Famous people died in January - page 8

Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was a Bengali spiritual teacher believed by his devotees to be Lord Krishna himself

Rana Kumbha was the ruler of Mewar in India from 1433 to 1468

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Surya Sen was a Bengali independence fighter who led the 1930 Chittagong armoury raid

Maharana Pratap was a Hindu maharaja of the Rajput confederacy of Mewar, in the present day state of Rajasthan

Camilo José Cela was a renowned Spanish writer from the post war Spanish literature period

Paulus Potter was a celebrated Dutch painter during seventeenth century

George Abramovich Koval was an American born Jew, who served the Soviet military intelligence as an agent during the ‘Second World War’

Emily Greene Balch was an American economist, sociologist and pacifist who won the 1946 Nobel Peace Prize

Dominique Pire was a Belgian cleric and educator known for his work in helping refugees in post-World War II Europe

Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs was a German theoretical physicist and an atomic spy who provided valuable information to the Soviet Union