Beatrix Potter28th July, British
Author
H. G. Wells21st September, British
Writer
Sun Yat Sen12th November, Chinese
Chinese Revolutionary and 'Father of Modern china'
Wassily Kandinsky16th December, Russian
Painters
Butch Cassidy13th April, American
Criminal
Anne Sullivan14th April, American
American Teacher, Instructor
Erik Satie17th May, French
Musician
Ramsay MacDonald12th October, British
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
George Gurdjieff1st January, Armenian
Spiritual Teacher
Matthew Henson8th August, American
First African-American to explore the North Pole
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
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
Jalil Mammadguluzadeh22nd February, Azerbaijani
Satirist
Charles Nicolle21st September, French
Bacteriologist
Giovanni Agnelli13th August
Entrepreneur, Engineer, Businessperson, Racecar
Hiram Johnson2nd September, American
Former Governor of California
Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine11th July, German, British
Princess
Maud Gonne21st December, Irish, British
Actress
Aleksandr Ulyanov31st March, Russian
revolutionary
James J. Corbett1st September, American
Boxer
Romain Rolland29th January, French
Writer, Playwright, Essayist, Historian, Novelist,
Hans von Seeckt22nd April, German
Politician, Officer
Mary Anderson19th February, American
inventor
Victor Duleep Singh10th July, British
Benedetto Croce25th February, Italian
Philosopher, Politician, Art historian, Writer,
Continue Reading Below
Roger Fry14th December, British
Curator, Art historian, Painter, University
La Goulue12th July, French
Dancer
Emilio De Bono19th March
Politician, Officer
Charles Francis Adams III2nd August, American
Politician
John Ringling31st May, American
Business Leader
Lev Shestov31st January, Russian
philosopher, university teacher
Charles Davenport1st June, American
Biologist
Reginald Aubrey Fessenden6th October, Canadian, American
Inventor
Karl Maria Wiligut10th December, Austrian
Writer, Occultist
Henry Goddard14th August, American
psychologist, educationist
Harry Burleigh2nd December, American
Composer
Elizabeth von Arnim31st August, German, British
Writer, Novelist
Franz von Bayros28th May, Austrian
Painter, Artist, Illustrator
Léon Bakst27th January, Belarusian, Russian
Painter
Billy Hamilton16th February, American
Baseball player
Serge Voronoff10th July, Swiss, French
Surgeon, Immunologist, Gynaecologist
Herbert Henry Dow26th February, Canadian, American
Industrialist
Carlos Schwabe21st July, German
Painter
Pierce Butler17th March, American
Jurist
Henry Bacon28th November, American
Architect
Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria21st August, Austrian
Politician
Gilbert Murray2nd January, Australian
Scholar
Johann Strauss III16th February, Austrian
Composer
Motiram Bhatta30th November, Nepalese
Poet
Infante Antonio, Duke of Galliera23rd February, Spanish
Duke
Ramón del Valle-Inclán28th October, Spanish
Dramatist
Ramón María del Valle-Inclán28th October, Spanish
Writer
Francesco Cilea23rd July, Italian
Composer
E. Phillips Oppenheim22nd October, British
Author
Ambroise Vollard3rd July, French, Réunionese
Art Dealer
Adolf Meyer13th September, Swiss, American
Psychiatrist
Ndre Mjeda20th November, Albanian
Poet
Sir Hugh Charles Clifford5th March, British
Colonial administrator
Ernest Starling17th April, British
Physiologist
Edward A. Ross12th December, American
Sociologist
Gelett Burgess30th January, American
Artist
George Ade9th February, American
Writer
Karl Fazer16th August, Finnish
Businessperson
Kuroda Seiki9th August, Japanese
Painter
Art Young14th January, American
Cartoonist
Euclides da Cunha20th January, Brazilian
Journalist
Jacinto Benavente12th August, Spanish
Dramatist
Alexander Protopopov18th December, Russian
Publicist
James Harbord21st March, American
Military officer
Percy Pilcher16th January, British
Inventor
Sophonisba Breckinridge1st April, American
Educator
Nathan Söderblom15th January, Swedish
Archbishop
Florence Prag Kahn9th November, American
Teacher
Herbert Austin, 1st Baron Austin8th November, British
Automobile Designer
Kazys Grinius17th December, Lithuanian
President
Adrien de Gerlache2nd August, Belgian
Naval Officer
George Barr McCutcheon26th July, American
Author
Simon Lake4th September, American
Mechanical engineer
Vyacheslav Ivanov28th February, Russian
Poet
Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil30th November, Turkish
Author
Holger Nielsen18th December, Danish
Fencer
Antoine Meillet11th November, French
Linguist
Gustav Cassel20th October, Swedish
Economist
Ignacy Daszyński26th October, Polish, Ukrainian
Politician
Jesse William Lazear2nd May, American
Physician
Tristan Bernard7th September, French
Playwright
Émile Vandervelde25th January, Belgian
Statesman
Robert Ranulph Marett13th June, Islanders, British
Ethnologist