Lizzie Borden19th July, American
Anton Chekhov29th January, German, Russian
Annie Oakley13th August, American
Sharpshooter
John J. Pershing13th September, American
US Army Officer During WW I
William Jennings Bryan19th March, American
Former United States Secretary of State
Gustav Mahler7th July, Austrian
Composer
Theodor Herzl2nd May, Austrian, Hungarian
Journalist
Charles Curtis25th January, American
Former Vice President of the United States
Will Keith Kellogg7th April, American
Founder of the Kellogg Company
M. Visvesvaraya15th September, Indian
Civil Engineer
Klara Hitler12th August, Austrian
Adolf Hitler’s Mother
Jane Addams6th September, American
Charlotte Perkins Gilman3rd July, American
Writer
Herman Hollerith29th February, American
Father of modern automatic computation
Anders Zorn18th February, Swedish
Painter, Sculptor
Niels Ryberg Finsen15th December, Danish
Physician
Hugo Wolf13th March, Slovenian
Composer
Willem Einthoven21st May, Dutch
Inventor of the first practical ECG
Edward MacDowell18th December, American
Composer and Pianist
Eduard Buchner20th May, German
Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
Sir James Matthew Barrie9th May, British, Scottish
Writer
Isaac Albeniz29th May, Spanish
Pianist
Alphonse Mucha24th July, Czech
Painter
Soapy Smith2nd November, American
Louis Wain5th August, British
Artist, Painter
Grandma Moses7th September, American
Painter, Illustrator
Ignacy Jan Paderewski6th November, Ukrainian, American
Former Prime Minister of Poland
Raymond Poincaré20th August, French
Politician, Lawyer, Journalist
Walter Sickert31st May, German
Painter
Ernest Thompson Seton14th August, Canadian, British, American
Author
Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia3rd October, Russian
Politician, Military personnel
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Comedian
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Former President of Ireland
James Ensor13th April, Belgian
Painter
Juliette Gordon Low31st October, American
Philanthropist
Karl Denke12th August, German
criminal, murderer, serial killer
Amenemhat III30th November, Egyptian
Pharaoh
Lillian Russell4th December, American
Actress
Isaac Levitan30th August, Lithuanian, Russian
Painter
Emily Hobhouse9th April, British
British Social Worker
René Lalique6th April, French
Designer
Charles Studd2nd December, British
Cricketer, Author, Missionary
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading10th October, British
Viceroy
Jigoro Kano10th December, Japanese
Educator, Athlete
Harry M. Daugherty26th January, American
Attorney General
Charles Page2nd June, American
Businessman
Victor L. Berger28th February, American
Politician
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando19th May, Italian
Politician
Owen Wister14th July, American
Novelist
John Scott Haldane3rd May, British
Inventor, Physiologist
William Kennedy Dickson3rd August, British
Inventor, Film director, Film producer,
Joseph Cook7th December, Australian, British
Politician
Hjalmar Branting23rd November, Swedish
Politician
Otto Jespersen16th July, Danish
Danish linguist
Lorado Taft29th April, American
Sculptor
J.M. Barrie30th November
Author, Playwright
James McKeen Cattell25th May, American
Psychologist, University teacher
Frederick Rolfe22nd July, British
Writer
Sergey Sazonov10th August, Russian
Statesman
Vito Volterra3rd May, Italian
Mathematician
Henrietta Szold21st December, American
Zionist leader
Elmer Ambrose Sperry12th October, American
Inventor
Friedrich Naumann25th March, German
Politician
Marianne von Werefkin10th September, Swiss
Painter
Hamlin Garland14th September, American
Novelist
Jules Laforgue16th August, French, Uruguayan
Poet
Paul Gottlieb Nipkow22nd August, German, Polish
Technician
Simon Dubnow10th September, Belarusian, Russian
Historian
Alexander Winton20th June, American, Scottish
Engineer
Gustave Charpentier25th June, French
Composer
Harriet Monroe23rd December, American
American poet
Katō Takaaki3rd January, Japanese
Prime Minister
Abraham Cahan7th July, American
Writer, Politician, Novelist, Autobiographer,
William Bayliss2nd May, British
Physiologist
Boies Penrose1st November, American
Politician
Fernand Labori18th April, French
Attorney
Walter Baldwin Spencer23rd June, Australian, British
Anthropologist
Charles G. D. Roberts10th January, Canadian, British
Poet
Gari Melchers11th August, American
Artist
Pieter Jelles Troelstra20th April, Dutch
Lawyer
George Frampton18th June, British
Sculptor
Hugo Preuß28th October, German
Lawyer
Edward Filene3rd September, American
Businessman
Gustaf Fröding22nd August, Swedish
Poet
William Wilfred Campbell1st June, Canadian
Poet
John George Bartholomew22nd March, Scottish
Cartographer
Annie Horniman3rd October, British
Theatre manager
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Politician
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Novelist
Max Waller24th February, Belgian
Poet
George Lyman Kittredge28th February, American
musicologist, literary critic, journalist
Mary Vaux Walcott31st July, American
Artist
John Bassett Moore3rd December, American
Lawyer
George Stout6th January, British
Philosopher