At the beginning of the 20th century, Trieste was a buzzing cosmopolitan city frequented by artists and philosophers such as James Joyce, Italo Svevo, Sigmund Freud, Dragotin Kette, Ivan Cankar, Scipio Slataper, and Umberto Saba.

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** Umberto Saba, Il Canzoniere ( Songbook )

His first poems were published in 1932, through the intervention of Umberto Saba.

Leading Modernist poets from later in the century include Salvatore Quasimodo ( winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature ), Giuseppe Ungaretti, Umberto Saba, who won fame for his collection of poems Il canzoniere, and Eugenio Montale ( winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature ).

Umberto Cassuto, also known as Moshe David Cassuto ( 1883 – 1951 ), was a rabbi and Biblical scholar born in Florence, Italy.

* 1867 – Umberto Giordano, Italian composer ( d. 1948 )

Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Gerolamo Umberto Volta ( 18 February 1745 – 5 March 1827 ) was an Italian physicist known for the invention of the battery in the 1800s.

A bocce player of note is Umberto Granaglia ( May 20, 1931 – December 13, 2008 ), who was awarded the honor of " Player of the Twentieth Century " by the Confédération Mondiale des Sports de Boules.

* Umberto Mozzoni ( 15 June 1980 – 2 February 1983 )

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who once lived in Birmingham, may have borrowed Baskerville's surname for one of his Sherlock Holmes stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles – which, in turn, was borrowed by Umberto Eco for the character William of Baskerville in his best-selling novel, The Name of the Rose ( Sean Connery played the character in the film based on the book ).

* 1900 – In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci.

* 1878 – Umberto I becomes King of Italy.

* Eco, Umberto ( 1990 ) Interpreting Serials in The limits of interpretation, pp. 83 – 100, excerpt

* 1901 – Gaetano Bresci, Italian-American anarchist, assassin of Umberto I of Italy ( b. 1869 )

* 1934 – Umberto Agnelli, Italian automobile executive ( d. 2004 )

* 1948 – Umberto Giordano, Italian composer ( b. 1867 )

* 1878 – First assassination attempt against Umberto I of Italy by anarchist Giovanni Passannante.

* 1882 – Umberto Boccioni, Italian painter and sculptor ( d. 1916 )

* Rossi, Umberto, “ The Harmless Yank Hobby: Maps, Games, Missiles and Sundry Paranoias in Time Out of Joint and Gravity ’ s Rainbow ”, Pynchon Notes # 52-53, Spring-Fall 2003, pp. 106 – 123

Valerio Massimo De Angelis and Umberto Rossi, Firenze: Le Monnier, pp. 204 – 16.

* 1904 – Umberto II of Italy ( d. 1983 )

* 1941 – Umberto Bossi, Italian politician

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* Umberto Eco ( 1932 – present ) made a wider audience aware of semiotics by various publications, most notably A Theory of Semiotics and his novel, The Name of the Rose, which includes applied semiotic operations.

* July 29 – King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the Italian-born anarchist Gaetano Bresci.

* July 29 – Umberto I, King of Italy ( assassinated ) ( b. 1844 )

* May 24 – The airship Italia crashes on the North Pole ; one of the occupants is Italian general Umberto Nobile.

* June 24 – A Swedish aeroplane rescues part of the Italian North Pole expedition, including Umberto Nobile.

* June 28 – In Argentina, a junta deposes president Arturo Umberto Illia in a coup, and appoints General Juan Carlos Onganía to lead.

* January 21 – Umberto Nobile, Italian politician and airship designer ( d. 1978 )

Later recipients include Arthur Compton ( 1954 ), Hermann Hesse ( 1954 ), Albert Schweitzer ( 1954 ), Thomas Mann ( 1955 ), Oskar Kokoschka ( 1955 ), Carl Orff ( 1956 ), Erwin Schrödinger ( 1956 ), Thornton Wilder ( 1956 ), Karl Schmidt-Rottluff ( 1956 ), Werner Heisenberg ( 1957 ), Gerhard Ritter ( 1957 ), Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ( 1957 ), Percy Ernst Schramm ( 1958 ), Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker ( 1961 ), Karl Jaspers ( 1964 ), Otto Klemperer ( 1967 ), Carl Zuckmayer ( 1967 ), Henry Moore ( 1972 ), Raymond Aron ( 1973 ), George F. Kennan ( 1976 ), Friedrich Hayek ( 1977 ), Karl Popper ( 1980 ), Eugène Ionesco ( 1983 ), Hans Bethe ( 1984 ), Gordon A. Craig ( 1990 ), Rudolf Mößbauer ( 1996 ), Umberto Eco ( 1998 ), Hans Magnus Enzensberger ( 1999 ), and Wim Wenders ( 2005 ).

The car made its racing debut at the 1957 24 Hours of Le Mans driven by Umberto Maglioli and Edgar Barth.

Albert Anastasia ( pronounced ah-nah-STAH-zee-ah ) ( born Umberto Anastasio, September 26, 1902 – October 25, 1957 ) was one of the most ruthless and feared Cosa Nostra mobsters in American history.