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30-day reprieve granted by Hoffman following conf with Wilentz
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1936John Boyd, English academic and diplomat, British ambassador to Japan (died 2019)[†]
Sir John Dixon Iklé Boyd was a British ambassador and academic administrator. He was British ambassador to Japan from 1992 to 1996, and subsequently the Master of Churchill College, Cambridge from 1996 to 2006.
1936A. Thangathurai, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (died 1997)[†]
Arunasalam Thangathurai was a Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer, politician and Member of Parliament.
1936Mateiu Caragiale, Romanian journalist, author, and poet (born 1885)[†]
Mateiu Ion Caragiale, also credited as Matei or Matheiu, or in the antiquated version Mateiŭ, was a Romanian poet and prose writer, best known for his novel Craii de Curtea-Veche, which portrays the milieu of boyar descendants before and after World War I. Caragiale's style, associated with Symbolism, the Decadent movement of the fin de siècle, and early modernism, was an original element in the Romanian literature of the interwar period. In other late contributions, Caragiale pioneered detective fiction locally, but there is disagreement over whether his work in the field produced a complete narrative or just fragments. The scarcity of writings he left is contrasted by their critical acclaim and a large, mostly posthumous, following, commonly known as mateists.