There's 2087 entries on Wikidata for people who died in 1945 and have an occupation which is some kind of 'creator' (though due to a quirk of the Wikidata hierarchy, that seems to include scientists + engineers)
http://tools.wmflabs.org/autolist/autolist1.html?q=between%5B570%2C1945-01-01%2C1945-12-31%5D%20and%20claim%5B106%3A(tree%5B2500638%5D%5B%5D%5B279%5D)%5D For authors + subclasses thereof it's a more manageable 636: http://tools.wmflabs.org/autolist/autolist1.html?q=between%5B570%2C1945-01-01%2C1945-12-31%5D%20and%20claim%5B106%3A%28tree%5B482980%5D%5B%5D%5B279%5D%29%5D No major British names leap out from a quick skim through. Andrew. On 7 August 2015 at 22:12, leu...@fabiant.eu <leu...@fabiant.eu> wrote: > Hi all, > > Last year there was 2015 in public domain and now we have 2016 in public > domain . . . but it only has one entry. > > I would be interested to know if anyone else is interested in working on > this and perhaps organising something for Public Domain Day, or perhaps an > event later in January when people have recovered from the holiday. > > Personally I am particularly interested in the work of the encyclopedist > Otto Neurath. > > all the best > > Fabina > aka Leutha > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
