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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Alois Alzheimer
Doctor
14-Jun-1864 19-Dec-1915 Alzheimer's Disease
Margot Asquith
Socialite
2-Feb-1864 28-Jul-1945 Wife of Herbert Henry Asquith
John Jacob Astor
Philanthropist
13-Jul-1864 15-Apr-1912 Died aboard the Titanic
George Barbier
Actor
19-Nov-1864 19-Jul-1945 Life Begins at Forty
Jim Beam
Business
1864 1947 Bourbon baron
Nellie Bly
Journalist
5-May-1864 27-Jan-1922 Ten Days in a Mad-House
Frank B. Brandegee
Politician
8-Jul-1864 14-Oct-1924 US Senator, committed suicide
William Bridgeman
Politician
31-Dec-1864 14-Aug-1935 UK Home Secretary, 1922-24
Roger Casement
Activist
1-Sep-1864 3-Aug-1916 Irish revolutionary, gay diarist
Robert Cecil
Politician
14-Sep-1864 24-Nov-1958 Diplomat, Nobel Prize recipient
Camille Claudel
Sculptor
8-Dec-1864 19-Oct-1943 French sculptor, mistress of Rodin
Frances Cleveland
First Lady
21-Jul-1864 29-Oct-1947 Wife of US President Grover Cleveland
Charles Cooley
Educator
17-Aug-1864 8-May-1929 Looking-glass self
Richard Harding Davis
Author
18-Apr-1864 11-Apr-1916 Yellow-era journalist
Thomas Dixon
Author
11-Jan-1864 3-Apr-1946 The Clansman
Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti
Business
9-Apr-1864 13-Jan-1930 England's electrical grid
Alfred Fried
Activist
11-Nov-1864 5-May-1921 Peace activist, Nobel Prize recipient
William S. Hart
Actor
6-Dec-1864 23-Jun-1946 Old-time silent movie cowboy
Willis C. Hawley
Politician
5-May-1864 24-Jul-1941 Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
Erik Axel Karlfeldt
Poet
20-Jul-1864 8-Apr-1931 Songs of the wilderness and love
Franklin K. Lane
Government
15-Jul-1864 18-May-1921 US Secretary of the Interior, 1913-20
Robert Lansing
Government
17-Oct-1864 30-Oct-1928 US Secretary of State, 1915-20
Maurice Leblanc
Novelist
11-Dec-1864 6-Nov-1941 Creator of Arsène Lupin
Louis Lumière
Inventor
5-Oct-1864 6-Jun-1948 Inventor of motion pictures
Jack Mack
Business
27-Oct-1864 14-Mar-1924 Founder of Mack Trucks
Tully Marshall
Actor
13-Apr-1864 10-Mar-1943 The Covered Wagon
Hermann Minkowski
Mathematician
22-Jun-1864 12-Jan-1909 Minkowski space
Paul Elmer More
Scholar
12-Dec-1864 9-Mar-1937 Shelburne Essays
Walther Nernst
Chemist
25-Jun-1864 18-Nov-1941 Third Law of Thermodynamics
Truman H. Newberry
Politician
5-Nov-1864 3-Oct-1945 US Senator from Michigan, 1919-22
Ransom E. Olds
Business
3-Jun-1864 26-Aug-1950 Founder of Nucor and Oldsmobile
Robert E. Park
Sociologist
14-Feb-1864 7-Feb-1944 Race and Culture
Jessie Ralph
Actor
5-Nov-1864 30-May-1944 San Francisco
Alvah C. Roebuck
Business
9-Jun-1864 18-Jun-1948 Sears Roebuck founder
Alfred Stieglitz
Photographer
1-Jan-1864 13-Jul-1946 Photo-Secessionist
Richard Strauss
Composer
11-Jun-1864 8-Sep-1949 Also sprach Zarathustra
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Painter
24-Nov-1864 9-Sep-1901 Dwarfish painter of France's Moulin Rouge
Miguel de Unamuno
Philosopher
29-Sep-1864 31-Dec-1936 El Cristo de Velázquez
James E. Watson
Politician
2-Nov-1864 29-Jul-1948 US Senator from Indiana, 1916-33
Max Weber
Sociologist
21-Apr-1864 14-Jun-1920 The Protestant Ethic
Frank Wedekind
Playwright
24-Jul-1864 9-Mar-1918 Playwright born before his time
William F. Whiting
Business
20-Jul-1864 31-Aug-1936 US Commerce Secretary, 1928-29
Wilhelm Wien
Physicist
13-Jan-1864 30-Aug-1928 Blackbody radiation
Israel Zangwill
Playwright
14-Feb-1864 1-Aug-1926 Children of the Ghetto
Arthur Zimmermann
Government
5-Oct-1864 6-Jun-1940 Zimmerman Telegram




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