LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Alexander	Royalty	1-Aug-1893	25-Oct-1920	King of Greece, 1917-20
Edmund Barton	Head of State	18-Jan-1849	7-Jan-1920	First Prime Minister of Australia
Max Bruch	Composer	6-Jan-1838	2-Oct-1920	Kol Nidrei
Venustiano Carranza	Head of State	29-Dec-1859	21-May-1920	President of Mexico, 1917-20
Ray Chapman	Baseball	15-Jan-1891	17-Aug-1920	Fatally hit by pitch
W. Murray Crane	Politician	23-Apr-1853	2-Oct-1920	Governor and Senator from Massachusetts
Reginald De Koven	Composer	3-Apr-1859	16-Jan-1920	Oh, Promise Me
Karl Faberge	Artist	30-May-1846	24-Sep-1920	Maker of jewelry and gem eggs
T. R. Fraser	Scientist	5-Feb-1841	4-Jan-1920	Made poison and venom into medicine
George Gipp	Football	18-Feb-1895	14-Dec-1920	Win one for the Gipper
William C. Gorgas	Doctor	3-Oct-1854	3-Jul-1920	Malaria and yellow fever
Charles Griffes	Composer	17-Sep-1884	8-Apr-1920	The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan
Louise Imogen Guiney	Poet	7-Jan-1861	2-Nov-1920	A Roadside Harp
Isaias W. Hellman	Business	3-Oct-1842	9-Apr-1920	Los Angeles banker
William Dean Howells	Author	1-Mar-1837	11-May-1920	The Rise of Silas Lapham
W. S. Jennings	Politician	24-Mar-1863	27-Feb-1920	Governor of Florida, 1901-05
Edward Jones	Journalist	1856	1920	Jones of Dow Jones
Aleksandr Kolchak	Military	16-Nov-1874	7-Feb-1920	Supreme Ruler of the Russian State, 1918-20
W. C. Minor	Scholar	Jun-1834	26-Mar-1920	Prolific OED contributor
Amedeo Modigliani	Sculptor	12-Jul-1884	24-Jan-1920	Cubist Italian sculptor and painter
Levi P. Morton	Politician	16-May-1824	16-May-1920	Vice President under Benjamin Harrison
Alexander Muirhead	Physicist	26-May-1848	13-Dec-1920	Submarine cable telegraphy
Robert E. Peary	Explorer	6-May-1856	20-Feb-1920	First to reach the North Pole
Eleanor H. Porter	Novelist	19-Dec-1868	21-May-1920	Pollyanna
Srinivasa Ramanujan	Mathematician	22-Dec-1887	26-Apr-1920	Self-educated mathematician
John Reed	Activist	22-Oct-1887	19-Oct-1920	Ten Days That Shook the World
Augusto Righi	Physicist	27-Aug-1850	8-Jun-1920	Electromagnetic waves
Jacob Schiff	Business	10-Jan-1847	25-Sep-1920	New York banker
Olive Schreiner	Novelist	24-Mar-1855	11-Dec-1920	The Story of an African Farm
Theodore Vail	Business	16-Jul-1845	16-Apr-1920	Founder of AT&T
Max Weber	Sociologist	21-Apr-1864	14-Jun-1920	The Protestant Ethic
James Wilson	Government	16-Aug-1835	26-Aug-1920	US Secretary of Agriculture, 1897-1913
Wilhelm Wundt	Psychologist	16-Aug-1832	31-Aug-1920	Father of Experimental Psychology

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