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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Hertha Ayrton
Physicist
28-Apr-1854 26-Aug-1923 Electric arc
Emil von Behring
Doctor
15-Mar-1854 31-Mar-1917 Created diptheria innoculation
Pope Benedict XV
Religion
21-Nov-1854 22-Jan-1922 Sat out World War I
James A. Bland
Songwriter
22-Oct-1854 5-Mar-1911 Carry Me Back to Old Virginny
Robert Laird Borden
Head of State
26-Jun-1854 10-Jun-1937 Prime Minister of Canada, 1911-20
David Buick
Engineer
17-Sep-1854 6-Mar-1929 Designed the first Buick motorcars
F. Marion Crawford
Novelist
2-Aug-1854 9-Apr-1909 Whosoever Shall Offend
George Eastman
Inventor
12-Jul-1854 14-Mar-1932 Inventor of the Kodak camera
Paul Ehrlich
Doctor
14-Mar-1854 20-Aug-1915 Father of chemotherapy
Richard T. Ely
Economist
13-Apr-1854 4-Oct-1943 Introduction to Political Economy
Sir James Frazer
Anthropologist
1-Jan-1854 7-May-1941 The Golden Bough
Herbert Gladstone
Politician
18-Feb-1854 6-Mar-1930 UK Home Secretary, 1905-10
William C. Gorgas
Doctor
3-Oct-1854 3-Jul-1920 Malaria and yellow fever
Myron T. Herrick
Politician
9-Oct-1854 31-Mar-1929 Governor of Ohio, 1904-06
William Temple Hornaday
Activist
1-Dec-1854 6-Mar-1937 Defender of the American bison
Frank L. Houx
Politician
12-Dec-1854 3-Apr-1941 Governor of Wyoming, 1917-19
Victoriano Huerta
Head of State
23-Mar-1854 13-Jan-1916 El chacal President of Mexico, 1913-14
Leoš Janácek
Composer
3-Jul-1854 12-Aug-1928 Her Foster Daughter
Karl Kautsky
Politician
16-Oct-1854 17-Oct-1938 Proponent of Marxism
Henri La Fontaine
Activist
22-Apr-1854 14-May-1943 Belgian activist, Nobel Prize recipient
Thomas R. Marshall
Politician
14-Mar-1854 1-Jun-1925 Vice President under Wilson
Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers
Magician
8-Jan-1854 20-Nov-1918 Founder of The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
Ottmar Mergenthaler
Inventor
11-May-1854 28-Oct-1899 Automated typesetting
Alfred Milner
Government
23-Mar-1854 13-May-1925 Architect of the Balfour Declaration
Henri Poincaré
Mathematician
29-Apr-1854 17-Jul-1912 Poincaré Conjecture
C. W. Post
Business
26-Oct-1854 9-May-1914 Invented Postum and Grape-Nuts
Arthur Rimbaud
Poet
20-Oct-1854 10-Nov-1891 Une Saison en Enfer
Johannes Rydberg
Physicist
8-Nov-1854 28-Dec-1919 Rydberg constant
Paul Sabatier
Chemist
5-Nov-1854 14-Aug-1941 Heterogeneous catalysis
E. W. Scripps
Publisher
18-Jun-1854 12-Mar-1926 Founder of UPI
Mary See
Chef
15-Sep-1854 31-Jul-1939 Confectioner
John Philip Sousa
Composer
6-Nov-1854 6-Mar-1932 Stars and Stripes Forever
Thomas A. Watson
Engineer
18-Jan-1854 13-Dec-1934 Assistant to Alexander Graham Bell
Frank B. Weeks
Politician
20-Jan-1854 2-Oct-1935 Governor of Connecticut, 1909-11
Oscar Wilde
Playwright
16-Oct-1854 30-Nov-1900 The Picture of Dorian Gray
John Sharp Williams
Politician
30-Jul-1854 27-Sep-1932 US Senator, Representative from Mississippi
Rollin S. Woodruff
Politician
14-Jul-1854 30-Jun-1925 Governor of Connecticut, 1907-09


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