Rewi Alley
Rewi Alley was a New Zealand-born writer and political activist. A member of the Chinese Communist Party, he dedicated 60 years of his life to the cause and was a key figure in the establishment of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives and technical training schools, including the Peili Vocational Institute. Alley was a prolific writer about 20th century China, and especially the communist revolution. He also translated numerous Chinese poems.
2 December 1897
Born on the same birth date (2 December 1897): Ivan Bagramyan
Born on the same birth day (2 December): Anna Kalinskaya • Claudiu Keșerü • Gary Sánchez • Ibrahim Rugova • Joseph P. Lash • Ron Sutter • Wilhelm Egon von Fürstenberg • Wilson Jermaine Heredia
Born in the same month (December 1897): Albert Aalbers • Alfredo Bracchi • Drew Pearson (journalist) • Fletcher Henderson • Gershom Scholem • Hermione Gingold • Ivan Bagramyan • Kurt Schuschnigg • Margaret Chase Smith • Nunnally Johnson • Robert Redfield • Ronald Skirth • Ville Pörhölä • Väinö Sipilä • William Gropper