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111Awolowo, Obafemi — born March 6, 1909, Ikenne, Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria died May 9, 1987, Ikenne Nigerian nationalist politician and leader of the Yoruba ethnic group. While studying law in London, he wrote the influential Path to Nigerian… …
112Boccaccio, Giovanni — born 1313, Paris, France died Dec. 21, 1375, Certaldo, Tuscany Italian poet and scholar. His life was full of difficulties and occasional bouts of poverty. His early works include The Love Afflicted (с 1336), a prose work in five books, and The… …
113Burroughs, John — born April 3, 1837, near Roxbury, N.Y., U.S. died March 29, 1921, en route from California to New York U.S. essayist and naturalist. In his early years he worked as a teacher, farmer, and U.S. Treasury Department clerk. In 1873 he moved to a farm …
114Flaubert, Gustave — born Dec. 12, 1821, Rouen, France died May 8, 1880, Croisset French novelist. Flaubert abandoned law studies at age 22 for a life of writing. His masterpiece, Madame Bovary (1857), a sharply realistic portrayal of provincial bourgeois boredom and …
115Godard, Jean-Luc — born Dec. 3, 1930, Paris, France French film director. He wrote film criticism for the influential journal Cahiers du cinéma before impressing audiences with his first feature film, the improvisatory and original Breathless (1960), which… …
116Gracchus, Gaius Sempronius — born с 160 died 121 BC, Grove of Furrina, near Rome Roman tribune (123–122 BC). He joined the outcry over the murder of his brother, Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus and helped implement his agrarian law. He combined the votes of plebeians and… …
117James, William — born Jan. 11, 1842, New York, N.Y., U.S. died Aug. 26, 1910, Chocorua, N.H. U.S. philosopher and psychologist. Son of the philosophical writer Henry James (1811–82) and brother of the novelist Henry James, he studied medicine at Harvard, where he …
118Langmuir, Irving — born Jan. 31, 1881, Brooklyn, N.Y., N.Y., U.S. died Aug. 16, 1957, Falmouth, Mass. U.S. physical chemist. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Göttingen, Ger. As a researcher for General Electric (1909–50), he investigated electrical… …
119Lichtenstein, Roy — born Oct. 27, 1923, New York, N.Y., U.S. died Sept. 29, 1997, New York City U.S. painter, sculptor, and graphic artist. He at first embraced Abstract Expressionism, but in the 1960s he turned to Pop art for which he is best known. Especially… …
120Lotto, Lorenzo — born с 1480, Venice died 1556, Loreto, Papal States Italian painter. He worked in several cities other than Venice and developed an idiosyncratic style. His late Renaissance style work exhibits a preference for opulent colours and a faculty for… …
