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): Chloé Dufour-Lapointe • David Macaulay • Dionysis Savvopoulos • Else Marie Pade • Francis Fox • Haruka Ishida • Heinrich von Sybel • James Edward Smith (botanist) • Michael McIndoe • Ralph Beard • Shane Flanagan • Steven Bauer • Tal Wilkenfeld • William Cooper (judge)

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