| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Adolf von Baeyer |
Chemist |
31-Oct-1835 |
20-Aug-1917 |
Synthesized indigo |
| Emil von Behring |
Doctor |
15-Mar-1854 |
31-Mar-1917 |
Created diptheria innoculation |
| Naaman Belkind |
Spy |
1889 |
16-Dec-1917 |
Israeli spy |
| Mackenzie Bowell |
Head of State |
27-Dec-1824 |
10-Dec-1917 |
Prime Minister of Canada, 1894-96 |
| Eduard Buchner |
Chemist |
20-May-1860 |
13-Aug-1917 |
Cell-free fermentation |
| Buffalo Bill |
Performance Artist |
26-Feb-1846 |
10-Jan-1917 |
Wild West showman |
| St. Frances Xavier Cabrini |
Religion |
15-Jul-1850 |
22-Dec-1917 |
Missionaries of the Sacred Heart |
| Joseph Choate |
Attorney |
24-Jan-1832 |
14-May-1917 |
Attorney, ambassador |
| Edgar Degas |
Painter |
19-Jul-1834 |
27-Sep-1917 |
Impressionist painter |
| George Dewey |
Military |
26-Dec-1837 |
16-Jan-1917 |
Sank the Spanish fleet at Manila |
| William Duddell |
Physicist |
1872 |
4-Nov-1917 |
Electronic music |
| Émile Durkheim |
Sociologist |
15-Apr-1858 |
15-Nov-1917 |
Rules of the Sociological Method |
| John W. Foster |
Diplomat |
2-Mar-1836 |
15-Mar-1917 |
US Secretary of State, 1892-93 |
| Mata Hari |
Spy |
7-Aug-1876 |
15-Oct-1917 |
Framed by the Germans |
| T. E. Hulme |
Poet |
16-Sep-1883 |
28-Sep-1917 |
Modernist poet and critic |
| Leander Starr Jameson |
Head of State |
9-Feb-1853 |
26-Nov-1917 |
Last Prime Minister of Capetown |
| Diamond Jim Brady |
Business |
12-Aug-1856 |
13-Apr-1917 |
Larger-than-life millionaire |
| Scott Joplin |
Musician |
24-Nov-1868 |
1-Apr-1917 |
The King of Ragtime |
| John W. Kern |
Politician |
20-Dec-1849 |
17-Aug-1917 |
US Senator from Indiana, 1911-17 |
| Theodor Kocher |
Doctor |
25-Aug-1841 |
27-Jul-1917 |
Thyroid surgeon |
| George P. Lawrence |
Politician |
19-May-1859 |
21-Nov-1917 |
Congressman, committed suicide |
| Francis Ledwidge |
Poet |
19-Aug-1887 |
31-Jul-1917 |
Songs of the Fields |
| Belva Lockwood |
Activist |
24-Oct-1830 |
19-May-1917 |
Feminist |
| Wayne MacVeagh |
Government |
19-Apr-1833 |
11-Jan-1917 |
US Attorney General, 1881 |
| Octave Mirbeau |
Novelist |
16-Feb-1850 |
16-Feb-1917 |
Le Jardin des supplices |
| William H. Moody |
Judge |
23-Feb-1853 |
2-Jul-1917 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1906-10 |
| Richard Olney |
Government |
15-Sep-1835 |
8-Apr-1917 |
US Secretary of State, 1895-97 |
| Auguste Rodin |
Sculptor |
12-Nov-1840 |
17-Nov-1917 |
Sculptor in bronze |
| Albert Pinkham Ryder |
Painter |
19-Mar-1847 |
28-Mar-1917 |
Idyllic American painter |
| Gideon Daniel Searle |
Business |
13-Feb-1846 |
25-Jan-1917 |
Founder of Searle Pharmaceuticals |
| James Sheakley |
Politician |
24-Apr-1829 |
10-Dec-1917 |
Territorial Governor of Alaska, 1893-97 |
| Herbert Beerbohm Tree |
Actor |
17-Dec-1853 |
2-Jul-1917 |
Founder, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art |
| Edward Tylor |
Anthropologist |
2-Oct-1832 |
2-Jan-1917 |
Founder of cultural anthropology |
| John William Waterhouse |
Painter |
6-Apr-1849 |
10-Feb-1917 |
British Pre-Raphaelite painter |
| Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Business |
8-Jul-1838 |
8-Mar-1917 |
Builder of rigid airships |
