Léon Theremin

•  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%
  
•  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.

  

  31.1%
  

  37.8%
  

  31.1%
  
•  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%
  
•  Harry Randall Truman

  Harry Randall Truman (October 30, 1896 – May 18, 1980) was a resident of the U.S. state of Washington who lived on Mount St. Helens and came to brief fame in the months preceding in the 1980 eruption after stubbornly refusing to leave. He was the owner of Mount St. Helens Lodge at Spirit Lake. The lodge was located at the foot of the mountain, and was in the danger zone at the time of the eruption. He was born in Ivydale, West Virginia, to Newberry Truman and Rosa Belle Hardman.

  

  50.0%
  

  37.5%
  

  12.5%
  

• 1896 births by likeorhate
• 1993 deaths by likeorhate
• Inventors of musical instruments by likeorhate
• People from Saint Petersburg by likeorhate
• Russian-American inventors by likeorhate
• Russian-Americans by likeorhate
• Russian inventors by likeorhate
• Sharashka inmates by likeorhate
• Soviet engineers by likeorhate
• Soviet scientists by likeorhate
• Stalin Prize winners by likeorhate
• Theremin players by likeorhate

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•  Galdhøpiggen

  Galdhøpiggen is the highest mountain in Norway, Scandinavia and Northern Europe, at 2,469 m (8,100 ft) above sea level. It is located within the municipality of Lom, in the Jotunheimen mountain area.

  

  50.0%
  

  50.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  J. M. Coetzee

  John Maxwell Coetzee (born 9 February 1940) is an author and academic from South Africa. He is now an Australian citizen and lives in South Australia. A novelist and literary critic as well as a translator, Coetzee has won the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature.

  

  50.0%
  

  50.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Kvamskogen

  Kvamskogen is a mountain plateau in the municipalities of Samnanger and Kvam in Hordaland county, Norway. Traditionally, the term was used only for the parts of the plateau located in Kvam municipality, but it is today used for the entire plateau. Kvamskogen contains several ski resorts, and more than 1700 cabins, the third highest concentration of cabins in the country.

  

  50.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  50.0%
  
•  Āgra

  

  40.9%
  

  31.8%
  

  27.3%
  
•  Saint Mark Elementary School, Venice, California

  

  39.1%
  

  30.4%
  

  30.4%