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Born 1887 • Lithuania
Died 1955 (aged 68) • Soviet Union
Title / Office prime minister (1939-1940), Lithuania
Valdas Adamkus
president of Lithuania
Rolandas Paksas
president of Lithuania
Dalia Grybauskaitė
Dalia Grybauskaitė
president of Lithuania
Smetona, Antanas
Antanas Smetona
president of Lithuania
Vincas Krėvė-Mickievičius
Lithuanian author
Kazys Grinius
Lithuanian statesman
Basanavičius, portrait by A. Varnas; in the Museum of History and Ethnography, Vilnius, Lithuania
Jonas Basanavičius
Lithuanian physician
Simanas Daukantas
Lithuanian historian
Mindaugas
ruler of Lithuania
Vincas Kudirka
Lithuanian patriot
Justas Paleckis
prime minister and president of Lithuania
Władysław II Jagiełło, sarcophagus figure, Wawel Cathedral, Kraków, Poland
Władysław II Jagiełło
king of Poland and grand duke of Lithuania
Algirdas
Algirdas
grand duke of Lithuania
Vytautas the Great
Vytautas the Great
Lithuanian leader
Elijah ben Solomon
Elijah ben Solomon
Lithuanian-Jewish scholar
Senda Berenson
American educator
Kęstutis
duke of Lithuania
Gediminas
grand duke of Lithuania
Mordecai Menahem Kaplan
American rabbi
Svetlana Beriosova
Svetlana Beriosova
British dancer