1908

Abdelaziz of Morocco
Abdelaziz of Morocco (1878 - 1943; ), also known as Mulai Abd al-Aziz IV, served as the Sultan of Morocco from 1894 at the age of sixteen until he was deposed in 1908. He succeeded his father Hassan I of Morocco. He was a member of the Alaouite dynasty.
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Abdul Hamid II
http://wn.com/Abdul_Hamid_II

Abraham Maslow
http://wn.com/Abraham_Maslow

Alfons Rebane
Alfons Vilhelm Robert Rebane, commonly known as Alfons Rebane (June 24, 1908 – March 8, 1976) was an Estonian military commander. He was the most highly decorated Estonian military officer in the course of the Second World War, participating in various German military units against the armed forces of the Soviet Union.
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Alfred Hershey
http://wn.com/Alfred_Hershey

Alfred Proksch
Alfred Proksch (born December 11, 1908) is an Austrian Olympic athlete and graphic designer. The son of one of the co-founders of the Wiener Sport-Club, Proksch took an active interest in both athletics and graphic design from an early age. By the age of 19 he had started his own design company and would later become a founder, then president, of the Confederation of Austrian Graphic Designers. He was also a key figure in the founding of Icograda.
http://wn.com/Alfred_Proksch

Anna Magnani
Anna Magnani (pronounced: mahn-YANNI; 7 March 1908 – 26 September 1973) was an Italian stage and film actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress, along with four other international awards, for her portrayal of a Sicilian widow in The Rose Tattoo. Born in Rome to an Egyptian father and an Italian-Jewish mother, she worked her way through Rome's Academy of Dramatic Art by singing at night clubs. During her career, her only child was stricken by Polio when he was 18 months old and remained crippled.
http://wn.com/Anna_Magnani

Anton Nilson
Anton Nilson (November 11, 1887 – August 16, 1989) was a Swedish militant socialist and convicted murderer.
http://wn.com/Anton_Nilson

Arthur O'Connell
'''Arthur O'Connell' (March 29, 1908 – May 18, 1981) was an American stage and film actor. He appeared in films (starting with a small role in Citizen Kane) in 1941 and television programs (mostly guest appearances). Among his screen appearances were Picnic, Anatomy of a Murder, and as the watch-maker who hides Jews during WWII in The Hiding Place''.
http://wn.com/Arthur_O'Connell

Arturo Frondizi
http://wn.com/Arturo_Frondizi

Balthus
http://wn.com/Balthus

Bette Davis
http://wn.com/Bette_Davis

Bill Kennedy (actor)
http://wn.com/Bill_Kennedy_(actor)

Bjarni Benediktsson
: This is an article about a former prime minister of Iceland. For the current leader of the Icelandic Independence Party, see Bjarni Benediktsson, Jr.
http://wn.com/Bjarni_Benediktsson

Bo Yibo
Bo Yibo () (February 17, 1908 – January 15, 2007) was a Chinese politician and one of the Eight Immortals of the Communist Party of China.
http://wn.com/Bo_Yibo

Brigitte Helm
Brigitte Helm (17 March 1908 – 11 June 1996) was a German actress, best-remembered for her dual role as Maria and her double, the Maschinenmensch, in Fritz Lang's 1927 silent film Metropolis.
http://wn.com/Brigitte_Helm

Butch Cassidy
http://wn.com/Butch_Cassidy

Carlos I of Portugal
http://wn.com/Carlos_I_of_Portugal

Carole Lombard
Carole Lombard (October 6, 1908 – January 16, 1942) was an American actress. She was particularly noted for her comedic roles in several classic films of the 1930s, most notably in the 1936 film My Man Godfrey. She is listed as one of the American Film Institute's greatest stars of all time and was the highest-paid star in Hollywood in the late 1930s, earning around US$500,000 per year (more than five times the salary of the US President). Lombard's career was cut short when she died at the age of 33 in the crash of TWA Flight 3.
http://wn.com/Carole_Lombard

Charles Upham
Captain Charles Hazlitt Upham VC & Bar (21 September 1908 – 22 November 1994) was a New Zealand soldier who earned the Victoria Cross twice during the Second World War: in Crete in May 1941, and at Ruweisat Ridge, Egypt, in July 1942. He was only the third person to receive the VC twice, the only person to receive two VCs during the Second World War and the only combat soldier to receive the award twice. As a result, Upham is often described as the most highly decorated Commonwealth soldier of that war, as the VC is the Commonwealth's highest award for extreme gallantry in the face of the enemy.
http://wn.com/Charles_Upham

China
China is seen variously as an ancient civilization extending over a large area in East Asia, a nation and/or a multinational entity.
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Claude Lévi-Strauss
http://wn.com/Claude_Lévi-Strauss

Claude-Paul Taffanel
Claude-Paul Taffanel (16 September 1844 - 22 November 1908) was a French flautist, conductor and instructor regarded as the founder of the French Flute School that dominated much of flute composition and performance during the mid-20th century.
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Cristian Vasile
http://wn.com/Cristian_Vasile

David Lean
Sir David Lean CBE (25 March 190816 April 1991) was a British filmmaker, producer, screenwriter and editor, best remembered for big-screen epics such as The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia,
http://wn.com/David_Lean

David Oistrakh
http://wn.com/David_Oistrakh

Demetrius Vikelas
Demetrios Vikelas, or Bikelas (; February 15, 1835 – July 20, 1908) was a Greek businessman and writer; he was the first president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), from 1894 to 1896.
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Don Ameche
http://wn.com/Don_Ameche

Donald Bradman
http://wn.com/Donald_Bradman

Dorando Pietri
Dorando Pietri, often wrongly spelt Petri (October 16, 1885, Correggio, Province of Reggio Emilia - February 7, 1942) was an Italian athlete famous for his dramatic finish and eventual disqualification in the marathon at the 1908 Summer Olympics held in London.
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Ed Heinemann
http://wn.com/Ed_Heinemann

Eddie Tolan
MedalCountry|the
http://wn.com/Eddie_Tolan

Edmond Pidoux
Edmond Pidoux (October 25, 1908-April 17, 2004) was a Swiss author who wrote numerous poems, novels, and essays. He was particularly renowned for Biblical pieces such as ''L'histoire de Jonas.'' In 1982, he won the Prix du livre vaudois.
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Edward R. Murrow
Edward Roscoe Murrow, KBE (born Egbert Roscoe Murrow; April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965) was an American broadcast journalist. He first came to prominence with a series of radio news broadcasts during World War II, which were followed by millions of listeners in the United States and Canada.
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Edward Teller
Edward Teller (January 15, 1908 – September 9, 2003) was a Hungarian-born American theoretical physicist, known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb," even though he did not care for the title.
http://wn.com/Edward_Teller

Elliott Carter
Elliott Cook Carter, Jr. (born December 11, 1908) is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer born and living in New York City. He studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the 1930s, and then returned to the United States. After a neoclassical phase, he went on to write atonal, rhythmically complex music. His compositions, which have been performed all over the world, include orchestral and chamber music as well as solo instrumental and vocal works.
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Emile Cohl
http://wn.com/Emile_Cohl

Empress Dowager Cixi
http://wn.com/Empress_Dowager_Cixi

Enver Hoxha
(pronounced , 16 October 1908 11 April 1985) was the leader of Albania from the end of World War II until his death in 1985, as the First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania. He also served as Prime Minister of Albania from 1944 to 1954, Minister of Defense from 1944 to 1953, Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1946 to 1953, Chairman of the Democratic Front from 1945 to his death, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Albanian armed forces from 1944 to his death.
http://wn.com/Enver_Hoxha

Ernest Rutherford
http://wn.com/Ernest_Rutherford

Ernest Shackleton
http://wn.com/Ernest_Shackleton

Eugen Suchoň
http://wn.com/Eugen_Suchoň

Eve Arden
http://wn.com/Eve_Arden

Francisco Marto
http://wn.com/Francisco_Marto

Fred MacMurray
http://wn.com/Fred_MacMurray

Frederick Cook
Dr. Frederick Albert Cook (June 10, 1865 – August 5, 1940) was an American explorer and physician, noted for his claim of having reached the North Pole on April 21, 1908, a year before Robert Peary claimed to, April 6, 1909.
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Fredrik Bajer
http://wn.com/Fredrik_Bajer

Gabriel Lippmann
http://wn.com/Gabriel_Lippmann

Geirr Tveitt
Geirr Tveitt, born Nils Tveit (October 19, 1908 – February 1, 1981) was a Norwegian composer and pianist. Tveitt was a central figure of the national movement in Norwegian cultural life during the 1930s.
http://wn.com/Geirr_Tveitt

George Pal
http://wn.com/George_Pal

George Rodger
http://wn.com/George_Rodger

Giovanni Leone
Giovanni Leone (3 November 1908 – 9 November 2001) was an Italian politician. He was the 54th and 56th Prime Minister of Italy from 21 June 1963 to 5 November 1963 and again from 24 June 1968 to 19 November 1968. He also served as the sixth President of the Republic from 1971 to 1978.
http://wn.com/Giovanni_Leone

Grover Cleveland
http://wn.com/Grover_Cleveland

Guangxu Emperor
The Guangxu Emperor () (14 August 1871–14 November 1908), born Zaitian (), was the tenth emperor of the Manchu-led Qing Dynasty, and the ninth Qing emperor to rule over China proper. His reign lasted from 1875 to 1908, but in practice he ruled, under Empress Dowager Cixi's influence, only from 1889 to 1898. He initiated the Hundred Days' Reform, but was abruptly stopped when Cixi launched a coup in 1898, after which he was put under house arrest until his death. His reign name means "The Glorious Succession".
http://wn.com/Guangxu_Emperor

Harold Holt
Harold Edward Holt, CH (5 August 190817 December 1967) was an Australian politician and the 17th Prime Minister of Australia.
http://wn.com/Harold_Holt

Harro Magnussen
http://wn.com/Harro_Magnussen

Harry Blackmun
Harold Andrew Blackmun (November 12, 1908 – March 4, 1999) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1970 until 1994. He is best known as the author of Roe v. Wade.
http://wn.com/Harry_Blackmun

Helmut Kautner
http://wn.com/Helmut_Kautner

Henri Becquerel
Antoine Henri Becquerel (15 December 1852 – 25 August 1908) was a French physicist, Nobel laureate, and the discoverer of radioactivity along with Marie Curie and Pierre Curie, for which all three won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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Henri Farman
http://wn.com/Henri_Farman

Henri Matisse
http://wn.com/Henri_Matisse

Henry Ford
http://wn.com/Henry_Ford

Herbert von Karajan
http://wn.com/Herbert_von_Karajan

Hélène Boucher
http://wn.com/Hélène_Boucher

Ian Fleming
Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964) was a British author and journalist, most famous for his novels about the British spy James Bond. Fleming chronicled Bond's adventures in twelve novels and nine short stories, a literary output that has sold over 100 million copies worldwide, making it one of the most popular series of related novels of all time. Fleming also wrote the children's story Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and two works of non-fiction.
http://wn.com/Ian_Fleming

Ilya Frank
http://wn.com/Ilya_Frank

Jack Williamson
http://wn.com/Jack_Williamson

Jean Delannoy
Jean Delannoy (12 January 1908 – 18 June 2008) was a French actor, film editor, screenwriter and film director.
http://wn.com/Jean_Delannoy

Jean Effel
http://wn.com/Jean_Effel

Jean-Pierre Wimille
Jean-Pierre Wimille (26 February 1908 – 28 January 1949) was a Grand Prix motor racing driver and a member of the French Resistance during World War II.
http://wn.com/Jean-Pierre_Wimille

Joel Chandler Harris
http://wn.com/Joel_Chandler_Harris

John Bardeen
http://wn.com/John_Bardeen

John Mills
Sir John Mills, CBE (22 February 1908 – 23 April 2005) was an English actor, who made more than 120 films in a career spanning seven decades.
http://wn.com/John_Mills

Jorge Oteiza
Jorge Oteiza Enbil (October 21, 1908 – April 9, 2003), was a Spanish sculptor, painter, designer and writer, renowned for being one of the main theorists on Spanish modern art.
http://wn.com/Jorge_Oteiza

Josué de Castro
http://wn.com/Josué_de_Castro

Józef Rotblat
http://wn.com/Józef_Rotblat

Karl Möbius
http://wn.com/Karl_Möbius

Karl Swenson
http://wn.com/Karl_Swenson

Ko�?o Racin
http://wn.com/Ko�?o_Racin

Krystyna Skarbek
http://wn.com/Krystyna_Skarbek

Kurt Böhme
http://wn.com/Kurt_Böhme

Kurt Eichhorn
http://wn.com/Kurt_Eichhorn

Leonor Fini
Leonor Fini (August 30, 1907January 18, 1996) was an Argentine surrealist painter.
http://wn.com/Leonor_Fini

Leroy Anderson
http://wn.com/Leroy_Anderson

Lionel Hampton
Lionel Leo Hampton (April 20, 1908 – August 31, 2002) was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor. Like Red Norvo, he was one of the first jazz vibraphone players. Hampton ranks among the great names in jazz history, having worked with a who's who of jazz musicians, from Benny Goodman and Buddy Rich to Charlie Parker and Quincy Jones. In 1992, he was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame.
http://wn.com/Lionel_Hampton

Louis Essen
Louis Essen (6 September 1908 – 24 August 1997) was an English physicist whose most notable achievements were in the precise measurement of time and the determination of the speed of light. He was critical of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, particularly as it related to time dilation.
http://wn.com/Louis_Essen

Louis L'Amour
'''Louis Dearborn L'Amour''' (; March 22, 1908 – June 10, 1988) was an American author. His books consisted primarily of Western fiction novels (though he called his work 'Frontier Stories'), however he also wrote historical fiction (The Walking Drum), science fiction (The Haunted Mesa), nonfiction (Frontier), as well as poetry and short-story collections. Many of his stories were made into movies. L'Amour's books remain popular, and most have gone through multiple printings. At the time of his death some of his 105 existing works were in print (89 novels, 14 short-story collections, and two full-length works of nonfiction) and he was considered "one of the world's most popular writers".
http://wn.com/Louis_L'Amour

Lydia Thompson
http://wn.com/Lydia_Thompson

Lyndon Johnson
http://wn.com/Lyndon_Johnson

M. M. Kaye
'''Mary Margaret ('Mollie') Kaye' (21 August 1908 - 29 January 2004) was a British writer. Her most famous book was The Far Pavilions'' (1978).
http://wn.com/M_M_Kaye

Mae Questel
Mae Questel (pronounced "ques-TELL"; September 13, 1908–January 4, 1998) was an American actress and vocal artist best known for providing the voices for the animated characters, Betty Boop and Olive Oyl. She began in vaudeville, and played occasional small roles in films and television later in her career, most notably the role of Aunt Bethany in 1989's ''National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation''.
http://wn.com/Mae_Questel

Manoel de Oliveira
http://wn.com/Manoel_de_Oliveira

Marina Semyonova
http://wn.com/Marina_Semyonova

Max Abramovitz
Max Abramovitz (May 23, 1908, Chicago - September 12, 2004, Pound Ridge, New York) was an architect of the New York City firm Harrison, Abramovitz, & Abbe. His most prominent works include the United Nations Headquarters building, New York; Avery Fisher Hall (at Lincoln Center, originally the Philharmonic Hall, opened 1962), New York; the Corning Glass Center, Corning, New York; the U.S. Steel Tower (aka USX Tower) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; the National City Tower in Louisville, Kentucky; and the Tour Gan, La Defense (Paris), France.
http://wn.com/Max_Abramovitz

Max Grundig
http://wn.com/Max_Grundig

Mel Blanc
http://wn.com/Mel_Blanc

Michael E. DeBakey
Michael Ellis DeBakey (September 7, 1908 – July 11, 2008) was a world-renowned Lebanese-American cardiac surgeon, innovator, scientist, medical educator, and international medical statesman. DeBakey was the chancellor emeritus of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas and director of The Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center and senior attending surgeon of The Methodist Hospital in Houston.
http://wn.com/Michael_E_DeBakey

Michael Maltese
http://wn.com/Michael_Maltese

Michael Redgrave
http://wn.com/Michael_Redgrave

Milton Berle
http://wn.com/Milton_Berle

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
http://wn.com/Mirza_Ghulam_Ahmad

Miško Kranjec
http://wn.com/Miško_Kranjec

Nguyen Ngoc Tho
http://wn.com/Nguyen_Ngoc_Tho

Olivier Messiaen
http://wn.com/Olivier_Messiaen

Orville Wright
http://wn.com/Orville_Wright

Oskar Schindler
Oskar Schindler (28 April 1908 – 9 October 1974) was an ethnic German industrialist born in Moravia. He is credited with saving almost 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories, which were located in what is now Poland and the Czech Republic respectively.
http://wn.com/Oskar_Schindler

Ottoman Empire
http://wn.com/Ottoman_Empire

Ouida
http://wn.com/Ouida

Pablo de Sarasate
http://wn.com/Pablo_de_Sarasate

Paul Benichou
http://wn.com/Paul_Benichou

Paul Ehrlich
http://wn.com/Paul_Ehrlich

Percy Williams
Percy Alfred Williams, OC (May 19, 1908 – November 29, 1982) was a Canadian athlete, winner of the 100 m and 200 m races at the 1928 Summer Olympics.
http://wn.com/Percy_Williams

Pierre Graber
Pierre Graber (6 December 1908 – 19 July 2003) was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1970-1978).
http://wn.com/Pierre_Graber

Pu Yi
http://wn.com/Pu_Yi

Qasim Amin
Qasim Amin born on 1st December 1863 Alexandria died April 22 1908 Cairo was an Egyptian jurist and one of the founders of the Egyptian national movement and Cairo University.
http://wn.com/Qasim_Amin

Radoje Domanović
http://wn.com/Radoje_Domanović

Raymond Scott
Raymond Scott (born Harry Warnow, 10 September 1908 — 8 February 1994), was an American composer, band leader, pianist, engineer, recording studio maverick, and electronic instrument inventor. He was born in Brooklyn to a family of Russian-Jewish immigrants. His older brother, Mark Warnow, a conductor, violinist, and musical director for the CBS radio program Your Hit Parade, encouraged his musical career. Though Scott never scored cartoon soundtracks, his music is familiar to millions because of its adaptation by Carl Stalling in over 120 classic Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Daffy Duck and other Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies animated features. Scott's melodies have also been heard in twelve Ren & Stimpy episodes (that used the original Scott recordings), while making cameos in The Simpsons, Duckman, Animaniacs, The Oblongs, and Batfink. (The only music Scott actually composed to accompany animation were three 20-second electronic commercial jingles for County Fair Bread in 1962.)
http://wn.com/Raymond_Scott

Redvers Buller
General Sir Redvers Henry Buller VC GCB GCMG (7 December 1839–2 June 1908) was a British general and Victoria Cross holder.
http://wn.com/Redvers_Buller

Rex Harrison
http://wn.com/Rex_Harrison

Rica Erickson
http://wn.com/Rica_Erickson

Robert Baden-Powell
http://wn.com/Robert_Baden-Powell

Robert Merle
Robert Merle (28 August 1908 - 28 March 2004) was a French novelist.
http://wn.com/Robert_Merle

Robert Peary
Robert Edwin Peary (May 6, 1856 – February 20, 1920) was an American explorer who claimed to have been the first person, on April 6, 1909, to reach the geographic North Pole. Peary's claim was widely credited for most of the 20th century, though it was criticized even in its own day and is today widely doubted.
http://wn.com/Robert_Peary

Roger Casement
http://wn.com/Roger_Casement

Rupprecht Geiger
http://wn.com/Rupprecht_Geiger

Russ Columbo
Ruggiero Eugenio di Rodolpho Colombo (January 14, 1908 – September 2, 1934), better known as Russ Columbo, was an American singer, violinist and actor, most famous for his signature tune, "You Call It Madness, But I Call It Love," his compositions "Prisoner of Love" and "Too Beautiful For Words", and the legend surrounding his early death.
http://wn.com/Russ_Columbo

Rómulo Betancourt
http://wn.com/Rómulo_Betancourt

Salvador Allende
http://wn.com/Salvador_Allende

Simon Wiesenthal
Simon Wiesenthal KBE (December 31, 1908September 20, 2005) was an Austrian-Jewish Holocaust survivor who became famous after World War II for his work as a Nazi hunter who pursued Nazi war criminals.
http://wn.com/Simon_Wiesenthal

Simone de Beauvoir
: "La Beauvoir" redirects here; also see: Beauvoir (disambiguation).
http://wn.com/Simone_de_Beauvoir

Stéphane Grappelli
http://wn.com/Stéphane_Grappelli

Sundance Kid
http://wn.com/Sundance_Kid

Sœur Emmanuelle
http://wn.com/Sœur_Emmanuelle

Tauno Palo
http://wn.com/Tauno_Palo

Tex Avery
Frederick Bean "Fred/Tex" Avery (February 26, 1908 – August 26, 1980) was an American animator, cartoonist, voice actor and director, famous for producing animated cartoons during The Golden Age of Hollywood animation. He did his most significant work for the Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, creating the characters of Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, Droopy, Screwy Squirrel, and developing Porky Pig and Chilly Willy (this last one for the Walter Lantz Studio) into the personas for which they are remembered.
http://wn.com/Tex_Avery

Theodore Roethke
Theodore Roethke ( ) (May 25, 1908 – August 1, 1963) was an American poet, who published several volumes of poetry characterized by its rhythm and natural imagery. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1954 for his book, The Waking.
http://wn.com/Theodore_Roethke

Thomas Selfridge
http://wn.com/Thomas_Selfridge

Tito Guízar
http://wn.com/Tito_Guízar

Tom Morris, Sr.
http://wn.com/Tom_Morris_Sr

Tom Tully
Tom Tully (August 21, 1908 – April 27, 1982) was an American actor.
http://wn.com/Tom_Tully

Tomás Estrada Palma
http://wn.com/Tomás_Estrada_Palma

Tony Pastor
:For Tony Pastor the saxophonist and bandleader, see Tony Pastor (bandleader).
http://wn.com/Tony_Pastor

Umar Dimayev
Umar Dimayev () (October 1, 1908 - 1972) was a legendary Chechen accordionist and folk musician. His sons - Ali, Valid, and Said - are professional Chechen musicians.
http://wn.com/Umar_Dimayev

Vivian Ernest Fuchs
http://wn.com/Vivian_Ernest_Fuchs

Walter Bruch
Walter Bruch (March 2, 1908 - May 5, 1990) was a German engineer who invented the PAL color television system at Telefunken in the early 1960s. In Addition to his research activities Professor Bruch taught at Hannover Technical University. He was awarded the Werner-von-Siemens-Ring in 1975.
http://wn.com/Walter_Bruch

Wilbur Wright
http://wn.com/Wilbur_Wright

Wilhelm Busch
http://wn.com/Wilhelm_Busch

Willard Libby
Willard Frank Libby (December 17, 1908 – September 8, 1980) was an American physical chemist, famous for his role in the 1949 development of radiocarbon dating, a process which revolutionized archaeology.
http://wn.com/Willard_Libby

William Hartnell
William Henry Hartnell (8 January 1908 – 23 April 1975) was a British actor. During 1963-66, he was the first actor to play the lead role of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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William McMahon
Sir William "Billy" McMahon, GCMG, CH (23 February 190831 March 1988) was an Australian Liberal politician and the 20th Prime Minister of Australia. He was the longest continuously serving government minister in Australian history (21 years and 6 months).
http://wn.com/William_McMahon

William Saroyan
William Saroyan (; ; 31 August 1908 - 18 May 1981) was an Armenian-American dramatist and author. The setting of many of his stories and plays is the center of Armenian-American life in California in his native Fresno.
http://wn.com/William_Saroyan

Winston Graham
http://wn.com/Winston_Graham

Yoon Bong-Gil
http://wn.com/Yoon_Bong-Gil

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s – 1900s – 1910s 1920s 1930s
Years:	1905 1906 1907 – 1908 – 1909 1910 1911

Gregorian calendar	1908 MCMVIII
Ab urbe condita	2661
Armenian calendar	1357 Թ�? ՌՅԾԷ
Assyrian calendar	6658
Bahá'í calendar	64–65
Bengali calendar	1315
Berber calendar	2858
British Regnal year	7 Edw. 7 – 8 Edw. 7
Buddhist calendar	2452
Burmese calendar	1270
Byzantine calendar	7416–7417
Chinese calendar	�?未年�??一月廿八日 (4544/4604-11-28) — to — �?申年�??二月�?�?日 (4545/4605-12-9)
Coptic calendar	1624–1625
Ethiopian calendar	1900–1901
Hebrew calendar	5668–5669
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1964–1965
- Shaka Samvat	1830–1831
- Kali Yuga	5009–5010
Holocene calendar	11908
Iranian calendar	1286–1287
Islamic calendar	1325–1326
Japanese calendar	Meiji 41 (�?治41年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4241
Minguo calendar	4 before ROC 民�?4年
Thai solar calendar	2451
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Persondata
Name	Cohl, Emile
Alternative names
Short description	Artist
Date of birth	January 4, 1857
Place of birth
Date of death	January 20, 1938
Place of death

Scott Joplin
Scott Joplin in June 1903. This picture also appears on the cover of The Cascades from 1904.^[1]
Background information
Birth name	Scott Joplin
Born	ca. late 1867 or early 1868 Northeast Texas
Origin	Texarkana, Texas
Died	April 1, 1917 (aged 49) New York City, New York
Genres	Ragtime, march, waltz
Occupations	Composer, pianist, music teacher
Instruments	Piano, guitar, mandolin, cornet, violin, banjo, vocals
Years active	1895–1917

Persondata
Name	Joplin, Scott
Alternative names
Short description	Composer, musician, and pianist
Date of birth	c. 1867
Place of birth	Texarkana, Texas, U.S.
Date of death	April 1, 1917
Place of death	New York City, New York, U.S.

	A 1906 recording of the "Maple Leaf Rag" by the United States Marine Band. This is the first surviving recording of the "Maple Leaf Rag"[17]^[18]^[19]^[20]
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	Maple Leaf Rag played by a Wikipedian in 2008 The Entertainer played by a Wikipedian
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	"Pleasant Moments – Ragtime Waltz" – played by Scott Joplin (April 1916) An April 1916 Piano Roll recording of Scott Joplin. Thought lost until discovered by a collector in New Zealand in 2006.^[61] "Maple Leaf Rag" – played by Scott Joplin (June 1916) A June 1916 Piano Roll recording of Scott Joplin for The Aeolian Company.
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Louis Feuillade

Born	(1873-02-19)19 February 1873 Lunel, France
Died	25 February 1925(1925-02-25) (aged 52) Nice, France
Occupation	Film director, screenwriter, film producer, journalist, poet
Years active	1905–1925
Known for	Fantômas, Les Vampires
Influenced	Olivier Assayas, Edward Gorey, Mike Patton, Jacques Rivette
Spouse	Jeanne-Leontine Jaujou

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Name	Feuillade, Louis
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Short description	French film director, screenwriter
Date of birth	19 February 1873
Place of birth	Lunel, France
Date of death	25 February 1925
Place of death	France

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