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Aleksandra Adolfovna Izmailovich was a Belarusian socialist revolutionary. From a noble family, she joined the Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR) while studying in Saint Petersbur…
Aleksandra Izmailovich, Belarusian revolutionary (born 1878)
Maria Alexandrovna Spiridonova was a Narodnik-inspired Russian revolutionary. In 1906, as a novice member of a local combat group of the Tambov Socialists-Revolutionaries (SRs), sh…
Maria Spiridonova, Russian revolutionary (born 1884)
Elias Charles Disney was a Canadian construction worker and entrepreneur. He was best known as the father of Roy and Walt Disney, co-founders of the Walt Disney Company. Elias was …
Elias Disney, Canadian-American farmer and businessman (born 1859)
Frederick John Westcott, best known by his stage name Fred Karno, was an English vaudeville impresario of the British music hall. As a comedian of slapstick he is credited with pop…
Fred Karno, English actor and screenwriter (born 1866)
Foxhall Parker Keene was an American thoroughbred race horse owner and breeder, a world and Olympic gold medallist in polo, and an amateur tennis player. He was rated the best all-…
Foxhall P. Keene, American polo player, golfer, and race car driver (born 1867)
Marion Miley was an American amateur golfer. Active in the 1930s, she won dozens of amateur tournaments and was ranked as high as #1 in the United States. She was noted by the pres…
Marion Miley, American golfer, ranked No. 1 in the United States (born 1914)
Heinrich Gutkin was a trader and the Estonian National Assembly member.
Heinrich Gutkin, Estonian businessman and politician (born 1879)
Manuel Teixeira Gomes was a Portuguese politician who served as the President of Portugal from 1923 to 1925.
Manuel Teixeira Gomes, Portuguese lawyer and politician, 7th President of Portugal (born 1860)
Kenneth Farnes was an English cricketer. He played in fifteen Tests from 1934 to 1939.
Ken Farnes, English cricketer and soldier (born 1911)
Alexander Greenlaw Hamilton was an Australian naturalist and teacher born in Ireland. A former president of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, he was known for his studies of …
Alexander Greenlaw Hamilton, Australian biologist (born 1852)
Guy Prosper Eustache Môquet was a young French Communist activist. During the German occupation of France in World War II, he was taken hostage by the Nazis and executed by firing …
Guy Môquet, French militant (born 1924)
Louis Dembitz Brandeis was an American lawyer who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1916 to 1939. Brandeis was a leading figure in the antitrust movemen…
Louis Brandeis, American lawyer and jurist (born 1856)
Helen Morgan was an American singer and actress who worked in films and on the stage. A quintessential torch singer, she made a big splash in the Chicago club scene in the 1920s. S…
Helen Morgan, American singer and actress (born 1900)
Mihkel Pung was an Estonian politician and a former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia and Speaker of the National Council from 21 April 1938 to 5 July 1940. Pung was Minister …
Mihkel Pung, Estonian politician, 11th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1876)
Franz Xaver Freiherr von Werra was a German World War II fighter pilot and flying ace who was shot down over Britain and captured. He was the only Axis prisoner of war to escape fr…
Franz von Werra, Swiss-German captain and pilot (born 1914)
Arkady Petrovich Gaidar was a Russian Soviet writer, whose stories were very popular among Soviet children, and a Red Army commander.
Arkady Gaidar, Russian journalist and author (born 1904)
Filipp Isayevich Goloshchyokin, born Shaya Itsikovich Goloshchyokin, was a Soviet Bolshevik revolutionary, politician, and apparatchik-party functionary.
Filipp Goloshchyokin, Soviet politician (born 1876)
Harvey "Gink" Hendrick was an American Major League Baseball player who played for several different teams during an eleven-year career.
Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player (born 1897)
The Schutzstaffel was a major paramilitary organisation under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II.
A German SS unit arrived in Vilnius, Lithuania, and began the systematic execution of up to 100,000 people over the…
Boris Kidrič was a Slovene and Yugoslav politician and revolutionary who was one of the chief organizers of the Slovene Partisans, the Slovene resistance against occupation by Nazi…
Boris Kidrič and Edvard Kardelj founded the Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation, the main anti-fascist Slovene civil-
World War II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated. Tanks and air…
World War II: Presaging a campaign of genocide against the Serbs of Croatia, around 190 people were massacred by members
Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film directed by, produced by, and starring Orson Welles and co-written by Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz. It was Welles's first feature film…
Citizen Kane, a widely acclaimed film by actor and director Orson Welles, premiered
Lester Townes "Bob" Hope was a British-born American comedian, actor, entertainer and producer with a career that spanned nearly 80 years and achievements in vaudeville, network ra…
American entertainer Bob Hope performed his first show with the United Service Organizations, beginning a 50-year involv
World War II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated. Tanks and air…
World War II: German Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess (pictured) parachuted into Scotland in an attempt to negotiate peace with