W. E. B. Du Bois23 February 1868, Ghanaian
Civil Rights Activists
Alfred Douglas22 October 1870, British
Poet
H. L. Mencken12 September 1880, American
Carl Sandburg06 January 1878, American
Writer & Editor
Bret Harte25 August 1836, American
Author & Poet
Andrew Lang31 March 1844, Scottish
Poet, Novelist, Literary Critic
Norman Angell26 December 1872, British
British Journalist & Author
C.P. Scott26 October 1846, British
Former Editor of 'The Guardian'
Thomas Bailey Aldrich11 November 1836, American
Poet & Novelist
Malcolm Cowley24 August 1898, American
Novelist & Poet
Ali Kemal07 September 1867, Turkish
Journalist
Charlotta Spears Bass14 February 1874, American
Editor and activist
L. Frank Baum15 May 1856, American
Writer
Victoria Woodhull23 September 1838, American
Politician
Henry Jarvis Raymond24 January 1820, American
Journalist
Sarah Josepha Hale24 October 1788, American
American author
Dwight L. Moody05 February 1837, American
Editor, Philosopher, Writer, Evangelist,
Ford Madox Ford17 December 1873, British
Novelist
Alma Mahler31 August 1879, Austrian, American
Composer
Arthur Griffith31 March 1871, Irish
Former President of Dáil Éireann
Hugo Gernsback16 August 1884, Luxembourgian, American
Inventor
Wyndham Lewis18 November 1882, British
Painter, Writer, Journalist, Editor, Novelist
Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson04 January 1890, American
Entrepreneur, Writer
Elijah Parish Lovejoy09 November 1802, American
Journalist
Francis P. Blair12 April 1791, American
Journalist
Frank Knox01 January 1874, American
Politician
Rashīd Riḍā23 September 1865, Lebanese
Islamic scholar
William Worrall Mayo31 May 1819, British, American
Chemist, Politician, Gynaecologist, Editor
Joseph W. Martin Jr.03 November 1884, American
Politician
Mabel Loomis Todd10 November 1856, American
Editor
Daniel De Leon14 December 1852, American
Socialist
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Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson08 December 1832, Norwegian
Writer
Robert R. McCormick30 July 1880, American
Charles Péguy07 January 1873, French
Poet
Josephus Daniels18 May 1862, American
Newspaper Editor
William Allen White10 February 1868, American
Editor
Frederick James Furnivall04 February 1825, British
Philologists
Frank Harris14 February 1856, Northern Irish
Journalist
William Monroe Trotter07 April 1872, American
Editor
K. M. Panikkar03 June 1895, Indian
Diplomat
Eugene Field02 September 1850, American
Writer
Louis Untermeyer01 October 1885, American
Author
George William Russell10 April 1867, Irish
Poet
Harold Ross06 November 1892, American
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Franklin Benjamin Sanborn15 December 1831, American
Journalist
Alice Dunbar Nelson19 July 1875, American
Poet
Henry Mayhew25 November 1812, British
Journalist
Nikolay Nekrasov10 December 1821, Russian
Poet
Charles Brockden Brown17 January 1771, American
Novelist
Julius Sterling Morton22 April 1832, American
Politician
George Seldes16 November 1890, American
Journalist
John Morley24 December 1838, British
Statesman
Johann Most05 February 1846, German, American
Politician, Journalist, Writer, Editor
Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor28 October 1875, American
Photojournalist
Edward Bok09 October 1863, Dutch, American
Editor
Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis07 August 1813, American
Educator
Anton Diabelli05 September 1781, Austrian
Music Publisher
Jessie Redmon Fauset27 April 1882, American
Editor
Douglas Southall Freeman16 May 1886, American
Historian
Herbert Croly23 January 1869, American
Editor
Cissy Patterson07 November 1884, American
Journalist
James Anthony Froude23 April 1818, British
Historian
Dirk Jan de Geer14 December 1870, Dutch
Politician
Edwin Arnold10 June 1832, British
Poet
William Tappan Thompson31 August 1812, American
Writer
George Jean Nathan14 February 1882, American
Journalist, Film critic, Writer
Elizabeth Peabody16 May 1804, American
Teacher
Zinaida Nikolayevna Gippius20 November 1869, Russian
Poet
J.R. Ackerley04 November 1896, British
Writer
Mary Mapes Dodge26 January 1831, American
Author
Isaac Mayer Wise29 March 1819, Czech
Rabbi
Abigail Scott Duniway22 October 1834, American
Writer
Arthur Symons28 February 1865, Welsh
Poet
Frank Johnson Goodnow18 January 1859, American
Educator
Joseph Medill06 April 1823, Canadian, American
Politician
Irvin S. Cobb23 June 1876, American
Author
Arthur Brisbane12 December 1864, American
Writer
Bryher02 September 1894, British
Novelist
Pauline Hopkins1859 AD, American
Novelist
Francis H. Underwood12 January 1825, American
Writer
Sanzō Nosaka30 March 1892, Japanese
Politician and Writer
Samuel Ringgold Ward17 October 1817, American
Author
Timothy Thomas Fortune03 October 1856, American
Orator
Elinor Wylie07 September 1885, American
Poet
Léonie Adams09 December 1899, American
Poet
Alexander Lange Kielland18 February 1849, Norwegian
Writer
Herbert Bayard Swope05 January 1882, American
Journalist
Norman Lockyer17 May 1836, British
Astronomer
James Thomas Fields31 December 1817, American
Publisher
John S. Knight26 October 1894, American
Publisher
Abraham Cahan07 July 1860, American
Writer, Politician, Novelist, Autobiographer,
Floyd Dell28 June 1887, American
Novelist
William Wetmore Story12 February 1819, American
Poet
Charles Godfrey Leland15 August 1824, American
Humorist