poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1862)
Louis II was Prince of Monaco from 26 June 1922 to 9 May 1949.
Louis II, Prince of Monaco (born 1870)
Archbishop Damaskinos Papandreou, born Dimitrios Papandreou, was the archbishop of Athens and All Greece from 1941 until his death in 1949. He was also the regent of Greece between…
Damaskinos of Athens, Greek archbishop and politician, 137th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1891)
Klaus Heinrich Thomas Mann was a German writer and anti-fascist activist. He was the son of Thomas Mann, a nephew of Heinrich Mann and brother of Erika Mann and Golo Mann.
Klaus Mann, German-American novelist, playwright, and critic (born 1906)
Jan Frans De Boever was a Belgian Symbolist painter, known for his paintings of voluptuous nude women in morbid contexts. Skeletons, death and eroticism flood his oeuvre. He made i…
Jan Frans De Boever, Belgian painter and illustrator (born 1872)
Alexey Victorovich Shchusev was a Russian and Soviet architect who was successful during three consecutive epochs of Russian architecture – Art Nouveau, Constructivism, and Stalini…
Alexey Shchusev, Russian architect, designed Lenin's Mausoleum and Moscow Kazanskaya railway station (born 1873)
LeRoy Robert Ripley was an American cartoonist, entrepreneur, and amateur anthropologist, who is known for creating the Ripley's Believe It or Not! newspaper panel series, televisi…
Robert Ripley, American cartoonist, publisher, and businessman, founded Ripley's Believe It or Not! (born 1890)
Emmanuel Célestin Suhard was a French cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Paris from 1940 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1935. He w…
Emmanuel Célestin Suhard, French cardinal (born 1874)
Sigrid Undset was a Danish-born Norwegian novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928.
Sigrid Undset, Danish-Norwegian novelist, essayist, and translator, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1882)
Albert II was a male rhesus macaque monkey who was the first primate and first mammal to travel to outer space. He flew from Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, United States, t…
Albert II, rhesus macaque, animal astronaut, and first mammal in space
Frank Elbridge Webb was an American engineer who served as the Farmer–Labor Party's presidential candidate in 1928. In the 1932 presidential election, he was initially renominated …
Frank Elbridge Webb, American engineer and presidential candidate (born 1869)
Syed Zafarul Hasan was a Pakistani Islamic philosopher.
Syed Zafarul Hasan, Indian philosopher and academic (born 1885)
John Frank "Buck" Freeman was an American right fielder in Major League Baseball at the turn of the 20th century. Listed at 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) and 169 lb (77 kg), he both batted an…
Buck Freeman, American baseball player (born 1871)
James J. Steen was an American water polo player who competed with the New York Athletic Club and won a team gold medal in the 1904 St. Louis Olympics. He later lived in New Rochel…
James Steen, American water polo player (born 1876)
Themistoklis Sofoulis or Sophoulis was a prominent centrist and liberal Greek politician from Samos Island, who served three times as Prime Minister of Greece, with the Liberal Par…
Themistoklis Sofoulis, Greek politician, 115th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1860)
Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild, also known as Baron Édouard de Rothschild was an aristocrat, French financier and a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of Franc…
Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild, French financier and polo player (born 1868)
Fritz Bennicke Hart was an English composer, conductor, teacher and unpublished novelist, who spent considerable periods in Australia and Hawaii.
Fritz Hart, English-Australian composer and conductor (born 1874)
Douglas Ross Hyde, known as An Craoibhín Aoibhinn, was an Irish academic, linguist, scholar of the Irish language, politician, and diplomat who served as the first president of Ire…
Douglas Hyde, Irish scholar and politician, 1st President of Ireland (born 1860)
Kim Ku, also known by his art name Paekpŏm, was a Korean independence activist and statesman. He was a leader of the Korean independence movement against the Empire of Japan, head …
Kim Koo, South Korean educator and politician, 13th President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (bo
Francis Sydney Smythe, better known as Frank Smythe or F. S. Smythe, was an English mountaineer, author, photographer and botanist. He is best remembered for his mountaineering in …
Frank Smythe, English botanist and mountaineer (born 1900)
François Antoine Brandt was a Dutch rower who competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris. Brandt was part of the Dutch eight team that won a bronze medal with Hermanus Brockmann…
François Brandt, Dutch rower and engineer (born 1874)