Today in Russia History (Part 5)
Sub-Topics: Chechnya - Dagestan - Kamchatka - Khabarovsk - Mordovia - Moscow - Saint Petersburg - Tatarstan - Volgograd
Historical Events
Results 401 - 500 of 878
1898-10-01 - Czar Nikolay II expels Jews from major Russian cities.
1900-02-14 - Russia responds to international pressure to free Finland by tightening imperial control over the country.
1902-04-02 - Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated by a terrorist in the Marie Palace, St Petersburg.
1902-06-13 - Prussian Upper house gives 350 million marks to Poland
1903-06-24 - Russia prohibits meetings dealing with Zionist
1903-10-16 - Homel, 1st Jewish self defense organization founded in Russia
1904-02-06 - Russian-Japanese war began
1904-02-09 - Japan declares war on Russia
1904-02-10 - Japan & Russia declares war after Japan's surprise attack on Russian fleet at Port Arthur disabled 7 Russian warships
1904-08-10 - Japanese fleet defeat Russians off Port Arthur
1904-08-24 - Field battle at Liao-Yang-200,000 Japanese against 150,000 Russian
1904-10-16 - Russian Baltic fleet departs to Port Arthur
1904-10-22 - Russian fleet shoots at British fishing ship
1905-01-22 - Bloody Sunday: Russian demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops
1905-05-26 - A pogrom against Jews in Minsk Belorussia
1905-05-27 - Japanese fleet destroys Russian East Sea fleet in Straits of Tushima
1905-06-25 - Warsaw & Lodz revolt against Russian occupation
1905-06-27 - Russian sailors mutiny aboard battleship "Potemkin"
1905-08-19 - Russian tsar installs "Imperial Duma," without legislative powers
1905-10-20 - Great General Strike in Russia begins; lasts 11 days
1905-10-20 - Russian tsar allows Polish people to speak Polish
1905-10-26 - 1st Soviet (workers' council) formed, St Petersburg, Russia
1905-10-30 - "October Manifesto" Russian Tsar Nicholas II grants civil liberties
1905-10-30 - Tsar of Russia accepts 1st Duma (Parliament)
1905-11-03 - Csar Nicholas II of Russia signs a document of amnesty for the political prisoners.
1905-11-10 - Sailors revolt in Kronstadt Russia
1905-11-16 - Neth/Russ Count Witte becomes premier of Russia
1906-05-10 - Russia's Duma (Parliament) meets for 1st time
1906-06-14 - Pogrom against Jews in Bialystok, Polish Russia
1907-03-05 - The second Duma opens in St. Petersburg, Russia and 40,000 demonstrators have to be dispersed by Russian troops.
1907-08-31 - Britain & Russia sign treaty with Afghanistan, Persia & Tibet
1907-08-31 - England, Russia & France form Triple Entente
1908-09-09 - Russia takes part of Poland
1908-10-03 - The Pravda newspaper founded by Leon Trotsky, Adolph Joffe, Matvey Skobelev and other Russian exiles in Vienna.
1909-02-23 - Russian tsar Nicolas II dissolves Finnish Diet
1910-01-21 - British-Russian military intervention in Persia
1910-06-30 - Russia absorbs Finland
1913-05-13 - 1st 4 engine aircraft built & flown (Igor Sikorsky-Russia)
1913-08-27 - Lt Peter Nestrov, of Imperial Russian Air Service, performs a loop in a monoplane at Kiev (1st aerobatic maneuver in an airplane)
1913-11-26 - Russian kingdom forbids Polish congregation of speakers
1914-01-13 - IWW-leader/songwriter Joe Hill arrested "Girl from Utah" East-Prussia
1914-01-16 - Writer Maksim Gorki returns to Russia
1914-07-05 - Germany offers Austria war aid to fight against Russia in Serbia
1914-07-29 - Russia mobilize troops along Austrian boundary
1914-07-30 - Austrian-Hungary & Russia proclaim general mobilization
1914-07-31 - German Emperor Wilhelm II threatens war, orders Russia to demobilize
1914-08-01 - Trois Vierges: German 69th infantry regiment enter Luxembourg Germany declares war on Russia in WW I
1914-08-02 - Russian troops invade Eastern Prussia
1914-08-06 - Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia & Serbia
1914-08-12 - Russian troops take East-Prussia & occupy Marggrabowa
1914-08-20 - Battle at Gumbinnen, East-Prussia: Russian beat Germans
1914-08-22 - General Martos' troops occupy Soldau/Neidenburg East Prussia
1914-08-22 - Von Ludendorff & von Hindenburg move into E Prussia enroute to Russia
1914-08-26 - -9/10] Russian army attacks Austrian army in Galicia
1914-08-26 - Battle of Tannenberg - 8th German army defeats Russian Narev army
1914-08-28 - 3rd day of battle at Tannenberg: violent German/Russian battles
1914-08-29 - 4th day of Tannenberg: Russian Narev-army panics, Gen Martos caught
1914-08-30 - Battle at Tannenberg ends in destruction of Russian 2nd Narev army
1914-08-31 - German troops reconquer Soldau/Neidenburg East-Prussia
1914-08-31 - Germany defeats Russia (battle at Tannenberg/30,000 Russians die)
1914-09-01 - St Petersburg, Russia changes name to Petrograd
1914-09-04 - British, French & Russian govt sign Pact of London, against Germany
1914-09-05 - Battle of Marne (WW I) begins: Germans chase out Russians
1914-09-05 - Gr Britain/France/Belgium/Russia sign pact of London
1914-10-29 - Russia declares war on Turkey
1914-11-02 - Russia declares war on Turkey
1914-11-02 - Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
1914-11-04 - Russia declares Turkey the war
1914-11-05 - Great Britain & France & Russia declares war on Turkey
1914-12-15 - Battle of Lodz ends; Russians retreat toward Moscow
1914-12-17 - Austrian troops beat Russians in Limanova Poland
1915-01-04 - Trans-Caucausus Russian defeat Turkish troops
1915-01-17 - Russia occupies Bukovina & Western Ukraine
1915-01-31 - 1st (German) poison gas attack, against Russians
1915-02-07 - 2nd Battle of Masurian Lakes: German armies surrounded a Russian army
1915-02-21 - 20th Russian Army corps surrenders
1915-04-26 - Italy secretly signes Pact of London with Britain, France & Russia
1915-08-05 - Warsaw, evacuated by the Russians, is occupied by Germans
1915-08-23 - Czar Nicolaas II takes control of Russian Army
1915-08-26 - German troops over run Brest-Litovsk, Russia
1915-10-19 - Russia/Italy declares war on Bulgaria
1915-12-12 - Russian troops overrun Hamadan, Persia
1915-12-20 - Russian troops overrun Qom, Persia
1916-01-10 - Russian offensive in Kaukasus
1916-02-16 - Russian troops conquer Erzurum Armenia
1916-02-26 - Russian troops conquer Kermansjah Persia
1916-06-04 - Russian General Brusilov fails on his Eastern Front attack
1916-07-02 - Russian offensive in Armenia
1916-08-10 - Turks annex Persian city Hamadan from Russia
1916-10-14 - The Perm State University was founded in Russia.
1917-02-23 - February revolution begins in Russia
1917-02-24 - Russian revolution breaks out (3/8 NS)
1917-02-28 - Russian Duma sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets
1917-03-03 - Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, abdicates (OS)
1917-03-08 - Russian revolution breaks out [OS=Feb 24] (in Petrograd)
1917-03-12 - Russian Dumas sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets
1917-03-15 - Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, says he will abdicate [3/3 OS]
1917-03-17 - Tsar Nicolas II of Russia abdicates the throne [NS]
1917-04-16 - Lenin returns to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution
1917-04-20 - Pravda (Lenin names Russia "Free land of world")
Famous Birthdays
Results 401 - 500 of 1,187
1872-10-06 - Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian writer (d. 1936)
1872-12-16 - Anton Ivanovich Denikin, Russian general (d. 1947)
1873-02-11 - Feodor Chaliapine, Russian author/novelist (Pages from My Life)
1873-03-20 - Sergei V Rachmaninov, Russian/US pianist/composer (Aleko) [NS=Apr 1]
1873-04-01 - Sergei Rachmaninoff, Novgorod Russia, composer (Prelude in C# Minor)
1873-07-17 - Antonina Neshdanova, Russian soprano (Rigoletto)
1873-08-22 - Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician and philosopher (d. 1928)
1873-09-26 - Aleksey Shchusev, Russian architect (d. 1949)
1873-11-24 - L Martov, [Yuly O Tsederbaum], Russian revolutionary
1873-12-01 - Valery Bryusov, Russian poet (d. 1924)
1874-02-09 - Vsevolod Meyerhold, Russian theatrical director/actor (Houligan)
1874-03-18 - Nikolai Berdyaev, Russian philosopher (d. 1948)
1874-07-10 - Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor (d. 1971)
1874-07-26 - Serge Koussevitzky, Vishny-Volotchok, Russia conductor (Boston Symp)
1874-10-09 - Nicholas Roerich, Russian painter (d. 1947)
1874-11-04 - Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak, Russian military commander (d. 1920)
1875-02-06 - Leonid Gobyato, Russian general (d. 1915)
1875-08-02 - Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian artist (d. 1957)
1875-08-23 - Eugene Lanceray, Russian artist (d. 1946)
1875-10-24 - Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter (d. 1958)
1875-11-19 - Michael I Kalinin, Russian metal worker/head of state
1875-11-23 - Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian literary critic and politician (d. 1933)
1876-02-21 - Pyotr Konchalovsky, Russian painter (d. 1956)
1876-07-17 - Maxim M Litvinov, [Meyer H Wallach], Russian diplomat
1876-07-29 - Maria Ouspenskaya, Tula Russia, actress (Waterloo Bridge)
1876-08-16 - Ivan Bilibin, Russian illustrator (d. 1942)
1876-11-19 - Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva, Russian/Dutch mathematician (d. 1964)
1877-06-24 - Aleksei M Remizov, Russian writer (Iveren)
1877-11-09 - Sergei US Aleksi, patriarch of Russian-orthodox church
1878-03-04 - Peter D. Ouspensky, Russian philosopher (d. 1947)
1878-03-07 - Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter (d. 1927)
1878-08-15 - Pjotr N Wrangel, Russian baron/general (White Armies, WW II)
1878-10-17 - Andrei N Rimski-Korssakov, Russian musicologist/son of Nikolai
1879-01-19 - Boris Savinkov, Russian writer (d. 1925)
1879-06-24 - Agrippina J Vaganova, Russian ballet dancer
1879-08-18 - Aleksandr Rodzyanko, Russian general (d. 1970)
1879-10-26 - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (pres of 1st Soviet) [OS]
1879-11-06 - Eugen Varga, Hungarian/Russian economist/politician
1880-04-26 - Mikhail Fokine, Russia, choreographer/founder of modern dance
1880-08-23 - Alexander Grin, Russian writer (d. 1932)
1880-10-13 - Sasha Cherny, Russian poet (d. 1932)
1880-10-26 - Andrei Bely, Russian writer (d. 1934)
1880-10-30 - Abram F Joffe, Russian physicist (crystal)
1880-11-16 - Alexander A Block, Russian poet (Dvenatsat) [NS=11/28]
1880-11-28 - Alexander A Block, Russian poet (Dvenatsat) [OS=11/16]
1880-12-05 - Alexander Schmuller, Russian/Neth violinist/conductor
1881-04-18 - Max Weber, Polish/Russian/US painter
1881-04-22 - Alexander Kerensky, Simbirsk, Russian PM (1917)
1881-05-04 - Aleksandr F Kerenski, Russian premier (1917-Prelude to Bolshevism)
1881-06-03 - Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter (d. 1964)
1881-06-04 - Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter (d. 1962)
1881-10-07 - Mikhail Drozdovsky, Russian general (d. 1918)
1882-01-04 - Aristarkh Lentulov, Russian artist (d. 1943)
1882-01-06 - Aleksandra Ekster, Russian painter (d. 1949)
1882-01-21 - Pavel Florensky, Russian mathematician (d. 1937)
1882-01-22 - Theodore Kosloff, Russian-born actor, ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 1956)
1882-01-31 - Anna Pavlova, St Petersburg Russia, ballerina/choreographer
1882-04-23 - Albert Coates, St Petersburg Russia, conductor/composer (Eagle)
1882-06-05 - Igor F Stravinsky, Oranienbaum Russia, composer (Rite of Spring) [OS]
1882-06-17 - Igor F Stravinsky, Oranienbaum Russia, composer (Rite of Spring) [NS]
1882-10-02 - Boris Shaposhnikov, Russian military commander (d. 1945)
1883-01-08 - Pavel Filonov, Russian painter (d. 1941)
1883-01-10 - Aleksei Tolstoi, Russian poet/writer (Pjotr Peroyj) [NS]
1883-02-01 - Jevgeni B Vachtangov, Armenian/Russian actor/director (Eric XIV)
1883-04-01 - Aleksander V Aleksandrov, Russian composer/conductor
1883-06-21 - Fjodor W Gladkow, Russian writer (Cement)
1883-06-21 - Fyodor Gladkov, Russian writer (d. 1958)
1883-09-11 - Grogorij J Zinovjev, [Gerson Radomyslski], Russian
1883-10-22 - Adolf A Joffe, Russian revolutionary/writer (Brest-Litovsk)
1883-12-09 - Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician (d. 1950)
1883-12-10 - Andrej J Vysjinski, Russian lawyer/foreign min/UN-ambassador
1884-01-13 - Sophie Tucker, [Kalish], Russia, singer/last of red hot mammas
1884-02-01 - Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russia, novelist/playwright (We)
1884-02-12 - Marie Vassilieff, Russian artist (d. 1957)
1884-07-16 - Anna Vyrubova, Russian memoirist (d. 1964)
1884-12-10 - Zinaida Serebriakova, Russian-born painter (d. 1967)
1885-07-04 - Louis B Mayer, Minsk Russia, motion-picture executive (MGM)
1885-10-28 - Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet (d. 1922)
1885-11-09 - Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian writer (d. 1922)
1886-03-01 - Oskar Kokoschka, Russia/Austrian/British, painter (Erasmus Prize 1960)
1886-03-27 - Sergey Kirov, Russian bolshevik leader (d. 1934)
1886-04-15 - Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet (d. 1921)
1886-05-12 - Piotr F Scharoff, Russian/Italian actor/director (Chechov)
1886-07-11 - Boris Grigoriev, Russian painter (d. 1939)
1886-10-26 - Mark Aldanov, [Landau], Russian/French chemist (Myslitel) [OS]
1886-10-28 - Grigory K Ordzhonikidze, [Sergo], Russian revolutionary politician
1886-11-07 - Mark Aldanov, [Landau], Russian/French chemist/writer [OS=Oct 26]
1887-03-23 - Felix F Yussupov, Russian monarch
1887-07-07 - Marc Chagall, Vitebsk Russia, artist (I & The Village)
1887-08-08 - Ullrich Haupt, Prussia, actor (Morocco, Du Barry-Woman of Passion)
1887-10-22 - John Reed, journalist who reported on Mexican, Russian revolutions
1887-11-03 - Samuil Marshak, Russian writer, translator and children's poet (d. 1964)
1887-11-25 - Nikolai Vavilov, Russian geneticist (d. 1943)
1888-01-16 - Osip Brik, Russian writer (d. 1945)
1888-06-23 - Anna Achmatova, [AA Gorenko], Russian conductor (Tsjetki)
1888-08-13 - Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor (d. 1975)
1888-10-09 - Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician (d. 1938)
1888-11-10 - Andrej N Tupolev, Russian aircraft builder
1889-01-01 - Alexander Smallens, St Petersburg, Russia, conductor
1889-01-21 - Pitirim A Sorokin, Russian/US sociologist (Social mobility)
Famous Deaths
Results 401 - 500 of 731
1941-03-13 - Isaak E Babel, Russian writer (Zakat, Marija), executed at 46
1941-03-15 - Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter (b. 1864)
1941-08-31 - Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (b. 1892)
1941-10-26 - Arkady Gaidar, Russian children's writer (b. 1904)
1941-12-03 - Pavel Filonov, Russian painter (b. 1883)
1941-12-09 - Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Russian writer and philosopher (b. 1865)
1941-12-19 - L M Dovator, Russian general, dies in battle
1941-12-20 - Igor Severyanin, Russian poet (b. 1887)
1941-12-30 - El Lissitzky, Russian artist and architect (b. 1890)
1942-02-02 - Daniil Kharms, Russian playwright (b. 1905)
1942-02-07 - Ivan Bilibin, Russian illustrator (b. 1876)
1942-08-18 - Erwin Schulhoff, Czech/Russian composer/pianist, dies at 48
1942-08-22 - Mikhailmichel Fokine, Russian ballet dancer/choreographer, dies
1942-10-18 - Mikhail Nesterov, Russian painter (b. 1862)
1943-02-17 - Konstantin Bogaevsky, Russian painter (b. 1872)
1943-03-28 - Sergei Vasilievitch Rachmaninov, Russian composer/pianist, dies at 69
1943-04-15 - Aristarkh Lentulov, Russian artist (d. 1882)
1943-05-24 - Vladimir I Nemirovitch-Dantshenko, Russian playwright, dies at 84
1943-08-18 - Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Russian-Azerbaijani general (b. 1865)
1944-01-23 - Viktor Gusev, Russian poet (b. 1909)
1944-02-04 - Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian writer (b. 1872)
1944-02-11 - Ivan Sollertinski, friend of Russian composer D Sjostakovitsj, dies
1944-04-09 - Evgeniya Rudneva, Russian World War II heroine (b. 1920)
1944-11-27 - Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam, Russian physicist (b. 1879)
1944-12-17 - Vassily V Kandinsky, Russian/German/French painter, dies
1945-01-06 - Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist (b. 1863)
1945-02-22 - Osip Brik, Russian writer (b. 1888)
1945-02-23 - Aleksei Tolstoi, Russian poet/writer (Pjotr Peroyj), dies at 62
1945-07-12 - Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician (b. 1871)
1945-10-26 - Alexei Krylov, Russian engineer and mathematician (b. 1863)
1946-07-08 - Aleksander V Aleksandrov, Russian composer/conductor, dies at 63
1946-08-01 - Andrei Vlasov, Russian general (Red Army, Wehrmacht) executed at 45
1946-08-30 - Grigory Semyonov, Russian counter-revolutionary (executed) (b. 1890)
1946-09-13 - Eugene Lanceray, Russian painter (b. 1875)
1946-12-17 - Constance [Clara] Garnett, Russian-English translator, dies at 84
1947-01-17 - Pyotr Krasnov, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1869)
1947-08-08 - Anton Ivanovich Denikin, Russian general (b. 1872)
1947-10-02 - Peter D. Ouspensky, Russian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1878)
1947-11-17 - Victor Serge, Russian anarchist, novelist, and historian (b. 1890)
1947-12-13 - Nicholas Roerich, Russian-born painter (b. 1874)
1948-02-10 - Sergei Eisenstein, Russian director (Battleship Potemkin), dies at 50
1948-06-01 - Alex Gard, Russian-born caricaturist (b. 1900)
1949-03-17 - Aleksandra Ekster, Russian painter (b. 1882)
1949-05-22 - Hans Erich Pfitzner, Russian/German composer, dies at 80
1949-05-24 - Aleksey Shchusev, Russian architect (b. 1873)
1949-07-16 - Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russian poet (b. 1866)
1950-01-28 - Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician (b. 1883)
1950-05-26 - Antonina Neshdanova, Russian soprano (Bolshoi Theater), dies
1951-01-05 - Andrei P Platonov, Russian author (Prok, Kotlovan), dies at 51
1951-11-05 - Agrippina J Vaganova, Russian ballet dancers/pegagoge, dies at 72
1951-12-31 - Maxim M Litvinov, [Meyer H Wallach], Russian diplomat, dies at 75
1952-06-18 - Efim D Bogolyubov, Russian chess player, dies at 63
1952-07-27 - W de Basil, [US Voskresenski], Russia, ballet dancer, dies
1952-11-29 - Vladimir N Ipatiev, Russian/US chemist, dies at 85
1953-03-04 - Sergei S Prokoviev, Russian composer (Peter & the wolf), dies at 61
1954-01-16 - Michail M Prishvin, Russian writer, dies
1954-02-12 - Dziga Vertov, [Kaufman], Russian dir (3 Songs of Lenin), dies at 58
1954-11-22 - Andrej J Vysjinski, Russian UN ambassador, dies at 70
1954-12-04 - Nina Vasar, wife of Russian composer Dmitri Sjostakovitsj, dies
1954-12-24 - Johnny Ace, ballad singer, dies at 25 of Russian Roulette
1955-03-16 - Nicolas de Staël, French-Russian painter (b. 1914)
1956-01-03 - Alexander Tikhonovich Gretshaninov, Russian/US composer, dies at 91
1956-02-02 - Pyotr Konchalovsky, Russian painter (b. 1876)
1956-03-11 - Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko, Russian opera composer, dies at 83
1956-06-23 - Reinhold Glière, Russian composer (b. 1875)
1956-11-22 - Theodore Kosloff, Russian-born choreographer (b. 1882)
1956-12-04 - Alexandr Rodchenko, Russian painter and photographer (b. 1891)
1957-02-02 - Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist (b. 1890)
1957-02-25 - Mark Aldanov, [Mark A Landau], Russian/French chemist, dies at 70
1957-05-14 - Marie Vassilieff, Russian artist (b. 1884)
1957-05-21 - Aleksandr Vertinsky, Russian singer (b. 1889)
1957-07-15 - Vasily Maklakov, Russian orator and liberal politician (b. 1869)
1957-11-20 - Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian-Lithuanian artist (d. 1875)
1957-11-26 - Aleksei M Remizov, Russian author (Iveren), dies
1958-04-11 - Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter (b. 1875)
1958-07-22 - Michail M Zosjtsjenko, Russian author, dies at 62
1958-07-22 - Mikhail Zoshchenko, Russian writer (b. 1895)
1958-10-01 - Robert Falk, Russian painter (b. 1886)
1958-12-22 - Fjodor W Gladkow, Russian author (Cement), dies at 75
1959-03-30 - Daniil Andreev, Russian writer and mystic (b. 1906)
1960-01-05 - Pavel P Parenago, Russia, cosmonaut, dies at 53
1960-02-07 - Igor V Kurtshatov, Russian nuclear physicist, dies at 57
1960-02-09 - Alexandre Benois, Russian artist (b. 1870)
1960-05-10 - Yury Olesha, Russian novelist (b. 1899)
1960-05-30 - Boris Pasternak, Russian poet (Dr Zhivago), dies at 70
1960-09-10 - Fjodor I Panfjorov, Russian author (Volga - matushka-reka), dies at 63
1960-10-14 - Abram F Joffe, Russian physicist (crystal), dies
1960-11-24 - Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (b. 1882)
1961-02-09 - Grigory Levenfish, Intl chess grandmaster from Russia, dies at 70
1961-10-04 - Metropolitan Benjamin (Fedchenkov), Orthodox missionary and writer, Exarch of Russian Church in North America (b. 1880)
1962-01-12 - Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams, Russian writer and feminist (b. 1869)
1962-10-02 - Boris Y. Bukreev, Russian mathematician (b. 1859)
1962-10-17 - Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter (b. 1882)
1963-04-06 - Otto Struve, Russian-born astronomer (b. 1897)
1964-03-09 - Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Prussian general/politician, dies at 93
1964-03-23 - Vassily Vainonen, Russian ballet choreographer (Gayaneh), dies at 66
1964-04-14 - Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva, Russian/Dutch mathematician (b. 1876)
1964-05-10 - Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter (b. 1881)
1964-06-04 - Samuil Marshak, Russian poet (b. 1887)
1964-10-07 - Eugen Varga, Hungarian/Russian economist/politician, dies at 84
