George V3rd June, British
Former King of the United Kingdom
Warren G. Harding2nd November, American
President of the U.S
Jack the Ripper30th November, British
Serial Killer
Rudyard Kipling30th December, British
Author & Poet
Erich Ludendorff9th April, German
General of German Army
Jean Sibelius8th December, Finnish
Composer
Lala Lajpat Rai28th January, Indian
Freedom Fighter
Anandi Gopal Joshi31st March, Indian
First Indian Female Doctor
Edith Cavell4th December, British
Nurse
Charles G. Dawes27th August, American
Vice President of the United States
John Monash27th June, Australian
Civil engineer
Paul Dukas1st October, French
Composer
Sven Hedin19th February, Swedish
Geographer, Explorer
Bernard Berenson26th June, American
Art Historian
Pieter Zeeman25th May, Dutch
Discovered the 'Zeeman Effect'
Charles Horace Mayo19th July, American
Surgeon
W B Yeats13th June, Irish
Poet & Dramatist
Arthur Harden12th October, British
Biochemist
Kate Gleason25th November, American
Mechanical Engineer
Max Fabiani29th April, Italian
Architect
Gifford Pinchot11th August, American
Forestry scientist
Ferdinand I of Romania24th August, German, Romanian
Politician
Jacques Hadamard8th December, French
Mathematician
Madison Grant19th November, American
Lawyer, Anthropologist, Racial theorist,
Emma Orczy23rd September, Hungarian, British
Novelist
William Butler Yeats13th June, Irish
Poet
Charles Proteus Steinmetz9th April, German, American
Mathematician, Electrical engineer, Engineer,
Suzanne Valadon23rd September, French
Painter, Art model, Model
Mary White Ovington11th April, American
Journalist
Carl Nielsen9th June, Danish
Conductor, Composer, Choreographer,
Alfred Hugenberg19th June, German
Politician, Entrepreneur, Financier, Diplomat,
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Félix Vallotton28th December, Swiss
Painter, Artist, Sculptor, Engraver, Art critic
Robert Henri24th June, American
Painter
Philipp Scheidemann26th July, German
Politician
Alexander Glazunov10th August, Russian
Composer
Abraham Isaac Kook7th September, Israeli
rabbi, mystic, Rosh yeshiva
Elsie de Wolfe20th December, American
Actor, Architect, Socialite
Frederick Cook10th June, American
Explorer
Akseli Gallen-Kallela26th April, Finnish
Finnish painter
Susan La Flesche Picotte17th June, American
American doctor
Mary Gilmore16th August, Australian
Journalist, Poet, Writer
Duan Qirui6th March, Chinese
Warlord
Valentin Serov19th January, Russian
Artist
Gabriel Narutowicz17th March, Lithuanian, Polish
Polish professor
Fay Templeton25th December, American
Singer and actress
Rüdiger von der Goltz8th December, German, Polish
German army officer
Séraphine Louis3rd September, French
painter
Cândido Rondon5th May, Brazilian
Explorer
Dmitry Merezhkovsky2nd August, Russian
Novelist
James Henry Breasted27th August, American
Archaeologist
Wilson Bentley9th February, American
Farmer, Photographer, Meteorologist
Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow31st January, Russian
Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia
Ernst Troeltsch17th February, German
Politician, Theologian, University teacher,
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg20th January, Finnish
President
John Mott25th May, American
Evangelist
Émile Jaques-Dalcroze6th July, Austrian, Swiss
Composer
Wilfred Grenfell28th February, Canadian, British
Missionary
Irving Babbitt2nd August, American
Literary critic, Journalist
Yvette Guilbert20th January, French
Singer
Arthur Symons28th February, Welsh
Poet
H. A. L. Fisher21st March, British
Historian
Edward Terry Sanford23rd July, American
Jurist
Evangeline Booth25th December, British
Theologian
Henri Desgrange31st January, French
journalist, sport cyclist, track cyclist
Martha Berry7th October, American
Educator
Richard Adolf Zsigmondy1st April, Austrian, Hungarian
Chemist
Laurence Housman18th July, British
Playwright
Julia Marlowe17th August, American
Actress
Rainis11th September, Latvian
Poet
Logan Pearsall Smith18th October, British, American
Essayist
Clyde Fitch2nd May, American
Dramatist
Minnie Maddern Fiske19th December, American
Actress
Mrs. Patrick Campbell9th February, British
Actress
José Asunción Silva27th November, Colombian
Poet
Erich von Drygalski9th February, German
Geographer
William Morton Wheeler19th March, American
Entomologist
Emma Eames13th August, American
Soprano
William Lyon Phelps2nd January, American
Writer, University teacher
Andranik Ozanian25th February, Armenian
Armenian military commander
Alfred Harmsworth15th July, Northern Irish
British publisher
Lily Braun2nd July, German
Writer
Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer12th February, Polish
Poet
Elsie Fogerty16th December, British
Teacher
Abe Isoo4th February, Japanese
Socialist
Micha Josef Berdyczewski7th August, Ukrainian, Russian
Author
Jack Miner10th April, Canadian
Conservationist
Pierre Weiss25th March, French
Physicist
Lucy Fitch Perkins12th July
Illustrator
Wilhelm Bousset3rd September, German
Theologian
Arthur Hinsley25th August, British
Archbishop
Berkeley Moynihan, 1st Baron Moynihan2nd September, British
Surgeon
Janie Porter Barrett9th August, American
American educator
Nicholas Marr6th January, Russian
Historian
Ángel Ganivet13th December, Spanish
Writer