Sopot is a name of Polish city situated on the coast of the Baltic Sea in metropolitan area called Tricity in Pomorskievoivodship. The city numberes 43,000 inhabitants (1998). Sopot is quite big health resort, well known from the longest wooden pier[?] in Europe (called Molo, total length - 515,5 m), from where is view on the Bay of Gdansk[?].
... November 30 - Clyfford Still, painter
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January 20 - Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, Russian chemist and inventor of the Periodic table
May 19 - Auguste Molinier, ...