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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Niels Henrik Abel
Mathematician
5-Aug-1802 6-Apr-1829 Studied elliptics and hyperelliptics
Renée Adorée
Actor
30-Sep-1898 5-Oct-1933 The Big Parade
Vicente Aleixandre
Poet
26-Apr-1898 14-Dec-1984 Spanish surrealist poet
Alfonso XII
Royalty
28-Nov-1857 25-Nov-1885 King of Spain, 1874-85
Ludovico Ariosto
Poet
8-Sep-1474 6-Jul-1533 Orlando Furioso
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
Sculptor
2-Aug-1834 4-Oct-1904 Statue of Liberty
Georges Bataille
Philosopher
10-Sep-1897 8-Jul-1962 Histoire de l'oeil
Aubrey Beardsley
Artist
21-Aug-1872 16-Mar-1898 Leading late 19th c. English illustrator
Edward Bellamy
Author
26-Mar-1850 22-May-1898 Looking Backward
Anita Berber
Actor
10-Jun-1899 10-Nov-1928 Scarlet whore of Berlin
James A. Bland
Songwriter
22-Oct-1854 5-Mar-1911 Carry Me Back to Old Virginny
Jimmy Blanton
Jazz Musician
5-Oct-1918 30-Jul-1942 Bassist, The Duke Ellington Orchestra
Simón Bolívar
Military
24-Jul-1783 17-Dec-1830 El Libertador
George Phillips Bond
Astronomer
20-May-1825 17-Feb-1865 Father of astrophotography
Anne Bradstreet
Poet
c. 1612 16-Sep-1672 The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America
Louis Braille
Inventor
4-Jan-1809 6-Jan-1852 Reading system for the blind
Frank A. Briggs
Politician
15-Sep-1858 9-Aug-1898 Governor of North Dakota, 1897-98
Anne Brontë
Novelist
17-Jan-1820 28-May-1849 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Branwell Brontë
Poet
26-Jun-1817 24-Sep-1848 The Brontë sisters' brother
Emily Brontë
Novelist
30-Jul-1818 19-Dec-1848 Wuthering Heights
Charles Brockden Brown
Novelist
17-Jan-1771 22-Feb-1810 First American novelist, Wieland
Hannah Van Buren
First Lady
8-Mar-1783 5-Feb-1819 Wife of US President Martin Van Buren
Gottfried August Bürger
Poet
31-Dec-1747 8-Jun-1794 Lenore
Dorothy Burgess
Actor
4-Mar-1907 20-Aug-1961 Hold Your Man
John C. Calhoun
Politician
18-Mar-1782 31-Mar-1850 US Vice President, champion of the South
Anders Celsius
Astronomer
27-Nov-1701 25-Apr-1744 Astronomer, invented centigrade scale
Charles IX
Royalty
27-Jun-1550 30-May-1574 King of France 1561-74
Frederic Chopin
Composer
22-Feb-1810 17-Oct-1849 Composer for the piano
Charlie Christian
Guitarist
29-Jul-1916 2-Mar-1942 The original guitar hero
Stephen Crane
Novelist
1-Nov-1871 5-Jun-1900 The Red Badge of Courage
Grace Darling
unspecified
24-Nov-1815 20-Oct-1842 Rescuer of wreck Forfarshire
Martin R. Delany
Activist
6-May-1812 24-Jan-1885 Black nationalist
Christian Doppler
Physicist
29-Nov-1803 17-Mar-1853 Discovered the Doppler Effect
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Poet
27-Jun-1872 9-Feb-1906 Lyrics of a Lowly Life
King Edward VI
Royalty
12-Oct-1537 6-Jul-1553 King of England, 1547-53
Augustin-Jean Fresnel
Physicist
10-May-1788 14-Jul-1827 Optician, invented Fresnel lens
Abel Gance
Film Director
25-Oct-1889 10-Nov-1981 Napoléon
Jay Gould
Business
27-May-1836 2-Dec-1892 Railroad baron owned Union Pacific
Ivor Gurney
Poet
28-Aug-1890 26-Dec-1937 War's Embers
Caroline Harrison
First Lady
1-Oct-1832 25-Oct-1892 Wife of US President Benjamin Harrison
John Harvard
Religion
26-Nov-1607 14-Sep-1638 Bequest to Harvard College
George Herbert
Poet
3-Apr-1593 1-Mar-1633 The Temple
Miguel Hernández
Poet
30-Oct-1910 28-Mar-1942 El rayo que no cesa
Jacobus H. van 't Hoff
Chemist
30-Aug-1852 1-Mar-1911 Three-dimensional molecular properties
Doc Holliday
Doctor
14-Aug-1851 8-Nov-1887 Wyatt Earp's reliable friend
William Hoste
Military
26-Aug-1780 6-Dec-1828 British naval captain
Cordell Hull
Government
2-Oct-1871 23-Jul-1955 US Secretary of State, 1933-44
Maria Innocentia Hummel
Painter
21-May-1909 6-Nov-1946 Catholic nun, painter
Howell Edmunds Jackson
Judge
8-Apr-1832 8-Aug-1895 US Supreme Court Justice, 1893-95
Jens Peter Jacobsen
Novelist
7-Apr-1847 30-Apr-1885 Niels Lyhne
Alfred Jarry
Playwright
8-Sep-1873 1-Nov-1907 Ubu roi
Mohammad Ali Jinnah
Head of State
25-Dec-1876 11-Sep-1948 Founder of Pakistan
Eliza Johnson
First Lady
4-Oct-1810 15-Jan-1876 Wife of US President Andrew Johnson
Franz Kafka
Novelist
3-Jul-1883 3-Jun-1924 Metamorphosis
John Keats
Poet
31-Oct-1795 23-Feb-1821 English romantic poet
John W. Kern
Politician
20-Dec-1849 17-Aug-1917 US Senator from Indiana, 1911-17
Ladislav Klíma
Philosopher
8-Aug-1878 19-Apr-1928 The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch
René Laënnec
Doctor
17-Feb-1781 13-Aug-1826 Stethoscope
Jules Laforgue
Poet
16-Aug-1860 20-Aug-1887 Pessimistic poet who inspired T. S. Eliot
Johann Heinrich Lambert
Mathematician
26-Aug-1728 25-Sep-1777 Pyrometrie
D. H. Lawrence
Novelist
11-Sep-1885 2-Mar-1930 Lady Chatterley's Lover
Vivien Leigh
Actor
5-Nov-1913 8-Jul-1967 Gone With The Wind
Katherine Mansfield
Author
14-Oct-1888 9-Jan-1923 Bliss
Christy Mathewson
Baseball
12-Aug-1880 7-Oct-1925 Pitched 37 winning games in 1908
Julius Robert Mayer
Physicist
25-Nov-1814 20-Mar-1878 Studied thermodynamics
Ottmar Mergenthaler
Inventor
11-May-1854 28-Oct-1899 Automated typesetting
Florence Mills
Singer
25-Jan-1896 1-Nov-1927 Jazz singer, Queen of Happiness
James Monroe
Head of State
28-Apr-1758 4-Jul-1831 5th President of the U.S.
Napoleon II
Royalty
20-Mar-1811 22-Jul-1832 Infant emperor of France
Fats Navarro
Jazz Musician
24-Sep-1923 7-Jul-1950 Be-bop jazz trumpeter
Mabel Normand
Actor
16-Nov-1892 22-Feb-1930 Tillie's Punctured Romance
Patrick O'Neal
Actor
26-Sep-1927 9-Sep-1994 Chamber of Horrors
George Orwell
Author
25-Jun-1903 21-Jan-1950 1984 and Animal Farm
Blaise Pascal
Mathematician
19-Jun-1623 19-Aug-1662 French thinker and mathematician
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Composer
4-Jan-1710 16-Mar-1736 La Serva Padrona
Jane Pierce
First Lady
12-Mar-1806 2-Dec-1863 Wife of US President Franklin Pierce
Edgar Allan Poe
Author
19-Jan-1809 7-Oct-1849 The Raven
Gavrilo Princip
Assassin
25-Jul-1894 28-Apr-1918 Assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Henry Purcell
Composer
c. 1659 21-Nov-1695 Dido and Aeneas
Harriet Forten Purvis
Activist
1810 11-Jun-1875 African-American abolitionist
Manuel Quezon
Head of State
19-Aug-1878 1-Aug-1944 2nd President of the Philippines
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Mathematician
22-Dec-1887 26-Apr-1920 Self-educated mathematician
John Randolph of Roanoke
Politician
2-Jun-1773 24-May-1833 US Senator from Virginia, 1825-27
Bernhard Riemann
Mathematician
17-Sep-1826 20-Jul-1866 Topologist, also Riemann Hypothesis
Jimmie Rodgers
Country Musician
8-Sep-1897 26-May-1933 Pioneering country singer/songwriter/yodeler
Romain Rolland
Novelist
29-Jan-1866 30-Dec-1944 Jean-Christophe
Eleanor Roosevelt
First Lady
11-Oct-1884 7-Nov-1962 First Lady under FDR
Erwin Schrödinger
Physicist
12-Aug-1887 4-Jan-1961 Schrödinger's wave equation
Dred Scott
Victim
c. 1799 17-Sep-1858 Slave denied freedom by US Supreme Court
Baruch de Spinoza
Philosopher
24-Nov-1632 21-Feb-1677 Rationalist, lensmaker
Igor Stravinsky
Composer
17-Jun-1882 6-Apr-1971 The Rite of Spring
Lewis Terman
Psychologist
15-Jan-1877 21-Dec-1956 Intelligence tests
Henry David Thoreau
Author
12-Jul-1817 6-May-1862 Walden
Wallace Thurman
Author
16-Aug-1902 22-Dec-1934 The Blacker the Berry
Alexis de Tocqueville
Historian
29-Jul-1805 16-Apr-1859 Democracy in America
Jean Vigo
Film Director
26-Apr-1905 5-Oct-1934 L'Atalante
Carl von Ossietzky
Activist
3-Oct-1889 4-May-1938 German pacifist, Nobel Prize recipient
Artemus Ward
Columnist
23-Apr-1834 6-Mar-1867 Humorist
Antoine Watteau
Painter
10-Oct-1684 18-Jul-1721 Rococo painter of fêtes galantes
Simone Weil
Philosopher
3-Feb-1909 24-Aug-1943 The Iliad, or the Poem of Force
Edward Noyes Westcott
Novelist
27-Sep-1846 31-Mar-1898 David Harum
Robert Willan
Doctor
12-Nov-1757 17-Apr-1812 Dermatologist, On cutaneous diseases
Thomas Wolfe
Novelist
3-Oct-1900 15-Sep-1938 Look Homeward, Angel
Vincent Youmans
Composer
27-Sep-1898 5-Apr-1946 No, No Nanette



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