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•  Alexander Fleming

  Sir Alexander Fleming (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish biologist and pharmacologist. Fleming published many articles on bacteriology, immunology and chemotherapy. His best-known achievements are the discovery of the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and the antibiotic substance penicillin from the fungus Penicillium notatum in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Walter Florey and Ernst Boris Chain.

  

  35.9%
  

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  33.3%
  
•  Alexander Kerensky

  Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky (4 May 1881 – 11 June 1970) was a Russian politician. He served as the second Prime Minister of the Russian Provisional Government until Lenin was elected by the All-Russian Congress of Soviets following the October Revolution.

  

  50.0%
  

  15.0%
  

  35.0%
  
•  Béla Bartók

  Béla Viktor János Bartók (March 25, 1881 – September 26, 1945) was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered to be one of the greatest composers of the 20th century and is regarded, along with Liszt, as his country's greatest composer (Gillies 2001). Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of ethnomusicology.

  

  25.9%
  

  37.0%
  

  37.0%
  
•  Cecil B. DeMille

  Cecil Blount DeMille (August 12, 1881–January 21, 1959) was a legendary American film director and Academy Award-winning film producer in both silent and sound films. He was renowned for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies. Among some of his most well-known films are The Ten Commandments (1956), Cleopatra (1934), and The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

  

  26.5%
  

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  38.2%
  
•  Crystal Eastman

  Crystal Catherine Eastman (June 25, 1881 – July 8, 1928) was a lawyer, antimilitarist, feminist, socialist, and journalist. She is best remembered as a leader in the fight for women's right to vote, as a co-editor of the radical arts and politics magazine The Liberator, and as a co-founder of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

  

  27.3%
  

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  59.1%
  
•  Daniel Jones (phonetician)

  Daniel Jones (12 September 1881 – 4 December 1967) was a London-born British phonetician. A pupil of Paul Passy, professor of phonetics at the École des Hautes Études at the Sorbonne, Daniel Jones is considered by many to be the greatest phonetician of the early 20th century.

  

  23.4%
  

  18.2%
  

  58.4%
  
•  Irving Langmuir

  Irving Langmuir (31 January 1881 – 16 August 1957) was an American chemist and physicist. His most noted publication was the famous 1919 article "The Arrangement of Electrons in Atoms and Molecules" in which, building on Gilbert N. Lewis's cubical atom theory and Walther Kossel's chemical bonding theory, he outlined his "concentric theory of atomic structure".

  

  18.8%
  

  21.9%
  

  59.4%
  
•  Kliment Voroshilov

  Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov, popularly known as Klim Voroshilov (4 February 1881 – 2 December 1969) was a Soviet military commander and bureaucrat.

  

  28.6%
  

  35.7%
  

  35.7%
  
•  Mordecai Kaplan

  Mordecai Menahem Kaplan (June 11, 1881, Švenčionys – November 8, 1983, New York City), a rabbi, essayist and Jewish educator, was the ideologue of Reconstructionist Judaism which he founded with his son-in-law Ira Eisenstein. Kaplan was born in Švenčionys, Lithuania to Rabbi Israel and Haya (Anna) Kaplan. In 1889 he immigrated to the United States with his mother and sisters to join his father in New York who was work with the Chief Rabbi Jacob Joseph.

  

  31.7%
  

  31.7%
  

  36.6%
  
•  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (May 1, 1881 – April 10, 1955) was a French philosopher and Jesuit priest who trained as a paleontologist and geologist and took part in the discovery of Peking Man. Teilhard conceived the idea of the Omega Point and developed Vladimir Vernadsky's concept of Noosphere. He came into conflict with the Catholic Church and several of his books were censured. Teilhard's primary book, The Phenomenon of Man, set forth a sweeping account of the unfolding of the cosmos.

  

  26.9%
  

  34.6%
  

  38.5%
  

• 1881 births by likeorhate
• 1942 deaths by likeorhate
• Assassinated French politicians by likeorhate
• Deaths by firearm in France by likeorhate
• French Navy admirals by likeorhate
• French military personnel of World War I by likeorhate
• French military personnel of World War II by likeorhate
• Ministers of Marine by likeorhate
• World War II political leaders by likeorhate
• People from Lot-et-Garonne by likeorhate
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•  Cape Henlopen State Park

  Cape Henlopen State Park is a Delaware state park on 5,193 acres (2,102 ha) on Cape Henlopen in Sussex County, Delaware, in the United States. William Penn made the beaches of Cape Henlopen one of the first public lands established in what has become the United States in 1682 with the declaration that Cape Henlopen would be for "the usage of the citizens of Lewes and Sussex County. " Cape Henlopen State Park has a 24-hour and year-round fishing pier as well as campgrounds.

  

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•  Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, 7th Baronet

  Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, 7th Baronet, (19 April 1913 - 2006) was an Indian philanthropist. Born Maneckjee Jamsetjee, he was the son of Rustamjee, son of Jamsetjee Cursetjee, son of Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, the second baronet. His children include Ayesha (born June 5, 1952) and his heir apparent Rustomjee (born November 16, 1957).

  

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•  The Eternal Mother

  The Eternal Mother is a 1912 short silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Blanche Sweet.

  

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•  Herbert Weld Blundell

  Herbert Joseph Weld Blundell (1852-1935) was an English traveller in Africa, archaeologist, philanthropist and yachtsman. He shortened his surname from Weld Blundell to Weld, in 1924.

  

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•  Hypertrophy, left ventricular

  

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