Sergei Eisenstein (Сергей Михайлович Эйзенштейн) - Soviet filmmaker (1898-1948). He was born January 22, 1898 in Riga, Latvia.
Best known for his work on Ivan the Terrible. Part I (1944), Battleship Potemkin (1925), Alexander Nevsky (1938), October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1927).