1
John D. Rockefeller
(American Businessman and Founder of the 'Standard Oil Company')
95
36
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: July 8, 1839
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Richford, New York, United States
Died: May 23
2
H. P. Lovecraft
(American Weird-Fiction Writer Known for Creating the Mythopoeia 'Cthulhu Mythos')
79
31
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: August 20, 1890
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Died: March 15
3
Jean Harlow
(American Actress Who was the Leading Sex Symbol of the Early 1930s)
51
22
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: March 3, 1911
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Died: June 7
4
George Gershwin
(Pianist and Composer Best Known for His Orchestral Compositions ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ and ‘An American in Paris’)
56
9
Listed In: Musicians
Birthdate: September 26, 1898
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Died: July 11
5
Bessie Smith
(One of the Greatest Female Blues Singers of the 1930s)
65
16
Listed In: Singers
Birthdate: April 15, 1894
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
Died: September 26
Height: 5'9" (175 cm)
6
Ernest Rutherford
(New Zealand Physicist Who is Known as the Father of Nuclear Physics)
64
29
Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: August 30, 1871
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Brightwater, New Zealand
Died: October 19
7
Guglielmo Marconi
(Inventor of 'Radio' and Winner of 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics)
63
7
Listed In: Inventors & Discoverers
Birthdate: April 25, 1874
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Bologna, Italy
Died: July 20
8
Maurice Ravel
(One of the Leading Composers of Impressionist Music, Known for His Orchestral Work "Boléro,")
36
4
Listed In: Musicians
Birthdate: March 7, 1875
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Ciboure, France
Died: December 28
Height: 5'3" (160 cm)
9
Sir James Matthew Barrie
(Novelist)
19
10
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: May 9, 1860
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland
Died: June 19
10
Edith Wharton
(Writer)
15
4
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: January 24, 1862
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: New York City
Died: August 11
11
Erich Ludendorff
(German General, Politician and Military Theorist)
14
8
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: April 9, 1865
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Kruszewnia, Poland
Died: December 20
12
J. Bruce Ismay
(Businessman)
15
7
Listed In: Business People
Birthdate: December 12, 1862
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Crosby, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
Died: October 17
13
Jagadish Chandra Bose
(Physicist)
73
10
Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: November 30, 1858
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Bikrampur, Bengal Presidency, British India (Now Munshiganj District of Bangladesh)
Died: November 23
14
Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark
(Princess)
14
10
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: June 22, 1911
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Tatoi Palace, Tatoi, Greece
Died: November 16
15
Antonio Gramsci
(Italian Philosopher Best Known for His Theory of 'Cultural Hegemony')
15
11
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: January 22, 1891
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Ales, Italy
Died: April 27
16
Alfred Adler
(Austrian Psychotherapist and Founder of the School of ‘Individual Psychology’)
16
10
Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics
Birthdate: February 7, 1870
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus, Vienna, Austria
Died: May 28
17
Pierre de Coubertin
(Father of the Modern Olympic Games)
17
4
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: January 1, 1863
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Paris
Died: September 2
18
Ramsay MacDonald
(Prime Minister of the United Kingdom)
6
2
19
Andrew William Mellon
(Industrialist, Philanthropist)
13
5
Listed In: Business People
Birthdate: March 24, 1855
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: August 27
20
Carl Emil Pettersson
(Sailor)
3
1
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: October 23, 1875
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Stockholm, Sweden
Died: May 12
21
Ted Healy
(Actor, Screenwriter, Stage actor)
5
2
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: October 1, 1896
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Kaufman
Died: December 21
22
Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild
(British Politician and Zoologist Who Served as a Member of Parliament from Aylesbury)
4
0
Listed In: Business People
Birthdate: February 8, 1868
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: England
Died: August 27
23
Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse
(Artist)
3
1
Listed In: Artists & Painters
Birthdate: November 25, 1868
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Darmstadt, Germany
Died: October 9
24
Wallace Carothers
(Chemist and Inventor of Nylon)
10
0
Listed In: Inventors & Discoverers
Birthdate: April 27, 1896
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Burlington, Iowa, United States
Died: April 29
25
Daniel Daly
(Military Leader)
2
1
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: November 11, 1873
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Glen Cove, New York, United States
Died: April 27
26
R. J. Mitchell
(British Aircraft Designer Known for Designing the Supermarine Spitfire Fighter Used in WWII)
3
1
Listed In: Engineers
Birthdate: May 20, 1895
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Butt Lane, Kidsgrove, England
Died: June 11
27
William Gillette
(Actor)
5
0
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: July 24, 1863
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Died: April 29
28
Austen Chamberlain
(First Lord of the Admiralty (1931))
2
0
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: October 16, 1863
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Birmingham, England
Died: March 16
29
Henry Ossawa Tanner
(American Artist and the First Painter to Gain International Acclaim)
3
2
Listed In: Artists & Painters
Birthdate: June 21, 1859
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: May 25
30
Chūya Nakahara
(Poet, Writer, Tanka poet, Translator)
4
1
31
Karol Szymanowski
(Polish Composer, Pianist and a Member of the Modernist Movement 'Young Poland')
4
1
Listed In: Musicians
Birthdate: October 6, 1882
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Tymoshivka, Ukraine
Died: March 29
32
Jaishankar Prasad
(Poet)
6
1
33
Attila József
(One of the Most Famous Hungarian Poets of the 20th Century)
5
1
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: April 11, 1905
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Budapest, Hungary
Died: December 3
34
Horacio Quiroga
(Uruguayan Playwright, Poet and Short Story Writer)
6
5
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: December 31, 1878
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Salto, Uruguay
Died: February 19
35
Hadji Ali
(Artist)
2
0
36
Rudolf Otto
(German Theologian and One of the Most Influential Scholars of Religion in the Early Twentieth Century)
2
0
Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics
Birthdate: September 25, 1869
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Peine, Germany
Died: March 6
37
Frank B. Kellogg
(Lawyer, Politician)
3
1
Listed In: Lawyers & Judges
Birthdate: December 22, 1856
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Potsdam
Died: December 21
38
Philip Snowden, Viscount Snowden
(Politician)
3
1
39
Walter Burley Griffin
(Architect, Landscape architect, Urban planner)
1
0
Listed In: Architects
Birthdate: November 24, 1876
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Maywood
Died: February 11
40
Philip de László
(Painter)
1
0
Listed In: Artists & Painters
Birthdate: April 30, 1869
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Budapest, Hungary
Died: November 22
41
Joseph Taylor Robinson
(Politician)
3
1
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: August 26, 1872
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Lonoke, Arkansas, United States
Died: July 14
42
Abd al-Hafid of Morocco
(Sultan)
4
0
Listed In: Historical Personalities
Birthdate: February 24, 1875
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Fès, Morocco
Died: April 4
43
Yeghishe Charents
(Poet)
5
0
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: March 13, 1897
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Kars, Kars Oblast, Russian Empire
Died: November 27
44
Mikhail Tukhachevsky
(Soviet General Who was a Major Proponent of Modernization of Soviet Army in the 1920s and 1930s)
4
4
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: February 16, 1893
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Slednevo, Russia
Died: June 12
45
Don Marquis
(Humorist)
3
1
Listed In: Media Personalities
Birthdate: July 29, 1878
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Walnut, Illinois
Died: December 29
46
Robert Borden
(8th Prime Minister of Canada (1911 - 1920))
0
0
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: June 26, 1854
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Grand Pré, Canada
Died: June 10
47
Mrs. Leslie Carter
(Actress)
3
0
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: June 10, 1857
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Lexington, Kentucky, United States
Died: November 13
48
Princess Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich
(Regent)
1
0
Listed In: Historical Personalities
Birthdate: September 17, 1871
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Lich, Germany
Died: November 16
49
Charles Homer Haskins
(Historian)
2
0
Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics
Birthdate: December 21, 1870
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Meadville, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: May 14
50
Bolesław Leśmian
(Polish Poet Who Was Among the First to Adapt Symbolism and Expressionism to Polish Verse)
3
0
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: January 22, 1877
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Warsaw, Poland
Died: November 5
