Jonas Basanavičius (23 November 1851 – 16 February1927), the father of Lithuania`s independence declaration in 1918, also died on 16 February. He was an Ideologist of Lithuanian national movement, the founder and editor of the first prohibited newspaper of national revival Ausra (The Dawn). One of the initiators and the Chairman of the Organizing Committee behind the Lithuanian Science Society in 1907. He wrote about 40 works on history, archaeology, cultural history, ethnography, folklore studies, linguistics and medicine.