Famous Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904). He was not only a writer but a doctor too. And he has died from tuberculosis.
Doctor Theophilus Ebenhaezer Donges (1898-1968). He was elected President of the South Africa Republic (at 1968) but died before his inauguration.
It's not a cheap coin. It's a coin with a high content of silver. As I know, such copies were made in China.
Thanks for the education. Before seeing this thread I thought the King of Siam/Thailand was the only bespectacled denizen of the obverse.