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•  Agner Krarup Erlang

  Agner Krarup Erlang (January 1, 1878 – February 3, 1929) was a Danish mathematician, statistician and engineer, who invented the fields of traffic engineering and queueing theory. Erlang created the field of telephone networks analysis.

  

  16.7%
  

  33.3%
  

  50.0%
  
•  George Whipple

  George Hoyt Whipple (August 28, 1878 – February 1, 1976) was an American physician, pathologist, biomedical researcher, and medical school educator and administrator. Whipple shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 with George Richards Minot and William Parry Murphy "for their discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anemia. " Whipple was born to Ashley Cooper Whipple and Frances Anna Hoyt in Ashland, New Hampshire. He was the son and grandson of physicians.

  

  23.1%
  

  30.8%
  

  46.2%
  
•  Gustav Radbruch

  Gustav Radbruch (November 21, 1878 - November 23, 1949) was a German law professor and political figure.

  

  24.1%
  

  44.8%
  

  31.0%
  
•  Joseph Stalin

  Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili in Georgian or Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in Russian patronymic nomenclature; 18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. In the years following Lenin's death in 1924, he rose to become the leader of the Soviet Union.

  

  33.3%
  

  43.3%
  

  23.3%
  
•  John Masefield

  John Edward Masefield, OM, (1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967) was an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until his death in 1967. He was born in Egypt.

  

  39.2%
  

  25.5%
  

  35.3%
  
•  Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany

  Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (24 July 1878 – 25 October 1957) was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist, notable for his work, mostly in fantasy, published under the name Lord Dunsany. More than eighty books of his work were published, and his oeuvre includes many hundreds of published short stories, as well as successful plays, novels and essays.

  

  35.8%
  

  17.0%
  

  47.2%
  
•  Lise Meitner

  Lise Meitner (7 or 17 November 1878 – 27 October 1968) was an Austrian-born, later Swedish physicist who worked on radioactivity and nuclear physics. Meitner was part of the team that discovered nuclear fission, an achievement for which her colleague Otto Hahn was awarded the Nobel Prize. Meitner is often mentioned as one of the most glaring examples of women's scientific achievement overlooked by the Nobel committee.

  

  40.0%
  

  35.0%
  

  25.0%
  
•  Lillian Moller Gilbreth

  Lillian Moller Gilbreth, PhD, (May 24, 1878 – January 2, 1972) was one of the first working female engineers holding a PhD. She was born in Oakland, California to William and Anne (née Delger) Moller. She is arguably the first true industrial/organizational psychologist. She and her husband Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr. were pioneers in the field of industrial engineering. Their interest in time and motion study may have had something to do with the fact that they had an extremely large family.

  

  33.3%
  

  33.3%
  

  33.3%
  
•  Carl Sandburg

  Carl Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American writer and editor, best known for his poetry. He won three Pulitzer Prizes, two for his poetry and another for a biography of Abraham Lincoln. H. L. Mencken called Carl Sandburg "indubitably an American in every pulse-beat."

  

  21.6%
  

  32.4%
  

  45.9%
  
•  Edward Thomas (poet)

  Philip Edward Thomas (3 March 1878 – 9 April 1917) was an Anglo-Welsh writer of prose and poetry. He is commonly considered a war poet, although few of his poems deal directly with his war experiences. Already an accomplished writer, Thomas only turned to poetry in 1914. Thomas enlisted in the army in 1915, and was killed in action during the Battle of Arras in 1917, soon after he arrived in France.

  

  40.0%
  

  25.0%
  

  35.0%
  

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•  Alexander Beliaev

  

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•  Risto Jarva

  Risto Antero Jarva (15 July 1934 - 16 December 1977) was a Finnish filmmaker. His last film was Jäniksen vuosi ("The Year of the Hare").

  

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•  Kikuzirou no Natu

  

  30.8%
  

  38.5%
  

  30.8%
  
•  Sidlesham F. C.

  

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•  Martigny Sports

  

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