George V3rd June, British
Former King of the United Kingdom
Jack the Ripper30th November, British
Serial Killer
Warren G. Harding2nd November, American
President of the U.S
Rudyard Kipling30th December, British
Author & Poet
W B Yeats13th June, Irish
Poet & Dramatist
Erich Ludendorff9th April, German
General of German Army
Lala Lajpat Rai28th January, Indian
Freedom Fighter
Edith Cavell4th December, British
Nurse
Jean Sibelius8th December, Finnish
Composer
Anandi Gopal Joshi31st March, Indian
First Indian Female Doctor
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
Charles Horace Mayo19th July, American
Surgeon
Pieter Zeeman25th May, Dutch
Discovered the 'Zeeman Effect'
Kate Gleason25th November, American
Mechanical Engineer
Arthur Harden12th October, British
Biochemist
Max Fabiani29th April, Italian
Architect
William Butler Yeats13th June, Irish
Poet
Ferdinand I of Romania24th August, German, Romanian
Politician
Gifford Pinchot11th August, American
Forestry scientist
Madison Grant19th November, American
Lawyer, Anthropologist, Racial theorist,
William E. Borah29th June, American
United States Senator
Alfred Harmsworth15th July, Northern Irish
British publisher
Suzanne Valadon23rd September, French
Painter, Art model, Model
Alfred Hugenberg19th June, German
Politician, Entrepreneur, Financier, Diplomat,
Robert W. Chambers26th May, American
Novelist
Charles Proteus Steinmetz9th April, German, American
Mathematician, Electrical engineer, Engineer,
Wilson Bentley9th February, American
Farmer, Photographer, Meteorologist
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Philipp Scheidemann26th July, German
Politician
Andranik Ozanian25th February, Armenian
Armenian military commander
Frederick Cook10th June, American
Explorer
Carl Nielsen9th June, Danish
Conductor, Composer, Choreographer,
Alexander Glazunov10th August, Russian
Composer
Félix Vallotton28th December, Swiss
Painter, Artist, Sculptor, Engraver, Art critic
Archduke Otto of Austria21st April, Austrian
Archduke of Austria
Elsie de Wolfe20th December, American
Actor, Architect, Socialite
Major Archibald Butt30th November
Military Leader
Rashīd Riḍā23rd September, Lebanese
Islamic scholar
Robert Henri24th June, American
Painter
Abraham Isaac Kook7th September, Israeli
rabbi, mystic, Rosh yeshiva
Akseli Gallen-Kallela26th April, Finnish
Finnish painter
Gabriel Narutowicz17th March, Lithuanian, Polish
Polish professor
Mary Gilmore16th August, Australian
Journalist, Poet, Writer
Jacques Hadamard8th December, French
Mathematician
Duan Qirui6th March, Chinese
Warlord
Mary White Ovington11th April, American
Journalist
Mrs. Patrick Campbell9th February, British
Actress
Susan La Flesche Picotte17th June, American
American doctor
Rüdiger von der Goltz8th December, German, Polish
German army officer
Valentin Serov19th January, Russian
Artist
Said Halim Paşa18th January, Egyptian
Statesman
Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow31st January, Russian
Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg20th January, Finnish
President
Émile Jaques-Dalcroze6th July, Austrian, Swiss
Composer
Séraphine Louis3rd September, French
painter
Cândido Rondon5th May, Brazilian
Explorer
James Henry Breasted27th August, American
Archaeologist
Dmitry Merezhkovsky2nd August, Russian
Novelist
Edward Terry Sanford23rd July, American
Jurist
Emma Orczy23rd September, Hungarian, British
Novelist
Yvette Guilbert20th January, French
Singer
Wilfred Grenfell28th February, Canadian, British
Missionary
Laurence Housman18th July, British
Playwright
John Mott25th May, American
Evangelist
Martha Berry7th October, American
Educator
Ernst Troeltsch17th February, German
Politician, Theologian, University teacher,
Arthur Symons28th February, Welsh
Poet
Evangeline Booth25th December, British
Theologian
Frederic W. Goudy8th March, American
American Artist
Rainis11th September, Latvian
Poet
Irving Babbitt2nd August, American
Literary critic, Journalist
José Asunción Silva27th November, Colombian
Poet
Logan Pearsall Smith18th October, British, American
Essayist
Lucy Fitch Perkins12th July
Illustrator
Richard Adolf Zsigmondy1st April, Austrian, Hungarian
Chemist
Minnie Maddern Fiske19th December, American
Actress
H. A. L. Fisher21st March, British
Historian
Julia Marlowe17th August, American
Actress
William Lyon Phelps2nd January, American
Writer, University teacher
Fay Templeton25th December, American
Singer and actress
Henri Desgrange31st January, French
journalist, sport cyclist, track cyclist
Jack Miner10th April, Canadian
Conservationist
Henry Lytton3rd January, British
British actor
Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer12th February, Polish
Poet
William Morton Wheeler19th March, American
Entomologist
Elsie Fogerty16th December, British
Teacher
Emma Eames13th August, American
Soprano
Erich von Drygalski9th February, German
Geographer
Lily Braun2nd July, German
Writer
Ángel Ganivet13th December, Spanish
Writer
Micha Josef Berdyczewski7th August, Ukrainian, Russian
Author