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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Charles Alderton
Inventor
21-Jun-1857 29-May-1941 Invented Dr Pepper
Alfonso XIII
Royalty
17-May-1886 28-Feb-1941 King of Spain, 1902-31
Sherwood Anderson
Author
13-Sep-1876 8-Mar-1941 The Triumph of the Egg
Robert Baden-Powell
Military
22-Feb-1857 8-Jan-1941 Founder of the Boy Scout movement
James A. Baker
Attorney
10-Jan-1857 2-Aug-1941 Baker Botts
Frederick G. Banting
Scientist
14-Nov-1891 21-Feb-1941 Discovered insulin
Hans Berger
Physicist
21-May-1873 1-Jun-1941 Electroencephalogram
Henri Bergson
Philosopher
18-Oct-1859 4-Jan-1941 L'Évolution Créatrice
Gutzon Borglum
Sculptor
25-Mar-1867 6-Mar-1941 Mount Rushmore
Louis D. Brandeis
Judge
13-Nov-1856 5-Oct-1941 US Supreme Court Justice, 1916-39
Annie Jump Cannon
Astronomer
11-Dec-1863 13-Apr-1941 Census-taker of the sky
Louis Chevrolet
Auto Racing
25-Dec-1878 6-Jun-1941 Designed the first Chevrolet
A. J. Clark
Scientist
19-Aug-1885 30-Jul-1941 Drug responses
Harry M. Daugherty
Government
26-Jan-1860 12-Oct-1941 US Attorney General, 1921-24
Louis L. Emmerson
Politician
27-Dec-1863 4-Feb-1941 Governor of Illinois, 1929-33
William L. Emmet
Engineer
10-Jul-1859 26-Sep-1941 All-electric warships
Stanley Fields
Actor
20-May-1883 23-Apr-1941 Way Out West
Sir James Frazer
Anthropologist
1-Jan-1854 7-May-1941 The Golden Bough
Lou Gehrig
Baseball
19-Jun-1903 2-Jun-1941 Played 2,130 consecutive games
Frederick Griffith
Biologist
c. 1877 16-Apr-1941 Discovered the transforming principle
Franz Guertner
Government
26-Aug-1881 29-Jan-1941 Reich Minister of Justice
Hamilton Harty
Conductor
4-Dec-1879 19-Feb-1941 Principal Conductor, The Hallé, 1920-34
Willis C. Hawley
Politician
5-May-1864 24-Jul-1941 Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
Alanson B. Houghton
Diplomat
10-Oct-1863 15-Sep-1941 US Ambassador to the UK, 1925-29
Frank L. Houx
Politician
12-Dec-1854 3-Apr-1941 Governor of Wyoming, 1917-19
Howard Johnson
Songwriter
2-Jun-1887 1-May-1941 We All Scream for Ice Cream
James Joyce
Author
2-Feb-1882 13-Jan-1941 Ulysses
Ernest Just
Biologist
14-Aug-1883 27-Oct-1941 Cell surfaces and egg fertilization
Gus Kahn
Songwriter
6-Nov-1886 8-Oct-1941 Ain't We Got Fun?
Maurice Leblanc
Novelist
11-Dec-1864 6-Nov-1941 Creator of Arsène Lupin
Tullio Levi-Civita
Mathematician
29-Mar-1873 29-Dec-1941 Explored tensor calculus and PDE's
E. W. Marland
Politician
8-May-1874 3-Oct-1941 Governor of Oklahoma, 1935-39
William G. McAdoo
Politician
31-Oct-1863 1-Feb-1941 US Secretary of the Treasury, 1913-18
Helen Morgan
Actor
2-Aug-1900 9-Oct-1941 Show Boat
Jelly Roll Morton
Jazz Musician
20-Oct-1890 10-Jul-1941 Jazz composer, pianist
Walther Nernst
Chemist
25-Jun-1864 18-Nov-1941 Third Law of Thermodynamics
Ignace Paderewski
Pianist
18-Nov-1860 29-Jun-1941 Polish pianist and composer
Joe Penner
Radio Personality
11-Nov-1904 10-Jan-1941 Wanna buy a duck?
John S. Plaskett
Astronomer
17-Nov-1865 17-Oct-1941 Plaskett's star
Edwin Stanton Porter
Film Director
21-Apr-1870 30-Apr-1941 The Great Train Robbery
Ludwig Quidde
Activist
23-Mar-1858 4-Mar-1941 German pacifist, Nobel Prize recipient
Abe Reles
Criminal
1906 12-Nov-1941 Hitman for Murder, Inc.
Elizabeth Madox Roberts
Author
30-Oct-1881 13-Mar-1941 The Great Meadow
Charles Edward Russell
Author
25-Sep-1860 23-Apr-1941 The Greatest Trust in the World
Paul Sabatier
Chemist
5-Nov-1854 14-Aug-1941 Heterogeneous catalysis
Pitts Sanborn
Critic
1878 7-Mar-1941 Music critic for New York Globe
Victor Schertzinger
Film Director
8-Apr-1890 26-Oct-1941 Road to Singapore
Reed Smoot
Politician
10-Jan-1862 9-Feb-1941 Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
Hans Spemann
Scientist
27-Jun-1869 9-Sep-1941 Experimental embryology
James Speyer
Business
22-Jul-1861 31-Oct-1941 New York Banker
Eugene O. Sykes
Government
16-Jul-1876 21-Jun-1941 First Chairman of the FCC, 1934-35
Rabindranath Tagore
Poet
7-May-1861 7-Aug-1941 Gitanjali
Willis Van Devanter
Judge
17-Apr-1859 8-Feb-1941 US Supreme Court Justice, 1911-37
Chris Watson
Head of State
9-Apr-1867 18-Nov-1941 Prime Minister of Australia, 1904
Kaiser Wilhelm
Head of State
27-Jan-1859 4-Jun-1941 Last of the German emperors
Virginia Woolf
Novelist
25-Jan-1882 28-Mar-1941 Suicidal English novelist


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