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Evelyn Underhill was an English Anglo-Catholic writer and pacifist known for her numerous works on religion and spiritual practice, in particular Christian mysticism. Her best-know…
Evelyn Underhill, English mystic and author (born 1875)
Johan Wagenaar was a Dutch composer and organist.
Johan Wagenaar, Dutch organist and composer (born 1862)
Georgije Bogić was a Serbian Orthodox protopresbyter and the parish priest of the Orthodox church in Našice; who was martyred by the Ustaše during the Second World War, for which h…
Đorđe Bogić, protopresbyter of the Serbian Orthodox Church, victim of Genocide of Serbs (born 1911)
Otto Hirsch was a German Jewish jurist and politician during the Weimar Republic. He was born in Stuttgart, Germany and died in Mauthausen concentration camp.
Otto Hirsch, German jurist and politician (born 1885)
Ignacy Jan Paderewski was a Polish pianist, composer, philanthropist, and statesman. As a politician and diplomat, Paderewski was vital to securing international recognition of the…
Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist, composer, and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Poland (born 1860)
Yefim Moiseyevich Fomin was a Soviet political commissar. He is known for his part in the 1941 Defense of Brest Fortress, during which the German Army captured and immediately exec…
Yefim Fomin, Belarusian politician (born 1909)
Aleksander Tõnisson VR I/1 was an Estonian military commander during the Estonian War of Independence.
Aleksander Tõnisson, Estonian general and politician, 5th Estonian Minister of War (born 1875)
Friedrich Karl Akel was an Estonian diplomat and politician who served as State Elder of Estonia in 1924.
Friedrich Akel, Estonian physician and politician, Head of State of Estonia (born 1871)
Antoni Marian Łomnicki was a Polish mathematician. He contributed to applied mathematics and cartography. He was the author of several textbooks of mathematics and was an influenti…
Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician and academic (born 1881)
Moses Schorr, Polish: Mojżesz Schorr was a rabbi, Polish historian, politician, Bible scholar, assyriologist and orientalist. Schorr was an expert on the history of the Jews in Pol…
Moses Schorr, Polish rabbi, historian, and politician (born 1874)
Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe, known professionally as Jelly Roll Morton, was an American blues and jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer of Louisiana Creole descent. Morton was jazz's…
Jelly Roll Morton, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (born 1890)
Huntley Wright was an English stage and film actor, comedian, dancer and singer, best known for creating roles in many important Edwardian musical comedies.
Huntley Wright, English actor (born 1868)
Ilmar Raud was an Estonian chess master.
Ilmar Raud, Estonian chess player (born 1913)
Spiridon "Špiro" Bocarić was a Serb painter.
Špiro Bocarić, Serbian painter, victim of Genocide of Serbs
Lew Fields was an American actor, comedian, vaudeville star, theatre manager, and producer. Partnering with Joe Weber, they formed the comedy double-act of Weber and Fields. He als…
Lew Fields, American actor and producer (born 1867)
Bohdan Teodor Nestor Sylvestrovych Lepky was a Ukrainian writer, poet, scholar, public figure, and artist.
Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian poet and scholar (born 1872)
George Lyman Kittredge was a professor of English literature at Harvard University. His scholarly edition of the works of William Shakespeare was influential in the early 20th cent…
George Lyman Kittredge, American scholar and educator (born 1860)
José Abelardo Quiñones Gonzáles was a Peruvian military aviator who posthumously became a national hero for his actions at the Battle of Zarumilla during the Ecuadorian–Peruvian Wa…
José Quiñones Gonzales, Peruvian soldier and pilot (born 1914)
Henri Léon Lebesgue was a French mathematician known for his theory of integration, which was a generalization of the 17th-century concept of integration—summing the area between a…
Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician and academic (born 1875)
Alfred Henry O'Keeffe, was a New Zealand artist and art teacher, who spent the majority of his life in Dunedin. During the first quarter of the twentieth century, he was one of the…
Alfred Henry O'Keeffe, New Zealand painter and educator (born 1858)
Hugo Celmiņš was a Latvian politician, a public employee, agronomist, twice the Prime Minister of Latvia. Arrested and deported to the USSR after the Soviet occupation of Latvia in…
Hugo Celmiņš, Latvian politician, former Prime Minister of Latvia (born 1877)
Mihály Babits was a Hungarian poet, writer, essayist, and translator. His poems are well known for their intense religious themes. His novels such as “The Children of Death” (1927)…
Mihály Babits, Hungarian poet and author (born 1883)
Rabindranath Tagore, was a British Indian poet, author, playwright, musician, composer, philosopher, social reformer, painter, and one of the foremost figures of the Bengal Renaiss…
Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1861)