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Tadeusz Żyliński was a Polish technician, textilist and mechanical engineer. He was a professor of Technical University of Łódź, creator of Polish school of textile metrology. Auth…
Tadeusz Żyliński, Polish engineer and academic (born 1904)
Vladimir Bartol was a writer from the Slovene minority in Italy. He is best known for his 1938 novel Alamut, the most popular work of Slovene literature around the world, which has…
Vladimir Bartol, Italian-Slovene author and playwright (born 1903)
Muhammad bin Awad bin Ladin was a Yemeni-born Saudi billionaire business magnate working primarily in the construction industry. He founded what is today the Saudi Binladin Group a…
Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, Yemeni-Saudi Arabian businessman, founded Saudi Binladin Group (born 1903)
Air Vice Marshal Sir Robert Allingham George, was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force and Governor of South Australia from 23 February 1953 until 7 March 1960. He was born in t…
Robert George, English air marshal and politician, 24th Governor of South Australia (born 1896)
Leonard Percy Lord, 1st Baron Lambury KBE was a captain of the British motor industry.
Leonard Lord, English businessman (born 1896)
Sir John Douglas Cockcroft was a British experimental physicist who shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics with Ernest Walton for their splitting of the atomic nucleus, which led t…
John Cockcroft, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1897)
Zinaida Yevgenyevna Serebriakova was a Russian painter during the Modernist period.
Zinaida Serebriakova, Russian-French painter (born 1884)
Stanisław Jan Cyganiewicz, better known by his ring name Stanislaus Zbyszko, was a Polish strongman, catch wrestler, and professional wrestler. He was a three-time World Heavyweigh…
Stanislaus Zbyszko, Polish wrestler and strongman (born 1879)
Knyaz Felix Felixovich Yusupov, Count Sumarokov-Elston was a Russian aristocrat from the House of Yusupov who is best known for participating in the assassination of Grigori Rasput…
Felix Yusupov, Russian husband of Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia (born 1887)
Carson McCullers was an American novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. Her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940), explores the spiritual isolatio…
Carson McCullers, American novelist, playwright, essayist, and poet (born 1917)
Woodrow Wilson Guthrie was an American singer, songwriter, and composer widely considered one of the most significant figures in American folk music. His work focused on themes of …
Woody Guthrie, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1912)
Sir Harold Malcolm Watts Sargent was an English conductor, organist and composer widely regarded as Britain's leading conductor of choral works. The musical ensembles with which he…
Malcolm Sargent, English organist, composer, and conductor (born 1895)
Clifton Curtis Williams Jr., was an American naval aviator, test pilot, mechanical engineer, major in the United States Marine Corps, and NASA astronaut, who was killed in a plane …
Clifton Williams, American astronaut (born 1932)
Sir Ralph Norman Angell was a lecturer, journalist, author and Member of Parliament for the Labour Party. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to promote peace, par…
Norman Angell, English journalist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1872)
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955. Attlee was deputy prime ministe…
Clement Attlee, English soldier, lawyer, and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1883)
Ernesto "Che" Guevara de la Serna was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, politician, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolut…
Che Guevara, Argentinian-Cuban physician, politician and guerrilla leader (born 1928)
Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood was a British physical chemist and expert in chemical kinetics. His work in reaction mechanisms earned the 1956 Nobel Prize in chemistry.
Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1897)
André Maurois was a French author.
André Maurois, French soldier and author (born 1885)
Joseph Hubertus Pilates was a German physical trainer, writer, and inventor. He is credited with inventing and promoting the Pilates method of physical fitness. He patented a total…
Joseph Pilates, German-American fitness trainer, developed Pilates (born 1883)
Stanley Arthur Morison was a British typographer, printing executive and historian of printing. Largely self-educated, he promoted higher standards in printing and an awareness of …
Stanley Morison, typographer, known for work on Times New Roman font (born 1889)
Ram Manohar Lohia was an Indian political activist of the Indian independence movement and a socialist politician. As a nationalist, he worked actively to protest against coloniali…
Ram Manohar Lohia, Indian activist and politician (born 1910)
Marcel Aymé was a French novelist and playwright, who also wrote screenplays and works for children.
Marcel Aymé, French author and playwright (born 1902)
Puyi was the last emperor of China, having reigned as the Xuantong Emperor of the Qing dynasty and later as the Kangde Emperor of Manchukuo, a Japanese puppet state during World Wa…
Puyi, Chinese emperor (born 1906)
Shigeru Yoshida was a Japanese diplomat and politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1946 to 1947 and again from 1948 to 1954, serving through most of the country's o…
Shigeru Yoshida, Japanese politician and diplomat, 32nd Prime Minister of Japan (born 1878)