Winston Churchill30th November, British
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Herbert Hoover10th August, American
31st U.S. President
Harry Houdini24th March, Hungarian
Illusionist
Sir Ernest Shackleton15th February, British
Antarctic explorer
Robert Frost26th March, American
Poet
John D. Rockefeller Jr.29th January, American
Philanthropist & Businessman
Gilbert K. Chesterton29th May, British
Writer
Henry Travers5th March, British
Actor
Gertrude Stein3rd February, American
American novelist
Guglielmo Marconi25th April, Italian
Inventor
Arnold Schoenberg13th September, Austrian
Composer
Lucy Maud Montgomery30th November, Canadian
Author
Howard Carter9th May, British
Archaeologist
Gustavus Theodore von Holst21st September, British
Composer
Chaim Weizmann27th November, British
Former President of Israel
Charles Ives20th October, American
Composer
Edward Thorndike31st August, American
Psychologist
William Maugham25th January, British
Novelist & Playwright
Robert W. Service16th January, Canadian, French, British
Poet & Writer
Antanas Smetona10th August, Lithuanian
Former President of Lithuania
Carl Bosch27th August, German
Chemist & Engineer
Johannes Stark15th April, German
Nobel Prize Winner in Physics
August Krogh15th November, Danish
Zoophysiologist
Joaquín Torres García28th July, Uruguayan
Artist
Joseph Erlanger5th January, American
Physiologist
Einar Jónsson11th May, Icelander
Icelandic sculptor
William Lyon Mackenzie King17th December, Canadian
Former Prime Minister of Canada
Gustav Holst21st September, British
Composer
Honus Wagner24th February, German, American
Baseballer
Lou Henry Hoover29th March, American
U.S. First Lady, Philanthropist
Talaat Pasha1st September, Turkish
Political Leader
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Aleksandr Kolchak16th November, Russian
Admiral
Nicholas Roerich9th October, Russian
Philosopher, Painter, Choreographer, Writer,
E.L. Thorndike30th November
Academic, Psychologist
J. C. Leyendecker23rd March, American
Illustrator, Painter, Artist
Thomas J. Watson17th February, American
Entrepreneur
Nap Lajoie5th September, American
Baseball player
Lewis Hine26th September, American
Sociologist
António Egas Moniz29th November, Portuguese
Neurologist
James Michael Curley20th November, American
Politician
Oswald Chambers24th July, British
Author, Theologian
Bert Williams12th November, American
Actor, Screenwriter, Stage actor
Reginald Johnston21st May, Scottish
Politician, Diplomat, Teacher
Frank Knox1st January, American
Politician
Vsevolod Meyerhold9th February, Russian
Theatre Director
Arthur Meighen16th June, Canadian
Politician, Lawyer, Diplomat
Ernst Cassirer28th July, Polish, Swedish
Philosopher, University teacher
Charlotta Spears Bass14th February, American
Editor and activist
Hugo von Hofmannsthal1st February, Austrian
Novelist, Librettist, Poet, Playwright, Writer,
Nikolai Berdyaev18th March, Ukrainian, Russian
Philosopher
Max Scheler22nd August, German
Philosopher, Anthropologist, University teacher,
Harold LeClair Ickes15th March, American
Politician
D. F. Malan22nd May, South African
Politician
Charles A. Beard27th November, American
Historian of the modern age, Historian, University
Abbas II of Egypt14th July, Egyptian
Khedive
Reynaldo Hahn9th August, French, Venezuelan
Conductor, Composer, Choreographer, Music critic,
Karl Kraus28th April, Austrian, Czech
writer, poet, journalist, essayist
Luigi Einaudi24th March, Italian
President
Konstantin Päts23rd February, Estonian
Politician
Amy Lowell9th February, American
Poet, Writer, Socialite
Romaine Brooks1st May, Italian, American
Painter
Eugen Fischer5th July, German
Anthropologist, Physician, Racial hygienist,
Robert Service16th January, British
Writer, Poet, Novelist
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven12th July, German
Sculptor, Writer, Painter, Model, Poet, Artist
Gustave Whitehead1st January, German, American
Aerospace engineer, Engineer
Joe Gans25th November, American
Boxer
Wu Peifu22nd April, Chinese
Warlord
Owen D. Young27th October, American
Industrialist
Polaire14th May, French
Actor, Singer, Stage actor
Thornton W. Burgess14th January, American
American children’s author and naturalist
Henri Guisan21st October, Swiss
Officer
Huang Xing24th October, Chinese
Revolutionary
Lina Cavalieri25th December
Singer, Actor, Opera singer
Serge Koussevitzky26th July
Composer, Conductor, Musician
François Coty3rd May, French
Perfumer
Auguste Perret12th February, French
architect
Stephen Samuel Wise17th March, Hungarian, American
Rabbi
Āpirana Ngata3rd July, New Zealander
Politician
Rose O'Neill25th June, American
Cartoonist
Paul Wegener11th December, German, Polish
Actor
Shahaji II26th June, Indian
Rosa Albach-Retty26th December, Austrian
Actress
Jesse H. Jones5th April, American
Politician
Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Sr.1st October, American
Officer
Clarence Day18th November, American
Author
Clarence Mackay17th April, American
Financier
Josep Maria Sert21st December, Spanish
Muralist
Mustafa Kamil Pasha14th August, Egyptian
Lawyer
John Russell Pope24th April, American
Architect
James E. Fitzsimmons23rd July, American
Horse trainer
Georges Lefebvre6th August, French
Historian
Mary Garden20th February, American
Singer, Opera singer, Actor
Joaquín Torres-García28th July, Spanish, Uruguayan
Artist
Elchonon Wasserman30th November, Lithuanian
Rabbi