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<html> <head> <title>League of Nations</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/silly-nndb-icon.png" /><style type="text/css">  </style><script type="text/javascript" src="/sortable.js"></script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css" /> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr> <map name=fool><area coords="102,0,240,14" href="/org/080/000113738/bibliography/" alt="bibliography"></map><tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 0px 15px 15px 15px;"><img src="/red-profile-2.gif" align="right" height=15 width=240 border=0 usemap=#fool> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0> League of Nations ORGANIZATION Precursor to the United Nations, formed 1919, but dissolved after failing to prevent World War II. <table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_actors"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/863/000117512/">Vernon Bartlett</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Apr-1894</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jan-1983</tt></td> <td>Journey's End</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/215/000084960/">Henri Bergson</a></td> <td><center>Philosopher</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Oct-1859</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Jan-1941</tt></td> <td>L'蓈olution Cr閍trice</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/894/000213255/">J. C. Bose</a></td> <td><center>Botanist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Nov-1858</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Nov-1937</tt></td> <td>Plant physiology</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/653/000173134/">Nicholas L. Deak</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Oct-1905</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Nov-1985</tt></td> <td>Deak-Perera</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/302/000022236/">Albert Einstein</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Mar-1879</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Apr-1955</tt></td> <td>Theory of relativity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/923/000160443/">Tjalling C. Koopmans</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Aug-1910</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Feb-1985</tt></td> <td>Linear programming</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/756/000091483/">Hendrik Lorentz</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jul-1853</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Feb-1928</tt></td> <td>Electrons</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/771/000091498/">Robert A. Millikan</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Mar-1868</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-1953</tt></td> <td>Determined the charge of an electron</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/027/000113685/">Gabriela Mistral</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Apr-1889</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Jan-1957</tt></td> <td>Desolaci髇</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/577/000056409/">Jean Monnet</a></td> <td><center>Diplomat</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Nov-1888</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Mar-1979</tt></td> <td>Worked to unify Europe</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/501/000171985/">William H. Welch</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Apr-1850</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Apr-1934</tt></td> <td>Johns Hopkins School of Medicine</td> </tr> </table> Do you know something we don't? <a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=113738" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a> Copyright ©2016 Soylent Communications </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"><div class="contentf"><center><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a> <a style="color: #0000ff" href="http://mapper.nndb.com/maps/354/000000354/"><img src="http://mapper.nndb.com/t/354/354/s354.jpg" width=128> Skull and Bones Bohemian Grove</a> Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</center></div> <div class="contentf"><center>BibliographiesNNDB has added thousands of bibliographies for people, organizations, schools, and general topics, listing more than 50,000 books and 120,000 other kinds of references. 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