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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
William Waldorf Astor
Publisher
31-Mar-1848 18-Oct-1919 The Observer
Robert Bacon
Government
5-Jul-1860 29-May-1919 US Ambassador to France, 1909-12
L. Frank Baum
Novelist
15-May-1856 6-May-1919 The Wizard of Oz
Andrew Carnegie
Business
25-Nov-1835 11-Aug-1919 Robber baron turned philanthropist
Sir William Crookes
Chemist
17-Jun-1832 4-Apr-1919 Discovered element Thallium
Alfred Deakin
Head of State
3-Aug-1856 7-Oct-1919 2nd Prime Minister of Australia
Emil Fischer
Chemist
9-Oct-1852 15-Jul-1919 Peptide bond
Henry Clay Frick
Business
19-Dec-1849 2-Dec-1919 Robber baron, Johnstown flood
Henry Gantt
Engineer
1861 23-Nov-1919 Management as a science
Karl Gjellerup
Author
2-Jun-1857 11-Oct-1919 The Pilgrim Kamanita
Hugo Haase
Politician
29-Sep-1863 7-Nov-1919 German parliamentarian, Marxist, pacifist
Ernst Haeckel
Zoologist
16-Feb-1834 9-Aug-1919 Proponent of evolution
Henry J. Heinz
Business
11-Oct-1844 14-May-1919 Founder of Heinz Foods
Oscar Hammerstein I
Theatre Producer
8-May-1847 1-Aug-1919 Olympia Theatre
Taisuke Itagaki
Politician
17-Apr-1837 11-Jul-1919 Founder of Japan's Liberal party
Theophilus Van Kannel
Inventor
1841 24-Dec-1919 Revolving door
Wilfrid Laurier
Head of State
20-Nov-1841 17-Feb-1919 Canadian Prime Minister
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Composer
8-Mar-1857 9-Aug-1919 Pagliacci
Rosa Luxemburg
Activist
5-Mar-1871 15-Jan-1919 Co-Founder, Communist Party of Germany
Evelyn De Morgan
Painter
30-Aug-1855 1919 British Pre-Raphaelite painter
Amado Nervo
Poet
27-Aug-1870 24-May-1919 Modernismo poet, La Revista Moderna
George T. Oliver
Politician
26-Jan-1848 22-Jan-1919 US Senator from Pennsylvania, 1909-17
William Osler
Doctor
12-Jul-1849 29-Dec-1919 Father of psychosomatic medicine
Adelina Patti
Singer
10-Feb-1843 27-Sep-1919 Coloratura soprano
Edward Charles Pickering
Astronomer
19-Jul-1846 3-Feb-1919 Photometer inventor and surveyor
Sir Edward Poynter
Painter
20-Mar-1836 26-Jul-1919 British Neo-Classical painter
Lord Rayleigh
Physicist
12-Nov-1842 30-Jun-1919 Why the sky is blue
Auguste Renoir
Painter
25-Feb-1841 3-Dec-1919 Le Bal au Moulin de la Galette
Theodore Roosevelt
Head of State
27-Oct-1858 6-Jan-1919 26th US President, 1901-09
Johannes Rydberg
Physicist
8-Nov-1854 28-Dec-1919 Rydberg constant
John Walter Scott
Stamp Collector
2-Nov-1845 4-Jan-1919 Father of American Philately
Anna Howard Shaw
Activist
14-Feb-1847 2-Jul-1919 National American Women's Suffrage Association
Georg von Hertling
Head of State
31-Aug-1843 4-Jan-1919 German Chancellor 1917-18
Mary Edwards Walker
Doctor
26-Nov-1832 21-Feb-1919 First female US Army surgeon
Alfred Werner
Chemist
12-Dec-1866 15-Nov-1919 Coordination theory of chemistry
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Poet
5-Nov-1850 30-Oct-1919 Poems of Passion
F. W. Woolworth
Business
13-Apr-1852 8-Apr-1919 Five and dime magnate
Emiliano Zapata
Activist
8-Aug-1879 10-Apr-1919 Mexican patriot, revolutionary


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