Korn/Ferry International, headquartered in Los Angeles and founded in 1969 by Lester Korn[?] and Richard Ferry[?], is the world's largest executive search firm with 70 offices worldwide. This head hunting firm conducts over 80,000 senior-level searches annually.
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November 30 - Clyfford Still, painter
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January 20 - Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, Russian chemist and inventor of the Periodic table
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