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Garrett Augustus Morgan Sr. was an American inventor, businessman, and community leader. His most notable inventions were a protective "smoke hood" that he notably used in a 1916 t…
Garrett Morgan, American inventor (born 1877)
Theodore Huebner Roethke was an American poet. He is regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential poets of his generation, having won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1…
Theodore Roethke, American poet (born 1908)
Carey Estes Kefauver was an American politician from Tennessee. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1939 to 1949 and in the U.S. S…
Estes Kefauver, American lawyer and politician (born 1903)
Ernst Wetter was a Swiss politician.
Ernst Wetter, Swiss lawyer and jurist (born 1877)
Otto Wahle was an Austrian-American swimmer who took part in two Summer Olympic Games and won a total of three medals. Wahle coached the men's US swim team at the 1912 Olympics, an…
Otto Wahle, Austrian-American swimmer and coach (born 1879)
Eugène Louis Bastien was a French racing cyclist and fencer who competed in the late 19th century and early 20th century. He participated in Cycling at the 1900 Summer Olympics in …
Louis Bastien, French cyclist and fencer (born 1881)
Clifford Odets was an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor. In the mid-1930s, he was widely seen as the potential successor to Nobel Prize–winning playwright Eugene O'Neill…
Clifford Odets, American director, playwright, and screenwriter (born 1906)
Joan George Erardus Gijsbertus Voûte was a Dutch astronomer.
Joan Voûte, Dutch astronomer (born 1879)
William Richard Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, was an English motor manufacturer and philanthropist. He was the founder of Morris Motors Limited and is remembered for establishing …
William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, English businessman and philanthropist, founded Morris Motors (born 1877)
Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi, also known by the honorary title Allama Mashriqi, was a British Indian, and later, Pakistani mathematician, logician, political theorist, Islamic scholar…
Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi, Pakistani mathematician and scholar (born 1888)
Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess was a British diplomat and Soviet double agent, and a member of the Cambridge Five spy ring that operated from the mid-1930s to the early years of the …
Guy Burgess, English-Soviet spy (born 1911)
Joan Kathleen Harding Eardley was a British artist noted for her portraiture of street children in Glasgow and for her landscapes of the fishing village of Catterline and surroundi…
Joan Eardley, British artist (born 1921)
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an American sociologist, writer, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up …
W. E. B. Du Bois, American sociologist, historian, and activist (born 1868)
Georges Braque was a major 20th-century French painter, collagist, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. His most notable contributions were in his alliance with Fauvism from 1905,…
Georges Braque, French painter and sculptor (born 1882)
Frederick Louis MacNeice was an Irish poet, playwright and producer for the BBC. Known for its exploration of introspection, empiricism, and belonging, his poetic work is now consi…
Louis MacNeice, Irish poet and playwright (born 1907)
Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Robert Schuman was a Luxembourg-born French statesman. Schuman was a Christian democratic political thinker and activist. Twice Prime Minister of France, a re…
Robert Schuman, Luxembourgian-French politician, 130th Prime Minister of France (born 1886)
Maurice Fernand Cary Wilks was an English automotive and aeronautical engineer, and by the time of his death in 1963, was the chairman of the Rover Company. He was the founder of t…
Maurice Wilks, English engineer and businessman (born 1904)
Edwin Johannes Hildegard Linkomies was Prime Minister of Finland from March 1943 to August 1944, and one of the seven politicians sentenced to five and a half years in prison as re…
Edwin Linkomies, Finnish academic, professor and the Prime Minister of Finland (born 1894)
Paulino Masip Roca was a Spanish playwright, screenwriter and novelist. Driven into exile in Mexico in 1939 by the events of the Spanish Civil War, he became involved with the nasc…
Paulino Masip, Spanish author, playwright, and screenwriter (born 1899)
Ibrahim Refet Bele, also known as Refet Bey or Refet Pasha was a Turkish military commander. He served in the Ottoman Army and the Turkish Army, where he retired as a general.
Refet Bele, Turkish general (born 1877)
Alar Kotli was an Estonian architect. He studied sculpture at the art school Pallas in Tartu during 1922–1923 and mathematics at the University of Tartu. He graduated from the Univ…
Alar Kotli, Estonian architect (born 1904)
Major Raden Oking Jaya Atmaja, known as Mayor Oking, was a military officer and an Indonesian independence fighter.
Oking Jaya Atmaja, Indonesian military officer (born 1918)
María de los Remedios Alicia Rodriga Varo y Uranga was a Spanish surrealist painter, writer, and graphic artist. Her work features Surrealist worlds, where science, mysticism, and …
Remedios Varo, Spanish-Mexican painter (born 1908)
Roy Cazaly was an Australian rules footballer who played for South Melbourne and St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He also represented Victoria and Tasmania in inter…
Roy Cazaly, Australian footballer and coach (born 1893)