Jaan Anvelt

Jaan Anvelt, was an Estonian Bolshevik revolutionary and writer. He served the Russian SFSR, was a leader of the Communist Party of Estonia, the first premier of the Soviet Executive Committee of Estonia, and the chairman of the Council of the Commune of the Working People of Estonia. Imprisoned during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge in 1937, he died from the injuries sustained during a beating by Aleksandr Langfang while in NKVD custody.

18 April 1884

Born on the same birth day (18 April): George H. Hitchings • Glen Hardin • Hayley Mills • Ippolita Maria Sforza • Kathy Acker • Maurice Goldhaber • Miklós Rózsa • Olena Zhupiyeva-Vyazova • Richard Harding Davis • Robert Christgau • Sydney Halter • William Harrison (priest)

Born in the same month (April 1884): Clement Smoot • Daniel Varoujan • Ion Inculeț • Isoroku Yamamoto • J. C. Squire • James Alberione • Oliver Kirk • Otto Fritz Meyerhof • Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha • Ronald Barnes, 3rd Baron Gorell