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George VI
George VI was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death in 1952. He was also the last Emperor of India from 1936 until the British Raj was dissolved in August 1947, and the first Head of the Commonwealth following the London Declaration of 1949.
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Sergei Yesenin
Russian poet (1895–1925)
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Jiddu Krishnamurti
Indian spiritual philosopher, mystic, speaker and writer (1895–1986)
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Buster Keaton
American actor, comedian, and director (1895–1966)
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Juan Perón
president of Argentina (1946–55, 1973–74)
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Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist (1895–1983)
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Igor Tamm
Soviet physicist (1895–1971)
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Paul Éluard
French poet (1895–1952)
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Babe Ruth
George Herman "Babe" Ruth was an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball (MLB) spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935. Nicknamed "the Bambino" and "the Sultan of Swat", he began his MLB career as a star left-handed pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, but achieved his greatest fame as a slugging outfielder for the New York Yankees. Ruth is regarded as one of the greatest sports heroes in American culture and is considered by many to be the greatest baseball player of all time. In 1936, Ruth was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame as one of its "first five" members.
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Robert Graves
English poet and novelist (1895-1985)
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Cemal Gürsel
4th President of the Republic of Turkey (1895–1966)
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Ragnar Frisch
Norwegian economist (1895–1973)
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Ernst Jünger
German writer (1895–1998)
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Gerhard Domagk
German bacteriologist (1895-1964)
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Mikhail Bakhtin
Russian intellectual and philosopher
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Dolores Ibárruri
Spanish Republican leader of the Spanish Civil War and communist politician (1895-1989)
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Anastas Mikoyan
Soviet revolutionary and statesman (1895–1978)
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Rudolph Valentino
Italian actor (1895–1926)
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Marcel Pagnol
novelist, playwright and filmmaker from France (1895-1974)
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Artturi Ilmari Virtanen
Finnish chemist and professor (1895–1973)
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Max Horkheimer
German philosopher and sociologist (1895–1973)
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Carl Orff
German composer (1895–1982)
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Zog I of Albania
Albanian prime minister, president and king (1895-1961) (r.1922-1939)
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J. Edgar Hoover
American law enforcement administrator (1895–1972)
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Levi Eshkol
Israeli politician, a founder of the Israeli Labor Party and Prime Minister (1895-1969)
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Liaquat Ali Khan
1st Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1947 to 1951
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Henrik Dam
Danish biochemist and physiologist (1895-1976)
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Anna Freud
austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895–1982)
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William Giauque
American chemist (1895-1982)
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Richard Sorge
Soviet spy in Germany and Japan (1895-1944)
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Nikolai Yezhov
NKVD director under Joseph Stalin (1895-1940)
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Aleksandr Vasilevsky
Marshal of the Soviet Union (1895-1977)
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Lázaro Cárdenas
51st President of Mexico
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Dorothea Lange
American photojournalist (1895-1965)
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Paul Muni
Austrian-born American stage and film actor (1895-1967)
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Paul Hindemith
German composer (1895–1963)
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Semyon Timoshenko
Soviet military commander (1895-1970)
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Ludvík Svoboda
Czechoslovak general and politician (1895-1979)
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Augusto Nicolás Calderón Sandino
Nicaraguan revolutionary (1895-1934)
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Santiago Bernabéu Yeste
Spanish footballer (1895-1978)
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Lin Yutang
Chinese inventor, novelist and philosopher (1895–1976)
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Henry de Montherlant
French writer (1895–1972)
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André Frédéric Cournand
French physiologist (1895–1988)
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Lewis Milestone
Russian-American film director (1895-1980)
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Vladimir Propp
Russian folklorist, philologist and linguist
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John Diefenbaker
13th Prime Minister of Canada (1895-1979)
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Dickinson W. Richards
American physician, Nobel Prize recipient (1895-1973)
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László Moholy-Nagy
Hungarian artist (1895–1946)
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B. H. Liddell Hart
British historian and theoretician of war (1895-1970)
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Jack Dempsey
American boxer (1895-1983)
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Stanley Rous
6th President of FIFA (1895–1986)
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Lewis Mumford
American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology and literary critic (1895-1990)
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Vinoba Bhave
Indian advocate of nonviolence and human rights (1895-1982)
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Borys Liatoshynsky
Ukrainian composer, conductor, teacher (1894–1968)
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Khorloogiin Choibalsan
Mongolian general and political leader from the 1930s to 1952
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Wilm Hosenfeld
German army officer (1895-1952)
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Folke Bernadotte
Swedish diplomat (1895–1948)
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Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski
Polish military leader (1895-1966)
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Cristóbal Balenciaga
Spanish fashion designer (1895-1972)
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Pavał Suchi
Soviet aeroplanes designer