• Erik Adolf von Willebrand (1 February 1870 – 12 September 1949) was a Finnish physician who made major contributions to hematology. Von Willebrand disease...
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath, who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer...
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    Humboldt University of Berlin. In 1949, the university was named after him and his younger brother, Alexander von Humboldt, a naturalist. He was a linguist...
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    Paul Hindemith (category German male conductors (music))
    orchestra (1935), the opera Mathis der Maler (1938), the Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber (1943), and the oratorio When Lilacs...
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    seasons with veteran comedian Eddie Cantor. From October 1940 to June 1949, von Zell served as Cantor's commercial spokesperson and straight man. Then...
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    Supplement 2. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-522202-9. Dohnányi, Ilona von (2002). James A. Grymes (ed.). Ernst von Dohnányi: A Song of...
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    1949 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1949. 1949 (MCMXLIX)...
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    Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises (German: [ˈluːtvɪç fɔn ˈmiːzəs]; 29 September 1881 – 10 October 1973) was an Austrian-American economist, logician, sociologist...
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    Captain Robert von Ranke Graves (24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985) was an English poet, soldier, historical novelist and critic. His father was Alfred Perceval...
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    Fritz Erich Georg Eduard von Manstein (born Fritz Erich Georg Eduard von Lewinski; 24 November 1887 – 9 June 1973) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (Field...
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    Friedrich August von Hayek CH FBA (/ˈhaɪək/ HY-ək, German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈʔaʊɡʊst fɔn ˈhaɪɛk] ; 8 May 1899 – 23 March 1992), often referred to by his initials...
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  • in the history of LGBT rights that took place in the 20th century before 1949. June 8 — The first documented same-sex marriage in Spain in post-Roman times...
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    Gustav Theodore Holst (born Gustavus Theodore von Holst; 21 September 1874 – 25 May 1934) was an English composer, arranger and teacher. Best known for...
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    Johannes Brahms (category 19th-century German male musicians)
    Eduard Hanslick celebrated them polemically as absolute music, and Hans von Bülow even cast Brahms as the successor of Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig...
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    Johann van Beethoven (category 18th-century German male singers)
    Ehrenbreitstein. She was the daughter of the head chef to Johann IX Philipp von Walderdorff, Archbishop-Elector of Trier, whose court was there, and she...
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    face trial due to his age and poor health. He was released in 1949, and died in 1953. Gerd von Rundstedt was born in Aschersleben, north of Halle in Prussian...
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    Alfred Brendel (category Herbert von Karajan Music Prize winners)
    Deželić. He later moved to Graz, Austria, where he studied piano with Ludovica von Kaan at the Graz Conservatory and composition with Artur Michel. Towards...
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    Gotthard Graubner (category 20th-century German male artists)
    1988), pp. 162–68. Helga Meister, Der Maler Gotthard Graubner ist tot, Westdeutsche Zeitung, 24 May 2013. "Maler Gotthard Graubner gestorben", Zeit Online...
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    Erich Oswald Hans Carl Maria von Stroheim (born Erich Oswald Stroheim; September 22, 1885 – May 12, 1957) was an Austrian-American director, screenwriter...
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    India Office. The Imperial Gazetteer of India. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908. Wurzbach, Constantin von (1878). "Stadion, das Grafenhaus, Genealogie"....
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    (born 1980), British journalist and novelist Hermione Farthingale (born 1949), English dancer, yoga teacher, and dated David Bowie and inspired some of...
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  • He was an enthusiastic polo player and played for his University Team at Oxford in 1914. Obolensky was a soldier in two World Wars and in the Russian Civil...
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    Bertha, maiden name Raspe (1867 – 1949) was the daughter of a Moscow apothecary, whilst his father, Carl Johann Vieth von Golßenau (1856 – 1938), was a teacher...
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  • Karl Ritter von Frisch, ForMemRS (20 November 1886 – 12 June 1982) was a German-Austrian ethologist who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine...
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    in the history of computing software and hardware: from prehistory until 1949. For narratives explaining the overall developments, see History of computing...
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    culture. In 1949 Jung and Kerényi theorized that groups of three goddesses found in Greece become quaternities only by association with a male god. They...
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  • Adels, 125th edition, Adelslexikon, vol. 12, Rol-Schm, ed. Hans Friedrich von Ehrenkrook, C. A. Starke, 2002, p. 503 "AT-OeStA/AVA Adel RAA 372.29 Schluderpacher...
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    Górski 1949, p. 54. Górski 1949, pp. 71–72. Górski 1949, p. 63. Górski 1949, pp. 88–90, 206–207. Górski 1949, pp. 91–92, 209–210. Górski 1949, pp. 96–97...
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  • hdl:2027/nyp.33433075969281. OCLC 669319331 – via HathiTrust. Urban, Rudolf von (1949). "Sex perfection and marital happiness". Dial Press. OCLC 688412035....
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  • navigator Vera Blagojević (1920-1942), Yugoslav political activist Vera von Blumenthal, American potter and educator Vera Bogetti (1902–1985), British...
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