C. S. Lewis

•  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%
  
•  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%
  
•  Paul Robeson

  Paul LeRoy Bustill Robeson (April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976) was an internationally renowned American bass-baritone concert singer, scholar, actor of film and stage, All-American and professional athlete, writer, multi-lingual orator and lawyer who was also noted for his wide-ranging social justice activism.

  

  36.0%
  

  36.0%
  

  28.0%
  

• 1898 births by likeorhate
• 1963 deaths by likeorhate
• Academics of the University of Cambridge by likeorhate
• Alumni of University College, Oxford by likeorhate
• Anglican saints by likeorhate
• British science fiction writers by likeorhate
• C. S. Lewis by likeorhate
• Christian novelists by likeorhate
• Converts to Christianity by likeorhate
• Deaths from renal failure by likeorhate
• English fantasy writers by likeorhate
• Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford by likeorhate
• Former atheists and agnostics by likeorhate
• Inklings by likeorhate
• Irish children's writers by likeorhate
• Irish literary critics by likeorhate
• Irish novelists by likeorhate
• Irish philosophers by likeorhate
• Irish science fiction writers by likeorhate
• Lay theologians by likeorhate
• Literary critics of English by likeorhate
• Mythopoeic writers by likeorhate
• Northern Irish Anglicans by likeorhate
• Old Campbellians by likeorhate
• Old Malvernians by likeorhate

Register now, and make your vote count more!

•  December 27

  27 de Dezembro ou 27 de dezembro é o 361º dia do ano no calendário gregoriano. Faltam 4 para acabar o ano.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  4

  Year 4 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

  

  100.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Biceps

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  100.0%
  
•  Cowper Phipps Coles

  Captain Cowper Phipps Coles, C.B. , R.N. (1819 – 7 September 1870), the son of the Reverend John Coles and his wife Mary Ann Goodhew Rogers, was an English naval Captain and inventor. Coles died when HMS Captain, an experimental warship built to his designs, sank with him onboard.

  

  100.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Irish League 1923–24

  

  38.1%
  

  33.3%
  

  28.6%