Top Celebrity Names Starting With Gustav

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   Gustav Mahler

   1860 - 1911 Male
   

   Bohemian-austrian Composer and Conductor

   
   

   Gustav Mahler was a late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. He was born in the village of Kalischt, Bohemia, in what was then Austria-Hungary, now Kaliště in the Czech Republic. Then his family moved to nearby Iglau where Mahler grew up. As a composer, he acted as a bridge between the 19th century Austro-German tradition and the modernism of the early 20th century.… read more

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   Gustav III of Sweden

   1746 - 1792 Male
   

   King of Sweden

   
   

   Gustav III was King of Sweden from 1771 until his death. He was the eldest son of King Adolph Frederick and Louisa Ulrika of Prussia, she a sister of Frederick the Great of Prussia.

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   Gustav Landauer

   1870 - 1919 Male
   

   Politician, Theorist, End

   
   

   Gustav Landauer was one of the leading theorists on anarchism in Germany in the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. He was an advocate of communist anarchism and an avowed pacifist. Landauer is also known for his study and translations of William Shakespeare's works into German. One of his grandchildren, with wife and author Hedwig Lachmann, was Mike Nichols, the American television, stage and film director, writer, and producer.… read more

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   Gustav I of Sweden

   1496 - 1560 Male
   

   King of Sweden

   
   

   "Gustav Vasa" redirects here; for the slave and writer, see Olaudah Equiano. For other Swedish royalty named Gustav, see Gustav of Sweden. File:Text document with red question mark. svg This article includes a list of references, but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations. Gustav I File:Gustav Vasa. jpg Gustav I portrayed in 1542 by Jakob Bincks.… read more

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   Gustáv Husák

   1913 - 1991 Male
   

   Politician, Communist, Prime Minister

   
   

   Gustáv Husák was a Slovak politician, president of Czechoslovakia and a long-term Communist leader of Czechoslovakia and of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (1969–1987). His rule is known as the period of Normalization after the Prague Spring.… read more

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   Gustav Holst

   1874 - 1934 Male
   

   Composer, Scholar, Golfer

   
   

   Gustav Theodore Holst was an English composer. He is most famous for his orchestral suite The Planets. His early works show the influence of Grieg, Wagner, Richard Strauss and fellow student Ralph Vaughan Williams, and later, through Vaughan Williams, the music of Ravel. The combined influence of Ravel, Hindu spiritualism and English folk tunes enabled Holst to free himself of the influence of Wagner and Strauss and to forge his own style.… read more

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   Gustav Klimt

   1862 - 1918 Male
   

   Austrian Symbolist Painter

   
   

   Gustav Klimt was an Austrian Symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. His major works include paintings, murals, sketches, and other art objects. Klimt's primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism—nowhere is this more apparent than in his numerous drawings in pencil (see Mulher sentada, below).… read more

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   Gustav Stresemann

   1878 - 1929 Male
   

   Politician

   
   

   (May 10, 1878 – October 3, 1929) was a German politician and statesman who served as Chancellor in 1923 and Foreign Minister 1923–1929, during the Weimar Republic. He was co-laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926. Stresemann's politics defy easy categorization. Arguably, his most notable achievement was reconciliation between Germany and France, for which he and Aristide Briand received the Peace Prize.… read more

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   Gustav Knittel

   1914 - 1976 Male
   

   Knight, Military Person

   
   

   Gustav Knittel was an SS-Sturmbannführer in the 1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler who was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and a convicted war criminal.

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    Gustav Leonhardt

    1928 - 2012 Male
    

    Musician