| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Niels Henrik Abel |
Mathematician |
5-Aug-1802 |
6-Apr-1829 |
Studied elliptics and hyperelliptics |
| Renée Adorée |
Actor |
30-Sep-1898 |
5-Oct-1933 |
The Big Parade |
| Vicente Aleixandre |
Poet |
26-Apr-1898 |
14-Dec-1984 |
Spanish surrealist poet |
| Alfonso XII |
Royalty |
28-Nov-1857 |
25-Nov-1885 |
King of Spain, 1874-85 |
| Ludovico Ariosto |
Poet |
8-Sep-1474 |
6-Jul-1533 |
Orlando Furioso |
| Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi |
Sculptor |
2-Aug-1834 |
4-Oct-1904 |
Statue of Liberty |
| Georges Bataille |
Philosopher |
10-Sep-1897 |
8-Jul-1962 |
Histoire de l'oeil |
| Aubrey Beardsley |
Artist |
21-Aug-1872 |
16-Mar-1898 |
Leading late 19th c. English illustrator |
| Edward Bellamy |
Author |
26-Mar-1850 |
22-May-1898 |
Looking Backward |
| Anita Berber |
Actor |
10-Jun-1899 |
10-Nov-1928 |
Scarlet whore of Berlin |
| James A. Bland |
Songwriter |
22-Oct-1854 |
5-Mar-1911 |
Carry Me Back to Old Virginny |
| Jimmy Blanton |
Jazz Musician |
5-Oct-1918 |
30-Jul-1942 |
Bassist, The Duke Ellington Orchestra |
| Simón Bolívar |
Military |
24-Jul-1783 |
17-Dec-1830 |
El Libertador |
| George Phillips Bond |
Astronomer |
20-May-1825 |
17-Feb-1865 |
Father of astrophotography |
| Anne Bradstreet |
Poet |
c. 1612 |
16-Sep-1672 |
The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America |
| Louis Braille |
Inventor |
4-Jan-1809 |
6-Jan-1852 |
Reading system for the blind |
| Frank A. Briggs |
Politician |
15-Sep-1858 |
9-Aug-1898 |
Governor of North Dakota, 1897-98 |
| Anne Brontë |
Novelist |
17-Jan-1820 |
28-May-1849 |
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall |
| Branwell Brontë |
Poet |
26-Jun-1817 |
24-Sep-1848 |
The Brontë sisters' brother |
| Emily Brontë |
Novelist |
30-Jul-1818 |
19-Dec-1848 |
Wuthering Heights |
| Charles Brockden Brown |
Novelist |
17-Jan-1771 |
22-Feb-1810 |
First American novelist, Wieland |
| Hannah Van Buren |
First Lady |
8-Mar-1783 |
5-Feb-1819 |
Wife of US President Martin Van Buren |
| Gottfried August Bürger |
Poet |
31-Dec-1747 |
8-Jun-1794 |
Lenore |
| Dorothy Burgess |
Actor |
4-Mar-1907 |
20-Aug-1961 |
Hold Your Man |
| John C. Calhoun |
Politician |
18-Mar-1782 |
31-Mar-1850 |
US Vice President, champion of the South |
| Anders Celsius |
Astronomer |
27-Nov-1701 |
25-Apr-1744 |
Astronomer, invented centigrade scale |
| Charles IX |
Royalty |
27-Jun-1550 |
30-May-1574 |
King of France 1561-74 |
| Frederic Chopin |
Composer |
22-Feb-1810 |
17-Oct-1849 |
Composer for the piano |
| Charlie Christian |
Guitarist |
29-Jul-1916 |
2-Mar-1942 |
The original guitar hero |
| Stephen Crane |
Novelist |
1-Nov-1871 |
5-Jun-1900 |
The Red Badge of Courage |
| Grace Darling |
unspecified |
24-Nov-1815 |
20-Oct-1842 |
Rescuer of wreck Forfarshire |
| Martin R. Delany |
Activist |
6-May-1812 |
24-Jan-1885 |
Black nationalist |
| Christian Doppler |
Physicist |
29-Nov-1803 |
17-Mar-1853 |
Discovered the Doppler Effect |
| Paul Laurence Dunbar |
Poet |
27-Jun-1872 |
9-Feb-1906 |
Lyrics of a Lowly Life |
| King Edward VI |
Royalty |
12-Oct-1537 |
6-Jul-1553 |
King of England, 1547-53 |
| Augustin-Jean Fresnel |
Physicist |
10-May-1788 |
14-Jul-1827 |
Optician, invented Fresnel lens |
| Abel Gance |
Film Director |
25-Oct-1889 |
10-Nov-1981 |
Napoléon |
| Jay Gould |
Business |
27-May-1836 |
2-Dec-1892 |
Railroad baron owned Union Pacific |
| Ivor Gurney |
Poet |
28-Aug-1890 |
26-Dec-1937 |
War's Embers |
| Caroline Harrison |
First Lady |
1-Oct-1832 |
25-Oct-1892 |
Wife of US President Benjamin Harrison |
| John Harvard |
Religion |
26-Nov-1607 |
14-Sep-1638 |
Bequest to Harvard College |
| George Herbert |
Poet |
3-Apr-1593 |
1-Mar-1633 |
The Temple |
| Miguel Hernández |
Poet |
30-Oct-1910 |
28-Mar-1942 |
El rayo que no cesa |
| Jacobus H. van 't Hoff |
Chemist |
30-Aug-1852 |
1-Mar-1911 |
Three-dimensional molecular properties |
| Doc Holliday |
Doctor |
14-Aug-1851 |
8-Nov-1887 |
Wyatt Earp's reliable friend |
| William Hoste |
Military |
26-Aug-1780 |
6-Dec-1828 |
British naval captain |
| Cordell Hull |
Government |
2-Oct-1871 |
23-Jul-1955 |
US Secretary of State, 1933-44 |
| Maria Innocentia Hummel |
Painter |
21-May-1909 |
6-Nov-1946 |
Catholic nun, painter |
| Howell Edmunds Jackson |
Judge |
8-Apr-1832 |
8-Aug-1895 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1893-95 |
| Jens Peter Jacobsen |
Novelist |
7-Apr-1847 |
30-Apr-1885 |
Niels Lyhne |
| Alfred Jarry |
Playwright |
8-Sep-1873 |
1-Nov-1907 |
Ubu roi |
| Mohammad Ali Jinnah |
Head of State |
25-Dec-1876 |
11-Sep-1948 |
Founder of Pakistan |
| Eliza Johnson |
First Lady |
4-Oct-1810 |
15-Jan-1876 |
Wife of US President Andrew Johnson |
| Franz Kafka |
Novelist |
3-Jul-1883 |
3-Jun-1924 |
Metamorphosis |
| John Keats |
Poet |
31-Oct-1795 |
23-Feb-1821 |
English romantic poet |
| John W. Kern |
Politician |
20-Dec-1849 |
17-Aug-1917 |
US Senator from Indiana, 1911-17 |
| Ladislav Klíma |
Philosopher |
8-Aug-1878 |
19-Apr-1928 |
The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch |
| René Laënnec |
Doctor |
17-Feb-1781 |
13-Aug-1826 |
Stethoscope |
| Jules Laforgue |
Poet |
16-Aug-1860 |
20-Aug-1887 |
Pessimistic poet who inspired T. S. Eliot |
| Johann Heinrich Lambert |
Mathematician |
26-Aug-1728 |
25-Sep-1777 |
Pyrometrie |
| D. H. Lawrence |
Novelist |
11-Sep-1885 |
2-Mar-1930 |
Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| Vivien Leigh |
Actor |
5-Nov-1913 |
8-Jul-1967 |
Gone With The Wind |
| Katherine Mansfield |
Author |
14-Oct-1888 |
9-Jan-1923 |
Bliss |
| Christy Mathewson |
Baseball |
12-Aug-1880 |
7-Oct-1925 |
Pitched 37 winning games in 1908 |
| Julius Robert Mayer |
Physicist |
25-Nov-1814 |
20-Mar-1878 |
Studied thermodynamics |
| Ottmar Mergenthaler |
Inventor |
11-May-1854 |
28-Oct-1899 |
Automated typesetting |
| Florence Mills |
Singer |
25-Jan-1896 |
1-Nov-1927 |
Jazz singer, Queen of Happiness |
| James Monroe |
Head of State |
28-Apr-1758 |
4-Jul-1831 |
5th President of the U.S. |
| Napoleon II |
Royalty |
20-Mar-1811 |
22-Jul-1832 |
Infant emperor of France |
| Fats Navarro |
Jazz Musician |
24-Sep-1923 |
7-Jul-1950 |
Be-bop jazz trumpeter |
| Mabel Normand |
Actor |
16-Nov-1892 |
22-Feb-1930 |
Tillie's Punctured Romance |
| Patrick O'Neal |
Actor |
26-Sep-1927 |
9-Sep-1994 |
Chamber of Horrors |
| George Orwell |
Author |
25-Jun-1903 |
21-Jan-1950 |
1984 and Animal Farm |
| Blaise Pascal |
Mathematician |
19-Jun-1623 |
19-Aug-1662 |
French thinker and mathematician |
| Giovanni Battista Pergolesi |
Composer |
4-Jan-1710 |
16-Mar-1736 |
La Serva Padrona |
| Jane Pierce |
First Lady |
12-Mar-1806 |
2-Dec-1863 |
Wife of US President Franklin Pierce |
| Edgar Allan Poe |
Author |
19-Jan-1809 |
7-Oct-1849 |
The Raven |
| Gavrilo Princip |
Assassin |
25-Jul-1894 |
28-Apr-1918 |
Assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand |
| Henry Purcell |
Composer |
c. 1659 |
21-Nov-1695 |
Dido and Aeneas |
| Harriet Forten Purvis |
Activist |
1810 |
11-Jun-1875 |
African-American abolitionist |
| Manuel Quezon |
Head of State |
19-Aug-1878 |
1-Aug-1944 |
2nd President of the Philippines |
| Srinivasa Ramanujan |
Mathematician |
22-Dec-1887 |
26-Apr-1920 |
Self-educated mathematician |
| John Randolph of Roanoke |
Politician |
2-Jun-1773 |
24-May-1833 |
US Senator from Virginia, 1825-27 |
| Bernhard Riemann |
Mathematician |
17-Sep-1826 |
20-Jul-1866 |
Topologist, also Riemann Hypothesis |
| Jimmie Rodgers |
Country Musician |
8-Sep-1897 |
26-May-1933 |
Pioneering country singer/songwriter/yodeler |
| Romain Rolland |
Novelist |
29-Jan-1866 |
30-Dec-1944 |
Jean-Christophe |
| Eleanor Roosevelt |
First Lady |
11-Oct-1884 |
7-Nov-1962 |
First Lady under FDR |
| Erwin Schrödinger |
Physicist |
12-Aug-1887 |
4-Jan-1961 |
Schrödinger's wave equation |
| Dred Scott |
Victim |
c. 1799 |
17-Sep-1858 |
Slave denied freedom by US Supreme Court |
| Baruch de Spinoza |
Philosopher |
24-Nov-1632 |
21-Feb-1677 |
Rationalist, lensmaker |
| Igor Stravinsky |
Composer |
17-Jun-1882 |
6-Apr-1971 |
The Rite of Spring |
| Lewis Terman |
Psychologist |
15-Jan-1877 |
21-Dec-1956 |
Intelligence tests |
| Henry David Thoreau |
Author |
12-Jul-1817 |
6-May-1862 |
Walden |
| Wallace Thurman |
Author |
16-Aug-1902 |
22-Dec-1934 |
The Blacker the Berry |
| Alexis de Tocqueville |
Historian |
29-Jul-1805 |
16-Apr-1859 |
Democracy in America |
| Jean Vigo |
Film Director |
26-Apr-1905 |
5-Oct-1934 |
L'Atalante |
| Carl von Ossietzky |
Activist |
3-Oct-1889 |
4-May-1938 |
German pacifist, Nobel Prize recipient |
| Artemus Ward |
Columnist |
23-Apr-1834 |
6-Mar-1867 |
Humorist |
| Antoine Watteau |
Painter |
10-Oct-1684 |
18-Jul-1721 |
Rococo painter of fêtes galantes |
| Simone Weil |
Philosopher |
3-Feb-1909 |
24-Aug-1943 |
The Iliad, or the Poem of Force |
| Edward Noyes Westcott |
Novelist |
27-Sep-1846 |
31-Mar-1898 |
David Harum |
| Robert Willan |
Doctor |
12-Nov-1757 |
17-Apr-1812 |
Dermatologist, On cutaneous diseases |
| Thomas Wolfe |
Novelist |
3-Oct-1900 |
15-Sep-1938 |
Look Homeward, Angel |
| Vincent Youmans |
Composer |
27-Sep-1898 |
5-Apr-1946 |
No, No Nanette |
