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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%
  

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•  Swabhumi

  Swabhumi-The Heritage Park is an amusement park in Kolkata.

  

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•  Santa Luzia do Itanhy

  Santa Luzia do Itanhy is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Sergipe. Its population was 14,921 and its area is 330 km².

  

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•  Lanistes elliptus

  Lanistes elliptus is a species of gastropod in the Ampullariidae family. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, and Mozambique.

  

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•  1990 People's Republic of China airliner collision

  

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•  Control (album)

  

  36.8%
  

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  21.1%