| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| George Frederick Baer |
Business |
26-Sep-1842 |
26-Apr-1914 |
Social Darwinist railroad baron |
| Adolph Bandelier |
Anthropologist |
6-Aug-1840 |
18-Mar-1914 |
Native cultures of the American southwest |
| Ambrose Bierce |
Author |
24-Jun-1842 |
c. 1914 |
The Devil's Dictionary |
| Joseph Chamberlain |
Politician |
8-Jul-1836 |
3-Jul-1914 |
British pol revered in Birmingham |
| Franz Ferdinand |
Royalty |
18-Dec-1863 |
28-Jun-1914 |
Assassination touched off WWI |
| Albert Gobat |
Politician |
21-May-1843 |
16-Mar-1914 |
International Peace Bureau |
| Paul von Heyse |
Author |
15-Mar-1830 |
2-Apr-1914 |
L'Arrabbiata |
| George W. Hill |
Astronomer |
3-Mar-1838 |
16-Apr-1914 |
A New Theorie of Jupiter and Saturn |
| Johann Hittorf |
Physicist |
27-Mar-1824 |
28-Nov-1914 |
Fluorescence in vacuum tubes |
| Edwin J. Houston |
Inventor |
9-Jul-1847 |
1-Mar-1914 |
Thomson-Houston Electric Company |
| Jean Jaurès |
Politician |
3-Sep-1859 |
31-Jul-1914 |
French socialist leader |
| Frédéric Mistral |
Poet |
8-Sep-1830 |
25-Mar-1914 |
Provençal poet and ethnographer |
| S. Weir Mitchell |
Novelist |
15-Feb-1829 |
4-Jan-1914 |
The Case of George Dedlow |
| John Muir |
Activist |
21-Apr-1838 |
24-Dec-1914 |
Patron saint of Yosemite National Park |
| Pope Pius X |
Religion |
2-Jun-1835 |
20-Aug-1914 |
Roman Catholic Pontiff, 1903-14 |
| C. W. Post |
Business |
26-Oct-1854 |
9-May-1914 |
Invented Postum and Grape-Nuts |
| Jacob A. Riis |
Journalist |
3-May-1849 |
26-May-1914 |
How the Other Half Lives |
| Richard W. Sears |
Business |
7-Dec-1863 |
28-Sep-1914 |
Sears, Roebuck founder |
| Adlai E. Stevenson |
Politician |
23-Oct-1835 |
14-Jun-1914 |
Vice President under Cleveland |
| Eduard Suess |
Geologist |
20-Aug-1831 |
26-Apr-1914 |
Das Antlitz der Erde |
| Sir Joseph Wilson Swan |
Physicist |
31-Oct-1828 |
27-May-1914 |
Light bulb, photographic printing |
| Sir John Tenniel |
Artist |
28-Feb-1820 |
25-Feb-1914 |
Illustrator for Punch |
| Bertha von Suttner |
Activist |
9-Jun-1843 |
21-Jun-1914 |
Pacifist, Nobel Prize recipient |
| August Weismann |
Biologist |
17-Jan-1834 |
5-Nov-1914 |
Theory of Germ Plasm |
| George Westinghouse |
Inventor |
6-Oct-1846 |
12-Mar-1914 |
Edison's chief rival |
| Ellen Wilson |
First Lady |
15-May-1860 |
6-Aug-1914 |
First wife of US President Woodrow Wilson |
