Beatrix Potter28th July, British
Author
H. G. Wells21st September, British
Writer
Sun Yat Sen12th November, Chinese
Chinese Revolutionary and 'Father of Modern china'
Butch Cassidy13th April, American
Criminal
Wassily Kandinsky16th December, Russian
Painters
Erik Satie17th May, French
Musician
Anne Sullivan14th April, American
American Teacher, Instructor
Ramsay MacDonald12th October, British
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
George Gurdjieff1st January, Armenian
Spiritual Teacher
Gopal Krishna Gokhale9th May, Indian
Pioneer of Indian Independence Movement
George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon26th June, British
Egyptologist
Kenesaw Mountain Landis20th November, American
Jurist
Matthew Henson8th August, American
First African-American to explore the North Pole
Thomas Hunt Morgan25th September, American
Geneticist
Ferruccio Busoni1st April, German, Italian
Composer
Abraham Flexner13th November, American
Educator
Alfred Werner12th December, Swiss
Chemist
Arthur Keith5th February, Welsh
Father of Modern Nationalism
Charles Nicolle21st September, French
Bacteriologist
Jalil Mammadguluzadeh22nd February, Azerbaijani
Satirist
Giovanni Agnelli13th August
Entrepreneur, Engineer, Businessperson, Racecar
Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine11th July, German, British
Princess
Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia13th April, Russian
Military personnel
Aleksandr Ulyanov31st March, Russian
revolutionary
Maud Gonne21st December, Irish, British
Actress
James J. Corbett1st September, American
Boxer
Princess Viktoria of Prussia12th April, German
Politician
Hans von Seeckt22nd April, German
Politician, Officer
Romain Rolland29th January, French
Writer, Playwright, Essayist, Historian, Novelist,
Mary Anderson19th February, American
inventor
Hiram Johnson2nd September, American
Former Governor of California
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Victor Duleep Singh10th July, British
Benedetto Croce25th February, Italian
Philosopher, Politician, Art historian, Writer,
John Ringling31st May, American
Business Leader
Billy Hamilton16th February, American
Baseball player
Emilio De Bono19th March
Politician, Officer
Roger Fry14th December, British
Curator, Art historian, Painter, University
Lev Shestov31st January, Russian
philosopher, university teacher
Elizabeth von Arnim31st August, German, British
Writer, Novelist
Arnold Ehret29th July, German
Educator
Draga Masin11th September, Serbian
Consort
Henry Goddard14th August, American
psychologist, educationist
La Goulue12th July, French
Dancer
Karl Maria Wiligut10th December, Austrian
Writer, Occultist
Reginald Aubrey Fessenden6th October, Canadian, American
Inventor
Prince Aribert of Anhalt18th June, German
Prince
Charles Francis Adams III2nd August, American
Politician
Charles Davenport1st June, American
Biologist
Franz von Bayros28th May, Austrian
Painter, Artist, Illustrator
Aby Warburg13th June, German
Art historian
Léon Bakst27th January, Belarusian, Russian
Painter
José de Diego16th April, Puerto Rican
Journalist, Poet
Harry Burleigh2nd December, American
Composer
Serge Voronoff10th July, Swiss, French
Surgeon, Immunologist, Gynaecologist
Vasily Kalinnikov13th January, Russian
Composer
Pierce Butler17th March, American
Jurist
Emich, 5th Prince of Leiningen18th January, German
Prince
Ramon Casas4th January, Spanish
Painter
Herbert Henry Dow26th February, Canadian, American
Industrialist
Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria21st August, Austrian
Politician
Infante Antonio, Duke of Galliera23rd February, Spanish
Duke
Adrien de Gerlache2nd August, Belgian
Naval Officer
Ramón del Valle-Inclán28th October, Spanish
Dramatist
Gilbert Murray2nd January, Australian
Scholar
Ramón María del Valle-Inclán28th October, Spanish
Writer
Carlos Schwabe21st July, German
Painter
Ambroise Vollard3rd July, French, Réunionese
Art Dealer
E. Phillips Oppenheim22nd October, British
Author
James Harbord21st March, American
Military officer
Adolf Meyer13th September, Swiss, American
Psychiatrist
George Ade9th February, American
Writer
Motiram Bhatta30th November, Nepalese
Poet
Sir Hugh Charles Clifford5th March, British
Colonial administrator
Henry Bacon28th November, American
Architect
Francesco Cilea23rd July, Italian
Composer
Ernest Starling17th April, British
Physiologist
Kuroda Seiki9th August, Japanese
Painter
Gelett Burgess30th January, American
Artist
Art Young14th January, American
Cartoonist
Ilya Tolstoy22nd May, Russian
Writer
Jacinto Benavente12th August, Spanish
Dramatist
Edward A. Ross12th December, American
Sociologist
Euclides da Cunha20th January, Brazilian
Journalist
Karl Fazer16th August, Finnish
Businessperson
Alexander Protopopov18th December, Russian
Publicist
Johann Strauss III16th February, Austrian
Composer
Percy Pilcher16th January, British
Inventor
Nathan Söderblom15th January, Swedish
Archbishop
Ndre Mjeda20th November, Albanian
Poet
Herbert Austin, 1st Baron Austin8th November, British
Automobile Designer
Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil30th November, Turkish
Author
George Barr McCutcheon26th July, American
Author
Simon Lake4th September, American
Mechanical engineer
Sophonisba Breckinridge1st April, American
Educator