Occupied Eastern Territories, executed for war crimes 1900 to 1930 Ants Oras (1900–1982), translator and writer. He studied pause patterns in English Renaissance dramatic blank verse. Vidrik "Frits" Rootare (1906–1981), chess player Andrus Johani (1906–1941), painter Miliza Korjus (1909-1980), Polish-Estonian-American opera singer, Hollywood film actress, nominee for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1938 Edmund S. Valtman (1914–2005), Estonian-American cartoonist. He won the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning. Evald Okas (1915–2011), painter, probably best known for his portraits of nudes Evi Rauer (1915–2004), stage, film and television actress and television director Paul Kuusberg (1916–2003), writer, particularly of novellas Ellen Liiger (1918–1987), stage, TV, radio and film actress and theatre teacher Udo Kasemets (1919–2014), Estonian-born Canadian composer of orchestral, vocal, piano and electroacoustic works Jaan Kross (1920–2007), novelist, nominated for the Nobel prize in literature multiple times Vincent Zigas (1920–1983), medical officer in Papua New Guinea during the 1950s Harry Männil (1920–2010), Estonian-Venezuelan businessman and art collector Kaljo Raid (1921–2005), composer, cellist and pastor Vello Viisimaa (1928–1991), opera singer and stage actor, appeared mostly in operettas Olaf von Wrangel (1928-2009), German journalist (NDR) and politician, member of German Bundestag Lennart Georg Meri (1929–2006), politician, writer, film director and statesman, second President of Estonia, 1992 to 2001 Eino Tamberg (1930–2010), composer, promoter of neoclassicism in Estonian music 1930 to 1950 Uno Loop (1930–2021), singer, musician, athlete, actor and educator Vladimir-Georg Karassev-Orgusaar (1931–2015), film director, member of the Congress of Estonia Martin Puhvel (1933–2016), literature researcher, professor emeritus at McGill University for old and medieval English literature Ingrid Rüütel (born 1935), folklorist and philologist, wife of former president Arnold Rüütel Peter Peet Silvester (1935–1996), electrical engineer, particularly numerical analysis of electromagnetic fields Jüri Arrak (born 1936), artist and painter Enn Vetemaa (1936–2017), writer, master of the Estonian Modernist short novel Arvo Antonovich Mets, (1937–1997) Russian poet, master of Russian free verse Mikk Mikiver (1937–2006), stage and film actor and theater director Linnart Mäll (1938–2010), historian, orientalist, translator and politician Ene Riisna (born 1938), Estonian-born American television producer, known for her work on the American news show 20/20 Andres Tarand (born 1940), politician, former Prime Minister of Estonia and Member of the European Parliament Leila Säälik (born 1941), stage, film and radio actress Paul-Eerik Rummo (born 1942), poet and politician Eili Sild (born 1942), stage, film, television and radio actress Kalle Lasn (born 1942), Estonian-Canadian film maker, author, magazine editor and activist