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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
William Boyd Allison
Politician
2-Mar-1829 4-Aug-1908 US Senator from Iowa, 1873-1908
Henri Becquerel
Physicist
15-Dec-1852 25-Aug-1908 Discoverer of radioactivity
Sir Redvers Henry Buller
Military
7-Dec-1839 2-Jun-1908 Chief of Staff during Boer War
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Head of State
7-Sep-1836 22-Apr-1908 UK Prime Minister, 1905-08
Butch Cassidy
Criminal
13-Apr-1866 c. 1908 Train and bank robber
Henry Chadwick
Journalist
5-Oct-1824 20-Apr-1908 Father of baseball
Grover Cleveland
Head of State
18-Mar-1837 24-Jun-1908 22nd & 24th US President, 1885-89 & 1893-97
Randal Cremer
Politician
18-Mar-1828 22-Jul-1908 Pacifist, Nobel Prize recipient
Pat Garrett
Government
5-Jun-1850 29-Feb-1908 Killed Billy the Kid
Ludovic Halévy
Author
1-Jan-1834 8-May-1908 French vaudevillain author
Joel Chandler Harris
Novelist
9-Dec-1848 3-Jul-1908 Uncle Remus
Harriet Goodhue Hosmer
Sculptor
9-Oct-1830 21-Feb-1908 19th c. American sculptor in Rome
Eppa Hunton
Politician
24-Sep-1822 11-Oct-1908 Representative and Senator from Virginia
George A. Jenks
Attorney
25-Mar-1836 10-Feb-1908 US Solicitor General, 1886-89
Samuel W. T. Lanham
Politician
4-Jul-1846 19-Jul-1908 Governor of Texas, 1903-07
Edward MacDowell
Composer
18-Dec-1860 23-Jan-1908 American piano composer
Machado de Assis
Novelist
21-Jun-1839 29-Sep-1908 Dom Casmurro
Thomas Mellon
Business
3-Feb-1813 3-Feb-1908 Patriarch of the Mellon dynasty
John Miller
Politician
29-Oct-1843 26-Oct-1908 Governor of North Dakota, 1889-91
Donald Grant Mitchell
Author
12-Apr-1822 15-Dec-1908 Reveries of a Bachelor
Charles Eliot Norton
Scholar
16-Nov-1827 21-Oct-1908 American man of letters
Ouida
Novelist
1-Jan-1839 25-Jan-1908 Under Two Flags
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Composer
6-Mar-1844 8-Jun-1908 The Flight of the Bumblebee
Victorien Sardou
Playwright
5-Sep-1831 8-Nov-1908 Les Pattes de Mouche
Eli C. D. Shortridge
Politician
29-Mar-1830 4-Feb-1908 Governor of North Dakota, 1893-99
Charles Emory Smith
Journalist
18-Feb-1842 19-Jan-1908 US Postmaster General, 1898-1902
Frederick Arthur Stanley
Government
15-Jan-1841 14-Jun-1908 Hockey's Stanley Cup
The Sundance Kid
Criminal
19-Apr-1868 c. 1908 Outlaw and sidekick
Paul Taffanel
Musician
16-Sep-1844 22-Nov-1908 Flautist, French Flute School
Georgy Voronoy
Mathematician
28-Apr-1868 20-Nov-1908 Voronoi diagram


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