John Thomas (UK politician)

•  Benjamin Lee Whorf

  Benjamin Lee Whorf (April 24, 1897 in Winthrop, Massachusetts – July 26, 1941) was an American linguist. Whorf is widely known for his ideas about linguistic relativity, the hypothesis that language influences thought. An important theme in many of his publications, he has been credited as one of the fathers of this approach, often referred to as the "Sapir-Whorf hypothesis", named after him and his mentor Edward Sapir.

  

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  44.0%
  

  32.0%
  
•  Enid Blyton

  Enid Mary Blyton (11 August 1897 – 28 November 1968) was a British children's writer known as both Enid Blyton and Mary Pollock. She was one of the most successful children's storytellers of the twentieth century. She is noted for numerous series of books based on recurring characters and designed for different age groups. Her books have enjoyed popular success in many parts of the world, and have sold over 600 million copies.

  

  37.5%
  

  41.7%
  

  20.8%
  
•  Frank Capra

  Frank Russell Capra (May 18, 1897 – September 3, 1991) was a Sicilian-born American film director and a creative force behind a number of films of the 1930s and 1940s, including It Happened One Night (1934), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), Lost Horizon (1937), You Can't Take It With You (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Meet John Doe (1941), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) and It's a Wonderful Life (1946).

  

  38.6%
  

  28.1%
  

  33.3%
  
•  Helen Gandy

  Helen W. Gandy (April 8, 1897 – July 7, 1988) was an American civil servant. Gandy, who at age twenty-one left her native New Jersey for Washington, D.C. , was the secretary to Federal Bureau of Investigation director J. Edgar Hoover for fifty-four years. Hoover called her "indispensable" and she exercised great behind-the-scenes influence on Hoover and the workings of the Bureau.

  

  42.9%
  

  21.4%
  

  35.7%
  
•  Joseph Goebbels

  Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels was a German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. As one of German dictator Adolf Hitler's closest associates and most devout followers, he was known for his zealous oratory and anti-Semitism. He was the chief architect of the Kristallnacht attack on the German Jews, which historians consider to be the commencement of the Nazi violence culminating in the Holocaust. Goebbels earned a Ph.D.

  

  33.3%
  

  45.8%
  

  20.8%
  
•  Max Newman

  Maxwell Herman Alexander Newman (7 February 1897 – 22 February 1984) was a British mathematician and codebreaker.

  

  31.6%
  

  36.8%
  

  31.6%
  
•  Pope Paul VI

  Pope Paul VI, born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini (26 September 1897 – 6 August 1978), reigned as Pope of the Roman Catholic Church and Sovereign of Vatican City from 1963 to 1978. Succeeding Pope John XXIII, who had convened the Second Vatican Council, he decided to continue it. He fostered improved ecumenical relations with Orthodox, Anglicans and Protestants, which resulted in a number of historic meetings and agreements.

  

  42.9%
  

  23.8%
  

  33.3%
  
•  Paavo Nurmi

  Paavo Johannes Nurmi (13 June 1897 – 2 October 1973) was a Finnish runner. Born in Turku, he was known as one of the "Flying Finns"; a term given to him, Hannes Kolehmainen, Ville Ritola and others for their distinction in running. During the 1920s, Nurmi was the best middle and long distance runner in the world, setting world records at distances between 1500 m and 20 km.

  

  45.0%
  

  30.0%
  

  25.0%
  
•  Soong May-ling

  Soong May-ling or Soong Mei-ling, also known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek was a First Lady of the Republic of China, the wife of former President Chiang Kai-shek. She was a politician and painter. The youngest and the last surviving of the three Soong sisters, she played a prominent role in the politics of the Republic of China.

  

  20.0%
  

  50.0%
  

  30.0%
  
•  Shoghi Effendi

  Shoghí Effendí Rabbání (March 1, 1897 — November 4, 1957), better known as Shoghi Effendi, was the Guardian and appointed head of the Bahá'í Faith from 1921 until his death in 1957. After the death of `Abdu'l-Bahá in 1921, the leadership of the Bahá'í community entered a new phase, evolving from that of a single individual to an administrative order with executive and legislative branches, the head of each being the Guardianship and the Universal House of Justice.

  

  47.4%
  

  21.1%
  

  31.6%
  

• 1897 births by likeorhate
• 1968 deaths by likeorhate
• Labour MPs (UK) by likeorhate
• Members of the United Kingdom Parliament for English constituencies by likeorhate
• UK MPs 1945-1950 by likeorhate

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•  Carlos Asprilla

  Carlos Asprilla is a Colombian football player who started his professional career with Independiente Medellin. He's a cousin of former Colombian player Faustino Asprilla. One of the Colombia's best defensive players during the mid-late 1990s, he also played for América de Cali.

  

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•  Steve Cox (wrestler)

  Steve Cox is a retired American professional wrestler who competed in Mid-South regional promotions during the 1980s and early 1990s including the Universal Wrestling Federation, World Class Championship Wrestling and the National Wrestling Alliance.

  

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•  Film

  Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. Films (also referred to as movies or motion pictures) are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects. Films are cultural artifacts created by specific cultures, which reflect those cultures, and, in turn, affect them.

  

  35.7%
  

  28.6%
  

  35.7%
  
•  Collins and Aikman, Inc.

  

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•  Bobby Smith (football manager)

  

  25.8%
  

  51.6%
  

  22.6%