Thomas Edison11th February, American
Inventor, Businessman
Jesse James5th September, American
American Outlaw & Gang Leader
Alexander Graham Bell3rd March, Canadian, Scottish
Inventor of Telephone
Paul von Hindenburg2nd October, German
General, Second President of Weimar Republic
Bram Stoker8th November, Irish
Creator of Dracula
Annie Besant1st October, British
Member of the London School Board
Ike Clanton30th November, American
Member of Brigand Group - The Cowboys
Joseph Pulitzer10th April, Hungarian
Journalist & Publisher
Millicent Fawcett11th June, British
Suffragist
Kate Sheppard10th March, New Zealander
Women's Suffrage Leader
Anna Howard Shaw14th February, American
Leader of the women's suffrage movement in the
Otto Wallach27th March, German
Chemist
Thomas Alva Edison11th February, American
Maria Feodorovna26th November, Danish
Dagmar of Denmark
James A. Bailey4th July, American
Impresario
Wong Fei-hung9th July, Chinese
Physician, Acupuncturist
Arthur Kinnaird, 11th Lord Kinnaird16th February, British
Football player
Benjamin R. Tillman11th August, American
Politician
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery7th May, British
Former British Prime Minister
John Chard21st December, British
Engineer, Military personnel
Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia22nd April
Statesman, Military personnel, Architect
Jacob Schiff10th January, American
Banker, Financier
Georges Sorel2nd November, French
Philosopher, Engineer, Sociologist, Writer, Trade
Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy16th December, French
Military personnel, Spy, Composer
Ellen Terry27th February, British
Actress
Nakano Takeko12th July, Japanese
Warrior
Koos de la Rey22nd October, South African
Military officer
Sergey Nechayev2nd October, Russian
Revolutionary
Camille Doncieux15th January, French
painter, model
John Alexander Dowie25th May, Scottish
Evangelist
Catherine Dolgorukov2nd November, Russian
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Ralph Albert Blakelock15th October, American
Painter
Max Liebermann20th July, German
Painter
William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie31st May, Canadian
Businessman
Radomir Putnik24th January, Serbian
General
Jean Casimir-Périer8th November, French
Prime Minister, politician
John Forrest22nd August, Australian
Politician
Bolesław Prus20th August, Polish
Journalist
Albert Pinkham Ryder19th March, American
Painter
George Grossmith9th December, British
Comedian
Lotta Crabtree7th November, American
Actress
John R. Lynch10th September, American
politician, lawyer
James O'Neill15th November, Irish, American
Actor
Galileo Ferraris30th October, Italian
physicist, engineer, inventor
William Terriss20th February, British
Actor
Philipp, Prince of Eulenburg12th February, German
Diplomat
Solomon Schechter7th December, Romanian
Rabbi, University teacher
John Peter Altgeld30th December, German, American
Governor
James Hannington3rd September, British
Missionary
Paul Mounet5th October, French
Actor, Film actor
John Bates Clark26th January, American
Economist
Edwin James Houston9th July, American
Electrical engineer
Sidney Sonnino11th March, Italian
Statesman
Kobayashi Kiyochika10th September, Japanese
Artist
Vinnie Ream25th September
Sculptor
Jens Peter Jacobsen7th April, Danish
Novelist
Nikolai Zhukovsky17th January, Russian
Scientist, Mathematician, Engineer
Ray Lankester15th May, British
Zoologists
Charles Follen McKim24th August, American
Architect
Mary Anna Hallock Foote9th November, American
Author
Giuseppe Giacosa21st October, Italian
Poet
Alice Meynell11th October, British
Writer
Afonso Augusto Moreira Pena30th November, Brazilian
Brazilian Politician
Mori Arinori23rd August, Japanese
Statesman
Phan Dinh Phung6th June, Vietnamese
Rebel Leader
Kálmán Mikszáth16th January, Hungarian, Slovak
Novelist
Pavel Yablochkov14th September, Russian
Electrical engineer
Henry Demarest Lloyd1st May, American
Journalist
Thomas Brock1st March, British
Sculptor
Castro Alves14th March, Brazilian
Poet
Julia A. Moore1st December, American
American poet
Auguste Pavie31st May, French
Explorer
Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie22nd August, Scottish
Composer
Adolf von Hildebrand6th October, German
Sculptor
Katherine Tingley6th July, American
Social Worker
Nakae Chōmin8th December, Japanese
Journalist
Emil Holub7th October, Austrian, Czech, Hungarian
Physician
Émile Faguet17th December, French
Author
Stephanus Jacobus du Toit10th October, South African
Journalist
Charles Renard23rd November, French
Military Engineer
Alice Stopford Green30th May, Irish
Historian
Joseph Achille Le Bel21st January, French
Chemist
Franz, Prince of Thun and Hohenstein2nd September, Austrian, Hungarian
Statesman
Sarah Frances Whiting23rd August, American
Astronomer
Edvard Brandes21st October, Danish
Politician
Frederick William Borden14th May, Canadian
Politician
Mary Watson Whitney11th September, American
Astronomer
George Eulas Foster3rd September, Canadian
Politician
Recaizade Mahmud Ekrem1st March, Turkish
Civil Servant
Charles Frederic Moberly Bell2nd April, British
Journalist
Frédéric Masson8th March, French
Historian
Johann Georg Hagen6th March, Austrian
Priest
Linda Gilbert13th May, American
Prison Reformer
Marcel Alexandre Bertrand2nd July, French
Geologist