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Writer
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Independence Activist, Reformer
Max Weber21 April 1864, German
Sociologist
John Ruskin08 February 1819, British
Art Critic and Painter
John J. Pershing13 September 1860, American
US Army Officer During WW I
William Morris24 March 1834, British
Textile Designer, Poet
Napoleon Hill26 October 1883, American
Writer of personal-success literature
Gertrude Bell14 July 1868, British
Writer, Diplomat
Mary McLeod Bethune10 July 1875, American
Educator
Will Durant05 November 1885, American
Writer, Historian, Philosopher
Stamford Raffles06 July 1781, Jamaican, British
Former Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies
Aldo Leopold11 January 1887, American
Alexander Berkman21 November 1870, French, Russian
Editor
Henry Ossian Flipper21 March 1856, American
Military Leader
David Unaipon28 September 1872, Australian
Preacher
Isabella Beeton12 March 1836, British
Author
Marcelo H. del Pilar30 August 1850, Filipino
Writer
Alexander Herzen06 April 1812, Russian
Father of Russian socialism
Anna Julia Cooper10 August 1858, American
Author, Educator
Rose Macaulay01 August 1881, British
Writer
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan17 October 1817, Indian
Founder of Aligarh Muslim University
John Reed22 October 1887, American
Journalist, Poet
Alfred Douglas22 October 1870, British
Poet
Robert Stroud08 January 1890, American
Writer
Vyvyan Holland03 November 1886, British
Writer
Ezra Taft Benson04 August 1899, American
Religious Leader
John Wyndham10 July 1903, British
Fiction Writer
W. C. Handy16 November 1873, American
Trumpeter, Composer, Songwriter, Autobiographer,
Marjory Stoneman Douglas07 April 1890, American
Journalist
Hudson Taylor21 May 1832, British
Physician, Translator, Theologian, Non-fiction
Luther Burbank07 March 1849, American
Horticulturist, Geneticist, Botanist, Gardener,
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Psychologist, Academic, University teacher,
Ernest Thompson Seton14 August 1860, Canadian, British, American
Author
Harold Laski30 June 1893, British
Economist
Karl Haushofer27 August 1869, German
Geopolitician, Political scientist, Educationist,
Gilbert N. Lewis23 October 1875, American
Physical chemist
Eliphas Levi08 February 1810, French
Philosopher, Non-fiction writer, Occultist
Paul Langevin23 January 1872, French
Physicist, Professor, Chemist, Philosopher of
Gertrude Jekyll29 November 1843, British
Horticulturist, Painter, Gardener, Non-fiction
Anton Mussert11 May 1894
Civil engineer, Engineer, Non-fiction writer
Rudolf Otto25 September 1869, German
Theologian, Politician, Philosopher, Non-fiction
Edgar Guest20 August 1881, American
Poet
Kurt von Tippelskirch09 October 1891, German
Military personnel, Military historian,
Janet Flanner13 March 1892, American
Writer
Charles Davenport01 June 1866, American
Biologist
Adolf Anderssen06 July 1818, German, Ukrainian
Chess player, Non-fiction writer
Robert E. Sherwood04 April 1896, American
Playwright
David Garnett09 March 1892, British
Writer
Miles Franklin14 October 1879, Australian
Writer
Ignatius L. Donnelly03 November 1831, American
Politician
Louis Bachelier11 March 1870, French
Mathematician, Economist, Non-fiction writer
Sumner Welles14 October 1892, American
Diplomat, Non-fiction writer
Sándor Ferenczi07 July 1873, Hungarian
Psychanalyst, Psychiatrist, Non-fiction writer,
Elsa Maxwell24 May 1883, American
Writer
Howard Staunton01 April 1810, British
Chess Master
Felix Hoffmann21 January 1868, German
Chemist, Inventor, Pharmacist, Non-fiction writer
Adolf von Harnack07 May 1851, Estonian
Theologian
Michael Davitt25 March 1846, Northern Irish
Political leader
Edward Whymper27 April 1840, British
Mountaineer
Jessie Benton Frémont31 May 1824, American
Writer
Alexander von Kluck20 May 1846, German, Prussian
General
John Gresham Machen28 July 1881, American
Theologian
John Humphrey Noyes03 September 1811, American
Preacher
Andrew Jackson Downing31 October 1815, American
Gilbert Murray02 January 1866, Australian
Scholar
Mary Lamb03 December 1764, British
Author
Osbert Sitwell06 December 1892
Writer
Lionel Johnson15 March 1867, British
Poet
Thomas Bewick10 August 1753, British
Engraver
John Bowring17 October 1792, British
Economist
John Bates Clark26 January 1847, American
Economist
John Keble25 April 1792, British
Poet
Henry Mayhew25 November 1812, British
Journalist
Arthur Brisbane12 December 1864, American
Writer
Claus Schilling05 July 1871, German
Military physician, Non-fiction writer
Eugen Dühring12 January 1833, German
Philosopher
Christopher Memminger09 January 1803, German, American
Politician
Donald Ogden Stewart30 November 1894, American
Author
Abbas Mahmoud al-Aqqad28 June 1889, Egyptian
Journalist
Ambroise Vollard03 July 1866, French, Réunionese
Art Dealer
Lancelot Hogben09 December 1895, British
Medical Statistician
Elizabeth Peabody16 May 1804, American
Teacher
Mary MacLane01 May 1881, Canadian, American
Writer
Antoine Destutt de Tracy20 July 1754, French
Philosopher
Henrik Wergeland17 June 1808, Norwegian
Writer
James Fitzjames Stephen03 March 1829, British
Law scholar
John Middleton Murry06 August 1889, British
Writer
Maria Monk27 June 1816, Canadian
Nun
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Physicist, University teacher, Non-fiction writer
George Perkins Marsh15 March 1801, American
Environmentalist
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Richard T. Ely13 April 1854, American
Economist
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Editor
George Seldes16 November 1890, American
Journalist