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A Dictionary of 20th Century World Biography (Oxford)

REFERENCE WORK

Consulting editor, Asa Briggs. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

An earlier edition published in 1985 as the Longman Dictionary.

People in this reference:280
Those presently living:41
Those deceased:239
  
White:244
Black:11
Hispanic:10
Asian/Indian:5
Middle Eastern:4
Asian:3
Multiracial:2
Other:1
  
United States:70
England:68
France:30
Germany:16
Russia:8
Italy:8
Ireland:6
Australia:6
Scotland:5
Spain:5
Sweden:3
South Africa:3
Israel:3
Pakistan:3
Canada:3
Czechoslovakia:2
Nigeria:2
Algeria:2
Romania:2
Greece:2
(others):33
      Alvar Aalto
      Ferhat Abbas
      Chinua Achebe
      Dean Acheson
      Ansel Adams
      Richard Adams
      Konrad Adenauer
      Alfred Adler
      Larry Adler
      Theodor Adorno
      Edgar Adrian
      Hafez al-Assad
      Edward Albee
      Josef Albers
      Samuel Alexander
            ·
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(250 names omitted for brevity)
            ·
            ·
      Ben Chifley
      Giorgio de Chirico
      Noam Chomsky
      Christian X
      Agatha Christie
      Winston Churchill
      Zhou Enlai
      Chiang Kai-Shek
      Nicholas Kaldor
      Ayub Khan
      Frederick Lindemann
      José Martínez Ruiz
      Tunku Abdul Rahman
      Françoise Sagan
      Bruno Walter





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