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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Alexander
Royalty
1-Aug-1893 25-Oct-1920 King of Greece, 1917-20
Edmund Barton
Head of State
18-Jan-1849 7-Jan-1920 First Prime Minister of Australia
Max Bruch
Composer
6-Jan-1838 2-Oct-1920 Kol Nidrei
Venustiano Carranza
Head of State
29-Dec-1859 21-May-1920 President of Mexico, 1917-20
Ray Chapman
Baseball
15-Jan-1891 17-Aug-1920 Fatally hit by pitch
W. Murray Crane
Politician
23-Apr-1853 2-Oct-1920 Governor and Senator from Massachusetts
Reginald De Koven
Composer
3-Apr-1859 16-Jan-1920 Oh, Promise Me
Karl Faberge
Artist
30-May-1846 24-Sep-1920 Maker of jewelry and gem eggs
T. R. Fraser
Scientist
5-Feb-1841 4-Jan-1920 Made poison and venom into medicine
George Gipp
Football
18-Feb-1895 14-Dec-1920 Win one for the Gipper
William C. Gorgas
Doctor
3-Oct-1854 3-Jul-1920 Malaria and yellow fever
Charles Griffes
Composer
17-Sep-1884 8-Apr-1920 The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan
Louise Imogen Guiney
Poet
7-Jan-1861 2-Nov-1920 A Roadside Harp
Isaias W. Hellman
Business
3-Oct-1842 9-Apr-1920 Los Angeles banker
William Dean Howells
Author
1-Mar-1837 11-May-1920 The Rise of Silas Lapham
W. S. Jennings
Politician
24-Mar-1863 27-Feb-1920 Governor of Florida, 1901-05
Edward Jones
Journalist
1856 1920 Jones of Dow Jones
Aleksandr Kolchak
Military
16-Nov-1874 7-Feb-1920 Supreme Ruler of the Russian State, 1918-20
W. C. Minor
Scholar
Jun-1834 26-Mar-1920 Prolific OED contributor
Amedeo Modigliani
Sculptor
12-Jul-1884 24-Jan-1920 Cubist Italian sculptor and painter
Levi P. Morton
Politician
16-May-1824 16-May-1920 Vice President under Benjamin Harrison
Alexander Muirhead
Physicist
26-May-1848 13-Dec-1920 Submarine cable telegraphy
Robert E. Peary
Explorer
6-May-1856 20-Feb-1920 First to reach the North Pole
Eleanor H. Porter
Novelist
19-Dec-1868 21-May-1920 Pollyanna
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Mathematician
22-Dec-1887 26-Apr-1920 Self-educated mathematician
John Reed
Activist
22-Oct-1887 19-Oct-1920 Ten Days That Shook the World
Augusto Righi
Physicist
27-Aug-1850 8-Jun-1920 Electromagnetic waves
Jacob Schiff
Business
10-Jan-1847 25-Sep-1920 New York banker
Olive Schreiner
Novelist
24-Mar-1855 11-Dec-1920 The Story of an African Farm
Theodore Vail
Business
16-Jul-1845 16-Apr-1920 Founder of AT&T
Max Weber
Sociologist
21-Apr-1864 14-Jun-1920 The Protestant Ethic
James Wilson
Government
16-Aug-1835 26-Aug-1920 US Secretary of Agriculture, 1897-1913
Wilhelm Wundt
Psychologist
16-Aug-1832 31-Aug-1920 Father of Experimental Psychology


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