Lluís Companys i Jover

•  A. A. Milne

  Alan Alexander Milne (Born, 18 January 1882 – Died, 31 January 1956) was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various children's poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work.

  

  29.6%
  

  48.1%
  

  22.2%
  
•  Arthur Stanley Eddington

  Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, OM, FRS (28 December 1882 – 22 November 1944) was a British astrophysicist of the early 20th century. The Eddington limit, the natural limit to the luminosity of stars, or the radiation generated by accretion onto a compact object, is named in his honour. He is famous for his work regarding the Theory of Relativity. Eddington wrote a number of articles which announced and explained Einstein's theory of general relativity to the English-speaking world.

  

  36.4%
  

  21.2%
  

  42.4%
  
•  Avery Hopwood

  Avery Hopwood (May 28, 1882 - July 1, 1928), who was born in Cleveland, Ohio and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Michigan (1905), was one of the most successful playwrights of the Jazz Age, having four plays running simultaneously on Broadway in 1920. Hopwood started out as a journalist for a Cleveland newspaper as its New York correspondent, but within a year had a play, Clothes (1906), produced on Broadway.

  

  31.6%
  

  15.8%
  

  52.6%
  
•  Béla Lugosi

  Béla Lugosi (20 October 1882 – 16 August 1956) was a Hungarian actor of stage and screen, well known for playing Count Dracula in the Broadway play and subsequent film version. In the last years of his career he featured in several of Ed Wood's low budget films.

  

  17.4%
  

  43.5%
  

  39.1%
  
•  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war. The only American president elected to more than two terms, he was often referred to by his initials, FDR. Roosevelt won his first of four presidential elections in 1932, while the United States was in the depths of the Great Depression.

  

  16.2%
  

  40.5%
  

  43.2%
  
•  Fiorello H. La Guardia

  

  19.0%
  

  19.0%
  

  61.9%
  
•  Georges Braque

  Georges Braque (13 May 1882 – 31 August 1963) was a major 20th century French painter and sculptor who, along with Pablo Picasso, developed the art movement known as Cubism.

  

  20.8%
  

  37.5%
  

  41.7%
  
•  James Joyce

  James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish writer and poet, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Along with Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and many others, Joyce was a key figure in the development of the modernist novel. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses (1922).

  

  27.3%
  

  40.9%
  

  31.8%
  
•  Louis St. Laurent

  Louis Stephen St. Laurent, PC, CC, QC (Saint-Laurent or St-Laurent in French, baptized Louis-Étienne St-Laurent), (February 1, 1882 – July 25, 1973) was the 12th Prime Minister of Canada from November 15, 1948, to June 21, 1957.

  

  39.1%
  

  34.8%
  

  26.1%
  
•  Sigrid Undset

  Sigrid Undset (20 May 1882 – 10 June 1949) was a Norwegian novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1928. Undset was born in Kalundborg, Denmark, but her family moved to Norway when she was two years old. In 1924, she converted to Catholicism and became a lay Dominican. She fled Norway for the United States in 1940 because of her opposition to Nazi Germany and the German occupation, but returned after World War II ended in 1945.

  

  40.6%
  

  37.5%
  

  21.9%
  

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•  Cyrenaics

  The Cyrenaics were an ultra-hedonist Greek school of philosophy founded in the 4th century BC, supposedly by Aristippus of Cyrene, although many of the principles of the school are believed to have been formalized by his grandson of the same name, Aristippus the Younger. The school was so called after Cyrene, the birthplace of Aristippus. It was one of the earliest Socratic schools.

  

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•  Isenbüttel

  Isenbüttel is a municipality in the district of Gifhorn, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approx. 6 km southeast of Gifhorn, and 20 km north of Braunschweig. Isenbüttel is also the seat of the Samtgemeinde Isenbüttel ("collective municipality").

  

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  50.0%
  

  50.0%
  
•  Laurens, Hérault

  Laurens is a commune in the Hérault département in Languedoc-Roussillon in southern France.

  

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  0.0%
  

  100.0%
  
•  Kozły, Bielsk County

  Kozły is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Bielsk Podlaski, within Bielsk County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. It lies approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) south of Bielsk Podlaski and 47 km (29 mi) south of the regional capital Białystok.

  

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•  ISO 3166-1:CS

  

  38.1%
  

  23.8%
  

  38.1%