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•  Dziga Vertov

  Dziga Vertov was a Soviet pioneer documentary film, newsreel director and cinema theorist. His filming practices and theories paved the way to Cinéma vérité style of documentary moviemaking. Vertov's brothers Boris Kaufman and Mikhail Kaufman were also notable filmmakers, as was his wife, Elizaveta Svilova.

  

  52.4%
  

  28.6%
  

  19.0%
  
•  Howard Hawks

  Howard Winchester Hawks (May 30, 1896 – December 26, 1977) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era. He is popular for his films from a wide range of genres such as Scarface (1932), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), His Girl Friday (1940), Sergeant York (1941), The Big Sleep (1946), Red River (1948), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) and Rio Bravo (1959).

  

  32.8%
  

  19.0%
  

  48.3%
  
•  Ira Gershwin

  Ira Gershwin (December 6, 1896 – August 17, 1983) was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century. With George he wrote more than a dozen Broadway shows, featuring songs such as "I Got Rhythm", "Embraceable You", "The Man I Love" and "Someone to Watch Over Me", and the opera Porgy and Bess.

  

  38.1%
  

  28.6%
  

  33.3%
  
•  Klement Gottwald

  Klement Gottwald was a Czechoslovakian Communist politician, longtime leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ or CPCz or CPC), prime minister and president of Czechoslovakia.

  

  21.4%
  

  35.7%
  

  42.9%
  
•  Léon Theremin

  Léon Theremin was a Russian inventor. He is most famous for his invention of the theremin, the first electronic musical instrument. He is also the inventor of interlace, a technique of improving the picture quality of a video signal, widely used in video and television technology. His invention of "The Thing", an espionage tool, is considered a predecessor of RFID technology.

  

  40.9%
  

  18.2%
  

  40.9%
  
•  Ruth Gordon

  Ruth Gordon Jones (October 30, 1896 – August 28, 1985), better known as Ruth Gordon, was an American actress and writer. She was perhaps best known for her film roles such as the oversolicitous neighbor in Rosemary's Baby, the eccentric life-loving Maude in Harold and Maude and as the mother of Orville Boggs in the Every Which Way films. In addition to her acting career, Gordon wrote numerous well-known plays, film scripts and books.

  

  29.5%
  

  38.6%
  

  31.8%
  
•  Roman Jakobson

  Roman Osipovich Jakobson (October 11, 1896, Moscow - July 18, 1982, Boston) was a Russian linguist, formalist, and literary theorist. As a pioneer of the structural analysis of language, which became the dominant trend of twentieth-century linguistics, Jakobson was among the most influential linguists of the century.

  

  58.8%
  

  5.9%
  

  35.3%
  
•  Tristan Tzara

  Tristan Tzara (born Samuel or Samy Rosenstock, also known as S. Samyro; April 16 1896–December 25, 1963) was a Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist. Also active as a journalist, playwright, literary and art critic, composer and film director, he was known best for being one of the founders and central figures of the anti-establishment Dada movement.

  

  35.3%
  

  35.3%
  

  29.4%
  
•  Erich Hückel

  Erich Armand Arthur Joseph Hückel (August 9, 1896 - February 16, 1980) was a German physicist and physical chemist. He is known for two major contributions: The Debye–Hückel theory of electrolytic solutions The Hückel method of approximate molecular orbital (MO) calculations on π electron systems. Hückel was born in the Charlottenburg suburb of Berlin. He studied physics and mathematics from 1914 to 1921 at the University of Göttingen.

  

  50.0%
  

  31.8%
  

  18.2%
  
•  Georgy Zhukov

  Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov was a Russian career officer in the Red Army who, in the course of World War II, played an important role in leading the Red Army through much of Eastern Europe to liberate the Soviet Union and other nations from the Axis Powers' occupation and conquer Germany's capital, Berlin. He is the most decorated general in the history of both Russia and the Soviet Union.

  

  27.8%
  

  38.9%
  

  33.3%
  

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• 1968 deaths by likeorhate
• Nazi leaders by likeorhate
• Nazis convicted of war crimes by likeorhate
• Gauleiter by likeorhate
• People from the District of Kitzingen by likeorhate
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•  Inba District, Chiba

  Inba (印旛郡; -gun) is a district located in Chiba, Japan. As of 2003, the district has an estimated population of 66,401 and a density of 545.30 persons per km². The total area is 121.77 km². There are two towns and two villages within the district Inba Motono Sakae Shisui

  

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•  Cornwallis Island (South Shetland Islands)

  Cornwallis Island (historical Russian name Michailoff's Island) is an island 1 mile long, which lies 5 miles northeast of the east end of Elephant Island, in the South Shetland Islands. Island is located at 61°04′S 54°28′W / 61.067°S 54.467°W / -61.067; -54.467. The name Cornwallis Island dates back to about 1821 and is now established in international usage.

  

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•  Automobile

  An automobile, motor car or car is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor. Most definitions of the term specify that automobiles are designed to run primarily on roads, to have seating for one to eight people, to typically have four wheels, and to be constructed principally for the transport of people rather than goods. However, the term automobile is far from precise, because there are many types of vehicles that do similar tasks.

  

  33.3%
  

  33.3%
  

  33.3%
  
•  Vila Capanema

  

  44.4%
  

  25.9%
  

  29.6%
  
•  Crank That (Soulja Boy) (Travis Barker Remix)

  

  22.7%
  

  31.8%
  

  45.5%