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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Samuel Hopkins Adams
Journalist
26-Jan-1871 15-Nov-1958 The Great American Fraud
Newton D. Baker
Politician
3-Dec-1871 25-Dec-1937 US Secretary of War, 1916-21
Giacomo Balla
Painter
17-Jul-1871 1-Mar-1958 Italian futurist painter
Robert Worth Bingham
Business
8-Nov-1871 18-Dec-1937 Publisher of The Louisville Courier-Journal
Edmund Breese
Actor
18-Jun-1871 6-Apr-1936 Duck Soup
Walter Bradford Cannon
Scientist
19-Oct-1871 1-Oct-1945 Fight or flight response
Winston Churchill
Novelist
10-Nov-1871 12-Mar-1947 Early 20th century American novelist
Fred P. Cone
Politician
28-Sep-1871 28-Jul-1948 Governor of Florida, 1937-41
Stephen Crane
Novelist
1-Nov-1871 5-Jun-1900 The Red Badge of Courage
W. H. Davies
Poet
3-Jul-1871 26-Sep-1940 Tramp-Poet, The Soul's Destroyer
Grazia Deledda
Author
27-Sep-1871 15-Aug-1936 Novels of Sardinia
Hugh M. Dorsey
Politician
10-Jul-1871 11-Jun-1948 Governor of Georgia, 1917-21
Theodore Dreiser
Novelist
27-Aug-1871 28-Dec-1945 An American Tragedy
Friedrich Ebert
Head of State
4-Feb-1871 28-Feb-1925 German Chancellor, 1918-19
Victor Grignard
Chemist
6-May-1871 13-Dec-1935 Grignard Reaction
Ralph Hodgson
Poet
9-Sep-1871 3-Nov-1962 The Skylark
Louise Homer
Singer
30-Apr-1871 6-May-1947 Operatic contralto
Louis McHenry Howe
Government
14-Jan-1871 18-Apr-1936 Close advisor to FDR
Cordell Hull
Government
2-Oct-1871 23-Jul-1955 US Secretary of State, 1933-44
James Weldon Johnson
Author
17-Jun-1871 26-Jun-1938 God's Trombones
Alma Kruger
Actor
13-Sep-1871 5-Apr-1960 Molly Byrd, Dr. Kildare's head nurse
Everett J. Lake
Politician
8-Feb-1871 16-Sep-1948 Governor of Connecticut, 1921-23
Rosa Luxemburg
Activist
5-Mar-1871 15-Jan-1919 Co-Founder, Communist Party of Germany
William McDougall
Psychologist
22-Jun-1871 28-Nov-1938 An Introduction to Social Psychology
Willem Mengelberg
Conductor
28-Mar-1871 21-Mar-1951 Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, 1895-1945
John W. Nordstrom
Business
15-Feb-1871 1-Oct-1963 Founder of Nordstrom
Vernon Louis Parrington
Historian
3-Aug-1871 16-Jun-1929 Main Currents in American Thought
John G. Pollard
Politician
4-Aug-1871 28-Apr-1937 Governor of Virginia, 1930-34
Marcel Proust
Author
10-Jul-1871 18-Nov-1922 In Search of Lost Time
Rasputin
Religion
23-Jan-1871 30-Dec-1916 Russia's Greatest Love Machine
Georges Rouault
Painter
27-May-1871 13-Feb-1958 Expressionist painter of clowns, Christs
Amos Rusie
Baseball
30-May-1871 6-Dec-1942 The Hoosier Thunderbolt
Ernest Rutherford
Physicist
30-Aug-1871 19-Oct-1937 Father of nuclear physics
Frank Schlesinger
Astronomer
11-May-1871 10-Jul-1943 Stellar parallaxes
Aleksandr Scriabin
Composer
25-Dec-1871 14-Apr-1915 Prometheus: The Poem of Fire
Lee Shubert
Theatre Producer
25-Mar-1871 25-Dec-1953 Broke the Erlanger theater syndicate
Henry Stephenson
Actor
16-Apr-1871 24-Apr-1956 The Prince and the Pauper
John Millington Synge
Playwright
16-Apr-1871 24-Mar-1909 The Playboy of the Western World
Charles A. Templeton
Politician
3-Mar-1871 15-Aug-1955 Governor of Connecticut, 1923-25
Paul Valéry
Poet
30-Oct-1871 20-Jul-1945 La Jeune Parque
Felix M. Warburg
Business
14-Jan-1871 20-Oct-1937 Kuhn, Loeb and Co.
Pop Warner
Football
5-Apr-1871 7-Sep-1954 Coach and kids' football namesake
Margaret Floy Washburn
Psychologist
25-Jul-1871 29-Oct-1939 First female American psychologist
Frank B. Willis
Politician
28-Dec-1871 30-Mar-1928 Governor and Senator from Ohio
Orville Wright
Aviator
19-Aug-1871 30-Jan-1948 Co-Inventor of the airplane
Fielding H. Yost
Football
30-Apr-1871 20-Apr-1946 Legendary UMich Head Coach


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