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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Charles McLean Andrews
Historian
22-Feb-1863 9-Sep-1943 The Colonial Period of American History
Harry Baur
Actor
12-Apr-1880 8-Apr-1943 Un carnet de bal
Stephen Vincent Benét
Author
22-Jul-1898 13-Mar-1943 John Brown's Body
Paul Boucherot
Engineer
3-Oct-1869 7-Aug-1943 Ocean thermal energy conversion
George Washington Carver
Botanist
c. 1860 5-Jan-1943 Crop rotation and peanut butter
Spencer Charters
Actor
25-Mar-1875 25-Jan-1943 Character actor
Camille Claudel
Sculptor
8-Dec-1864 19-Oct-1943 French sculptor, mistress of Rodin
Gordon Coates
Head of State
3-Feb-1878 27-May-1943 Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1925-28
R. G. Collingwood
Historian
22-Feb-1889 9-Jan-1943 The Idea of History
W. S. Van Dyke
Film Director
21-Mar-1889 5-Feb-1943 The Thin Man
Theodore Eicke
Military
17-Oct-1892 26-Feb-1943 Inspector of Concentration Camps
Richard T. Ely
Economist
13-Apr-1854 4-Oct-1943 Introduction to Political Economy
Edsel Ford
Business
6-Nov-1893 26-May-1943 President of Ford, 1919-43
Dwight Frye
Actor
22-Feb-1899 7-Nov-1943 Renfield in 1931 Dracula
Mildred Fish Harnack
Spy
16-Sep-1902 16-Feb-1943 Guillotined by the Gestapo
Lorenz Hart
Songwriter
2-May-1895 22-Nov-1943 Lyricist, Rodgers and Hart
David Hilbert
Mathematician
23-Jan-1862 14-Feb-1943 Hilbert Space
Arthur Cardinal Hinsley
Religion
25-Aug-1865 17-Mar-1943 Archbishop of Westminster, 1935-43
James P. Hogan
Film Director
21-Sep-1890 4-Nov-1943 Bulldog Drummond films
Leslie Howard
Actor
3-Apr-1893 1-Jun-1943 Pygmalion
W. W. Jacobs
Author
8-Sep-1863 1-Sep-1943 The Monkey's Paw
Paul B. Johnson, Sr.
Politician
23-Mar-1880 26-Dec-1943 Governor of Mississippi, 1940-43
John Harvey Kellogg
Doctor
26-Feb-1852 14-Dec-1943 Battle Creek Sanitarium
Albert Kingsbury
Engineer
23-Dec-1863 28-Jul-1943 Kingsbury thrust bearing
Nile Kinnick
Football
9-Jul-1918 2-Jun-1943 Winner, 1939 Heisman Trophy
Henri La Fontaine
Activist
22-Apr-1854 14-May-1943 Belgian activist, Nobel Prize recipient
Karl Landsteiner
Scientist
14-Jun-1868 26-Jun-1943 Discovered blood typing
Ben B. Lindsey
Judge
25-Nov-1869 26-Mar-1943 Created the first juvenile court
Montagu Love
Actor
15-Mar-1877 17-May-1943 British character actor
Frank O. Lowden
Politician
26-Jan-1861 20-Mar-1943 Governor of Illinois, 1917-21
A. Lawrence Lowell
Educator
1-Jan-1856 6-Jan-1943 President, Harvard University, 1909-33
Lon D. Marrs
Politician
1867 31-May-1943 Mayor of Amarillo, 1908-10, 1917-22
Tully Marshall
Actor
13-Apr-1864 10-Mar-1943 The Covered Wagon
Francis Sydney Marvin
Educator
6-Aug-1863 1943 The Living Past
Reginald McKenna
Politician
6-Jul-1863 6-Sep-1943 UK Home Secretary, 1911-15
J. P. Morgan, Jr.
Business
7-Sep-1867 13-Mar-1943 Banking magnate, J. P. Morgan & Co.
Jean Moulin
Government
20-Jun-1899 8-Jul-1943 Martyr of the French Resistance
James A. O'Gorman
Politician
5-May-1860 17-May-1943 US Senator from New York, 1911-17
Camillo Olivetti
Business
13-Aug-1868 4-Dec-1943 Founder of Olivetti SpA
Lynne Overman
Actor
19-Sep-1887 19-Feb-1943 Reap the Wild Wind
William Lyon Phelps
Critic
2-Jan-1865 21-Aug-1943 Essays on Modern Novelists
Henrik Pontoppidan
Author
24-Jul-1857 21-Aug-1943 Lucky Peter
Beatrix Potter
Artist
28-Jul-1866 22-Dec-1943 Peter Rabbit
James H. Price
Politician
7-Sep-1878 22-Nov-1943 Governor of Virginia, 1938-42
Sergei Rachmaninov
Composer
20-Mar-1873 28-Mar-1943 Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Max Reinhardt
Theater Director
9-Sep-1873 30-Oct-1943 Filmed A Midsummer Night's Dream
Friend Richardson
Politician
1-Dec-1865 6-Sep-1943 Governor of California, 1923-27
Sir Charles G. D. Roberts
Poet
10-Jan-1860 26-Nov-1943 Earth's Enigmas
Kermit Roosevelt
Relative
10-Oct-1889 4-Jun-1943 Theodore Roosevelt's son
Daniel C. Roper
Government
1-Apr-1867 11-Apr-1943 US Commerce Secretary, 1933-38
Frank Schlesinger
Astronomer
11-May-1871 10-Jul-1943 Stellar parallaxes
John Frank Stevens
Engineer
25-Apr-1853 2-Jun-1943 Chief engineer of the Panama Canal
Helen Taft
First Lady
2-Jun-1861 22-May-1943 Wife of US President William Howard Taft
Nikola Tesla
Inventor
10-Jul-1856 7-Jan-1943 Invented alternating current
Conrad Veidt
Actor
22-Jan-1893 3-Apr-1943 Maj. Strasser in Casablanca
Fats Waller
Jazz Musician
21-May-1904 15-Dec-1943 Influential jazz pianist
Simone Weil
Philosopher
3-Feb-1909 24-Aug-1943 The Iliad, or the Poem of Force
Alexander Woollcott
Critic
18-Jan-1887 23-Jan-1943 The Man Who Came to Dinner
Isoroku Yamamoto
Military
4-Apr-1884 18-Apr-1943 Commander of the Japanese Navy
Pieter Zeeman
Physicist
25-May-1865 9-Oct-1943 Discovered Zeeman Effect


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