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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Cleveland Abbe
Physicist
3-Dec-1838 28-Oct-1916 America's first weatherman
Sholem Aleichem
Author
2-Mar-1859 13-May-1916 Fiddler on the Roof
Klas Pontus Arnoldson
Journalist
27-Oct-1844 20-Feb-1916 Helped to cleave Norway and Sweden
Umberto Boccioni
Painter
19-Oct-1882 17-Aug-1916 Italian Futurist painter and sculptor
Charles Booth
Sociologist
30-Mar-1840 23-Nov-1916 Studied poverty in London
Roger Casement
Activist
1-Sep-1864 3-Aug-1916 Irish revolutionary, gay diarist
Rubén Darío
Poet
18-Jan-1867 6-Feb-1916 Cantos de vida y esperanza
Henry G. Davis
Politician
16-Nov-1823 11-Mar-1916 US Senator from West Virginia, 1871-83
Richard Harding Davis
Author
18-Apr-1864 11-Apr-1916 Yellow-era journalist
Richard Dedekind
Mathematician
6-Oct-1831 12-Feb-1916 Developed theory of irrational numbers
Thomas Eakins
Painter
25-Jul-1844 25-Jun-1916 Realist painter, The Gross Clinic
José Echegaray
Playwright
19-Apr-1832 14-Sep-1916 Nobel Prizewinning Spanish dramatist
Enrique Granados
Composer
27-Jul-1867 24-Mar-1916 Goyescas
John A. Hill
Publisher
22-Feb-1858 24-Jan-1916 Co-Founder of the McGraw-Hill Companies
Victoriano Huerta
Head of State
23-Mar-1854 13-Jan-1916 El chacal President of Mexico, 1913-14
Ishi
Oddity
c. 1860 25-Mar-1916 Last of an extinct tribe
Henry James
Author
15-Apr-1843 28-Feb-1916 Portrait of a Lady
Benjamin Kidd
Sociologist
9-Sep-1858 2-Oct-1916 Social Evolution
Horatio Herbert Kitchener
Military
24-Jun-1850 5-Jun-1916 Field Marshal, Secretary of State for War
Joseph Rucker Lamar
Judge
15-Oct-1857 2-Jan-1916 US Supreme Court Justice, 1911-16
Jack London
Novelist
12-Jan-1876 22-Nov-1916 Call of the Wild
Percival Lowell
Astronomer
13-Mar-1855 12-Nov-1916 Predicted existence of planet Pluto
Ernst Mach
Physicist
18-Feb-1838 19-Feb-1916 Optical and sensory perceptualist
Sir Hiram Maxim
Inventor
5-Feb-1840 24-Nov-1916 Maxim machine gun
Ilya Mechnikov
Scientist
16-May-1845 16-Jul-1916 Researched the immune system
H. H. Munro
Novelist
18-Dec-1870 14-Nov-1916 Reginald
Sir William Ramsay
Chemist
2-Oct-1852 23-Jul-1916 Discovered noble gases
Rasputin
Religion
23-Jan-1871 30-Dec-1916 Russia's Greatest Love Machine
Odilon Redon
Artist
22-Apr-1840 6-Jul-1916 Symbolist charcoal artist
James Whitcomb Riley
Poet
7-Oct-1849 22-Jul-1916 The Hoosier Poet
Josiah Royce
Philosopher
20-Nov-1855 14-Sep-1916 The Religious Aspect of Philosophy
Mário de Sá-Carneiro
Poet
19-May-1890 26-Apr-1916 Dispersão
Karl Schwarzschild
Astronomer
9-Oct-1873 11-May-1916 Black holes, Schwarzschild radius
Henry Sherwin
Business
27-Sep-1842 26-Jun-1916 Founder of Sherwin-Williams
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Author
5-May-1846 15-Nov-1916 Quo Vadis?
Torakusu Yamaha
Business
20-Apr-1851 8-Aug-1916 Founder of Yamaha Corporation
Cole Younger
Criminal
15-Jan-1844 21-Mar-1916 The brains of the James-Younger Gang


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