LOCATION

Official Website:
http://www.um.warszawa.pl/

Population:
1,676,600 (2004 estimate)

SCHOOLS

School	Founded
Warsaw University	1816

BIRTHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Daniel I. Arnon	Biologist	14-Nov-1910	20-Dec-1994	Photophosphorylation
Zbigniew Brzezinski	Government	28-Mar-1928		National Security Advisor, 1977-81
Marie Curie	Chemist	7-Nov-1867	4-Jul-1934	Early nuclear chemist
Samuel Eilenberg	Mathematician	30-Sep-1913	30-Jan-1998	Category theory
Samuel Goldwyn	Film/TV Producer	17-Aug-1882	31-Jan-1974	Put the G in MGM
Mack Gordon	Composer	21-Jun-1904	28-Feb-1959	Chattanooga Choo Choo
Agnieszka Holland	Film Director	28-Nov-1948		Europa, Europa
Lech Kaczynski	Head of State	18-Jun-1949	10-Apr-2010	President of Poland, 2005-10
Krzysztof Kieslowski	Film Director	27-Jun-1941	13-Mar-1996	Trois Couleurs
Ryszard Kuklinski	Spy	13-Jun-1930	10-Feb-2004	Polish Cold War era spy who worked with CIA
Wanda Landowska	Musician	5-Jul-1879	16-Aug-1959	Harpsichord virtuoso
Witold Lutoslawski	Composer	25-Jan-1913	7-Feb-1994	Aleatoric composer
Benoit Mandelbrot	Mathematician	20-Nov-1924	14-Oct-2010	Fractal mathematician
Osip Mandelshtam	Poet	1891	27-Dec-1938	Acmeist Russian poet
Adam Michnik	Activist	17-Oct-1946		Gazeta Wyborcza
Nicholas A. Rey	Business	23-Jan-1938	14-Jan-2009	US Ambassador to Poland, 1993-97
Lyda Roberti	Actor	20-May-1906	12-Mar-1938	Million Dollar Legs
John Shalikashvili	Military	27-Jun-1936	23-Jul-2011	Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1993-97
Waclaw Sierpinski	Mathematician	14-Mar-1882	21-Oct-1969	Sierpinski's gasket
Alfred Tarski	Mathematician	14-Jan-1902	26-Oct-1983	Tarski's indefinability theorem
Aldona Wos	Diplomat	?		US Ambassador to Estonia, 2004-06
Krzysztof Zanussi	Film Director	17-Jun-1939		A Year of the Quiet Sun

DEATHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Augustus II	Royalty	12-May-1670	1-Feb-1733	King of Poland, Elector of Saxony
Zdzislaw Beksinski	Painter	24-Feb-1929	22-Feb-2005	Fantastic-Realist Painter
Tadeusz Borowski	Author	12-Nov-1922	1-Jul-1951	This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
Paul Erdos	Mathematician	26-Mar-1913	20-Sep-1996	Loved only numbers
Wladyslaw Gomulka	Head of State	6-Feb-1905	1-Sep-1982	Head of Polish Communists, 1956-70
Wojciech Jaruzelski	Head of State	6-Jul-1923	25-May-2014	Final communist leader of Poland
Krzysztof Kieslowski	Film Director	27-Jun-1941	13-Mar-1996	Trois Couleurs
Witold Lutoslawski	Composer	25-Jan-1913	7-Feb-1994	Aleatoric composer
Wladyslaw Reymont	Author	7-May-1867	5-Dec-1925	The Peasants
Waclaw Sierpinski	Mathematician	14-Mar-1882	21-Oct-1969	Sierpinski's gasket
Georgy Voronoy	Mathematician	28-Apr-1868	20-Nov-1908	Voronoi diagram
Andrzej Wajda	Film Director	6-Mar-1926	9-Oct-2016	The Promised Land

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