Marie Curie7th November, French, Polish
First woman to win a Nobel Prize
Madam C. J. Walker23rd December, American
Entrepreneur
Mary of Teck26th May, British
Queen consort of the United Kingdom
Gutzon Borglum25th March, American
Sculptor
Laura Ingalls Wilder7th February, American
American writer
Frank Lloyd Wright8th June, American
Architect
Stanley Baldwin3rd August, British
Former British Prime Minister
Cy Young29th March, American
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim4th June, Finnish
Military Leader
Józef Piłsudski5th December, Polish
Statesman
J. P. Morgan Jr.7th September, American
Banker
Luigi Pirandello28th June, Italian
Writer
John Galsworthy14th August, American
Nobel Laureate in Literature
Henry Lawson17th June, Australian
Writer
Pierre Bonnard3rd October, French
Painter
Amy Beach5th September, American
Pianist, Music Composer
Enrique Granados27th July, Spanish
Pianist and Composer
Rubén Darío18th January, Nicaraguan
Poet
Kurt Eisner14th May, German
Statesman
Lillian Wald10th March, American
Humanitarian, Nurse, Activist
Wilbur Wright16th April, American
Emily Greene Balch8th January, American
Social Activist
Molly Brown18th July, American
American socialite
John Bradfield26th December, Australian
Designer of Sydney Harbour Bridge
Ali Kemal7th September, Turkish
Journalist
Linda Hazzard30th November, American
physician
Sundance Kid30th November, American
Criminal
Eugen Sandow2nd April, German
Bodybuilder
Arturo Toscanini25th March, Italian
Conductor, Music director
Henry L. Stimson21st September, American
Politician
Sister Nivedita28th October, British
Writer
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Harvey Logan30th November, American
Outlaw
Käthe Kollwitz8th July, German
Painter, Sculptor, Lithographer, Poster artist,
Maxime Weygand21st January, French
Military personnel, Officer
Irving Fisher27th February, American
Economist, Statistician
Arthur Rackham19th September, British
Painter, Illustrator
Prince Maximilian of Baden10th July, German
Politician
Walther Rathenau29th September, German
Politician, Engineer, Writer, Entrepreneur,
Ed Delahanty30th October, American
Baseball player
Carl Laemmle17th January, German, American
Filmmaker
Emil Nolde7th August, German, Danish
Painter
Otto Hermann Kahn21st February, British, American
Art collector, Banker
Charles Dana Gibson14th September, American
Illustrator
Ignacy Mościcki1st December, Swiss, Polish
Polish chemist
Edward B. Titchener11th January, British, American
Philosopher, Psychologist, University teacher
Finley Peter Dunne10th July, American
Author, Screenwriter, Writer, Journalist
Lionel Johnson15th March, British
Poet
Edith Hamilton12th August, American
Educator
Chris Watson9th April, Australian
Politician
Ernest Dowson2nd August, British
Poet
Elvira Madigan4th December, Danish
Acrobat, Circus performer
Hector Guimard10th March, French
Architect
Wilhelm Groener22nd November, German
General
George William Russell10th April, Irish
Poet
Jeanne Lanvin1st January, French
Grand couturier
Masaoka Shiki14th October, Japanese
Poet
Julien Benda26th December, French
Philosopher, Writer
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez29th January, Spanish
Journalist, politician
Albert Bassermann7th September, German
Actor
Umberto Giordano28th August, Italian
Composer
Umberto Giordano28th August, Italian
Composer
Charles Francis Jenkins22nd August, American
Inventor
Charles Koechlin27th November, French
Composer
Frances Densmore21st May, American
Anthropologist
Pudge Heffelfinger20th December, American
Football player
Maud Powell22nd August, American
Violinist
Hans Driesch28th October, German
Biologist
Joseph Maria Olbrich22nd December, Austrian, Czech
Architect
George Luks13th August, American
Artist
George Andrew Reisner5th November, American
Archaeologist
Jean-Baptiste Charcot15th July, French
Scientist
Patrick Joseph Hayes20th November, American
Cardinal
Tevfik Fikret24th December, Turkish
Educator
George Horace Lorimer6th October, American
Journalist
William Z. Ripley13th October, American
Economist
Léon Daudet16th November, French
Journalist
Martin Kutta3rd November, German, Polish
Mathematician
Sadakichi Hartmann8th November, Japanese, American
Critic
Annie Nathan Meyer19th February, American
Author
Kōda Rohan23rd July, Japanese
Novelist, Writer, Literary critic
Charles Dillon Perrine28th July, American
Astronomer
Viola Allen27th October, American
Actress
Madam C.J. Walker30th November
Civil Rights Activist, Philanthropist,
John Robert Gregg17th June, Irish, American
Educator
Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr.21st March, American
Theatrical Producer
Charles Fabry11th June, French
Physicist
Charles Edward Montague1st January, British
Journalist
A. E. Douglass5th July, American
Astronomer
Maxime Bôcher28th August, American
Mathematician
Julius Meier-Graefe10th June, German, Hungarian, Romanian
Art Critic
Alois Rašín18th October, Czech
Politician
Fernand Pelloutier1st October, French
Syndicalist
Charlotte Anita Whitney7th July, American
Legislator
Vladimir Ipatieff21st November, American, Russian
Chemist