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