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Also Known As Milan Rastislav Štefánik
Born July 21, 1880 • Austria-Hungary
Died May 4, 1919 (aged 38) • near Bratislava • Czechoslovakia

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Tomáš Masaryk
president of Czechoslovakia
Rašín
Alois Rašín
Czech statesman
Tiso, Jozef
Jozef Tiso
Slovak priest and statesman
sculpture of Andrej Hlinka
Andrej Hlinka
Slovak priest and politician
Erich Honecker, Gustav Husak, and Walter Ulbricht
Gustav Husak
Slovak statesman
Rieger, detail from a lithograph by J. Bekel, 1849, after a portrait by Josef Mánes
František Ladislav Rieger
Czech leader
Bella, Ivan
Ivan Bella
Slovak pilot and air force officer
Joseph George Strossmayer
bishop of Bosnia and Sirmium
Trumbić, Ante
Ante Trumbić
Croatian political leader
Vladimír Clementis
Slovak politician
Laplace, Pierre-Simon, marquis de
Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace
French scientist and mathematician
Joachim Murat
Joachim Murat
king of Naples
Edvard Beneš
Edvard Beneš
president of Czechoslovakia
Jean-Sylvain Bailly
Jean-Sylvain Bailly
French astronomer
Gian Domenico Cassini.
Gian Domenico Cassini
French astronomer
Alexander Dubček
Alexander Dubček
Czechoslovak statesman
Pierre Janssen, detail from an engraving
Pierre Janssen
French astronomer
Urbain-Jean-Joseph Le Verrier
French astronomer
Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
French mathematician and astronomer
Klement Gottwald
Czech politician

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