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Jānis Sudrabkalns

Latvian writer.

Born May 29th, 1894 in Inčukalns. [ref]

Died September 4th, 1975 at 81 years old in Riga. [ref]

Occupations
poet, politician, writer

Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier. Xenophon