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Independence Activist, Reformer
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Sociologist
John Ruskin08 February 1819, British
Art Critic and Painter
John J. Pershing13 September 1860, American
US Army Officer During WW I
Gertrude Bell14 July 1868, British
Writer, Diplomat
William Morris24 March 1834, British
Textile Designer, Poet
Napoleon Hill26 October 1883, American
Writer of personal-success literature
Mary McLeod Bethune10 July 1875, American
Educator
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
Marcelo H. del Pilar30 August 1850, Filipino
Writer
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
Alexander Herzen06 April 1812, Russian
Father of Russian socialism
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
Anna Julia Cooper10 August 1858, American
Author, Educator
Alfred Douglas22 October 1870, British
Poet
Robert Stroud08 January 1890, American
Writer
W. C. Handy16 November 1873, American
Trumpeter, Composer, Songwriter, Autobiographer,
John Wyndham10 July 1903, British
Fiction Writer
Marjory Stoneman Douglas07 April 1890, American
Journalist
Luther Burbank07 March 1849, American
Horticulturist, Geneticist, Botanist, Gardener,
Hudson Taylor21 May 1832, British
Physician, Translator, Theologian, Non-fiction
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Religious Leader
Gordon Allport11 November 1897, American
Psychologist, Academic, University teacher,
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Physical chemist
Ernest Thompson Seton14 August 1860, Canadian, British, American
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Karl Haushofer27 August 1869, German
Geopolitician, Political scientist, Educationist,
Paul Langevin23 January 1872, French
Physicist, Professor, Chemist, Philosopher of
Eliphas Levi08 February 1810, French
Philosopher, Non-fiction writer, Occultist
Rudolf Otto25 September 1869, German
Theologian, Politician, Philosopher, Non-fiction
Michael Davitt25 March 1846, Northern Irish
Political leader
Edgar Guest20 August 1881, American
Poet
Gertrude Jekyll29 November 1843, British
Horticulturist, Painter, Gardener, Non-fiction
Anton Mussert11 May 1894
Civil engineer, Engineer, Non-fiction writer
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Biologist
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Politician
Jessie Benton Frémont31 May 1824, American
Writer
Kurt von Tippelskirch09 October 1891, German
Military personnel, Military historian,
Adolf Anderssen06 July 1818, German, Ukrainian
Chess player, Non-fiction writer
Louis Bachelier11 March 1870, French
Mathematician, Economist, Non-fiction writer
Miles Franklin14 October 1879, Australian
Writer
Robert E. Sherwood04 April 1896, American
Playwright
Sándor Ferenczi07 July 1873, Hungarian
Psychanalyst, Psychiatrist, Non-fiction writer,
Edward Whymper27 April 1840, British
Mountaineer
Janet Flanner13 March 1892, American
Writer
Felix Hoffmann21 January 1868, German
Chemist, Inventor, Pharmacist, Non-fiction writer
David Garnett09 March 1892, British
Writer
Elsa Maxwell24 May 1883, American
Writer
Sumner Welles14 October 1892, American
Diplomat, Non-fiction writer
Adolf von Harnack07 May 1851, Estonian
Theologian
Alexander von Kluck20 May 1846, German, Prussian
General
Osbert Sitwell06 December 1892
Writer
John Humphrey Noyes03 September 1811, American
Preacher
Howard Staunton01 April 1810, British
Chess Master
Mary Lamb03 December 1764, British
Author
John Gresham Machen28 July 1881, American
Theologian
Thomas Bewick10 August 1753, British
Engraver
John Keble25 April 1792, British
Poet
Gilbert Murray02 January 1866, Australian
Scholar
Claus Schilling05 July 1871, German
Military physician, Non-fiction writer
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Economist
Henry Mayhew25 November 1812, British
Journalist
George Perkins Marsh15 March 1801, American
Environmentalist
John Bowring17 October 1792, British
Economist
Lionel Johnson15 March 1867, British
Poet
John Middleton Murry06 August 1889, British
Writer
Arthur Brisbane12 December 1864, American
Writer
Edward Bok09 October 1863, Dutch, American
Editor
James Fitzjames Stephen03 March 1829, British
Law scholar
Eugen Dühring12 January 1833, German
Philosopher
Friedrich Hund04 February 1896, German
Physicist, University teacher, Non-fiction writer
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Poet
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Philip Freneau02 January 1752, American
Poet
Ambroise Vollard03 July 1866, French, Réunionese
Art Dealer
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler25 June 1884, German
Art historian
Maria Monk27 June 1816, Canadian
Nun
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Lexicographer
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Author
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Medical Statistician
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Politician
Donald Ogden Stewart30 November 1894, American
Author
Elizabeth Peabody16 May 1804, American
Teacher
Richard T. Ely13 April 1854, American
Economist