Martin Strel

Martin Strel

male, 55 years old
athletic, Guinness World Record holder, Guinness World Records, amazon, danube, yangtze…yangtze river
Martin Strel (born October 1 1954 is a Slovenian ultra marathon swimmer, best known for swimming the entire length of various rivers, including the...
Chen Yi

Chen Yi

male, deceased (1972)
People's Liberation Army, Marshal of China, Mayor of Shanghai, China Foreign Affairs University, Communist Party of China, Cultural Revolution…yangtze river, yangtze
Chen Yi (August 26, 1901 - June 6, 1972) was a Chinese communist military commander and politician. He was born in Lezhi, near Chengdu, Sichuan,...
John Hersey

John Hersey

male, deceased (1993)
Jewish, ghetto, warsaw ghetto, Jewish person, the holocaust, Holocaust…yangtze
John Richard Hersey was an American writer and journalist. Born in Tientsin, China, to missionaries Roscoe and Grace Baird Hersey, his family...
Sun Shao

Sun Shao

male, deceased (242)
Sun Ce and associates, Eastern Wu general, Gongli, Yu Shao, Gao Shou, Sanguozhi…yangtze
Sun Shao (孫韶), born Yu Shao, courtesy name Gongli (公禮) was a general of the Wu Kingdom during the Three Kingdoms period, and is presumed by some to...
Nikolai Przhevalsky

Nikolai Przhevalsky

male, deceased (1888)
only extant species of wild horse, Explorer of the Himalayas, Przewalski's Horse, Mountain climber, Russian military personnel, central…yangtze river, yangtze
Nikolai Mikhaylovich Przhevalsky, also spelled Przewalski and Prjevalsky, was a Russian geographer and explorer of Central and Eastern Asia....
Du Xigui

Du Xigui

male, deceased (1933)
nationalist, admiral, premier, Politician of the Republic of China, kuomintang, nanjing…yangtze
Du Xigui (1875-1933) was a Chinese admiral during the warlord era. Born in Fuzhou, he graduated from Nanjing's naval college in 1902. In 1922, he...
Percy C. Mather

Percy C. Mather

male, deceased (1933)
George W. Hunter, Percy Cunningham Mather, George Hunter, Oirat, Mongols, From fleetwood…yangtze
Percy Cunningham Mather 马尔昌 was a pioneer British Protestant Christian missionary to China, the second China Inland Mission missionary to Easter...
Alexander Wylie

Alexander Wylie

male, deceased (1887)
British in China, han, Christian evangelicalism, writer, 14th century, British…yangtze river, yangtze
Alexander Wylie (April 6, 1815 - February 10, 1887), British Protestant Christian missionary to China. He is known for his translation work and...
Pyotr Kozlov

Pyotr Kozlov

male, deceased (1935)
Noin-Ula, explorer, Russian, smolensk, novgorod, Orientalist…yangtze
Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov (born October 3, 1863 near Smolensk; died September 26, 1935 in Peterhof) was a Russian explorer who continued the studies of...

R. Tucker Abbott

male
Harvard University, malacologist, malacology, schistosomiasis, Delaware Museum of Natural History, The Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum…yangtze
Robert Tucker Abbott (September 28, 1919 - November 3, 1995) was an American conchologist and malacologist and the author of more than 30 books on...