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): Arvo Askola • Chris Burke (footballer) • Emperor Jianwen of Liang • Georges Seurat • Heinrich von Sybel • John Cobb (racing driver) • Joseph Graetz • Joseph P. Lash • Nate Mendel • Nelly Furtado • Nigel Calder • Queen Munjeong • Russell Lynes • Sylvia Syms (singer) • Tal Wilkenfeld

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