| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known 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 |
