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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
George Frederick Baer
Business
26-Sep-1842 26-Apr-1914 Social Darwinist railroad baron
Adolph Bandelier
Anthropologist
6-Aug-1840 18-Mar-1914 Native cultures of the American southwest
Ambrose Bierce
Author
24-Jun-1842 c. 1914 The Devil's Dictionary
Joseph Chamberlain
Politician
8-Jul-1836 3-Jul-1914 British pol revered in Birmingham
Shelby M. Cullom
Politician
22-Nov-1829 28-Jan-1914 Governor and Senator from Illinois
Franz Ferdinand
Royalty
18-Dec-1863 28-Jun-1914 Assassination touched off WWI
Albert Gobat
Politician
21-May-1843 16-Mar-1914 International Peace Bureau
F. Augustus Heinze
Business
1869 4-Nov-1914 Copper baron, went broke in the Panic of 1907
Paul von Heyse
Author
15-Mar-1830 2-Apr-1914 L'Arrabbiata
George W. Hill
Astronomer
3-Mar-1838 16-Apr-1914 A New Theorie of Jupiter and Saturn
Johann Hittorf
Physicist
27-Mar-1824 28-Nov-1914 Fluorescence in vacuum tubes
Edwin J. Houston
Inventor
9-Jul-1847 1-Mar-1914 Thomson-Houston Electric Company
Jean Jaurès
Politician
3-Sep-1859 31-Jul-1914 French socialist leader
Horace Harmon Lurton
Judge
26-Feb-1844 12-Jul-1914 US Supreme Court Justice, 1910-14
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Author
27-Sep-1840 1-Dec-1914 The Influence of Sea Power upon History
Frédéric Mistral
Poet
8-Sep-1830 25-Mar-1914 Provençal poet and ethnographer
S. Weir Mitchell
Novelist
15-Feb-1829 4-Jan-1914 The Case of George Dedlow
John Muir
Activist
21-Apr-1838 24-Dec-1914 Patron saint of Yosemite National Park
Charles Sanders Peirce
Philosopher
10-Sep-1839 19-Apr-1914 Founder of Pragmatism
Pope Pius X
Religion
2-Jun-1835 20-Aug-1914 Roman Catholic Pontiff, 1903-14
C. W. Post
Business
26-Oct-1854 9-May-1914 Invented Postum and Grape-Nuts
James D. Richardson
Politician
10-Mar-1843 24-Jul-1914 Congressman from Tennessee, 1885-1905
Jacob A. Riis
Journalist
3-May-1849 26-May-1914 How the Other Half Lives
Richard W. Sears
Business
7-Dec-1863 28-Sep-1914 Sears, Roebuck founder
Adlai E. Stevenson
Politician
23-Oct-1835 14-Jun-1914 Vice President under Cleveland
Eduard Suess
Geologist
20-Aug-1831 26-Apr-1914 Das Antlitz der Erde
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan
Physicist
31-Oct-1828 27-May-1914 Light bulb, photographic printing
Sir John Tenniel
Artist
28-Feb-1820 25-Feb-1914 Illustrator for Punch
Bertha von Suttner
Activist
9-Jun-1843 21-Jun-1914 Pacifist, Nobel Prize recipient
August Weismann
Biologist
17-Jan-1834 5-Nov-1914 Theory of Germ Plasm
George Westinghouse
Inventor
6-Oct-1846 12-Mar-1914 Air brake and A/C power
Frederick Weyerhaeuser
Business
21-Nov-1834 4-Apr-1914 Founder of Weyerhaeuser Company
Ellen Wilson
First Lady
15-May-1860 6-Aug-1914 First wife of US President Woodrow Wilson




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