Who's Who in Modern History, 1860-1980

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Who's Who in Modern History, 1860-1980

REFERENCE WORK

Alan Palmer. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson Ltd., 1980.

People in this reference: 386
Those presently living: 15
Those deceased: 371

White: 336
Black: 11
Hispanic: 10
Asian: 10
Middle Eastern: 7
Asian/Indian: 6
Multiracial: 3
American Aborigine: 2
(not specified): 1

United States: 129
England: 50
Germany: 35
France: 20
Russia: 18
Italy: 17
Canada: 7
Scotland: 6
South Africa: 5
Israel: 5
Ireland: 5
Norway: 5
Czechoslovakia: 4
Japan: 4
India: 4
China: 4
Austria: 4
Wales: 3
Argentina: 3
Turkey: 3
(others): 55
Gamal Abdel-Nasser
Dean Acheson
Lord Acton
Jane Addams
Konrad Adenauer
Alfred Adler
Emilio Aguinaldo
Buzz Aldrin
Tsar Alexander II
Tsar Alexander III
Alfonso XIII
Edmund Allenby
Salvador Allende
John Peter Altgeld
Idi Amin
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(356 names omitted for brevity)
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James Watson
Archibald Wavell
Chaim Weizmann
Roy Welensky
H. G. Wells
Kaiser Wilhelm
Wendell Willkie
Harold Wilson
Woodrow Wilson
Orville Wright
Isoroku Yamamoto
Sun Yat-sen
Ferdinand von Zeppelin
Georgi Zhukov
King Zog

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