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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Edwin Abbey
Painter
1-Apr-1852 1-Aug-1911 American artist in London
John Bigelow
Author
25-Nov-1817 19-Dec-1911 Ambassador to France, memoirist
Alfred Binet
Psychologist
11-Jul-1857 8-Oct-1911 Binet-Simon intelligence test
James A. Bland
Songwriter
22-Oct-1854 5-Mar-1911 Carry Me Back to Old Virginny
William D. Bloxham
Politician
9-Jul-1835 15-Mar-1911 Twice Governor of Florida
Milton Bradley
Business
8-Nov-1836 30-May-1911 Board games
Abiram Chamberlain
Politician
7-Dec-1837 15-May-1911 Governor of Connecticut, 1903-05
Norman Jay Colman
Government
16-May-1827 3-Nov-1911 First US Secretary of Agriculture
Jack Daniel
Business
5-Sep-1846 10-Oct-1911 Moonshine magnate
Wilhelm Dilthey
Philosopher
19-Nov-1833 1-Oct-1911 Methodology of the humanities
Antonio Fogazzaro
Novelist
25-Mar-1842 7-Mar-1911 Piccolo mondo antico
Francis Galton
Anthropologist
16-Feb-1822 17-Jan-1911 Word Association Test
W. S. Gilbert
Composer
18-Nov-1836 29-May-1911 Gilbert & Sullivan
John Marshall Harlan
Judge
1-Jun-1833 14-Oct-1911 US Supreme Court Justice, 1877-1911
Frances E. W. Harper
Poet
24-Sep-1825 22-Feb-1911 Abolitionist, temperance activist
Ned Harrigan
Actor
26-Oct-1844 6-Jun-1911 Harrigan & Hart
Jacobus H. van 't Hoff
Chemist
30-Aug-1852 1-Mar-1911 Three-dimensional molecular properties
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Botanist
30-Jun-1817 10-Dec-1911 Genera Plantarum
Jozef Israëls
Painter
27-Jan-1824 12-Aug-1911 Dutch scene painter
J. Hughlings Jackson
Doctor
4-Apr-1835 7-Oct-1911 Father of British neurology
Vaughan Kester
Novelist
12-Sep-1869 4-Jul-1911 The Prodigal Judge
Gustav Mahler
Composer
7-Jul-1860 18-May-1911 Das Lied von der Erde
Roger Q. Mills
Politician
30-Mar-1832 2-Sep-1911 US Senator from Texas, 1892-99
Carrie Nation
Activist
25-Nov-1846 9-Jun-1911 Temperance crusader
David Graham Phillips
Journalist
31-Oct-1867 24-Jan-1911 Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
James Plimpton
Inventor
14-Apr-1828 1911 Four-wheeled roller skates
Joseph Pulitzer
Business
10-Apr-1847 29-Oct-1911 Established the Pulitzer Prize
Howard Pyle
Artist
5-Mar-1853 9-Nov-1911 Art Nouveau children's book illustrator
Frederick A. O. Schwarz
Business
18-Oct-1836 17-May-1911 Founder of FAO Schwarz
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
Novelist
31-Aug-1844 28-Jan-1911 The Story of Avis
Edward Whymper
Explorer
27-Apr-1840 16-Sep-1911 Scrambles among the Alps




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