| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Edwin A. Abbott |
Author |
20-Dec-1838 |
12-Oct-1926 |
Flatland |
| William Bateson |
Biologist |
8-Aug-1861 |
8-Feb-1926 |
Founder of genetics |
| Henry S. Boutell |
Politician |
14-Mar-1856 |
11-Mar-1926 |
Congressman from Illinois, 1897-1911 |
| Emmet D. Boyle |
Politician |
26-Jul-1879 |
3-Jan-1926 |
Governor of Nevada, 1915-23 |
| Olympia Brown |
Activist |
5-Jan-1835 |
23-Oct-1926 |
Lady preacher and suffragette |
| John Browning |
Inventor |
23-Jan-1855 |
26-Nov-1926 |
Best gun designer of all time |
| Luther Burbank |
Botanist |
7-Mar-1849 |
11-Apr-1926 |
Botanist and plant breeder |
| Joseph Gurney Cannon |
Politician |
7-May-1836 |
12-Nov-1926 |
Speaker of the House, 1903-11 |
| Mary Cassatt |
Painter |
22-May-1843 |
14-Jun-1926 |
American impressionist, lived in Paris |
| Eugene V. Debs |
Labor Leader |
5-Nov-1855 |
20-Oct-1926 |
Labor leader ran for President five times |
| Cleveland H. Dodge |
Business |
1860 |
1926 |
Woodrow Wilson's financier and advisor |
| Sanford Ballard Dole |
Politician |
23-Apr-1844 |
9-Jun-1926 |
Governor of Hawaii, 1900-03 |
| Felix Dzerzhinsky |
Government |
11-Sep-1877 |
20-Jul-1926 |
The Black Pope of Bolshevism |
| Francis Edgeworth |
Mathematician |
8-Feb-1845 |
13-Feb-1926 |
Pure Theory of Taxation |
| Charles William Eliot |
Educator |
20-Mar-1834 |
22-Aug-1926 |
President, Harvard University, 1869-1909 |
| Rudolf Eucken |
Philosopher |
5-Jan-1846 |
14-Sep-1926 |
Individual and Society |
| Konstantin Fehrenbach |
Head of State |
11-Jan-1852 |
26-Mar-1926 |
German Chancellor 1920-21 |
| Antoni Gaudi |
Architect |
25-Jun-1852 |
10-Jun-1926 |
La Sagrada Família |
| Albert W. Gilchrist |
Politician |
15-Jan-1858 |
15-May-1926 |
Governor of Florida, 1909-13 |
| Camillo Golgi |
Scientist |
7-Jul-1843 |
21-Jan-1926 |
Structure of the nervous system |
| Harry Houdini |
Magician |
24-Mar-1874 |
31-Oct-1926 |
Best-known magician and debunker |
| Heike Kamerlingh Onnes |
Physicist |
21-Sep-1853 |
21-Feb-1926 |
Liquefied helium and discovered superconductivity |
| Paul Kammerer |
Biologist |
17-Aug-1880 |
23-Oct-1926 |
Proponent of Lamarckian inheritance |
| Alexander C. King |
Attorney |
7-Dec-1856 |
25-Jul-1926 |
US Solicitor General, 1918-20 |
| Emil Kraepelin |
Psychiatrist |
15-Feb-1856 |
7-Oct-1926 |
Manic depression and schizophrenia |
| Robert Todd Lincoln |
Politician |
1-Aug-1843 |
26-Jul-1926 |
US Secretary of War, 1881-85 |
| Joseph McKenna |
Judge |
10-Aug-1843 |
21-Nov-1926 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1898-1925 |
| Claude Monet |
Painter |
14-Nov-1840 |
5-Dec-1926 |
The Water Lilies |
| Annie Oakley |
Performance Artist |
13-Aug-1860 |
3-Nov-1926 |
Little Sure Shot |
| Gustav Otto |
Business |
12-Jan-1883 |
28-Feb-1926 |
Founder of BMW and Flottweg AG |
| Alton B. Parker |
Judge |
14-May-1852 |
10-May-1926 |
Chief Judge, NY Court of Appeals, 1898-1904 |
| Rainer Maria Rilke |
Poet |
04-Dec-1875 |
29-Dec-1926 |
Duino Elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus |
| E. W. Scripps |
Publisher |
18-Jun-1854 |
12-Mar-1926 |
Founder of UPI |
| Oscar S. Straus |
Diplomat |
23-Dec-1850 |
3-May-1926 |
Thrice Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire |
| Rudolph Valentino |
Actor |
6-May-1895 |
23-Aug-1926 |
Latin lover of the silent film era |
| John W. Weeks |
Politician |
11-Apr-1860 |
12-Jul-1926 |
US Secretary of War, 1921-25 |
| Israel Zangwill |
Playwright |
14-Feb-1864 |
1-Aug-1926 |
Children of the Ghetto |
