1. James Brockman (1886)

American Songwriter

Lyricist known for I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles and Down Among The Sheltering Palms, which was a hit by the Boswell Sisters.

2. Anna Larina (1914)

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Anna Larina was the second wife of the Bolshevik leader Nikolai Bukharin and spent many years trying to rehabilitate her husband after he was executed in 1938. She was the...

3. Peter Yurdansky (1891)

Russian Chess Master

Peter Konstantinovich Yurdansky was a Russian chess master. He won Moscow City Chess Championship in 1913 and tied for 8-9th at Moscow 1913 shared 2nd at Mannheim 1914 tournament...

4. Vladimir Voronin (1941)

President Of Moldova

Vladimir Nicolaevici Voronin is a Moldovan politician. He was the third President of Moldova from 2001 until 2009 and has been the First Secretary of the Party of Communists...

5. Adrian von Renteln (1897)

German Politiican

Theodor Adrian von Renteln was an activist and politician in National Socialist German Workers' Party Germany. During World War II he was General Commissioner of Generalbezirk Litauen and was involved...

6. Aleksei Mikhailovich Abaza (1853)

Russian Admiral

Aleksei Mikhailovich Abaza was a Royal Dignitary of Russia and served as a Rear Admiral in 1903.

7. Maurice Spector (1898)

Ukrainian Politician

Maurice Spector was the Chairman of the Communist Party of Canada and editor of its newspaper The Worker for much of the 1920s and an early follower of Leon Trotsky...

8. Samuel Factor (Canadian politician) (1892)

Canadian Politician

Samuel Sam Factor KC was a Canadian politician lawyer and jurist and the first Jewish Member of Parliament elected to the Canadian House of Commons from Ontario.

9. Chaim Rumkowski (1877)

Jewish Collaborator

Chaim Mordechai Rumkowski was a Polish Jew and businessman who was appointed as the German National Socialist German Workers' Party-nominated head of the Ältestenrat or Jewish authorities in the Łódź...

10. Samuel Mandelbaum (1884)

American Politician

Samuel Mandelbaum was a New York lawyer and politician who served for ten years as a federal district judge.

11. Moshe Kelmer (1901)

Israeli Politician

Moshe Kelmer was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset in three spells between 1949 and 1963.

12. Mehmed Reshid (1873)

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Dr. Mehmed Reshid was the governor of the Diyarbekir vilayet of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. He is known for organizing the wartime destruction of the Armenian Assyrian...

13. Daniel Ellison (1886)

American Politician

Daniel Ellison was a U. S. Representative from Maryland. Born in Russia Ellison was brought to the United States by his parents as an infant. He attended the public schools...

14. Nikolai Perovski (1785)

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15. Alexander Prozorovsky (Unknow)

Russian Noble

Prince Alexander Alexandrovich Prozorovsky was the only Field Marshal from the Prozorovsky family. He gained distinction in the Seven Years' War and the conquest of Crimea. Prozorovsky's career was...

16. Vasily Kharlamov (1875)

Russian Politician

Vasily Akimovich Kharlamov was a Russian politician involved in the revolution and civil war. Kharlamov of the Don Cossacks was a member of the Constitutional Democratic Party and was...

17. Vasyl Sydor (1910)

Ukrainian Army Commander

Vasyl Sydor ; born in Spasiv 24 February 1910; died 14 April 1949 in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast – colonel of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army political activist soldier of the Nachtigall Battalion...

18. Giorgi Sturua (1884)

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19. Aleksandr Zubov (1727)

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20. Leonty Dubelt (1792)

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21. Nikolay Mezentsov (1827)

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Nikolay Vladimirovich Mezentsov 1827 – August 4 1878) was a Russian statesman adjutant general and member of the State Council of Imperial Russia. Mezentsov began his military career in...

22. Nikolay Kolesnikov (weightlifter) (Unknow)

Weightlifter

Nikolay Kolesnikov is a former Soviet weightlifter Olympic champion and world champion. He won the gold medal in the featherweight class at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.

23. Galaktion Alpaidze (1916)

Soviet Politician

Galaktion Yeliseyevich Alpaidze was a Soviet Lieutenant General Hero of the Soviet Union chief of the Plesetsk rocket proving ground in 1963-1975 and 1977 laureate of the USSR State...

24. Ivan Kupreyanov (Unknow)

Russian Explorer

Ivan Antonovich Kupreyanov also spelled in English as Kupreanof was the head of the Russian-American Company in Russian America from 1835 to 1840. He built the famous residence library and...

25. Ivan Ivanovich Tolstoy (Unknow)

Russian Politician

Ivan Ivanovich Tolstoy was an Imperial Russian Politician. He served as Vice President of the Russian Imperial Academy of Arts while Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich was Academy President. He later...

26. Ze'ev Tzur (1911)

Israeli Politician

Ze'ev Tzur was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset between 1955 and 1959 and again from 1965 until 1969.

27. Ja Lama (1862)

Russian Buddhist Lama

Ja Lama ) was an adventurer and warlord of unknown birth and background who fought successive campaigns against Chinese rule in western Mongolia between 1890 and 1922.

28. Yitzhak Kariv (Unknow)

Israeli Politician

Yitzhak Kariv was the mayor of the Israeli part of Jerusalem from 1952 to 1955 and a banker. As a member of the Mizrachi political party he was appointed as...

29. Roman Malinovsky (1876)

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Roman Vatslavovich Malinovsky was a prominent Russian Bolshevik politician before the revolution while at the same time working as the best paid agent for the Okhrana. They codenamed him 'Portnoi'....

30. Khasan Israilov (Unknow)

Chechen Guerilla Leader

Khasan Israilov was a Chechen nationalist guerrilla fighter journalist and poet who led a Chechen and Ingush resistance and rebellion against the Soviet Union from 1940 until his death...

31. Eugénie Kapnist (1880)

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32. Mukhtar Auezov (1897)

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Mukhtar Omarkhanuli Auezov was a Kazakh writer a social activist a Doctor of Philology a professor and honored academic of the Soviet Union. He was born on September 28...

33. Tatiana Bulakh-Gardina (Unknow)

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34. Sergei Chavain (1888)

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Sergei Chavain also spelled Čavajn was a Mari poet and playwright born Sergei Grigorievich Grigoriev. In 1905 he wrote the first literary poem in the Mari language Oto. In 1908...

35. Eddie Ainsmith (1890)

American Baseball Player

Edward Wilbur Ainsmith nicknamed Dorf was a catcher in Major League Baseball. He played fifteen seasons with the Washington Senators Detroit Tigers St. Louis Cardinals Brooklyn Robins and New York...