Sergei Rachmaninoff1st April, American, Russian
Pianist
Leon Czolgosz5th May, American
Assassin of American President William McKinley
Colette28th January, French
Novelist
Ma Barker8th October, American
Matriarch of the Barker Family
Thérèse of Lisieux2nd January, French
Nun
Willa Cather7th December, American
Author
Thomas Andrews7th February, British
Businessperson, Naval Architect
William McMaster Murdoch28th February, Scottish
First Officer of RMS Titanic
Sidney Reilly24th March, Russian
British Secret Service Bureau Agent
Lee de Forest26th August, American
Father of Radio
Alexis Carrel28th June, French
Surgeon, Biologist
Max Reger19th March, German
Composer
Upendranath Brahmachari19th December, Indian
Scientist
Alberto Santos Dumont20th July, Brazilian
Brazilian aviator
Alfred Emanuel Smith30th December, American
Governor of New York
Harold Gould1st November, American
Writer
George Cross30th November, Australian
Actor
Enrico Caruso25th February, Italian
Opera singer, Singer
Al Smith30th December, American
Politician
Alberto Santos-Dumont20th July, Brazilian
Aviator, Inventor, Balloonist
Daniel Daly11th November, American
Military Leader
Francisco I. Madero30th October, Mexican
Politician, Writer, Musician, Military personnel
W. C. Handy16th November, American
Trumpeter, Composer, Songwriter, Autobiographer,
Alexander Bogdanov22nd August, Russian
Physician
Konstantin von Neurath2nd February, German
Politician, Diplomat, Lawyer
Adolph Zukor7th January, American
Film producer
Ford Madox Ford17th December, British
Novelist
John W. Davis13th April, American
Politician
A. K. Fazlul Huq26th October, Indian
Politician
Julius Martov12th November, Russian
politician
Lady Ottoline Morrell16th June, British
Writer
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Writer
G. E. Moore4th November, British
Philosopher
Karl Schwarzschild9th October, German
Physicist, Astronomer, Astrophysicist, University
Alice Guy-Blaché1st July, French
Film producer, Actor, Film director, Screenwriter
Alfred Jarry8th September, French
Playwright, Writer, Poet, Novelist
Max Reinhardt9th September, Austrian
Theatre Director
Fritz Thyssen9th November, German
Politician
Leo Amery1st November, British
Politician
Otto Wels15th September, German
Politician
Feodor Chaliapin13th February, French, Russian
Russian opera singer
Sara Josephine Baker15th November, American
Physician
Eliel Saarinen20th August, Finnish
architect
Jules Rimet14th October, French
Football administrator
David O. McKay8th September, American
Religious Leader
Nellie McClung20th October, Canadian
Novelist, Writer, Politician, Human rights
Sydney Barnes19th April, British
Cricketer
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon28th February, British
Politician
Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard3rd February, British
Police Officer
Antonie Pannekoek2nd January
Astronomer, Historian of science, Philosopher,
E. J. Bellocq30th November, American
photographer
Charles Péguy7th January, French
Poet
Ivanoe Bonomi18th October, Italian
Politician, Prime Minister
Ricardo Flores Magón16th September, Mexican
Political figure
Viktor Chernov7th December, Russian
Political leader
Liang Qichao23rd February, Chinese
Historian
Kyösti Kallio10th April, Finnish
Political leader
Constantin Carathéodory13th September, Greek
mathematician, university teacher
Sándor Ferenczi7th July, Hungarian
Psychanalyst, Psychiatrist, Non-fiction writer,
Fred Stone19th August, American
Actor
Christian Rakovsky13th August, Bulgarian
Politician
Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi29th January, Italian
Mountaineer
Kyōka Izumi4th November, Japanese
Novelist
Robert Wiene27th April
Film director, Screenwriter
Rama Tirtha22nd October, Indian
Teacher
Otto Loewi3rd June, German, American
Pharmacologist
Gerald du Maurier26th March, British
Actor
Henry Starr2nd December, American
Criminal
Tullio Levi-Civita29th March
Mathematician
Maud Allan27th August, Canadian
Pianist
Barbados Joe Walcott13th March, Guyanese
Boxer
Dwight Morrow11th January, American
Businessman
Thorvald Stauning26th October, Danish
Prime minister of Denmark
Margaret Bondfield17th March, British
Politician
Leo Baeck23rd May, German
Rabbi
Leo Frobenius29th June, German
Ethnologist
Dorothy Richardson17th May, British
Author
Henri Barbusse17th May, French
Writer, Journalist, Esperantist, Screenwriter,
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Politician
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Police Officer
Arnold van Gennep23rd April, German, French
Ethnographer
E. T. Whittaker24th October, British
Mathematician
Ahmad Qavam2nd January, Iranian
Politician
Ray Ewry14th October, American
Athlete
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Rugby union player
Oliver Onions13th November, British
Writer
Arthur Oncken Lovejoy10th October, American
Philosopher
Louis Feuillade19th February, French
Director
J. E. H. MacDonald12th May, British
Painter
Carl Flesch9th October, Hungarian
Violinist
Władysław T. Benda15th January, Polish
Painter
Carl L. Becker7th September, American
Historian
Louis Ginzberg28th November, Lithuanian
Scholar
Leo Slezak18th August, Czech
Tenor