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Born	December 17, 1866 • Lithuania
Died	June 4, 1950 (aged 83) • Chicago • Illinois
Title / Office	president (1926-1926), Lithuania • prime minister (1920-1922), Lithuania

Basanavičius, portrait by A. Varnas; in the Museum of History and Ethnography, Vilnius, Lithuania

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