* 1933 – Henryk Górecki, Polish composer ( d. 2010 )

Henryk Dąbrowski's Polish Legions fought in French campaigns outside of Poland, hoping that their involvement and contribution result in liberation of their Polish homeland.

* 1835 – Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer ( d. 1880 )

* 1846 – Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish author, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1916 )

It was originally meant to boost the morale of Polish soldiers serving under General Jan Henryk Dąbrowski in the Polish Legions, which were part of the French Revolutionary Army led by General Napoléon Bonaparte in its conquest of Italy.

The chorus and subsequent stanzas include heart-lifting examples of military heroes, set as role models for Polish soldiers: Jan Henryk Dąbrowski, Napoléon Bonaparte, Stefan Czarniecki and Tadeusz Kościuszko.

* 2010 – Henryk Górecki, Polish composer ( b. 1933 )

The Polish writer Henryk Sienkiewicz authored the well-known novel Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero in 1895, which in turn has been made into motion pictures several times.

* December 8 – Henryk Jasiczek, Polish writer and political activist ( b. 1919 )

* November 15 – Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1846 )

* March 31 – Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer ( b. 1835 )

* June 13 – Henryk Dembiński, Polish engineer ( b. 1791 )

* December 6 – Henryk Górecki, Polish composer ( d. 2010 )

* May 5 – Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish author, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1916 )

* July 10 – Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer ( d. 1880 )

Henryk IV Probus ( Latin for the Righteous ) ( or Prawy ; ) ( c. 1258 – 23 June 1290 ) was a member of the Silesian branch of the royal Polish Piast dynasty.

James Louis Sobieski ( full name in Polish: Jakub Ludwik Henryk Sobieski ; 2 November 1667 – 19 December 1737 ) was the son of King John III of Poland and Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d ' Arquien.

Among the most important are Poznań's Polish Theatre of Dance, founded by Conrad Drzewiecki and currently led by Ewa Wycichowska, and Wrocław's " Pantomima ", founded by Henryk Tomaszewski ( 1919 – 2001 ).

During the Kościuszko Uprising Polish army under general Jan Henryk Dąbrowski liberated the town in September 1794 and defeated a Prussian Army north of Gniezno near Łabiszyn.

French appeared in Gniezno in November 1806, and following general Jan Henryk Dabrowski's order issued to all town and cities and country property owners to provide recruits for the organizing Polish forces, Gniezno initially provided 60 recruits who participated in the battles of 1806-07.

* Grzegorz Michalski, Ewa Obniska, Henryk Swolkień and Jerzy Waldorff, An Outline History of Polish Music.

A manifesto entitled " Development through Democracy " issued by the party in February 2005 was signed by a broad range of Polish intellectuals and artists, including Paweł Huelle ( writer ), Marek Edelman ( physician, last surviving leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Rising ), Agnieszka Holland ( director ), Marek Kondrat ( actor ), Kazimierz Kutz ( director ), Jan Miodek ( linguist ), Daniel Olbrychski ( actor ), Jerzy Pilch ( writer ), Henryk Samsonowicz ( historian ), Jerzy Szacki ( sociologist ).

Some classical works that achieved crossover status in the twentieth century include the Canon in D by Johann Pachelbel, the Symphony No. 3 by Henryk Górecki, and the second movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21, K. 467 ( from its appearance in the 1967 film Elvira Madigan ).

This incident forms one of the highlights of Aleksander Ford's 1960 film Krzyżacy ( Knights of the Teutonic Order ), based on the historical novel of the same name by Nobel laureate Henryk Sienkiewicz.

Bogusław is the archvillain in a novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz, The Deluge, which is mandatory school reading in Poland, and is also the basis for a very popular eponymous film.

Grand Master Ulrich von Jungingen portrayed by Stanislaw Jasiukiewicz in the film Krzyżacy ( Teutonic Knights ) based on a novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz.

The film is based on the novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz.

The film is based on the novel With Fire and Sword, the first part in The Trilogy of Henryk Sienkiewicz.

The film features two men, played by Jakub Goldberg and Henryk Kluba, who emerge from the sea carrying a large wardrobe, which they proceed to carry into a town.

He is perhaps best remembered for directing the first postwar documentary Majdanek-cmentarzysko Europy ( Majdanek – the Cemetery of Europe ) and the feature film Knights of the Teutonic Order ( 1960 ), based on a novel of the same name by Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz.

Cardinal Józef Glemp, who had been archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw and retained Warsaw, was designated to remain Primate until his retirement, but afterward the Archbishop of Gniezno, at present Henryk Muszyński, would again be Primate of Poland.

In 1942, Henryk Pawelec fired at him in the market square, but his pistol misfired.

Henryk Mandelbaum and an interpreter talk on the ruins of crematoria at Auschwitz II.

At this time, Henryk, Władysław and their father were given work sorting the stolen possessions of Jewish families at the collection centre near the Umschlagplatz.

On that day there was a selection carried out at the collection centre and only Henryk and Halina were passed as fit to work and allowed to stay.

Henryk started piano and harmony training with his mother when he was 5, and at age 7 turned to the violin, receiving instruction from Maurice Frenkel.

Henryk Zygalski (; 15 July 1908, Poznań – 30 August 1978, Liss ) was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who worked at breaking German Enigma ciphers before and during World War II.

The final executions at Wandsworth were those of Victor John Terry, on 25 May 1961, and Henryk Niemasz, on 8 September 1961.

According to Polish professor of history Henryk Barycz in the academic year of 1813 / 1814 Polish youth constituted the majority of students at the University.

Frederic Chopin | Chopin plays piano in Radziwiłł's Berlin salon at The Reich Chancellery and Führerbunker Complex | Palais Radziwill ( Henryk Siemiradzki, 1887 );

* Jan Henryk Dąbrowski ( 1755 – 1818 ), died at Winnogóra, near this town

Marian Rejewski and Henryk Zygalski hiked over the Pyrenees with a guide ( who robbed them at gunpoint ) to the Spanish border, where they were arrested on January 30, 1943.

Henryk Jabłoński (; 27 December 1909 – 27 January 2003 ) was a Polish Socialist, after 1948 Communist politician, historian and professor at Warsaw University.

Phryne at the Poseidonia in Eleusis by Henryk Siemiradzki, c. 1889.

Among its founding members was Dawid Mordechaj Apfelbaum, a pre-war Lieutenant of the Polish Army, who proposed to his former superior, Captain Henryk Iwański, the formation of a Jewish en cadre resistance as an integral part of the general Polish resistance being formed at that time.

A presentation by Henryk Plötz and Karsten Nohl at the Chaos Communication Congress in December 2007 described a partial reverse-engineering of the algorithm used in the MIFARE Classic chip.

* Poddębski, Henryk, Akademia Zamojska, 1930, Digital Library at Warsaw University

Yet he fought a fresh action at Nagycsür ( now ) on August 6, and contrived to bring his fragmented army to the Battle of Temesvár ( near Temesvár, now Timişoara, Romania ), to aid the hard-pressed General Henryk Dembiński.

* Janusz Korczak, a pseudonym of Henryk Goldszmit, Polish pediatrician, children's writer and pedagogist, murdered by the Germans at the Treblinka extermination camp

While passing the ' Jewish house ' at 7 Planty St., Henryk pointed at a man nearby who, he said, had allegedly imprisoned him in the house's cellar ( though the building actually had no cellar ).

A police patrol of more than a dozen men was then dispatched on foot by the station commander Edmund Zagórski to search the house at 7 Planty Street for the place where Henryk had allegedly been kept.

In the same year he was carried on the list on the second year of Philosophy at NCU in Toruń, where he was inter alia a student of his later master, Henryk Elzenberg.

He went on to study at the Conservatoire de Paris with Henryk Szeryng and René Benedetti, receiving three first prizes at age 16.