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Daugavpils (lva)

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Daugavpils ranks 1,167th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Arad, Romania, Prostějov, and Fürth. Memorable people born in Daugavpils include Mark Rothko, Abraham Isaac Kook, and Solomon Mikhoels. Daugavpils has been the birth place of many soccer players, and painters. Daugavpils is located in Latvia.

Daugavpils is a state city in southeastern Latvia, located on the banks of the Daugava River, from which the city derives its name. The parts of the city to the north of the river belong to the historical Latvian region of Latgale, and those to the south lie in Selonia. It is the second-largest city in the country after the capital Riga, which is located some 230 kilometres northwest and is the ninth most populous city in the Baltic states. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 1865 and 1999, Daugavpils was the birth place of 15 globally memorable people, including Mark Rothko, Abraham Isaac Kook, and Solomon Mikhoels.

People Born in Daugavpils

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Daugavpils were soccer players (2), painters (1), philosophers (1), actors (1), and military personnels (1),  while most who died were .

Over the past 100 years, soccer players have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Daugavpils, including Artjoms Rudņevs, and Aleksandrs Cauņa. Whereas, throughout history, soccer players have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Daugavpils, including Artjoms Rudņevs, and Aleksandrs Cauņa.

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Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 6 globally memorable people born in Daugavpils since 1700.