Marie Curie7th November, French, Polish
First woman to win a Nobel Prize
Mary of Teck26th May, British
Queen consort of the United Kingdom
Madam C. J. Walker23rd December, American
Entrepreneur
Laura Ingalls Wilder7th February, American
American writer
Frank Lloyd Wright8th June, American
Architect
Molly Brown18th July, American
American socialite
Stanley Baldwin3rd August, British
Former British Prime Minister
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim4th June, Finnish
Military Leader
Józef Piłsudski5th December, Polish
Statesman
Cy Young29th March, American
Baseball player
Gutzon Borglum25th March, American
Sculptor
John Galsworthy14th August, American
Nobel Laureate in Literature
Luigi Pirandello28th June, Italian
Writer
Amy Beach5th September, American
Pianist, Music Composer
Rubén Darío18th January, Nicaraguan
Poet
Henry Lawson17th June, Australian
Writer
Pierre Bonnard3rd October, French
Painter
Kurt Eisner14th May, German
Statesman
Enrique Granados27th July, Spanish
Pianist and Composer
Lillian Wald10th March, American
Humanitarian, Nurse, Activist
John Bradfield26th December, Australian
Designer of Sydney Harbour Bridge
Wilbur Wright16th April, American
J. P. Morgan Jr.7th September, American
Banker
Emily Greene Balch8th January, American
Social Activist
Ali Kemal7th September, Turkish
Journalist
Sundance Kid30th November, American
Criminal
Eugen Sandow2nd April, German
Bodybuilder
Soseki Natsume9th February, Japanese
Novelist
Sister Nivedita28th October, Irish
Teacher
Arturo Toscanini25th March, Italian
Conductor, Music director
Giuseppe Morello2nd May, American
Criminal
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Käthe Kollwitz8th July, German
Painter, Sculptor, Lithographer, Poster artist,
Prince Maximilian of Baden10th July, German
Politician
Irving Fisher27th February, American
Economist, Statistician
Henry L. Stimson21st September, American
Politician
Harvey Logan30th November, American
Outlaw
Arthur Rackham19th September, British
Painter, Illustrator
Maxime Weygand21st January, French
Military personnel, Officer
Walther Rathenau29th September, German
Politician, Engineer, Writer, Entrepreneur,
Linda Hazzard30th November, American
physician
Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr.21st March, American
Theatrical Producer
Carl Laemmle17th January, German, American
Filmmaker
S.S. Kresge31st July, American
Businessman
Alexander Israel Helphand8th September, Belarusian, German, Russian
Theoretician
Otto Hermann Kahn21st February, British, American
Art collector, Banker
Emil Nolde7th August, German, Danish
Painter
E.F. Benson24th July, British
Novelist
Charles Dana Gibson14th September, American
Illustrator
Ed Delahanty30th October, American
Baseball player
Ignacy Mościcki1st December, Swiss, Polish
Polish chemist
Edward B. Titchener11th January, British, American
Philosopher, Psychologist, University teacher
Edith Hamilton12th August, American
Educator
Elvira Madigan4th December, Danish
Acrobat, Circus performer
Wilhelm Groener22nd November, German
General
Hector Guimard10th March, French
Architect
Charles Henry Turner3rd February, American
Zoologist
Chris Watson9th April, Australian
Politician
Ernest Dowson2nd August, British
Poet
Jeanne Lanvin1st January, French
Grand couturier
George William Russell10th April, Irish
Poet
Władysław Stanisław Reymont7th May, Polish
Umberto Giordano28th August, Italian
Composer
Yogmaya Neupane30th November, Nepalese
Poet
Lionel Johnson15th March, British
Poet
Masaoka Shiki14th October, Japanese
Poet
Phan Boi Chau26th December, Vietnamese
Political Figure
Charles Francis Jenkins22nd August, American
Inventor
Andy Bowen3rd May, American
Boxer
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez29th January, Spanish
Journalist, politician
Julien Benda26th December, French
Philosopher, Writer
Charles Koechlin27th November, French
Composer
Albert Bassermann7th September, German
Actor
Marcel Schwob23rd August, French
Writer
Joseph Maria Olbrich22nd December, Austrian, Czech
Architect
Finley Peter Dunne10th July, American
Author, Screenwriter, Writer, Journalist
Frances Densmore21st May, American
Anthropologist
George Luks13th August, American
Artist
Léon Daudet16th November, French
Journalist
Jean-Baptiste Charcot15th July, French
Scientist
Tevfik Fikret24th December, Turkish
Educator
George Andrew Reisner5th November, American
Archaeologist
Annie Nathan Meyer19th February, American
Author
William Z. Ripley13th October, American
Economist
Patrick Joseph Hayes20th November, American
Cardinal
Kōda Rohan23rd July, Japanese
Novelist, Writer, Literary critic
Sadakichi Hartmann8th November, Japanese, American
Critic
Maud Powell22nd August, American
Violinist
John Robert Gregg17th June, Irish, American
Educator
Sayyid Shaykh bin Ahmad al-Hadi22nd November, Malaysian
Malaysian writer
George Horace Lorimer6th October, American
Journalist
Charlotte Anita Whitney7th July, American
Legislator
Viola Allen27th October, American
Actress
Charles Fabry11th June, French
Physicist
Johannes Fibiger23rd April, Danish
Physician