Alois Rašín

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Born	October 18, 1867 • Austria-Hungary
Died	February 18, 1923 (aged 55) • Prague • Czechoslovakia
Political Affiliation	Young Czechs

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Tomáš Masaryk

president of Czechoslovakia

Milan Štefánik

Czechoslovak leader

Rieger, detail from a lithograph by J. Bekel, 1849, after a portrait by Josef Mánes

František Ladislav Rieger

Czech leader

Alexander Dubček

Czechoslovak statesman

Jozef Tiso

Slovak priest and statesman

Giuseppe Garibaldi

Italian revolutionary

Camillo Benso, count di Cavour

Piedmontese statesman

Giuseppe Mazzini

Italian revolutionary

Lajos Kossuth

Hungarian political leader

David Ben-Gurion

prime minister of Israel

Sukarno

president of Indonesia

Józef Piłsudski

Polish revolutionary and statesman

Toussaint Louverture

Haitian leader

Chaim Weizmann

Israeli president and scientist

Eamon de Valera

president of Ireland

Bernardo O’Higgins

Chilean head of state

Ferenc Deák

Hungarian statesman

William Thomas Cosgrave

president of Ireland

Golda Meir

prime minister of Israel

Lala Lajpat Rai

Indian writer and politician

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