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Independence Activist, Reformer
Mark Twain30 November 1835, American
Author and Humorist
Gertrude Bell14 July 1868, British
Writer, Diplomat
Max Weber21 April 1864, German
Sociologist
John J. Pershing13 September 1860, American
US Army Officer During WW I
William Morris24 March 1834, British
Textile Designer, Poet
John Ruskin08 February 1819, British
Art Critic and Painter
Napoleon Hill26 October 1883, American
Writer of personal-success literature
Stamford Raffles06 July 1781, Jamaican, British
Former Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies
Will Durant05 November 1885, American
Writer, Historian, Philosopher
Aldo Leopold11 January 1887, American
Mary McLeod Bethune10 July 1875, American
Educator
Marcelo H. del Pilar30 August 1850, Filipino
Writer
Alexander Berkman21 November 1870, French, Russian
Editor
David Unaipon28 September 1872, Australian
Preacher
Isabella Beeton12 March 1836, British
Author
Alexander Herzen06 April 1812, Russian
Father of Russian socialism
Henry Ossian Flipper21 March 1856, American
Military Leader
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan17 October 1817, Indian
Founder of Aligarh Muslim University
Rose Macaulay01 August 1881, British
Writer
John Reed22 October 1887, American
Journalist, Poet
Anna Julia Cooper10 August 1858, American
Author, Educator
Alfred Douglas22 October 1870, British
Poet
Robert Stroud08 January 1890, American
Writer
Gordon Allport11 November 1897, American
Psychologist, Academic, University teacher,
W. C. Handy16 November 1873, American
Trumpeter, Composer, Songwriter, Autobiographer,
John Wyndham10 July 1903, British
Fiction Writer
Hudson Taylor21 May 1832, British
Physician, Translator, Theologian, Non-fiction
Luther Burbank07 March 1849, American
Horticulturist, Geneticist, Botanist, Gardener,
Ezra Taft Benson04 August 1899, American
Religious Leader
Paul Langevin23 January 1872, French
Physicist, Professor, Chemist, Philosopher of
Gilbert N. Lewis23 October 1875, American
Chemist, Physicist, University teacher,
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Philosopher, Non-fiction writer, Occultist
John Humphrey Noyes03 September 1811, American
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Karl Haushofer27 August 1869, German
Geopolitician, Political scientist, Educationist,
Rudolf Otto25 September 1869, German
Theologian, Politician, Philosopher, Non-fiction
Gertrude Jekyll29 November 1843, British
Horticulturist, Painter, Gardener, Non-fiction
Ernest Thompson Seton14 August 1860, Canadian, British, American
Author
Miles Franklin14 October 1879, Australian
Writer
Charles Davenport01 June 1866, American
Biologist
Michael Davitt25 March 1846, Northern Irish
Political leader
Anton Mussert11 May 1894
Civil engineer, Engineer, Non-fiction writer
Kurt von Tippelskirch09 October 1891, German
Military personnel, Military historian,
Robert E. Sherwood04 April 1896, American
Playwright
Adolf Anderssen06 July 1818, German, Ukrainian
Chess player, Non-fiction writer
David Garnett09 March 1892, British
Writer
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Theologian
Edward Whymper27 April 1840, British
Mountaineer
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General
Elsa Maxwell24 May 1883, American
Writer
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Psychanalyst, Psychiatrist, Non-fiction writer,
Sumner Welles14 October 1892, American
Diplomat, Non-fiction writer
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Chemist, Inventor, Pharmacist, Non-fiction writer
John Gresham Machen28 July 1881, American
Theologian
Louis Bachelier11 March 1870, French
Mathematician, Economist, Non-fiction writer
George Ade09 February 1866, American
Writer
Claus Schilling05 July 1871, German
Military physician, Non-fiction writer
Friedrich Hund04 February 1896, German
Physicist, University teacher, Non-fiction writer
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Politician, Journalist, Writer, Non-fiction writer
A.S. Neill17 October 1883, Scottish
Educator
Lewis Wallace10 April 1827, American
Lawyer
Harold Joseph Laski30 June 1893, British
Economist
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Philosopher
Ōkawa Shūmei06 December 1886, Japanese
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