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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Charles McLean Andrews
Historian
22-Feb-1863 9-Sep-1943 The Colonial Period of American History
Leo Baekeland
Scientist
14-Nov-1863 23-Feb-1944 Father of plastics
Edward Bok
Author
9-Oct-1863 9-Jan-1930 Editor of Ladies' Home Journal
John Bunny
Actor
21-Sep-1863 26-Apr-1915 Comic starred in over 200 short films
Samuel P. Bush
Relative
4-Oct-1863 8-Feb-1948 Father of Senator Prescott Bush
Annie Jump Cannon
Astronomer
11-Dec-1863 13-Apr-1941 Census-taker of the sky
Frederick Carder
Artist
18-Sep-1863 10-Dec-1963 "Aurene" glass artist
Sidney J. Catts
Politician
31-Jul-1863 9-Mar-1936 Governor of Florida, 1917-21
Constantine P. Cavafy
Poet
29-Apr-1863 29-Apr-1933 Greek poet in Alexandria
Austen Chamberlain
Politician
16-Oct-1863 16-Mar-1937 British pol, Nobel Prize recipient
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Author
12-Mar-1863 1-Mar-1938 Anarchist Dictator of Fiume, 1919-20
Louis L. Emmerson
Politician
27-Dec-1863 4-Feb-1941 Governor of Illinois, 1929-33
Franz Ferdinand
Royalty
18-Dec-1863 28-Jun-1914 Assassination touched off WWI
Henry Ford
Business
30-Jul-1863 7-Apr-1947 Founder of Ford Motors
David Lloyd George
Head of State
17-Jan-1863 26-Mar-1945 UK Prime Minister, 1916-22
Joseph R. Grundy
Politician
13-Jan-1863 3-Mar-1961 US Senator from Pennsylvania, 1929-30
Hugo Haase
Politician
29-Sep-1863 7-Nov-1919 German parliamentarian, Marxist, pacifist
William Randolph Hearst
Business
29-Apr-1863 14-Aug-1951 Newspaper magnate
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
Anthony Hope
Novelist
9-Feb-1863 8-Jul-1933 The Prisoner of Zenda
Alanson B. Houghton
Diplomat
10-Oct-1863 15-Sep-1941 US Ambassador to the UK, 1925-29
W. W. Jacobs
Author
8-Sep-1863 1-Sep-1943 The Monkey's Paw
W. S. Jennings
Politician
24-Mar-1863 27-Feb-1920 Governor of Florida, 1901-05
Casey Jones
Daredevil
14-Mar-1863 30-Apr-1900 Railroad hero, sort of
Albert Kingsbury
Engineer
23-Dec-1863 28-Jul-1943 Kingsbury thrust bearing
Arthur Machen
Author
3-Mar-1863 30-Mar-1947 Welsh horror novelist, The Great God Pan
Francis Sydney Marvin
Educator
6-Aug-1863 1943 The Living Past
Wilhelm Marx
Head of State
15-Jan-1863 5-Aug-1946 German Chancellor 1923-25, 1926-28
Pietro Mascagni
Composer
7-Dec-1863 2-Aug-1945 Cavalleria Rusticana
William G. McAdoo
Politician
31-Oct-1863 1-Feb-1941 US Secretary of the Treasury, 1913-18
Reginald McKenna
Politician
6-Jul-1863 6-Sep-1943 UK Home Secretary, 1911-15
George Herbert Mead
Philosopher
27-Feb-1863 26-Apr-1931 Pragmatist, social behaviorist
Kelly Miller
Sociologist
23-Jul-1863 29-Dec-1939 Out of the House of Bondage
Edvard Munch
Painter
12-Dec-1863 23-Jan-1944 Scream
Margaret Murray
Archaeologist
13-Jul-1863 13-Nov-1963 Egyptologist, mother of Wicca
A. Edward Newton
Author
1863 29-Sep-1940 A Magnificent Farce
Richard F. Outcault
Cartoonist
14-Jan-1863 25-Sep-1928 Yellow Kid
James Harvey Robinson
Historian
29-Jun-1863 16-Feb-1936 The Mind in the Making
Henry Royce
Engineer
27-Mar-1863 22-Apr-1933 Designed the first Rolls-Royce
George Santayana
Philosopher
16-Dec-1863 26-Sep-1952 The Realms of Being
Richard W. Sears
Business
7-Dec-1863 28-Sep-1914 Sears, Roebuck founder
Alison Skipworth
Actor
25-Jul-1863 5-Jul-1952 Broadway and character actress
C. Aubrey Smith
Actor
21-Jul-1863 20-Dec-1948 The Four Feathers
Jessie Willcox Smith
Artist
6-Sep-1863 3-May-1935 The Water-Babies illustrator
Konstantin Stanislavsky
Actor
5-Jan-1863 7-Aug-1938 Inventor of "method" acting
Gene Stratton Porter
Novelist
17-Aug-1863 7-Dec-1924 A Girl of the Limberlost
Ernest Thayer
Poet
14-Aug-1863 21-Aug-1940 Casey at the Bat
Zeffie Tilbury
Actor
20-Nov-1863 24-Jul-1950 The Grapes of Wrath
Henri Van De Velde
Architect
3-Apr-1863 15-Oct-1957 Art Nouveau architect
Felix Weingartner
Conductor
2-Jun-1863 7-May-1942 Conductor, Vienna Philharmonic, 1919-27




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