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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Grace Abbott
Activist
17-Nov-1878 19-Jun-1939 Advocate against child labor
Doc Barker
Criminal
1899 13-Jan-1939 Son of Ma Barker
Eugen Bleuler
Psychiatrist
30-Apr-1857 15-Jul-1939 Coined term schizophrenia
Artur Bodanzky
Conductor
16-Dec-1877 23-Nov-1939 Opera Conductor at the NY Met, 1915-39
Alice Brady
Actor
2-Nov-1892 28-Oct-1939 In Old Chicago
Heywood Broun
Journalist
7-Dec-1888 18-Dec-1939 Muckraking reporter of the 1920s and '30s
Pierce Butler
Judge
17-Mar-1866 16-Nov-1939 US Supreme Court Justice, 1923-39
Joe Carr
Football
22-Oct-1880 20-May-1939 NFL President, 1921-39
Howard Carter
Archaeologist
9-May-1874 2-Mar-1939 Uncovered Tutankhamun's Tomb
Harvey Cushing
Doctor
8-Apr-1869 7-Oct-1939 Cushing's Syndrome
S. S. Van Dine
Novelist
15-Oct-1888 11-Apr-1939 The Canary Murder Case
Frank W. Dyson
Astronomer
8-Jan-1868 25-May-1939 Six pips on the BBC
Havelock Ellis
Biologist
2-Feb-1859 8-Jul-1939 Studies in the Psychology of Sex
Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.
Actor
23-May-1883 12-Dec-1939 The Thief of Baghdad
Ford Madox Ford
Novelist
17-Dec-1873 26-Jun-1939 The Good Soldier
Sigmund Freud
Psychiatrist
6-May-1856 23-Sep-1939 Die Traumdeutung
Zane Grey
Novelist
31-Jan-1872 23-Oct-1939 Riders of the Purple Sage
Sidney Coe Howard
Playwright
26-Jun-1891 23-Aug-1939 They Knew What They Wanted
Arthur E. Kennelly
Physicist
17-Dec-1861 18-Jun-1939 Kennelly-Heaviside layer
Tommy Ladnier
Jazz Musician
28-May-1900 4-Jun-1939 Jazz trumpeter
Carl Laemmle
Film/TV Producer
17-Jan-1867 24-Sep-1939 Independent Motion Picture Company
John R. Lynch
Politician
10-Sep-1847 2-Nov-1939 Congressman from Mississippi
Joseph Lyons
Head of State
15-Sep-1879 7-Apr-1939 Prime Minister of Australia, 1932-39
Antonio Machado
Poet
26-Jul-1875 22-Feb-1939 Generation of '98
Charles Horace Mayo
Doctor
19-Jul-1865 26-May-1939 Co-Founder of the Mayo Clinic
William James Mayo
Doctor
29-Jun-1861 28-Jul-1939 Co-Founder of the Mayo Clinic
Kelly Miller
Sociologist
23-Jul-1863 29-Dec-1939 Out of the House of Bondage
Owen Moore
Actor
12-Dec-1886 9-Jun-1939 Irish-American character actor
George Cardinal Mundelein
Religion
2-Jul-1872 2-Oct-1939 Archbishop of Chicago, 1915-39
Herbert Mundin
Actor
21-Aug-1898 5-Mar-1939 Mutiny on the Bounty
James Naismith
Basketball
6-Nov-1861 28-Nov-1939 Inventor of Basketball
Pope Pius XI
Religion
31-May-1857 10-Feb-1939 Signed Lateran Treaties with Mussolini
Arthur Rackham
Artist
19-Sep-1867 6-Sep-1939 British Golden Age children's book illustrator
Ma Rainey
Singer
26-Apr-1886 22-Dec-1939 The mother of the blues
Opie Read
Author
22-Dec-1852 2-Nov-1939 Jucklins
Edward Sapir
Anthropologist
26-Jan-1884 4-Feb-1939 Anthropological linguist
John G. Sargent
Government
13-Oct-1860 5-Mar-1939 US Attorney General, 1925-29
Philipp Scheidemann
Head of State
26-Jul-1865 29-Nov-1939 German Chancellor, 1919
Charles M. Schwab
Business
18-Feb-1862 19-Sep-1939 Founder of Bethlehem Steel
Mary See
Chef
15-Sep-1854 31-Jul-1939 Confectioner
Joel Elias Spingarn
Critic
17-May-1875 26-Jul-1939 Literary critic, NAACP leader
Claude A. Swanson
Politician
31-Mar-1862 7-Jul-1939 Governor and Senator from Virginia
Jameson Thomas
Actor
24-Mar-1888 10-Jan-1939 British stage, minor Hollywood actor
Ernst Toller
Playwright
1-Dec-1893 22-May-1939 Transformation
E. Lee Trinkle
Politician
12-Mar-1876 25-Nov-1939 Governor of Virginia, 1922-26
Louis Wain
Painter
5-Aug-1860 4-Jul-1939 The Man Who Drew Cats
Charles Walgreen
Business
9-Oct-1873 11-Dec-1939 Founder of Walgreen Co.
Helen Ware
Actor
15-Oct-1877 25-Jan-1939 Theater actress
Margaret Floy Washburn
Psychologist
25-Jul-1871 29-Oct-1939 First female American psychologist
Chick Webb
Jazz Musician
10-Feb-1905 16-Jun-1939 The Chick Webb Orchestra
Edvard Westermarck
Anthropologist
20-Nov-1862 3-Sep-1939 The Origin & Development of Moral Ideas
Edmund Beecher Wilson
Biologist
19-Oct-1856 3-Mar-1939 X and Y chromosomes
Harry Leon Wilson
Novelist
1-May-1867 28-Jun-1939 Ruggles of Red Gap
William Butler Yeats
Poet
13-Jun-1865 28-Jan-1939 The Land of Heart's Desire


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