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•  Alexander Fleming

  Sir Alexander Fleming (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish biologist and pharmacologist. Fleming published many articles on bacteriology, immunology and chemotherapy. His best-known achievements are the discovery of the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and the antibiotic substance penicillin from the fungus Penicillium notatum in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Walter Florey and Ernst Boris Chain.

  

  35.9%
  

  30.8%
  

  33.3%
  
•  Alexander Kerensky

  Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky (4 May 1881 – 11 June 1970) was a Russian politician. He served as the second Prime Minister of the Russian Provisional Government until Lenin was elected by the All-Russian Congress of Soviets following the October Revolution.

  

  50.0%
  

  15.0%
  

  35.0%
  
•  Béla Bartók

  Béla Viktor János Bartók (March 25, 1881 – September 26, 1945) was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered to be one of the greatest composers of the 20th century and is regarded, along with Liszt, as his country's greatest composer (Gillies 2001). Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of ethnomusicology.

  

  25.9%
  

  37.0%
  

  37.0%
  
•  Cecil B. DeMille

  Cecil Blount DeMille (August 12, 1881–January 21, 1959) was a legendary American film director and Academy Award-winning film producer in both silent and sound films. He was renowned for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies. Among some of his most well-known films are The Ten Commandments (1956), Cleopatra (1934), and The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

  

  26.5%
  

  35.3%
  

  38.2%
  
•  Crystal Eastman

  Crystal Catherine Eastman (June 25, 1881 – July 8, 1928) was a lawyer, antimilitarist, feminist, socialist, and journalist. She is best remembered as a leader in the fight for women's right to vote, as a co-editor of the radical arts and politics magazine The Liberator, and as a co-founder of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

  

  27.3%
  

  13.6%
  

  59.1%
  
•  Daniel Jones (phonetician)

  Daniel Jones (12 September 1881 – 4 December 1967) was a London-born British phonetician. A pupil of Paul Passy, professor of phonetics at the École des Hautes Études at the Sorbonne, Daniel Jones is considered by many to be the greatest phonetician of the early 20th century.

  

  23.4%
  

  18.2%
  

  58.4%
  
•  Irving Langmuir

  Irving Langmuir (31 January 1881 – 16 August 1957) was an American chemist and physicist. His most noted publication was the famous 1919 article "The Arrangement of Electrons in Atoms and Molecules" in which, building on Gilbert N. Lewis's cubical atom theory and Walther Kossel's chemical bonding theory, he outlined his "concentric theory of atomic structure".

  

  18.8%
  

  21.9%
  

  59.4%
  
•  Kliment Voroshilov

  Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov, popularly known as Klim Voroshilov (4 February 1881 – 2 December 1969) was a Soviet military commander and bureaucrat.

  

  28.6%
  

  35.7%
  

  35.7%
  
•  Mordecai Kaplan

  Mordecai Menahem Kaplan (June 11, 1881, Švenčionys – November 8, 1983, New York City), a rabbi, essayist and Jewish educator, was the ideologue of Reconstructionist Judaism which he founded with his son-in-law Ira Eisenstein. Kaplan was born in Švenčionys, Lithuania to Rabbi Israel and Haya (Anna) Kaplan. In 1889 he immigrated to the United States with his mother and sisters to join his father in New York who was work with the Chief Rabbi Jacob Joseph.

  

  31.7%
  

  31.7%
  

  36.6%
  
•  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (May 1, 1881 – April 10, 1955) was a French philosopher and Jesuit priest who trained as a paleontologist and geologist and took part in the discovery of Peking Man. Teilhard conceived the idea of the Omega Point and developed Vladimir Vernadsky's concept of Noosphere. He came into conflict with the Catholic Church and several of his books were censured. Teilhard's primary book, The Phenomenon of Man, set forth a sweeping account of the unfolding of the cosmos.

  

  26.9%
  

  34.6%
  

  38.5%
  

• 1881 births by likeorhate
• 1968 deaths by likeorhate
• German Jesuits by likeorhate
• German Roman Catholics by likeorhate
• German cardinals by likeorhate
• Participants in the Second Vatican Council by likeorhate
• People from Baden-Württemberg by likeorhate

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•  Staphylococcaceae

  The Staphylococcaceae is a family of Gram positive bacteria that includes the genus Staphylococcus, noted for encompassing several medically significant pathogens.

  

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•  Mohammad Toha

  Mohammad Toha was an Indonesian guerilla revered as a hero and martyr for his act of self-sacrifice during the Indonesian National Revolution. In March 1946 Toha, member of an Indonesian militia fighting Dutch rule, smuggled several sticks of dynamite into a large scale ammunition dump guarded by Japanese and Dutch troops, near the Dutch military Headquarters in Dayeuh Kolot. After overpowering the guards, he put the dynamite in several warehouses full of ammunition.

  

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•  Karl Scheel

  Karl Friedrich Franz Christian Scheel (10 March 1866 in Rostock – 8 November 1936 in Berlin) was a German physicist. He was a Senior Executive Officer and head of Department IIIb at the Reich Physical and Technical Institute. Additionally, he served as editor of the journal Fortschritte der Physik, the semi-monthly bibliographic section of the journal Physikalische Berichte, the Verhandlungen of the German Physical Society, and the Society’s journal Zeitschrift für Physik.

  

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•  Erlembald

  Saint Erlembald or Erlembaldo Cotta (Sanctus Herlembaldus in Latin; died 15 April 1075) was the political and military leader of the movement known as the pataria in Milan, a movement to reform the clergy and the church in the Ambrosian diocese. He was the brother of Landulf, subdeacon of Milan. They were of the Cotta, a family of valvassores and vassals of the archdiocese. In his early career, Erlembald was referred to as a "captain.

  

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•  Harris lake (highlands, north carolina)

  

  26.7%
  

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  40.0%