Iraj Afshar
Iraj Afshar( 8 October 1925 – 9 March 2011) was a bibliographer, historian, and an iconic figure in the field of Persian studies.
He was a consulting editor of" Encyclopædia Iranica" at Columbia University and a full professor emeritus of University of Tehran.
Iraj Afshar recorded the monuments of Yazd in his three- volume" yādegār- hāye Yazd( Monuments of Yazd)".
He was known as" the doyen of standard Persian language bibliographers".
Afshar played a significant role in the development of the field of Iranology in Iran and throughout the world during the second half of the 20th century.
He was the editor of" Sokhan", a prolific Iranology journal, under the responsibility of Parviz Natel- Khanlari and also the editor of" rāhnamāye ketāb"( Bibliography Guide)," Mehrfarhang- e Iranzamin"( Culture of Iran) and" Ayandeh".
He was the chief bibliographer of Persian books at Harvard University.
Afshar was associated with UNESCO and taught at the University of Bern and University of Tehran.
He was on the advisory council for the Iranian Studies Journal.
Albert André
Albert André( 24 May 1869 – 11 July 1954) was a French Post- Impressionist figurative painter.
He produced portraits of Pierre- Auguste Renoir, his closest friend, and Claude Monet.
Gholamhossein Mosaheb
Gholam Hossein Mosaheb( October 13, 1910 – 1979) was an Iranian mathematician and logician whose works have been praised by other scholars such as Iraj Afshar and Najaf Daryabandari.
Being fluent in Persian, Arabic, French and English, he studied in Iran, France and England; and received his PhD from Cambridge University.
He was the founder of Mosaheb Institute of Mathematics, Teacher Training University and was the director of the Institute of Mathematics of Kharazmi University from 1972- 1974.
During the 1950s, when Persian scientific typography was flourishing, Mosaheb invented a left slanted right- to- left font style that he named the" Iranicfont".
This term is still commonly used by typographers in Iran, often as a general term for any left slanted font.
In 1955, Mosaheb's" Madkhale Manteghe Soorat"( Introduction to Formal Logic) was the first scholarly writing in mathematical logic to be published in Iran.
This work was given a positive review in 1957 by L. A. Zadeh in the" Journal of Symbolic Logic".
Mosaheb's most famous work in non-mathematical society is as the author of The Persian Encyclopedia, written in the Persian language and consisting of 3 volumes.
His methods of organizing and categorizing are still in use.
The 1996 publication of The Persian Encyclopedia gave credited authorship to Gholam hossein Mosaheb, Ahmad Aram, and Mahmoud Mosaheb.
On June 28, 2009 it was announced that the 100th book released from the Society for the Appreciation of Cultural works and Dignitaries had been allocated to the life, scientific and cultural works of the late Gholam hossiem Mosaheb.
This tribute is written by Pegah Hajjan.
In it are many of Mosaheb's published works including an article entitled" The First Trigonometry Book", as well as appraisals from other scholars.
He is the founder of the Institute of Mathematical Research( IMR) which is still known as one of the most important Iranian mathematical centers.
The Institute of Mathematical Research started its work in October 1965 under the direction of Mosaheb, as a semi- independent institute affiliated with" Tarbiat Moaalem University.
Ahmad Eghtedari
Ahmad Eghtedari( 1925, Gerash, Iran – 16 April 2019, Tehran), teacher, lawyer, writer, historian and geographer, was a prominent scholar in Persian Gulf studies.
Historically, he was a descendant of Gerashi thanes( Khan in Persian).
In his youth, he traveled on foot along the coasts of the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea and began mapping and documenting their topography.
Jalal Ale Ahmad, the famous writer, described the friendship between Ahmad Eghtedari, Iraj Afshar and Manuchehr Sotudeh as" three musketeers" and" gravestone- graphers", alluding to the fact that these three managed to introduce a lot of Iran's historical documents and ancient monuments.
" The Pearl of The Persian Gulf" is a book that documents his Iranian Studies researches, and the documentary film," To Iran, My Eternal", is made based on his life and works.
Ahmad Eghtedari died on 16 April 2019 in Tehran.
William Daniel Phillips
William Daniel Phillips( born November 5, 1948) is an American physicist.
He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics, in 1997, with Steven Chu and Claude Cohen- Tannoudji.
Ming Luhulima
Ming Luhulima aka Lou Lima was a well known Netherlands based recording artist originally from the Maluku Islands which were part of the Dutch East Indies.
He made multiple recordings during his career.
One of the artists he was closely associated with was Rudi Wairata.
Not only did Luhulima come from the same country as Wairata, he also recorded music in the same genre.
He was also a member of the Amboina Serenaders and the Mena Moeria Minstrels.
He also led the Krontjong Ensemble Pantja Warna.
Claude Dansey
Lieutenant Colonel Sir Claude Edward Marjoribanks Dansey, KCMG( 10 September 1876 – 11 June 1947), also known as Colonel Z, Haywood, Uncle Claude, and codenamed Z, was the assistant chief of the Secret Intelligence Service known as ACSS, of the British intelligence agency commonly known as MI6, and a member of the London Controlling Section.
He began his career in intelligence in 1900, and remained active until his death.
Godwin Davy
Godwin Davy( born 15 December 1979) is an Anguillan international footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.
He made his international debut in a World Cup qualifying match against El Salvador, resulting in a lopsided match, losing 12- 0 in February 2008, and also played in the 4 – 0 loss to the same country in the return match in March 2008.
Willem Brakman
Willem Pieter Jacobus Brakman( 1922 – 2008) was a Dutch writer who made his literary debut with the novel" Een winterreis" in 1961.
Brakman received the P. C. Hooft Award in 1980.
He was born on June 13th, 1922 in The Hague, Netherlands, and died on May 8th, 2008 in the same country.
Charles II de Valois, Duke of Orléans
Charles II of Orléans (22 January 1522 – 9 September 1545) was the third son of Francis I and Claude of France.

Question: Are Iraj Afshar and Claude Dansey from the same country?
Answer: no