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Kaunas (ltu)

Lithuania

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Kaunas ranks 250th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Potsdam, New Haven, Connecticut, and Rouen. Memorable people born in Kaunas include Emmanuel Levinas, Emma Goldman, and Valdas Adamkus. Memorable people who died in Kaunas include Aleksandras Stulginskis, Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius, and Romas Kalanta. Kaunas has been the birth place of many basketball players, and athletes and the death place of many politicians, and religious figures. Kaunas is located in Lithuania.

Kaunas is the second-largest city in Lithuania after Vilnius, the fourth largest city in the Baltic States and an important centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life. Kaunas was the largest city and the centre of a county in the Duchy of Trakai of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Trakai Palatinate since 1413. In the Russian Empire, it was the capital of the Kaunas Governorate from 1843 to 1915. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 1863 and 1997, Kaunas was the birth place of 58 globally memorable people, including Emmanuel Levinas, Emma Goldman, and Valdas Adamkus. Additionaly, 13 globally memorable people have passed away in Kaunas including Aleksandras Stulginskis, Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius, and Romas Kalanta.

People Born in Kaunas

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People Deceased in Kaunas

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Kaunas were basketball players (16), athletes (12), politicians (5), painters (3), and soccer players (3),  while most who died were politicians (6), religious figures (3), social activists (1), biologists (1), and basketball players (1).

Over the past 100 years, basketball players have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Kaunas, including Arvydas Sabonis, Šarūnas Jasikevičius, and Rimas Kurtinaitis. Whereas, throughout history, basketball players have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Kaunas, including Arvydas Sabonis, Šarūnas Jasikevičius, and Rimas Kurtinaitis.

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Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 19 globally memorable people born in Kaunas since 1700.