Swami Vivekananda12th January, Indian
Indian Monk
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Newspaper Baron
David Lloyd George17th January, British, Welsh
Former Chancellor of the Exchequer
Edvard Munch12th December, Norwegian
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George Santayana16th December, Spanish, Italian
Philosopher, Essayist, Poet, & Novelist
Casey Jones14th March, American
Railroad Worker
Pierre de Coubertin1st January, French
Father of the Modern Olympic Games
Mary Church Terrell23rd September, American
Civil Rights Activist
George Herbert Mead27th February, American
Philosopher
Archduke Franz Ferdinand18th December, Austrian
The person whose assassination sparked the First
Leo Baekeland14th November, Belgian, American
Chemist & Inventor
Paul Signac11th November, French
Painter
Austen Chamberlain16th October, British
Politician
Annie Jump Cannon11th December, American
Astronomer
Alexandre Yersin22nd September, Swiss, French, Vietnamese
Discoverer of Yersinia Pestis
Vladimir Vernadsky12th March, Russian
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Andres Bonifacio30th November, Filipino
Filipino Revolutionary
Frank Hornby15th May, British
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Charles Martin Hall6th December, American
Inventor
Paul Walden26th July, German, Latvian
Chemist
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria18th December, Austrian
Heir presumptive
Konstantin Stanislavski17th January, Russian
Actor
Gabriele D'Annunzio12th March, Italian
Poet
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Politician
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Carlos I of Portugal28th September, Portuguese
King of Portugal
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Constantine P. Cavafy29th April, Egyptian, Greek, British
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Joaquín Sorolla27th February, Spanish
Painter, University teacher
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Arthur Machen3rd March, British, Welsh
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Ashraf Ali Thanwi19th August, Indian
Mufassir, Theologian
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Costume designer
Bob Fitzsimmons26th May, British, American
Boxer
Mary Whiton Calkins30th March, American
Psychologist, University teacher
William Gibbs McAdoo31st October, American
Politician
Reinhard Scheer30th September, German
Military personnel
Margaret Murray13th July, British
Anthropologist, Archaeologist, Egyptologist
Henry Royce27th March, British
Entrepreneur, Engineer, Automotive designer
Franz von Hipper13th September, German
Officer
Richard Warren Sears7th December, American
Businessman
Pietro Mascagni7th December, Italian
Italian composer
Wilhelm Marx15th January, German
Politician, Judge
William Gillette24th July, American
Actor
Werner Sombart19th January, German
Economist, Sociologist, University teacher
Gene Stratton-Porter17th August, American
Author
Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler16th July, Austrian, American
Pianist
Essad Pasha Toptani30th November, Albanian
Political leader
Franz Stuck23rd February, German
Sculptor, Painter, University teacher, Architect
Francis Younghusband31st May, British
Army Officer
Gaston Doumergue1st August, French
Prime Minister, Politician
Charles Spearman10th September, British
Psychologist, Statistician, University teacher
Hugo Münsterberg1st June, German, American
Psychologist, University teacher, Philosopher
Henry van de Velde3rd April, Belgian
Architect
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Herbert James Draper30th November, British
painter, illustrator
Arthur Quiller-Couch21st November, British
Writer
Anthony Hope9th February, British
Novelist
Jean Leon Gerome Ferris18th August, American
Painter
Charles Pathé26th December, French
Film producer
Ralph Adams Cram16th December, American
Architect
W. I. Thomas13th August, American
Sociologist, Writer
Paul Painlevé5th December, French
Mathematician
Edward Bok9th October, Dutch, American
Editor
Charles Robert Ashbee17th May, British
Architect
Albert Calmette12th July, French
Physician
Ellen Churchill Semple8th January, American
Geographer
Simon Flexner25th March, American
Physician
Joseph Caillaux30th March, French
Politician
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William Sulzer18th March, American
Politician
Georg Bruchmüller11th December, German
Artillery officer
Louis Couperus10th June, Dutch
Novelist
Reginald McKenna6th July, British
Politician
Felix Weingartner2nd June, Austrian
Conductor
Isidor Philipp2nd September, French, Hungarian
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Arthur Morrison1st November, British
Author
Reginald Innes Pocock4th March, British
Zoologist
Heinrich Rickert25th May, German, Prussian
Philosopher
Ellsworth Milton Statler26th October, American
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S. Ansky27th October, Belarusian, Russian
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May Sinclair24th August, British
Writer
James Harvey Robinson29th June, American
Historian
René Viviani8th November, French
Politician
Émile Friant16th April, Salvadoran
French artist
Max Wolf21st June, German
Astronomer
Augusto B. Leguía19th February, Peruvian
Politician
William Heinemann18th May, British
Publisher
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Chemist
Leopold Berchtold18th April, Austrian, Hungarian
Politician
Jean-Baptiste Marchand2nd November, French
Soldier and explorer
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Lawyer
Richard Dehmel18th November, German
Poet