Short answers, pulled from the story.
Józef Klemens Piłsudski was born on the 5th of December 1867 at the manor of Zulov, now known as Zalavas in Lithuania. His family had been part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania before the region fell under Russian rule in 1795.
During transport to Siberia he spent weeks in a prison in Irkutsk where guards beat political prisoners who defied them. He lost two teeth during this ordeal and suffered an illness from forty-degree-below-zero cold that created health problems throughout his life.
On the 11th of November 1918 Piłsudski was appointed Commander-in-Chief of Polish forces by the Regency Council and proclaimed an independent Polish state. That same day which became Poland's Independence Day over fifty-five thousand Germans peacefully departed Poland leaving weapons behind for the Poles.
Political chaos grew with multiple governments resigning in short order so on the 12th to the 14th of May 1926 Piłsudski returned to power in the May Coup. The coup resulted in two hundred fifteen soldiers and one hundred sixty-four civilians killed while over nine hundred persons were wounded.
On the 12th of May 1935 he died of liver cancer at Warsaw's Belweder Palace after being in declining health for several years. State funeral ceremonies occurred between the 15th and the 18th of May 1935 in Warsaw and Kraków including official masses and processions.