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Military Leader
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Journalism
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Sergei Witte17th June, Georgian, Russian
politician
George Washington Williams16th October, American
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Muhammad Abduh30th November, Egyptian
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Alfred von Tirpitz19th March, German
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Basil Zaharoff6th October, French, Greek, Turkish
Arms dealer
Herbert von Bismarck28th December, German
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Politician, Diplomat
James Whitcomb Riley7th October, American
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Henry Fielding Dickens16th January, British
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William Merritt Chase1st November, American
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Sarah Orne Jewett3rd September, American
Novelist
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Nogi Maresuke25th December, Japanese
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Edmund Gosse21st September, British
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John Ambrose Fleming29th November, British
Engineer
Alfred Kleiner24th April, Swiss
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Max Nordau29th July, Hungarian
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Saionji Kinmochi6th December, Japanese
Prime Minister, politician
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Ferdinand Georg Frobenius26th October, German
Mathematician
Ruy Barbosa5th November, Brazilian
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Harry Kellar11th July, American
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Mathematician
Benjamin Godard18th August, French
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Hallie Quinn Brown10th March, American
Educator
Fritz Mauthner22nd November, Austrian, Czech, Hungarian
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Hugo Riemann18th July, German
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Rafael Reyes5th December, Colombian
President
Terence V. Powderly22nd January, American
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Oscar Hertwig21st April, German
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John Hopkinson27th July, British
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Pedro Montt29th June, Chilean
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William Cunningham29th December, British, Scottish
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Adolf Slaby18th April, German
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Albert Heim12th April, Swiss
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Agenor Maria Gołuchowski25th March, Ukrainian
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Johan August Brinell21st June, Swedish
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Alexander Sibiryakov8th October, Russian
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Prime minister of Japan
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