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•  Alvar Aalto

  Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (February 3 1898, Kuortane – May 11 1976, Helsinki) was a Finnish architect and designer, sometimes called the "Father of Modernism" in the nordic countries. His work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware. Aalto's early career runs in parallel with the rapid economic growth and industrialization of Finland during the first half of the twentieth century and many of his clients were industrialists; among these were the Ahlström-Gullichsen family.

  

  32.0%
  

  16.0%
  

  52.0%
  
•  Bertolt Brecht

  Bertolt Brecht (born; 10 February 1898–14 August 1956) was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director.

  

  24.2%
  

  24.2%
  

  51.5%
  
•  C. S. Lewis

  Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963), commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as Jack, was an Irish-born British novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist. He is also known for his fiction, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia and The Space Trilogy. Lewis was a close friend of J. R. R.

  

  58.1%
  

  16.1%
  

  25.8%
  
•  George Gershwin

  George Gershwin (September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are widely known. He wrote most of his vocal and theatrical works, including more than a dozen Broadway shows, in collaboration with his elder brother, lyricist Ira Gershwin.

  

  26.0%
  

  30.0%
  

  44.0%
  
•  Herbert Marcuse

  Herbert Marcuse (July 19, 1898 – July 29, 1979) was a German philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. Celebrated as the "Father of the New Left," his best known works are Eros and Civilization, One-Dimensional Man and The Aesthetic Dimension.

  

  23.5%
  

  31.4%
  

  45.1%
  
•  John Grierson

  John Grierson (26 April 1898 – 19 February 1972) is often considered the father of British and Canadian documentary film.

  

  34.4%
  

  31.3%
  

  34.4%
  
•  Josef Terboven

  Josef Antonius Heinrich Terboven (May 23, 1898 – May 8, 1945) was a Nazi leader, best known as the Reichskommissar during the German military occupation of Norway.

  

  30.6%
  

  30.6%
  

  38.9%
  
•  Joris Ivens

  Joris Ivens (18 November 1898, Nijmegen – 28 June 1989, Paris) was a Dutch documentary filmmaker and committed communist.

  

  29.2%
  

  29.2%
  

  41.7%
  
•  Kaj Munk

  Kaj Harald Leininger Munk (commonly called Kaj Munk) (13 January, 1898 – 4 January, 1944) was a Danish playwright and Lutheran pastor, known for his cultural engagement and his martyrdom during World War II. He is commemorated as a martyr in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church on August 14 with Maximilian Kolbe. He was born Kaj Harald Leininger Petersen on the island of Lolland, Denmark, and raised by a family named Munk after the death of his parents.

  

  21.9%
  

  40.6%
  

  37.5%
  
•  M.C. Escher

  

  37.0%
  

  29.6%
  

  33.3%
  

• 1898 births by likeorhate
• 1981 deaths by likeorhate
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•  Canons Regular

  Canons regular are members of certain bodies of Canons living in community under the Augustinian Rule ("regula" in Latin), and sharing their property in common.

  

  0.0%
  

  100.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  K.A. Rasmussen

  K. A. Rasmussen AS (abbreviated KAR) is a Norwegian precious metal company, specialized in the fabrication of semi-manufactured bars and wires for various metal industries as well as catalysts for chemical industries. The company is the largest supplier of precious metals within the Nordic countries. The company is named after its founder, Knut Andreas Rasmussen, who started the company (then a goldsmith workshop) in 1872.

  

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  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Al-Ittihad (Qatar)

  

  21.4%
  

  25.0%
  

  53.6%
  
•  Novigrad, Croatia

  

  13.6%
  

  36.4%
  

  50.0%
  
•  Canadian Jewellery Association

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%