description
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death
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person
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World War I
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German chemist, 1907 Nobel Prize for fermentation
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hit by shell fragment in Battle of Mărășești
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Eduard Buchner
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German expressionist painter and printmaker
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struck by splinters during Battle of Verdun
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Franz Marc
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Italian futurist painter and sculptor
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trampled by a horse during training
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Umberto Boccioni
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British physicist, confirmed concept of atomic numbers
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shot during the Battle of Gallipoli
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Henry Moseley
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World War II
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dictator of fascist Italy
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captured & executed by Italian partisans
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Benito Mussolini
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French writer (The Little Prince) and aviator
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plane crashed near coast, possibly shot down
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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German chemist, Nobel Prize for synthesis of haemin
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suicide after his lab was bombed
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Hans Fischer
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German Lutheran pastor & theologian
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hanged in a concentration camp
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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American musician & big band founder
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plane disppeared en route to army concert
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Glenn Miller
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German nun, 1 of 6 patron saints of Europe
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murdered in Auschwitz gas chamber
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Edith Stein
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Polish children's author and pedagogue
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murdered in Treblinka gas chamber
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Janusz Korczak
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mistress of Il Duce
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captured & executed by Italian partisans
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Clara Petacci
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French historian, expert on medieval France
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executed after aiding the Resistance
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Marc Bloch
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eldest child of Joseph Stalin
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ran into electric fence at concentration camp
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Yakov Dzugashvili
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fascist Italian politician, Foreign Minister
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executed for treason in Italy
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Galeazzo Ciano
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