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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Frances Alda
Singer
31-May-1879 18-Sep-1952 Operatic soprano, NY Metropolitan Opera
Sara Allgood
Actor
31-Oct-1879 13-Sep-1950 How Green Was My Valley
Emile Argand
Geologist
6-Jan-1879 14-Sep-1940 Theory of embryotectonics
Nancy Astor
Politician
19-May-1879 2-May-1964 First woman in the House of Commons
Hugh Bancroft
Publisher
13-Sep-1879 17-Oct-1933 President of Dow Jones, 1928-31
Ethel Barrymore
Actor
15-Aug-1879 18-Jun-1959 None But the Lonely Heart
Lord Beaverbrook
Business
25-May-1879 9-Jun-1964 Media mogul, UK cabinet minister
Thomas Beecham
Conductor
29-Apr-1879 8-Mar-1961 Founder, London and Royal Philharmonics
Clem Bevans
Actor
16-Oct-1879 11-Aug-1963 Saboteur
William Beveridge
Economist
5-Mar-1879 16-Mar-1963 Social Insurance and Allied Services
Emmet D. Boyle
Politician
26-Jul-1879 3-Jan-1926 Governor of Nevada, 1915-23
Lane Bryant
Fashion Designer
1-Dec-1879 26-Sep-1951 Plus-size designer
Usher L. Burdick
Politician
21-Feb-1879 19-Aug-1960 Congressman from North Dakota
James Branch Cabell
Novelist
14-Apr-1879 5-May-1958 Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice
Clarence Cannon
Politician
11-Apr-1879 12-May-1964 Congressman from Missouri, 1923-64
E. E. Clive
Actor
28-Aug-1879 6-Jun-1940 Tenney in Bulldog Drummond
Grace Coolidge
First Lady
3-Jan-1879 8-Jul-1957 Wife of US President Calvin Coolidge
Jane Darwell
Actor
15-Oct-1879 13-Aug-1967 The bird woman in Mary Poppins
William Duncan
Actor
16-Dec-1879 8-Feb-1961 Silent film actor
Gus Edwards
Songwriter
18-Aug-1879 7-Nov-1945 By the Light of the Silvery Moon
Albert Einstein
Physicist
14-Mar-1879 18-Apr-1955 Theory of relativity
James A. Elkins
Attorney
25-Sep-1879 7-May-1972 Vinson & Elkins
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Author
17-Feb-1879 9-Nov-1958 Understood Betsy
Mary Forbes
Actor
30-Dec-1879 22-Jul-1974 Character actress
E. M. Forster
Author
1-Jan-1879 7-Jun-1970 Howards End
William Fox
Film/TV Producer
1-Jan-1879 8-May-1952 Founder of 20th Century Fox
Guy M. Gillette
Politician
3-Feb-1879 3-Mar-1973 US Senator from Iowa, 1949-55
Sydney Greenstreet
Actor
27-Dec-1879 18-Jan-1954 Kaspar Gutman in The Maltese Falcon
Robert Greig
Actor
27-Dec-1879 27-Jun-1958 Sullivan's Travels
Otto Hahn
Chemist
8-Mar-1879 28-Jul-1968 Demonstrated fission
Walter Hampden
Actor
30-Jun-1879 11-Jun-1955 Prominent American theater actor
Hamilton Harty
Conductor
4-Dec-1879 19-Feb-1941 Principal Conductor, The Hallé, 1920-34
Will H. Hays
Business
5-Nov-1879 7-Mar-1954 The Hays Production Code
Joe Hill
Labor Leader
7-Oct-1879 19-Nov-1915 Labor leader, convicted of murder
Miller Huggins
Baseball
27-Mar-1879 25-Sep-1929 Yankees Manager, 1918-29
John Ireland
Composer
13-Aug-1879 12-Jun-1962 The Holy Boy
William M. Jardine
Educator
16-Jan-1879 17-Jan-1955 US Secretary of Agriculture, 1925-29
Leon Jouhaux
Labor Leader
1-Jul-1879 28-Apr-1954 Union leader, Nobel Prize recipient
Paul Klee
Painter
18-Dec-1879 29-Jun-1940 German-Swiss abstract painter
Hans Heinrich Lammers
Government
27-May-1879 4-Jan-1962 Chief of the Reich Chancellery
David Landau
Actor
9-Mar-1879 20-Sep-1935 Judge Priest
Wanda Landowska
Musician
5-Jul-1879 16-Aug-1959 Harpsichord virtuoso
Max von Laue
Physicist
9-Oct-1879 23-Apr-1960 X-ray crystallography
Vachel Lindsay
Poet
10-Nov-1879 5-Dec-1931 The Congo and Other Poems
Walter Long
Actor
5-Mar-1879 4-Jul-1952 The Birth of a Nation
Mabel Dodge Luhan
Author
26-Feb-1879 13-Aug-1962 Movers and Shakers
Joseph Lyons
Head of State
15-Sep-1879 7-Apr-1939 Prime Minister of Australia, 1932-39
Edward Martin
Politician
18-Sep-1879 19-Mar-1967 Governor and Senator from Pennsylvania
Joe Masseria
Criminal
1879 15-Apr-1931 NY mobster, killed by Luciano
Jim Nance McCord
Politician
17-Mar-1879 2-Sep-1968 Governor of Tennessee, 1945-49
Billy Mitchell
Military
28-Dec-1879 19-Feb-1936 Proponent of air power
Talbot Mundy
Novelist
23-Apr-1879 5-Aug-1940 King of the Khyber Rifles
Alla Nazimova
Actor
22-May-1879 13-Jul-1945 Blood and Sand
Warner Oland
Actor
3-Oct-1879 6-Aug-1938 Charlie Chan
Joseph Medill Patterson
Business
6-Jan-1879 26-May-1946 Founder of New York Daily News
Raymond Pearl
Biologist
3-Jun-1879 17-Nov-1940 Biogerontology
Francis Picabia
Painter
22-Jan-1879 30-Nov-1953 Cubist, Dadaist
Paul Porcasi
Actor
1879 8-Aug-1946 Character actor, Broadway and film
John J. Raskob
Business
12-Mar-1879 14-Oct-1950 Built the Empire State Building
H. B. Reese
Business
24-May-1879 16-May-1956 Peanut butter cups
Ottorino Respighi
Composer
9-Jul-1879 18-Apr-1936 Belfagor
Owen Willans Richardson
Physicist
26-Apr-1879 15-Feb-1959 Electron emissions of metals
Sabato Rodia
Artist
12-Feb-1879 19-Jul-1965 Watts Towers
Will Rogers
Comic
04-Nov-1879 15-Aug-1935 American Cowboy, Entertainer, Humorist
Peyton Rous
Scientist
5-Oct-1879 16-Feb-1970 Blood banks and carcinogenic viruses
Margaret Sanger
Activist
14-Sep-1879 6-Sep-1966 Birth control advocate
Jouett Shouse
Politician
10-Dec-1879 2-Jun-1968 Congressman from Kansas, 1915-19
Adolphus Staton
Military
28-Aug-1879 4-Jun-1964 US Navy admiral
Edward Steichen
Photographer
27-Mar-1879 25-Mar-1973 Photo-Secessionist
Wallace Stevens
Poet
2-Oct-1879 2-Aug-1955 Harmonium
Lewis Stone
Actor
15-Nov-1879 12-Sep-1953 Judge James Hardy
Ernest Thesiger
Actor
15-Jan-1879 14-Jan-1961 Dr. Pretorius in Bride of Frankenstein
Leon Trotsky
Activist
26-Oct-1879 21-Aug-1940 Bolshevik exile, murdered by Stalin
Franz von Papen
Diplomat
29-Oct-1879 2-May-1969 Nazi ambassador
Lucile Watson
Actor
27-May-1879 24-Jun-1962 Watch on the Rhine
Joseph Wirth
Head of State
6-Sep-1879 3-Jan-1956 German Chancellor
Robert E. Wood
Business
13-Jun-1879 6-Nov-1969 Chairman of Sears, 1939-54
Emiliano Zapata
Activist
8-Aug-1879 10-Apr-1919 Mexican patriot, revolutionary


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