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
Erich Ludendorff9th April, German
General of German Army
Lala Lajpat Rai28th January, Indian
Freedom Fighter
Anandi Gopal Joshi31st March, Indian
First Indian Female Doctor
Jean Sibelius8th December, Finnish
Composer
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
Bernard Berenson26th June, American
Art Historian
Sven Hedin19th February, Swedish
Geographer, Explorer
Charles Horace Mayo19th July, American
Surgeon
Pieter Zeeman25th May, Dutch
Discovered the 'Zeeman Effect'
Kate Gleason25th November, American
Mechanical Engineer
Max Fabiani29th April, Italian
Architect
Arthur Harden12th October, British
Biochemist
William Butler Yeats13th June, Irish
Poet
Ferdinand I of Romania24th August, German, Romanian
Politician
Suzanne Valadon23rd September, French
Painter, Art model, Model
Madison Grant19th November, American
Lawyer, Anthropologist, Racial theorist,
Gifford Pinchot11th August, American
Forestry scientist
William E. Borah29th June, American
United States Senator
Frederick Augustus III of Saxony25th May, German
King
Emma Orczy23rd September, Hungarian, British
Novelist
Charles Proteus Steinmetz9th April, German, American
Mathematician, Electrical engineer, Engineer,
Alfred Hugenberg19th June, German
Politician, Entrepreneur, Financier, Diplomat,
Rashīd Riḍā23rd September, Lebanese
Islamic scholar
Continue Reading Below
Robert W. Chambers26th May, American
Novelist
Philipp Scheidemann26th July, German
Politician
Archduke Otto of Austria21st April, Austrian
Archduke of Austria
Alexander Glazunov10th August, Russian
Composer
Richard Bruno Heydrich23rd February, German
Opera singer
Carl Nielsen9th June, Danish
Conductor, Composer, Choreographer,
Akseli Gallen-Kallela26th April, Finnish
Finnish painter
Winnaretta Singer8th January, French
Socialite
Archibald Butt26th September, American
Military Leader
Elsie de Wolfe20th December, American
Actor, Architect, Socialite
Alfred Harmsworth15th July, Northern Irish
British publisher
Robert Henri24th June, American
Painter
Abraham Isaac Kook7th September, Israeli
rabbi, mystic, Rosh yeshiva
Félix Vallotton28th December, Swiss
Painter, Artist, Sculptor, Engraver, Art critic
Frederick Cook10th June, American
Explorer
Mary White Ovington11th April, American
Journalist
Wilson Bentley9th February, American
Farmer, Photographer, Meteorologist
Mary Gilmore16th August, Australian
Journalist, Poet, Writer
Jehanne D'Alcy20th March, French
Actress
Susan La Flesche Picotte17th June, American
American doctor
Valentin Serov19th January, Russian
Artist
Gabriel Narutowicz17th March, Lithuanian, Polish
Polish professor
Duan Qirui6th March, Chinese
Warlord
Rüdiger von der Goltz8th December, German, Polish
German army officer
Mrs. Patrick Campbell9th February, British
Actress
Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg25th January, German
Aristocrat
Andranik Ozanian25th February, Armenian
Armenian military commander
Jacques Hadamard8th December, French
Mathematician
Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow31st January, Russian
Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia
Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont20th January, German
Prince
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg20th January, Finnish
President
Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia14th November, German
Prince
Blanche Hoschede Monet10th November, French
Painter
Said Halim Paşa18th January, Egyptian
Statesman
Arthur Symons28th February, Welsh
Poet
Dmitry Merezhkovsky2nd August, Russian
Novelist
James Henry Breasted27th August, American
Archaeologist
Cândido Rondon5th May, Brazilian
Explorer
Séraphine Louis3rd September, French
painter
Émile Jaques-Dalcroze6th July, Austrian, Swiss
Composer
Marie van Goethem7th June, French
Ballet Dancer
Yvette Guilbert20th January, French
Singer
Wilfred Grenfell28th February, Canadian, British
Missionary
Ernst Troeltsch17th February, German
Politician, Theologian, University teacher,
Evangeline Booth25th December, British
Theologian
Martha Berry7th October, American
Educator
Irving Babbitt2nd August, American
Literary critic, Journalist
John Mott25th May, American
Evangelist
Laurence Housman18th July, British
Playwright
Frederic W. Goudy8th March, American
American Artist
Emma Eames13th August, American
Soprano
Edward Terry Sanford23rd July, American
Jurist
Logan Pearsall Smith18th October, British, American
Essayist
Rainis11th September, Latvian
Poet
Richard Adolf Zsigmondy1st April, Austrian, Hungarian
Chemist
H. A. L. Fisher21st March, British
Historian
Lucy Fitch Perkins12th July
Illustrator
José Asunción Silva27th November, Colombian
Poet
Minnie Maddern Fiske19th December, American
Actress
Fay Templeton25th December, American
Singer and actress
Aspazija16th March, Latvian
Poet
William Morton Wheeler19th March, American
Entomologist
William Lyon Phelps2nd January, American
Writer, University teacher