births
August 22, 1915
Edward Szczepanik, Polish economist and politician, 15th Prime Minister of the Polish Republic in Exile (died 2005)
Edward Szczepanik
Edward Franciszek Szczepanik was a Polish economist and the last Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile.
Polish government-in-exile
The Polish government-in-exile, officially known as the Government of the Republic of Poland in exile, was the government in exile of Poland formed in the aftermath of the Invasion of Poland of September 1939, and the subsequent occupation of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and the Slovak Republic, which brought to an end the Second Polish Republic.