David Eugene Smith (1860–1944) American mathematician
Source: History of Mathematics (1925) Vol.2, Ch. 6: Algebra
Forbidden Journey, Ella K. Maillart, 2006, READ BOOKS, 1406719269, 255, 408, 2010-06-28 http://books.google.com/books?id=g_RGotjhN3sC&pg=PA255&lpg=PA255&dq=I+lost+my+post+when,+as+a+result+of+the+troubles,+China+lost+her+authority+in+Kashgar&source=bl&ots=O4n5vKvPBj&sig=EyDrkYTCpB-qFCuh45dG6TJ_bWk&hl=en&ei=uhBDTNbFL4T48Abgy4UK&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CBUQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=I%20lost%20my%20post%20when%2C%20as%20a%20result%20of%20the%20troubles%2C%20China%20lost%20her%20authority%20in%20Kashgar&f=false,
David Eugene Smith (1860–1944) American mathematician
Source: History of Mathematics (1925) Vol.2, Ch. 6: Algebra
H. D. Deve Gowda (1933) Indian politician
Source: Girja Kumar The Book on Trial: Fundamentalism and Censorship in India http://books.google.co.in/books?id=n-KUICFfA00C&pg=PA460&dq=Devegowda&hl=en&sa=X&ei=bJe6U8othJWTBe2mgLAD&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Devegowda&f=false, Har-Anand Publications, 01-Jan-1997
Tsangyang Gyatso, 6th Dalai Lama (1683–1706) sixth Dalai Lama of Tibet
Source: Attributed, Poems of Sadness: The Erotic Verse of the Sixth Dalai Lama Tsangyang Gyatso tr. Paul Williams 2004, p.52
Mir-Hossein Mousavi (1941) Iranian politician and architect
As quoted in "Standoff in Iran Deepens With New Show of Force" by Michael Slackman in The New York Times (1 January 2010) http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/02/world/middleeast/02iran.html?ref=world <br class="br">Context: I’m not afraid of being one of the post-election martyrs who lost their lives in their struggle for their rightful demands. My blood is no different from that of other martyrs.
John Skelton (1460–1529) English poet
Source: Jane Scroop (her lament for Philip Sparrow) (likely published c. 1509), Lines 64-70.
“The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.”
James Jones book From Here to Eternity
Source: From Here to Eternity