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%
  

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•  Interfleet Technology Limited

  Interfleet Technology is an international rail technology consultancy group. Founded in 1994, Interfleet Technology provides railway systems consultancy services.

  

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•  Alan Tower Waterman

  Alan Tower Waterman (June 4, 1892 – November 30, 1967) was an American physicist. Born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, he grew up in Northampton, Massachusetts. His father was a professor of physics at Smith College. Alan also became a physicist, doing his undergraduate and doctoral work at Princeton University, from which he obtained his Ph.D. in 1916. He joined the faculty of the University of Cincinnati, and married Mary Mallon there in August 1917.

  

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•  Baradero Partido

  Baradero Partido is a partido of Buenos Aires Province in Argentina. The provincial subdivision has a population of 29,562 inhabitants in an area of 1,514 km², and its capital city is Baradero, which is located to the north west of Buenos Aires. The district was founded on July 25, 1615, making it one of the oldest Partidos in Buenos Aires Province.

  

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