Sergei Rachmaninoff1st April, American, Russian
Pianist
Leon Czolgosz5th May, American
Assassin of American President William McKinley
Colette28th January, French
Novelist
Thérèse of Lisieux2nd January, French
Nun
Ma Barker8th October, American
Matriarch of the Barker Family
Willa Cather7th December, American
Author
Thomas Andrews7th February, British
Businessperson, Naval Architect
Alfred Emanuel Smith30th December, American
Governor of New York
William McMaster Murdoch28th February, Scottish
First Officer of RMS Titanic
Alberto Santos Dumont20th July, Brazilian
Brazilian aviator
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
Enrico Caruso25th February, Italian
Opera singer, Singer
Francisco I. Madero30th October, Mexican
Politician, Writer, Musician, Military personnel
Alberto Santos-Dumont20th July, Brazilian
Aviator, Inventor, Balloonist
W. C. Handy16th November, American
Composer
Daniel Daly11th November, American
Military Leader
Hayim Nahman Bialik9th January, Russian
Writer
Konstantin von Neurath2nd February, German
Diplomat
Alexander Bogdanov22nd August, Russian
Physician
Anne Tracy Morgan25th July, American
Philanthropist
Anton J. Cermak9th May, Czech, American
Politician
A. K. Fazlul Huq26th October, Indian
Politician
Alice Guy-Blaché1st July, French
Film producer, Actor, Film director, Screenwriter
Adolph Zukor7th January, American
Film producer
Ford Madox Ford17th December, British
Novelist
Julius Martov24th November, Turkish
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Walter de La Mare25th April, British
Poet
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Princess
G. E. Moore4th November, British
Philosopher
John W. Davis13th April, American
Politician
Ibrahim of Johor17th September, Malaysian
Malaysian king
Karl Schwarzschild9th October, German
Physicist, Astronomer, Astrophysicist, University
Nellie McClung20th October, Canadian
Novelist, Writer, Politician, Human rights
Thomas J. Pendergast22nd July, American
Politician
Lady Ottoline Morrell16th June, British
Writer
David O. McKay8th September, American
Religious Leader
Alfred Jarry8th September, French
Playwright, Writer, Poet, Novelist
Fritz Thyssen9th November, German
Politician
Luigi Lucheni22nd April, French, Italian
Assassin
Otto Wels15th September, German
Politician
Eliel Saarinen20th August, Finnish
architect
Leo Amery1st November, British
Politician
Ivanoe Bonomi18th October, Italian
Politician, Prime Minister
Melitta Bentz31st January, German
Entrepreneur
Sydney Barnes19th April, British
Cricketer
Max Reinhardt9th September, Austrian
Theatre Director
Liang Qichao23rd February, Chinese
Historian
Feodor Chaliapin13th February, French, Russian
Russian opera singer
Jules Rimet14th October, French
Football administrator
Kyösti Kallio10th April, Finnish
Political leader
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon28th February, British
Politician
E. J. Bellocq30th November, American
photographer
Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard3rd February, British
Police Officer
Viktor Chernov7th December, Russian
Political leader
Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi29th January, Italian
Mountaineer
Spiridon Louis12th January, Greek
Athlete
Sara Josephine Baker15th November, American
Physician
Fred Stone19th August, American
Actor
Kyōka Izumi4th November, Japanese
Novelist
Constantin Carathéodory13th September, Greek
mathematician, university teacher
Charles Péguy7th January, French
Poet
Charles R. Walgreen9th October, American
American pharmacologist
Ricardo Flores Magón16th September, Mexican
Political figure
Sándor Ferenczi7th July, Hungarian
Psychanalyst, Psychiatrist, Non-fiction writer,
Antonie Pannekoek2nd January
Astronomer, Historian of science, Philosopher,
E. T. Whittaker24th October, British
Mathematician
Hugo Simberg24th June, Finnish
Painter
Robert Wiene27th April
Film director, Screenwriter
Gerald du Maurier26th March, British
Actor
Henry Starr2nd December, American
Criminal
Rama Tirtha22nd October, Indian
Teacher
Christian Rakovsky13th August, Bulgarian
Politician
Maud Allan27th August, Canadian
Pianist
Francis Burton Harrison18th December, American
Politician
Thorvald Stauning26th October, Danish
Prime minister of Denmark
Tullio Levi-Civita29th March
Mathematician
Princess Anna of Montenegro18th August, German
Aristocrat
Barbados Joe Walcott13th March, Guyanese
Boxer
Iuliu Maniu8th January, Romanian
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Pharmacologist
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Ethnographer
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Leo Baeck23rd May, German
Rabbi
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Dorothy Richardson17th May, British
Author
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Businessman
Alice Stebbins Wells13th June, American
Police Officer
Leo Frobenius29th June, German
Ethnologist
Margaret Bondfield17th March, British
Politician
J. E. H. MacDonald12th May, British
Painter