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David Ben-Gurion
Israeli politician, Zionist leader, prime minister of Israel (1948–1953, 1955–1963) - (born1886–1973)
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
German architect (1886–1969)
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Diego Rivera
Mexican muralist (1886–1957)
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Alfonso XIII
King of Spain from 1886 to 1931 (1886–1941)
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Manne Siegbahn
Swedish physicist (1886-1978)
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Karl Barth
Swiss Protestant theologian (1886-1968)
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Robert Schuman
Luxembourgish-born German-French statesman and Venerable (1886-1963)
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Archibald Hill
English physiologist and biophysicist (1886-1977)
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Sergei Kirov
Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary (1886–1934)
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Ernst Thälmann
German communist politician, leader of Communist Party of Germany (1886–1944)
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Karl von Frisch
German-Austrian ethologist (1886-1982)
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Jean Arp
Alsatian sculptor, painter, poet and abstract artist (1886–1966)
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Marc Bloch
French historian (1886–1944)
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Béla Kun
Hungarian Communist revolutionary and politician, the de facto leader of the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919, People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs
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Robert Robinson
English chemist (1886-1975)
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Oskar Kokoschka
Austrian dramatic, painter and writer (1886–1980)
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Edward Calvin Kendall
American chemist (1886-1972)
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Willem Drees
Dutch politician (1886–1988)
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Frank Lloyd
British film director (1886–1960)
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René Guénon
French metaphysician (1886-1951)
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Paul Tillich
German-American theologian and philosopher
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Gottfried Benn
German novelist, poet (1886–1956)
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Alain-Fournier
Henri-Alban Fournier (; 3 October 1886 – 22 September 1914), known by the pseudonym Alain-Fournier (), was a French author and soldier. He was the author of a novel, Le Grand Meaulnes (1913), which has been filmed twice and is considered a classic of French literature. The book is based partly on his childhood.
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Zhu De
Marshal of the People's Republic of China (1886-1976)
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Michael Curtiz
Hungarian-American director (1886–1962)
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Olaf Stapledon
British novelist and philosopher (1886–1950)
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Edward Rydz-Śmigły
Polish general (1886-1941)
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Aaron Nimzovich
Latvian-born Danish chess player and theoretician (1886-1935)
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Wilhelm Furtwängler
German conductor and composer (1886–1954)
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George Mallory
English mountaineer (1886-1924)
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Victor McLaglen
British-American actor (1886–1959)
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Roman von Ungern-Sternberg
Austrian anti-communist general (1886-1921)
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Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
Japanese author (1886–1965)
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Ğabdulla Tuqay
Tatar poet
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Karl Polanyi
Hungarian economist, philosopher and historian
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Hugo Ball
German author, poet and one of the leading Dada artists (1886–1927)
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Siegfried Sassoon
English war poet and writer (1886-1967)
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Rex Stout
American writer (1886-1975)
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H.D.
Hilda Doolittle (September 10, 1886 – September 27, 1961) was an American modernist poet, novelist, and memoirist who wrote under the name H.D. throughout her life. Her career began in 1911 after she moved to London and co-founded the avant-garde Imagist group of poets with American expatriate poet and critic Ezra Pound. During this early period, her minimalist free verse poems depicting Classical motifs drew international attention. Eventually distancing herself from the Imagist movement, she experimented with a wider variety of forms, including fiction, memoir, and verse drama. Reflecti
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Jan Masaryk
Czechoslovak diplomat and politician (1886–1948)
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Hermann Broch
Austrian writer (1886-1951)
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May Ziadeh
Lebanese-Palestinian writer (1886-1941)
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Delmira Agustini
Uruguayan modernist poet
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Sessue Hayakawa
Japanese actor (1889–1973)
Henry H. Arnold
American general officer holding the ranks of General of the Army and General of the Air Force (1886-1950)
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Gotthard Heinrici
German general (1886–1971)
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Ty Cobb
American baseball player (1886–1961)
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Henry King
American film director (1886-1982)
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Henri Coandă
romanian inventor (1886-1972)
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Asaf Jah VII of Hyderabad
Last Monarch of the Kingdom of Hyderabad (1886-1967)
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Salvador de Madariaga
Spanish diplomat, writer and historian (1886-1978)
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Geoffrey Ingram Taylor
British mathematician and physicist (1886-1975)
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Ma Rainey
American blues singer (1886–1939)
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Florence Lawrence
Canadian-American actress (1886-1938)
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Theodor Morell
personal physician to Adolf Hitler (1886-1948)
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Marcel Dupré
French organist and composer (1886–1971)
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Hugh Lofting
British author (1886–1947)
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Dong Biwu
former acting President of the People's Republic of China (1886–1975)
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Edward Weston
American photographer (1886–1958)
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Walter H. Schottky
German physicist (1886–1976)