Lizzie Borden19th July, American
Anton Chekhov29th January, German, Russian
Theodor Herzl2nd May, Austrian, Hungarian
Journalist
William Jennings Bryan19th March, American
Former United States Secretary of State
Annie Oakley13th August, American
Sharpshooter
John J. Pershing13th September, American
US Army Officer During WW I
Gustav Mahler7th July, Austrian
Composer
Sir James Matthew Barrie9th May, British, Scottish
Writer
Charles Curtis25th January, American
Former Vice President of the United States
Klara Hitler12th August, Austrian
Adolf Hitler’s Mother
M. Visvesvaraya15th September, Indian
Civil Engineer
Jane Addams6th September, American
Will Keith Kellogg7th April, American
Founder of the Kellogg Company
Charlotte Perkins Gilman3rd July, American
Writer
Isaac Albeniz29th May, Spanish
Pianist
Anders Zorn18th February, Swedish
Painter, Sculptor
Herman Hollerith29th February, American
Father of modern automatic computation
Hugo Wolf13th March, Slovenian
Composer
Willem Einthoven21st May, Dutch
Inventor of the first practical ECG
Edward MacDowell18th December, American
Composer and Pianist
Niels Ryberg Finsen15th December, Danish
Physician
Eduard Buchner20th May, German
Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
Alphonse Mucha24th July, Czech
Painter
Louis Wain5th August, British
Artist, Painter
Grandma Moses7th September, American
Painter, Illustrator
Jigoro Kano10th December, Japanese
Educator, Athlete
Princess Charlotte of Prussia24th June, German
Princess
Raymond Poincaré20th August, French
Politician, Lawyer, Journalist
Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia25th July, German
Aristocrat
Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia3rd October, Russian
Politician, Military personnel
Ellen Wilson15th May, American
Former First Lady of the United States
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Walter Sickert31st May, German
Painter
Juliette Gordon Low31st October, American
Philanthropist
Karl Denke12th August, German
criminal, murderer, serial killer
Ignacy Jan Paderewski6th November, Ukrainian, American
Former Prime Minister of Poland
Douglas Hyde17th January, Irish
Former President of Ireland
Soapy Smith2nd November, American
René Lalique6th April, French
Designer
James Ensor13th April, Belgian
Painter
Amenemhat III30th November, Egyptian
Pharaoh
Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia28th July, Russian
Queen
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading10th October, British
Viceroy
Lillian Russell4th December, American
Actress
Ernest Thompson Seton14th August, Canadian, British, American
Author
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando19th May, Italian
Politician
Isaac Levitan30th August, Lithuanian, Russian
Painter
Sunanda Kumariratana10th November, Thai
Queen
Emily Hobhouse9th April, British
British Social Worker
Charles Studd2nd December, British
Cricketer, Author, Missionary
Princess Karoline Mathilde of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg25th January, German
Princess
Dan Leno20th December, British
Comedian
Harry M. Daugherty26th January, American
Attorney General
Victor L. Berger28th February, American
Politician
Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria5th September, Austrian
Archduke
Sir William Robert Robertson, 1st Baronet29th January, British
British field marshal
William Kennedy Dickson3rd August, British
Inventor, Film director, Film producer,
Amanda McKittrick Ros8th December, Irish
Writer
Owen Wister14th July, American
Novelist
William Ralph Inge6th June, British
Joseph Cook7th December, Australian, British
Politician
Otto Jespersen16th July, Danish
Danish linguist
Frederick Rolfe22nd July, British
Writer
John Scott Haldane3rd May, British
Inventor, Physiologist
James McKeen Cattell25th May, American
Psychologist, University teacher
Sergey Sazonov10th August, Russian
Statesman
Henrietta Szold21st December, American
Zionist leader
Albert Kahn (Banker)3rd March, French
Vito Volterra3rd May, Italian
Mathematician
Gertrud von Hindenburg4th December, German
Noblewoman
Hjalmar Branting23rd November, Swedish
Politician
Marianne von Werefkin10th September, Swiss
Painter
Lorado Taft29th April, American
Sculptor
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson2nd May, Scottish
Zoologist
Jens Jensen13th September, American
Landscape Architect
Mary J Rathbun11th June, American
Zoologist
Hamlin Garland14th September, American
Novelist
Paul Gottlieb Nipkow22nd August, German, Polish
Technician
Jules Laforgue16th August, French, Uruguayan
Poet
Elmer Ambrose Sperry12th October, American
Inventor
Friedrich Naumann25th March, German
Politician
Alexander Winton20th June, American, Scottish
Engineer
Katō Takaaki3rd January, Japanese
Prime Minister
Simon Dubnow10th September, Belarusian, Russian
Historian
Frederik Willem van Eeden3rd April, Dutch
Writer
Abraham Cahan7th July, American
Writer, Politician, Novelist, Autobiographer,
Eric Stenbock12th March, Swedish
Poet
Harriet Monroe23rd December, American
American poet
Kole Idromeno15th August, Albanian
Sculptor
Pieter Jelles Troelstra20th April, Dutch
Lawyer
Charles Page2nd June, American
Businessman
Hugo Preuß28th October, German
Lawyer
Roderic O'Connor17th October, Irish
Painter
Charles G. D. Roberts10th January, Canadian, British
Poet
Gustave Charpentier25th June, French
Composer