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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Jane Addams
Activist
6-Sep-1860 21-May-1935 Founder of Hull House
Ma Barker
Criminal
1872 16-Jan-1935 Matriarch of the Barker-Karpis Gang
Alban Berg
Composer
9-Feb-1885 24-Dec-1935 Violin Concerto
James Henry Breasted
Archaeologist
27-Aug-1865 2-Dec-1935 A History of Egypt
William Bridgeman
Politician
31-Dec-1864 14-Aug-1935 UK Home Secretary, 1922-24
Herbert Bunston
Actor
21-Oct-1870 27-Feb-1935 Dr. Seward in Dracula
André Citroën
Engineer
5-Feb-1878 3-Jul-1935 Europe's Henry Ford
Clarence Day
Author
18-Nov-1874 28-Dec-1935 Life with Father
Charles Demuth
Painter
8-Nov-1883 23-Oct-1935 I Saw the Figure Five in Gold
William K. L. Dickson
Inventor
3-Aug-1860 28-Sep-1935 Motion picture camera
Alfred Dreyfus
Victim
9-Oct-1859 12-Jul-1935 Dreyfus Affair scapegoat
Paul Dukas
Composer
1-Oct-1865 17-May-1935 The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Author
19-Jul-1875 18-Sep-1935 Harlem Renaissance influence
Junior Durkin
Actor
2-Jul-1914 4-May-1935 Huckleberry Finn
Auguste Escoffier
Chef
28-Oct-1846 12-Feb-1935 Emperor of chefs
Walter Lowrie Fisher
Government
4-Jul-1862 9-Nov-1935 US Interior Secretary, 1911-13
Frederick H. Gillett
Politician
16-Oct-1851 31-Jul-1935 Speaker of the House, 1919-25
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Activist
3-Jul-1860 17-Aug-1935 Women and Economics
Victor Grignard
Chemist
6-May-1871 13-Dec-1935 Grignard Reaction
Frederick A. Halsey
Engineer
12-Jul-1856 20-Oct-1935 Kept America safe from the metric system
Sam Hardy
Actor
21-Mar-1883 16-Oct-1935 King Kong
Childe Hassam
Painter
17-Oct-1859 27-Aug-1935 American impressionist, one of "The Ten"
Arthur Henderson
Politician
13-Sep-1863 20-Oct-1935 Disarmament proponent, Nobel Prize winner
Oliver Herford
Poet
3-Dec-1863 5-Jul-1935 Cupid's Encyclopedia
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Judge
8-Mar-1841 6-Mar-1935 US Supreme Court Justice, 1902-32
David Landau
Actor
9-Mar-1879 20-Sep-1935 Judge Priest
T. E. Lawrence
Author
16-Aug-1888 19-May-1935 Lawrence of Arabia
Huey Long
Politician
30-Aug-1893 10-Sep-1935 Governor and Senator from Louisiana
John Macleod
Scientist
6-Sep-1876 16-Mar-1935 Helped discover insulin
Kazimir Malevich
Painter
23-Feb-1878 15-May-1935 Founder of Suprematist school
Frederic Manning
Poet
1887 22-Feb-1935 The Middle Parts of Fortune
Richard Mayr
Singer
18-Nov-1877 1-Dec-1935 Operatic bass
William Mulholland
Engineer
11-Sep-1855 22-Jul-1935 Los Angeles Aqueduct
Charles Norris
Government
4-Dec-1867 11-Sep-1935 New York's first Chief Medical Examiner
Adolph Ochs
Publisher
12-Mar-1858 8-Apr-1935 New York Times Publisher, 1896-1936
John Barton Payne
Government
26-Jan-1855 24-Jan-1935 Red Cross Chairman, 1921-35
Fernando Pessoa
Author
13-Jun-1888 30-Nov-1935 Heteronymous author, The Book of Disquiet
Józef Pilsudski
Military
5-Dec-1867 12-May-1935 Military dictator of Poland, 1926-35
Wiley Post
Aviator
22-Nov-1898 15-Aug-1935 First pilot to fly solo round the world
Lizette Woodworth Reese
Poet
9-Jan-1856 17-Dec-1935 A Handful of Lavendar
Charles Richet
Scientist
26-Aug-1850 4-Dec-1935 Studied anaphylaxis and ectoplasm
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Poet
22-Dec-1869 6-Apr-1935 The Man Against the Sky
Will Rogers
Comic
04-Nov-1879 15-Aug-1935 American Cowboy, Entertainer, Humorist
Samuel Sachs
Business
28-Jul-1851 2-Mar-1935 Half namesake of Goldman Sachs
Heinrich Schenker
Musicologist
19-Jun-1868 13-Jan-1935 Music theorist
Dutch Schultz
Criminal
6-Aug-1902 24-Oct-1935 Bootlegger, murderer, numbers racketeer
Edward Shortt
Politician
10-Mar-1862 10-Nov-1935 UK Home Secretary, 1919-22
Jessie Willcox Smith
Artist
6-Sep-1863 3-May-1935 The Water-Babies illustrator
Billy Sunday
Religion
19-Nov-1862 6-Nov-1935 Baseball evangelist
Thelma Todd
Actor
29-Jul-1905 16-Dec-1935 The Bohemian Girl
Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky
Scientist
17-Sep-1857 19-Sep-1935 Astronautics and rocket dynamics pioneer
Frank B. Weeks
Politician
20-Jan-1854 2-Oct-1935 Governor of Connecticut, 1909-11
Gordon Westcott
Actor
6-Nov-1903 31-Oct-1935 Heroes for Sale




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