Yusuf Akçura

Yusuf Akçura was a prominent Turkish politician, writer and ideologist of ethnic Tatar origin. He developed into a prominent ideologue and advocate of Pan-Turkism during the early republican period, whose writings became widely read and who became one of the leading university professors in Istanbul.

2 December 1876

Born on the same birth day (2 December): Cathy Lee Crosby • Dagfinn Høybråten • Darryl Kile • David Hackett Fischer • Deb Haaland • Edwin Meese • Elizabeth Berg (author) • Graham Kavanagh • Isaac Bitton • Joe Lo Truglio • John Breckinridge (U.S. Attorney General) • Jonathan Frid • Leon Litwack • Rena Sofer • William Burges • Wynton Kelly

Born in the same month (December 1876): Adolf Windaus • Alvin Kraenzlein • Bernard Friedberg • Berton Churchill • Filippo Tommaso Marinetti • Fred Duesenberg • Jack Lang (Australian politician) • Lionel Tertis • Muhammad Ali Jinnah • Pablo Casals