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Events from the year 1917 in Romania.

Incumbents

Events

January 13: Ciurea rail disaster. The worst rail accident in Romanian history^[1] and third worst in the history of the world,^[2] with most estimates falling between 800 and 1000 deaths.
July 22-August 1: Battle of Mărăști
August 6-September 8: Battle of Mărășești. The largest battle to take part on the Romanian front during World War I.^[3]
August 8–22: Third Battle of Oituz
September 13: Romania establishes diplomatic relations with Japan.^[4] King Ferdinand names Nicolae Xenopol as plenipotentiary minister to Tokyo.
December 9: Armistice of Focșani is signed, ending the hostilities between Romania and the Central Powers.^[5]

Births

March 18: Mircea Ionescu-Quintus – politician, senator, centenarian, Minister of Justice and chairman of the National Liberal Party (PNL) from 1993 to 2001.^[6]
March 19: Dinu Lipatti – classical pianist and composer, posthumously elected into the Romanian Academy.^[7]
June 6: Ion Rațiu – politician and the presidential candidate of the Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party (PNȚ) in the 1990 elections.^[8]
June 20: Iosif Constantin Drăgan – Romanian and Italian businessman, writer, historian and founder of the ButanGas company, who was at one time the richest man in Romania.^[9]
August 28: Horia Lovinescu [ro] – playwright.^[10]
August 22: Alexandru Piru – literary critic, historian and member of the Parliament between 1990 and 1992.^[11]
August 25: Ion Diaconescu – anti-Communist activist and politician who spent seventeen years as a political prisoner and later became a leader of the Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party (PNŢCD).^[12]
September 3: Eugen Frunză – poet who co-wrote the lyrics to Te slăvim, Românie, which was the national anthem between 1953 and 1975.^[13]
November 18: Dinu Negreanu - director who created a string of films in the 1950s.^[14]
December 13: Miron Constantinescu – communist politician, a leading member of the Romanian Communist Party, as well as a Marxist sociologist, historian, academic, and journalist.^[15]

Deaths

Literary critic Titu Maiorescu
February 9: Aurel Popovici – lawyer and politician who proposed the federalization of Austria-Hungary under the United States of Greater Austria.^[16]
May 14: Emil Rebreanu - Austro-Hungarian Romanian military officer executed during World War I for trying to desert to the Romanian side. The 1922 novel Forest of the Hanged by his brother, Liviu Rebreanu, is influenced by his experience.^[17]
June 18: Titu Maiorescu - literary critic and politician, founder of the Junimea Society. As a literary critic, he was instrumental in the development of Romanian culture in the second half of the 19th century.^[18]
August 27: Ion Grămadă – writer, historian and journalist who died in battle.^[19]
August 28: Calistrat Hogaș – prose writer whose collected short stories were published posthumously.^[20]
September 3: Ecaterina Teodoroiu - woman who fought and died in World War I, and is regarded as war hero of Romania, where she is known as the ”heroine of the Jiu”.^[21]
December 18: Nicolae Xenopol – Politician, diplomat, economist, writer and first Romanian ambassador to Japan. Died in Tokyo, only months after taking the position.^[22]

References

^ "Cea mai mare catastrofă din istoria Căilor Ferate Române: Accidentul de la Ciurea din 1/13 ianuarie 1917". Retrieved 2018-11-12.
^ Segen, Joseph C. (2011-05-24). The Doctors' Dictionary, 2nd edition: A medical dictionary written by a doctor for doctors. BookBaby. ISBN 9781617926747.
^ "În urmă cu 101 de ani avea loc cea mai mare bătălie de pe Frontul românesc din Primul Război Mondial". descopera.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 2018-11-12.
^ "Relaţii bilaterale | Ministry of Foreign Affairs". www.mae.ro. Retrieved 2018-11-12.
^ United States, Department of State, ed. (1918). "Preliminary Treaty of Peace. Signed at the Castle Of Buftea, near Bucharest, 7 P.M., 5 March 1918". Texts of the Roumanian "Peace". Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office. pp. 2–4.
^ "A murit Mircea Ionescu Quintus la vârsta de 100 de ani. Seniorul liberal, în ultima sa apariţie publică: Viaţa mea a fost un roman. M-am ferit de compromisuri/ Când va avea loc înmormântarea". Mediafax.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 2018-11-12.
^ Cretoiu, Andrei (2015-09-14). "Dinu Lipatti – muzica în forma ei cea mai pură". EU aleg România (in Romanian). Retrieved 2018-11-12.
^ Pop, Florina (21 May 2014). "Cea mai elegantă definiţie a democraţiei. Ion Raţiu: "Voi lupta până la ultima mea picătură de sânge ca să ai dreptul să nu fii de acord cu mine!"". adevarul.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 2018-11-12.
^ "Fragmente de viață. Secretele din viața miliardarului Iosif Constantin Drăgan" (in Romanian). Retrieved 2018-11-12.
^ "Rătăcirile tînărului Lovinescu (I)". Observator Cultural (in Romanian). Retrieved 2018-11-12.
^ "Piru Alexandru". Romanian Chamber of Deputies (in Romanian). Retrieved 2018-11-12.
^ Brădățeanu, V. "PORTRET: Liderul țărănist Ion Diaconescu – 100 de ani de la naștere". www.rador.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 2018-11-12.
^ Diaconu, Camelia (25 November 2019). "Imnul României "Deșteaptă-te, române" – Versuri și istoric". Libertatea (in Romanian).
^ ""Din culisele cinematografiei". Scandal de proporții la Buftea: "Regizorul Colpi a zis că suntem un neam de țigani"". Adevărul (in Romanian). 25 October 2017. Retrieved 2018-11-12.
^ "Miron Constantinescu - un intelectual intr-un pandemoniu populat de brute comuniste". HotNewsRo (in Romanian). Retrieved 2018-11-12.
^ Popovici, Aurel (2013). "The Proposed Federalization of the Habsburg Monarchy in the Work The United States of Greater Austria". Historický časopis (Historical Journal). 61. Institute of Historical Studies of the Slovak Academy of Sciences: 29–50.
^ "Cum şi-a transformat Liviu Rebreanu execuţia fratelui său de pe front într-un roman tradus în opt limbi". Retrieved 2018-11-12.
^ "Titu Maiorescu: "Critica unde trebuie și constructivă unde poate"… | Radio Iaşi – Cel mai ascultat radio regional – știri, muzică și evenimente". www.radioiasi.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 2018-11-12.
^ "Tributul scriitorilor în Marele Război: Ion Grămadă, eroul Bucovinei". Retrieved 2018-11-12.
^ "Portret: Calistrat Hogaş – scriitorul "singurătății munților"". Radio România Cultural (in Romanian). 2018-08-28. Retrieved 2018-11-12.
^ "PORTRET: Ecaterina Teodoroiu – legenda "eroinei de la Jiu", la 101 de ani de la sacrificiul suprem". Radio România Cultural (in Romanian). 2018-08-22. Retrieved 2018-11-12.
^ "Despre primii diplomati japonezi la Bucuresti". Retrieved 2018-11-12.

[1] "Cea mai mare catastrofă din istoria Căilor Ferate Române: Accidentul de la Ciurea din 1/13 ianuarie 1917". Retrieved 2018-11-12.

[2] Segen, Joseph C. (2011-05-24). The Doctors' Dictionary, 2nd edition: A medical dictionary written by a doctor for doctors. BookBaby. ISBN 9781617926747.

[3] "În urmă cu 101 de ani avea loc cea mai mare bătălie de pe Frontul românesc din Primul Război Mondial". descopera.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 2018-11-12.

[4] "Relaţii bilaterale | Ministry of Foreign Affairs". www.mae.ro. Retrieved 2018-11-12.

[5] United States, Department of State, ed. (1918). "Preliminary Treaty of Peace. Signed at the Castle Of Buftea, near Bucharest, 7 P.M., 5 March 1918". Texts of the Roumanian "Peace". Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office. pp. 2–4.

[6] "A murit Mircea Ionescu Quintus la vârsta de 100 de ani. Seniorul liberal, în ultima sa apariţie publică: Viaţa mea a fost un roman. M-am ferit de compromisuri/ Când va avea loc înmormântarea". Mediafax.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 2018-11-12.

[7] Cretoiu, Andrei (2015-09-14). "Dinu Lipatti – muzica în forma ei cea mai pură". EU aleg România (in Romanian). Retrieved 2018-11-12.

[8] Pop, Florina (21 May 2014). "Cea mai elegantă definiţie a democraţiei. Ion Raţiu: "Voi lupta până la ultima mea picătură de sânge ca să ai dreptul să nu fii de acord cu mine!"". adevarul.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 2018-11-12.

[9] "Fragmente de viață. Secretele din viața miliardarului Iosif Constantin Drăgan" (in Romanian). Retrieved 2018-11-12.

[10] "Rătăcirile tînărului Lovinescu (I)". Observator Cultural (in Romanian). Retrieved 2018-11-12.

[11] "Piru Alexandru". Romanian Chamber of Deputies (in Romanian). Retrieved 2018-11-12.

[12] Brădățeanu, V. "PORTRET: Liderul țărănist Ion Diaconescu – 100 de ani de la naștere". www.rador.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 2018-11-12.

[13] Diaconu, Camelia (25 November 2019). "Imnul României "Deșteaptă-te, române" – Versuri și istoric". Libertatea (in Romanian).

[14] ""Din culisele cinematografiei". Scandal de proporții la Buftea: "Regizorul Colpi a zis că suntem un neam de țigani"". Adevărul (in Romanian). 25 October 2017. Retrieved 2018-11-12.

[15] "Miron Constantinescu - un intelectual intr-un pandemoniu populat de brute comuniste". HotNewsRo (in Romanian). Retrieved 2018-11-12.

[16] Popovici, Aurel (2013). "The Proposed Federalization of the Habsburg Monarchy in the Work The United States of Greater Austria". Historický časopis (Historical Journal). 61. Institute of Historical Studies of the Slovak Academy of Sciences: 29–50.

[17] "Cum şi-a transformat Liviu Rebreanu execuţia fratelui său de pe front într-un roman tradus în opt limbi". Retrieved 2018-11-12.

[18] "Titu Maiorescu: "Critica unde trebuie și constructivă unde poate"… | Radio Iaşi – Cel mai ascultat radio regional – știri, muzică și evenimente". www.radioiasi.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 2018-11-12.

[19] "Tributul scriitorilor în Marele Război: Ion Grămadă, eroul Bucovinei". Retrieved 2018-11-12.

[20] "Portret: Calistrat Hogaş – scriitorul "singurătății munților"". Radio România Cultural (in Romanian). 2018-08-28. Retrieved 2018-11-12.

[21] "PORTRET: Ecaterina Teodoroiu – legenda "eroinei de la Jiu", la 101 de ani de la sacrificiul suprem". Radio România Cultural (in Romanian). 2018-08-22. Retrieved 2018-11-12.

[22] "Despre primii diplomati japonezi la Bucuresti". Retrieved 2018-11-12.

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 ==Incumbents==
-*King: [[Ferdinand I of Romania]]
+*[[King of Romania|King]]: [[Ferdinand I of Romania]]
-*Prime Minister: [[Ion I. C. Brătianu]]
+*[[Prime Minister of Romania|Prime Minister]]: [[Ion I. C. Brătianu]]
 ==Events==
-*January 13: [[Ciurea rail disaster]]. The worst rail accident in Romanian history<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.historia.ro/sectiune/general/articol/cea-mai-mare-catastrofa-din-istoria-cailor-ferate-romane-accidentul-de-la-ciurea-din-1-13-ianuarie-1917|title=Cea mai mare catastrofă din istoria Căilor Ferate Române: Accidentul de la Ciurea din 1/13 ianuarie 1917|access-date=2018-11-12}}</ref> and [[List of accidents and disasters by death toll|third worst in the history of the world]],<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QBRYDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=The Doctors' Dictionary, 2nd edition: A medical dictionary written by a doctor for doctors|last=Segen|first=Joseph C.|date=2011-05-24|publisher=BookBaby|isbn=9781617926747|language=en}}</ref> with most estimates falling between 800 and 1000 deaths.
+*January 13: [[Ciurea rail disaster]]. The worst rail accident in Romanian history<ref>{{Cite news |title=Cea mai mare catastrofă din istoria Căilor Ferate Române: Accidentul de la Ciurea din 1/13 ianuarie 1917 |url=https://www.historia.ro/sectiune/general/articol/cea-mai-mare-catastrofa-din-istoria-cailor-ferate-romane-accidentul-de-la-ciurea-din-1-13-ianuarie-1917 |access-date=2018-11-12}}</ref> and [[List of accidents and disasters by death toll|third worst in the history of the world]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Segen |first=Joseph C. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QBRYDQAAQBAJ |title=The Doctors' Dictionary, 2nd edition: A medical dictionary written by a doctor for doctors |date=2011-05-24 |publisher=BookBaby |isbn=9781617926747}}</ref> with most estimates falling between 800 and 1000 deaths.
-*July 22-August 1: [[Battle of Mărăşti]]
+*July 22-August 1: [[Battle of Mărăști]]
-*August 6-September 8: [[Battle of Mărăşeşti]]. The largest battle to take part on the Romanian front for entire war.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.descopera.ro/istorie/14631595-in-urma-cu-101-de-ani-avea-loc-cea-mai-mare-batalie-de-pe-frontul-romanesc-din-primul-razboi-mondial-marasesti-fu-mormantul-iluziilor-germane|title=În urmă cu 101 de ani avea loc cea mai mare bătălie de pe Frontul românesc din Primul Război Mondial:|work=descopera.ro|access-date=2018-11-12|language=en-US}}</ref>
+*August 6-September 8: [[Battle of Mărășești]]. The largest battle to take part on the Romanian front during World War I.<ref>{{Cite news |title=În urmă cu 101 de ani avea loc cea mai mare bătălie de pe Frontul românesc din Primul Război Mondial |language=ro |work=descopera.ro |url=https://www.descopera.ro/istorie/14631595-in-urma-cu-101-de-ani-avea-loc-cea-mai-mare-batalie-de-pe-frontul-romanesc-din-primul-razboi-mondial-marasesti-fu-mormantul-iluziilor-germane |access-date=2018-11-12}}</ref>
-*August 8–20: [[Second Battle of Oituz]]
+*August 8–22: [[Third Battle of Oituz]]
-*September 13: Romania establishes diplomatic relations with [[Japan]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mae.ro/bilateral-relations/2047|title=Relaţii bilaterale {{!}} Ministry of Foreign Affairs|website=www.mae.ro|language=en|access-date=2018-11-12}}</ref> King Ferdinand names [[Nicolae Xenopol]] as plenipotentiary minister to Tokyo.
+*September 13: Romania establishes diplomatic relations with [[Japan]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Relaţii bilaterale {{!}} Ministry of Foreign Affairs |url=https://www.mae.ro/bilateral-relations/2047 |access-date=2018-11-12 |website=www.mae.ro}}</ref> King Ferdinand names [[Nicolae Xenopol]] as plenipotentiary minister to Tokyo.
-*December 9: [[Armistice of Focșani]] is signed, ending the hostilities between [[Kingdom of Romania|Romania]] and the [[Central Powers]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/preltrea.htm|title=Texts of the Roumanian "Peace"|last=|first=|publisher=United States Government Printing Office|year=1918|isbn=|editor-last=United States, Department of State|location=Washington, DC|pages=2–4|chapter=Preliminary Treaty of Peace. Signed at the Castle Of Buftea, near Bucharest, 7 P.M., 5 March 1918}}</ref>
+*December 9: [[Armistice of Focșani]] is signed, ending the hostilities between [[Kingdom of Romania|Romania]] and the [[Central Powers]].<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/preltrea.htm |title=Texts of the Roumanian "Peace" |publisher=United States Government Printing Office |year=1918 |editor-last=United States, Department of State |location=Washington, DC |pages=2–4 |chapter=Preliminary Treaty of Peace. Signed at the Castle Of Buftea, near Bucharest, 7 P.M., 5 March 1918}}</ref>
 ==Births==
 [[File:Dinu Lipatti.jpg|thumb|Pianist and composer [[Dinu Lipatti]]]]
-* March 18: [[Mircea Ionescu-Quintus]] - politician, [[Senate of Romania|senator]], centenarian, [[Ministry of Justice (Romania)|Minister of Justice]] and chairman of the [[National Liberal Party (Romania)|National Liberal Party]] (PNL) from 1993 to 2001.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.mediafax.ro/social/a-murit-mircea-ionescu-quintus-la-varsta-de-100-de-ani-seniorul-liberal-in-ultima-sa-aparitie-publica-viata-mea-a-fost-un-roman-m-am-ferit-de-compromisuri-cand-va-avea-loc-inmormantarea-16730239|title=A murit Mircea Ionescu Quintus la vârsta de 100 de ani. Seniorul liberal, în ultima sa apariţie publică: Viaţa mea a fost un roman. M-am ferit de compromisuri/ Când va avea loc înmormântarea|work=Mediafax.ro|access-date=2018-11-12|language=ro}}</ref>
+* March 18: [[Mircea Ionescu-Quintus]] – politician, [[Senate of Romania|senator]], centenarian, [[Ministry of Justice (Romania)|Minister of Justice]] and chairman of the [[National Liberal Party (Romania)|National Liberal Party]] (PNL) from 1993 to 2001.<ref>{{Cite news |title=A murit Mircea Ionescu Quintus la vârsta de 100 de ani. Seniorul liberal, în ultima sa apariţie publică: Viaţa mea a fost un roman. M-am ferit de compromisuri/ Când va avea loc înmormântarea |language=ro |work=Mediafax.ro |url=https://www.mediafax.ro/social/a-murit-mircea-ionescu-quintus-la-varsta-de-100-de-ani-seniorul-liberal-in-ultima-sa-aparitie-publica-viata-mea-a-fost-un-roman-m-am-ferit-de-compromisuri-cand-va-avea-loc-inmormantarea-16730239 |access-date=2018-11-12}}</ref>
-* March 19: [[Dinu Lipatti]] - [[Classical music|classical]] pianist and composer, posthumously elected into the [[Romanian Academy]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.eualegromania.ro/2015/09/14/dinu-lipatti-muzica-in-forma-ei-cea-mai-pura/|title=Dinu Lipatti – muzica în forma ei cea mai pură|last=Cretoiu|first=Andrei|date=2015-09-14|work=EU aleg România|access-date=2018-11-12|language=ro-RO}}</ref>
+* March 19: [[Dinu Lipatti]] – [[Classical music|classical]] pianist and composer, posthumously elected into the [[Romanian Academy]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Cretoiu |first=Andrei |date=2015-09-14 |title=Dinu Lipatti – muzica în forma ei cea mai pură |language=ro-RO |work=EU aleg România |url=http://www.eualegromania.ro/2015/09/14/dinu-lipatti-muzica-in-forma-ei-cea-mai-pura/ |access-date=2018-11-12}}</ref>
-* June 6: [[Ion Rațiu]] - politician and the presidential candidate of the [[Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party]] (PNȚ) in the [[Romanian presidential election, 1990|1990 elections]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://adevarul.ro/locale/cluj-napoca/cea-mai-eleganta-definitie-democratiei-ion-ratiu-voilupta-ultima-picatura-sange-dreptul-nu-acord-cumine-1_537ca0080d133766a8d83939/index.html|title=Cea mai elegantă definiţie a democraţiei. Ion Raţiu: "Voi lupta până la ultima mea picătură de sânge ca să ai dreptul să nu fii de acord cu mine!"|last=Pop|first=Florina|date=21 May 2014|work=adevarul.ro|access-date=2018-11-12|language=en}}</ref>
+* June 6: [[Ion Rațiu]] – politician and the presidential candidate of the [[Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party]] (PNȚ) in the [[Romanian presidential election, 1990|1990 elections]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Pop |first=Florina |date=21 May 2014 |title=Cea mai elegantă definiţie a democraţiei. Ion Raţiu: "Voi lupta până la ultima mea picătură de sânge ca să ai dreptul să nu fii de acord cu mine!" |language=ro |work=adevarul.ro |url=https://adevarul.ro/locale/cluj-napoca/cea-mai-eleganta-definitie-democratiei-ion-ratiu-voilupta-ultima-picatura-sange-dreptul-nu-acord-cumine-1_537ca0080d133766a8d83939/index.html |access-date=2018-11-12}}</ref>
-* June 20: [[Iosif Constantin Drăgan]] -  Romanian and [[Italy|Italian]] businessman, writer, historian and founder of the [[ButanGas]] company, who was at one time the richest man in Romania.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://evz.ro/fragmente-de-viata-secretele-din-viata-miliardarului-iosif-const.html|title=Fragmente de viață. Secretele din viața miliardarului Iosif Constantin Drăgan|access-date=2018-11-12|language=ro-RO}}</ref>
+* June 20: [[Iosif Constantin Drăgan]] – Romanian and Italian businessman, writer, historian and founder of the [[ButanGas]] company, who was at one time the richest man in Romania.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Fragmente de viață. Secretele din viața miliardarului Iosif Constantin Drăgan |language=ro-RO |url=https://evz.ro/fragmente-de-viata-secretele-din-viata-miliardarului-iosif-const.html |access-date=2018-11-12}}</ref>
-* August 28: [[Horia Lovinescu]] - playwright.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.observatorcultural.ro/articol/ratacirile-tinarului-lovinescu-i/|title=Ratacirile tinarului Lovinescu (I) {{!}} Observator Cultural|work=Observator Cultural|access-date=2018-11-12|language=ro-RO}}</ref>
+* August 28: {{ill|Horia Lovinescu|ro}} – playwright.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Rătăcirile tînărului Lovinescu (I) |language=ro-RO |work=[[Observator Cultural]] |url=https://www.observatorcultural.ro/articol/ratacirile-tinarului-lovinescu-i/ |access-date=2018-11-12}}</ref>
-* August 22: [[Alexandru Piru]] - literary critic, historian and member of the Parliament between 1990 and 1992.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cdep.ro/pls/parlam/structura2015.mp?idm=67&cam=1&leg=1990|title=Piru Alexandru|website=Romanian Chamber of Deputies|language=ro|access-date=2018-11-12}}</ref>
+* August 22: [[Alexandru Piru]] – literary critic, historian and member of the Parliament between 1990 and 1992.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Piru Alexandru |url=http://www.cdep.ro/pls/parlam/structura2015.mp?idm=67&cam=1&leg=1990 |access-date=2018-11-12 |website=Romanian Chamber of Deputies |language=ro}}</ref>
-* August 25: [[Ion Diaconescu]] -  [[anti-Communist]] [[activist]] and [[politician]] who spent seventeen years as a political prisoner and later became a leader of the [[Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party (Romania)|Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party]] (PNŢCD).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rador.ro/2017/08/25/portret-liderul-taranist-ion-diaconescu-100-de-ani-de-la-nastere/|title=PORTRET: Liderul ţărănist Ion Diaconescu – 100 de ani de la naştere {{!}} Agenția de presă Rador|last=Brădăţeanu|first=V.|website=www.rador.ro|language=ro-RO|access-date=2018-11-12}}</ref>
+* August 25: [[Ion Diaconescu]] – [[anti-Communist]] activist and politician who spent seventeen years as a political prisoner and later became a leader of the [[Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party (Romania)|Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party]] (PNŢCD).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Brădățeanu |first=V. |title=PORTRET: Liderul țărănist Ion Diaconescu – 100 de ani de la naștere |url=http://www.rador.ro/2017/08/25/portret-liderul-taranist-ion-diaconescu-100-de-ani-de-la-nastere/ |access-date=2018-11-12 |website=www.rador.ro |language=ro-RO}}</ref>
-* September 3: [[Eugen Frunză]] - poet who co-wrote the lyrics to [[Te slăvim, Românie|Te slăvim, Românie!]], which was the national anthem between 1953 and 1977.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://cultural.bzi.ro/te-slavim-romanie-imnul-national-al-republicii-populare-romane-intre-1953-si-1977-14148|title=Te slavim, Romanie! - imnul national al Republicii Populare Romane intre 1953 si 1977|date=2014-05-09|work=Cultural.BZI|access-date=2018-11-12|language=ro-RO}}</ref>
+* September 3: [[Eugen Frunză]] – poet who co-wrote the lyrics to [[Te slăvim, Românie]], which was the national anthem between 1953 and 1975.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Diaconu |first=Camelia |date=25 November 2019 |title=Imnul României "Deșteaptă-te, române" – Versuri și istoric |language=ro |work=[[Libertatea]] |url=https://www.libertatea.ro/lifestyle/imnul-romaniei-desteapta-te-romane-2809723}}</ref>
-* November 18: [[Dinu Negreanu]]  - director who created a string of films in the 1950s.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://adevarul.ro/entertainment/film/din-culisele-cinematografiei-scandal-proportii-buftea-regizorul-colpi-zis-neam-tigani-1_59eb8ec95ab6550cb8597a15/index.html|title="Din culisele cinematografiei". Scandal de proporţii la Buftea: "Regizorul Colpi a zis că suntem un neam de ţigani"|last=|first=|date=25 October 2017|work=adevarul.ro|access-date=2018-11-12|language=en}}</ref>
+* November 18: [[Dinu Negreanu]]  - director who created a string of films in the 1950s.<ref>{{Cite news |date=25 October 2017 |title="Din culisele cinematografiei". Scandal de proporții la Buftea: "Regizorul Colpi a zis că suntem un neam de țigani" |language=ro |work=[[Adevărul]] |url=https://adevarul.ro/entertainment/film/din-culisele-cinematografiei-scandal-proportii-buftea-regizorul-colpi-zis-neam-tigani-1_59eb8ec95ab6550cb8597a15/index.html |access-date=2018-11-12}}</ref>
-* December 13: [[Miron Constantinescu]]  - [[Communism|communist]] politician, a leading member of the [[Romanian Communist Party]], as well as a [[Marxism|Marxist]] sociologist, historian, academic, and journalist.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://life.hotnews.ro/stiri-prin_oras-10717637-miron-constantinescu-intelectual-intr-pandemoniu-populat-brute-comuniste.htm|title=Miron Constantinescu - un intelectual intr-un pandemoniu populat de brute comuniste|work=HotNewsRo|access-date=2018-11-12|language=ro}}</ref>
+* December 13: [[Miron Constantinescu]] – [[Communism|communist]] politician, a leading member of the [[Romanian Communist Party]], as well as a [[Marxism|Marxist]] sociologist, historian, academic, and journalist.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Miron Constantinescu - un intelectual intr-un pandemoniu populat de brute comuniste |language=ro |work=HotNewsRo |url=https://life.hotnews.ro/stiri-prin_oras-10717637-miron-constantinescu-intelectual-intr-pandemoniu-populat-brute-comuniste.htm |access-date=2018-11-12}}</ref>
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 ==Deaths==
-*[[File:Titu Maiorescu - Foto01.jpg|thumb|Literary critic [[Titu Maiorescu]]]]February 9: [[Aurel Popovici]] - ethnic Romanian [[Austria-Hungary|Austro-Hungarian]] lawyer and politician who proposed the federalization of Austria-Hungary under the [[United States of Greater Austria]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Popovici|first=Aurel|date=2013|year=|title=The Proposed Federalization of the Habsburg Monarchy in the Work The United States of Greater Austria|url=http://cejsh.icm.edu.pl/cejsh/element/bwmeta1.element.cejsh-63fd5227-720e-4258-8f9a-d81bfc6aaba8|journal=Historický časopis (Historical Journal)|publisher=Institute of Historical Studies of the Slovak Academy of Sciences|volume=61|pages=29–50|via=}}</ref>
+*[[File:Titu Maiorescu - Foto01.jpg|thumb|Literary critic [[Titu Maiorescu]]]]February 9: [[Aurel Popovici]] – lawyer and politician who proposed the federalization of Austria-Hungary under the [[United States of Greater Austria]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Popovici |first=Aurel |date=2013 |title=The Proposed Federalization of the Habsburg Monarchy in the Work The United States of Greater Austria |url=http://cejsh.icm.edu.pl/cejsh/element/bwmeta1.element.cejsh-63fd5227-720e-4258-8f9a-d81bfc6aaba8 |journal=Historický časopis (Historical Journal) |publisher=Institute of Historical Studies of the Slovak Academy of Sciences |volume=61 |pages=29–50}}</ref>
-*May 14: [[Emil Rebreanu]] - [[Austria-Hungary|Austro-Hungarian]] [[Romanians|Romanian]] military officer executed during [[World War I]] for trying to desert to the Romanian side. The 1922 forest ''[[Forest of the Hanged (novel)|Forest of the Hanged]]'' by his brother, [[Liviu Rebreanu]], is influenced by his experience.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.historia.ro/sectiune/general/articol/cum-si-a-transformat-liviu-rebreanu-executia-fratelui-sau-de-pe-front-intr-un-roman-tradus-in-opt-limbi|title=Cum şi-a transformat Liviu Rebreanu execuţia fratelui său de pe front într-un roman tradus în opt limbi|access-date=2018-11-12}}</ref>
+*May 14: [[Emil Rebreanu]] - [[Austria-Hungary|Austro-Hungarian]] Romanian military officer executed during [[World War I]] for trying to desert to the Romanian side. The 1922 novel ''[[Forest of the Hanged (novel)|Forest of the Hanged]]'' by his brother, [[Liviu Rebreanu]], is influenced by his experience.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Cum şi-a transformat Liviu Rebreanu execuţia fratelui său de pe front într-un roman tradus în opt limbi |url=https://www.historia.ro/sectiune/general/articol/cum-si-a-transformat-liviu-rebreanu-executia-fratelui-sau-de-pe-front-intr-un-roman-tradus-in-opt-limbi |access-date=2018-11-12}}</ref>
-*June 18: [[Titu Maiorescu]] - literary critic and politician, founder of the ''[[Junimea]]'' Society. As a literary critic, he was instrumental in the development of [[Culture of Romania|Romanian culture]] in the second half of the 19th century.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.radioiasi.ro/stiri/supliment/titu-maiorescu-critica-unde-trebuie-si-constructiva-unde-poate/|title=Titu Maiorescu: "Critica unde trebuie și constructivă unde poate"…  {{!}}  Radio Iaşi – Cel mai ascultat radio regional – știri, muzică și evenimente|website=www.radioiasi.ro|language=ro-RO|access-date=2018-11-12}}</ref>
+*June 18: [[Titu Maiorescu]] - literary critic and politician, founder of the ''[[Junimea]]'' Society. As a literary critic, he was instrumental in the development of [[Culture of Romania|Romanian culture]] in the second half of the 19th century.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Titu Maiorescu: "Critica unde trebuie și constructivă unde poate"… {{!}} Radio Iaşi – Cel mai ascultat radio regional – știri, muzică și evenimente |url=http://www.radioiasi.ro/stiri/supliment/titu-maiorescu-critica-unde-trebuie-si-constructiva-unde-poate/ |access-date=2018-11-12 |website=www.radioiasi.ro |language=ro-RO}}</ref>
-*August 27: [[Ion Grămadă]] - writer, historian and journalist who died in battle.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.historia.ro/sectiune/portret/articol/tributul-scriitorilor-in-marele-razboi-ion-gramada-eroul-bucovinei|title=Tributul scriitorilor în Marele Război: Ion Grămadă, eroul Bucovinei|access-date=2018-11-12}}</ref>
+*August 27: [[Ion Grămadă]] – writer, historian and journalist who died in battle.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Tributul scriitorilor în Marele Război: Ion Grămadă, eroul Bucovinei |url=https://www.historia.ro/sectiune/portret/articol/tributul-scriitorilor-in-marele-razboi-ion-gramada-eroul-bucovinei |access-date=2018-11-12}}</ref>
-*August 28: [[Calistrat Hogaș]] - prose writer whose collected short stories were published posthumously.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://radioromaniacultural.ro/portret-calistrat-hogas-scriitorul-singuratatii-muntilor/|title=PORTRET: Calistrat Hogaş – scriitorul "singurătăţii munţilor"|date=2018-08-28|work=Radio România Cultural|access-date=2018-11-12|language=ro-RO}}</ref>
+*August 28: [[Calistrat Hogaș]] – prose writer whose collected short stories were published posthumously.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2018-08-28 |title=Portret: Calistrat Hogaş – scriitorul "singurătății munților" |language=ro-RO |work=[[Radio România Cultural]] |url=https://radioromaniacultural.ro/portret-calistrat-hogas-scriitorul-singuratatii-muntilor/ |access-date=2018-11-12}}</ref>
-*September 3: [[Ecaterina Teodoroiu]] - woman who fought and died in [[World War I]], and is regarded as [[War Hero|war hero]] of [[Romania]], where she is known as the ”heroine of the [[Jiu Valley|Jiu]]”.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://radioromaniacultural.ro/portret-ecaterina-teodoroiu-legenda-eroinei-de-la-jiu-la-100-de-ani-de-la-sacrificiul-suprem/|title=PORTRET: Ecaterina Teodoroiu – legenda "eroinei de la Jiu", la 101 de ani de la sacrificiul suprem|date=2018-08-22|work=Radio România Cultural|access-date=2018-11-12|language=ro-RO}}</ref>
+*September 3: [[Ecaterina Teodoroiu]] - woman who fought and died in [[World War I]], and is regarded as [[War Hero|war hero]] of [[Romania]], where she is known as the ”heroine of the [[Jiu Valley|Jiu]]”.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2018-08-22 |title=PORTRET: Ecaterina Teodoroiu – legenda "eroinei de la Jiu", la 101 de ani de la sacrificiul suprem |language=ro-RO |work=Radio România Cultural |url=https://radioromaniacultural.ro/portret-ecaterina-teodoroiu-legenda-eroinei-de-la-jiu-la-100-de-ani-de-la-sacrificiul-suprem/ |access-date=2018-11-12}}</ref>
-*December 18: [[Nicolae Xenopol]] - Politician, diplomat, economist, writer and first Romanian ambassador to Japan. Died in Tokyo, only months after taking the position.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.historia.ro/sectiune/general/articol/despre-primii-diplomati-japonezi-la-bucuresti|title=Despre primii diplomati japonezi la Bucuresti|access-date=2018-11-12}}</ref>
+*December 18: [[Nicolae Xenopol]] – Politician, diplomat, economist, writer and first Romanian ambassador to Japan. Died in Tokyo, only months after taking the position.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Despre primii diplomati japonezi la Bucuresti |url=https://www.historia.ro/sectiune/general/articol/despre-primii-diplomati-japonezi-la-bucuresti |access-date=2018-11-12}}</ref>
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