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Harry Peacock
1909 births | 1996 deaths | people from monmouthshire | people from newport | rugby union flankers | welsh rugby union footballersHarry Peacock (14 February 1909–16 March 1996) was a Welsh international rugby union flanker who played rugby union for Newport. He won six caps for Wales and faced two international touring teams with Newport.
Rhoda Rennie
1909 births | freestyle swimmers | olympic bronze medalists for south africa | olympic swimmers of south africa | possibly living people | south african swimmers | swimmers at the 1928 summer olympicsRhoda Lillian Rennie (born 1909) is a South African freestyle swimmer who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics.
Sohn Won-yil
1909 births | korean admirals Rear Admiral Sohn Won-yil, c. 1949
Vice Admiral Sohn Won-yil, ROKN (May 5, 1909 – February 15, 1980) was the first Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) of the Republic of Korea Navy. He was one of the founding members of of the South Korean navy. After relieved from the service, he was appointed as the fifth Minister of National Defense, and the first ambassador to West Germany.
Heinrich Sack
1909 births | canoers at the 1936 summer olympics | german canoers | olympic canoers of germany | possibly living peopleHeinrich Sack (born December 10, 1909) is a German canoer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
In 1936 he finished fourth together with his partner Hans Wedemann in the C-2 1000 metre event.
Anatol Fejgin
1909 births | 2002 deaths | functionaries of stalinist regime in poland 1939-1956 | polish intelligence officers | polish jewsAnatol Fejgin (born September 25, 1909 in Warsaw, died July 28, 2002 also in Warsaw) was a Polish communist activist and notorious commander of the political police Poland: Last surviving leader of 1950s political police dies (Ministry of Public Security of Poland). After October 1956, his name (together with a number of others) symbolized Stalinist terror in Poland Gazeta Wyborcza, Zmarl Anatol Fejgin.
Fejgin was born in a middle-class Jewish family, and in 1927 he began medical studies, which he never finished. Since 1928, he was a member of the Communist Party of Poland and in 1929 he was sentenced to two years in prison for communist activity. Released, in 1932 Fejgin was incarcerated once again, for four years. After the outbreak of World War Two, Fejgin went to Lwow, where got in touch with Soviet authorities and began working for the Soviets. In May 1943 he joined the Polish 1st Tadeusz Kosciuszko Infantry Division, where he became a political officer. In January 1945, Fejgin took post of director of personal department of the political bureau of the Ludowe Wojsko Polskie.
Charles E. Dibble
1909 births | 2002 deaths | american mesoamericanists | aztec scholars | mesoamerican historians | mesoamerican linguists | translators from nahuatlCharles E. Dibble (18 August, 1909 – 30 November, 2002) Death date from U News Center (2002). was an American academic, anthropologist, linguist, and prominent scholar of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures. A former Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Utah, Dibble retired in 1978 after an association with the university as lecturer and researcher spanning four decades.U News Center (2002) Post-retirement Dibble continued to conduct and publish research in his area of expertise, studies of Mesoamerican historical literature and the historiography of conquest-era Mesoamerican cultures, in particular those of the Aztec and others of the central Mexican altiplano. Among many contributions to the field Dibble is perhaps most recognised for his collaboration with colleague Arthur J.O. Anderson, producing the modern annotated translation into English of the volumes of the Florentine Codex.
Charles Elliot Dibble was born in Layton, Utah in 1909.Lazar (2000) As an undergraduate he attended the University of Utah, obtaining a BA in history in 1936.
Jim Crowe (footballer)
1909 births | australian rules footballers | carlton football club players | collingwood football club players | western bulldogs coaches James 'Jim' Crowe (born May 18, 1909) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Carlton and Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1930s.
Crowe started his career as a half forward flanker before being moved into defence as a rebound player. He was a member of Carlton's losing 1932 Grand Final side and in 1936 crossed to Collingwood. In his first year with Collingwood he played in a premiership, occupying a back pocket in the Grand Final.
James Roy Tucker
1909 births | liberal party of canada mps | living people | members of the canadian house of commons from newfoundland and labradorJames Roy Tucker (born 25 December 1909 at Burnt Point, Newfoundland and Labrador) was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was a manager and merchant by career.
Egidio Premiani
1909 birthsEgidio Premiani (born February 16, 1909) is an Italian basketball player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
He was part of the Italian basketball team, which finished seventh in the Olympic tournament. He played all five matches.
Dickie Burrough
1909 births | 1994 deaths | english cricketers | somerset cricketersHerbert Dickinson "Dickie" Burrough, born at Wedmore, Somerset, on February 6, 1909, and died at Padstow, Cornwall, on April 9, 1994, played 171 first-class cricket matches for Somerset in a career that last for 20 years from 1927.
An amateur right-handed batsman who sometimes opened the innings, Burrough played fairly regular first-class cricket for Somerset in the early 1930s, making useful runs and fielding athletically. He was, said his obituary in Wisden, "notably enthusiastic". He had been at Cambridge University, but appeared there in only one trial match for "seniors", and never made the first-class cricket side. He was also passed over at Cambridge for hockey, failing to win his university Blue for the sport, though he later played three times for the England team.
