| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Charles Alderton |
Inventor |
21-Jun-1857 |
29-May-1941 |
Invented Dr Pepper |
| Alfonso XIII |
Royalty |
17-May-1886 |
28-Feb-1941 |
King of Spain, 1902-31 |
| Sherwood Anderson |
Author |
13-Sep-1876 |
8-Mar-1941 |
The Triumph of the Egg |
| Robert Baden-Powell |
Military |
22-Feb-1857 |
8-Jan-1941 |
Founder of the Boy Scout movement |
| James A. Baker |
Attorney |
10-Jan-1857 |
2-Aug-1941 |
Baker Botts |
| Frederick G. Banting |
Scientist |
14-Nov-1891 |
21-Feb-1941 |
Discovered insulin |
| Hans Berger |
Physicist |
21-May-1873 |
1-Jun-1941 |
Electroencephalogram |
| Henri Bergson |
Philosopher |
18-Oct-1859 |
4-Jan-1941 |
L'Évolution Créatrice |
| Gutzon Borglum |
Sculptor |
25-Mar-1867 |
6-Mar-1941 |
Mount Rushmore |
| Louis D. Brandeis |
Judge |
13-Nov-1856 |
5-Oct-1941 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1916-39 |
| Annie Jump Cannon |
Astronomer |
11-Dec-1863 |
13-Apr-1941 |
Census-taker of the sky |
| Louis Chevrolet |
Auto Racing |
25-Dec-1878 |
6-Jun-1941 |
Designed the first Chevrolet |
| A. J. Clark |
Scientist |
19-Aug-1885 |
30-Jul-1941 |
Drug responses |
| Harry M. Daugherty |
Government |
26-Jan-1860 |
12-Oct-1941 |
US Attorney General, 1921-24 |
| Louis L. Emmerson |
Politician |
27-Dec-1863 |
4-Feb-1941 |
Governor of Illinois, 1929-33 |
| William L. Emmet |
Engineer |
10-Jul-1859 |
26-Sep-1941 |
All-electric warships |
| Stanley Fields |
Actor |
20-May-1883 |
23-Apr-1941 |
Way Out West |
| Sir James Frazer |
Anthropologist |
1-Jan-1854 |
7-May-1941 |
The Golden Bough |
| Lou Gehrig |
Baseball |
19-Jun-1903 |
2-Jun-1941 |
Played 2,130 consecutive games |
| Frederick Griffith |
Biologist |
c. 1877 |
16-Apr-1941 |
Discovered the transforming principle |
| Franz Guertner |
Government |
26-Aug-1881 |
29-Jan-1941 |
Reich Minister of Justice |
| Hamilton Harty |
Conductor |
4-Dec-1879 |
19-Feb-1941 |
Principal Conductor, The Hallé, 1920-34 |
| Willis C. Hawley |
Politician |
5-May-1864 |
24-Jul-1941 |
Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act |
| Alanson B. Houghton |
Diplomat |
10-Oct-1863 |
15-Sep-1941 |
US Ambassador to the UK, 1925-29 |
| Frank L. Houx |
Politician |
12-Dec-1854 |
3-Apr-1941 |
Governor of Wyoming, 1917-19 |
| Howard Johnson |
Songwriter |
2-Jun-1887 |
1-May-1941 |
We All Scream for Ice Cream |
| James Joyce |
Author |
2-Feb-1882 |
13-Jan-1941 |
Ulysses |
| Ernest Just |
Biologist |
14-Aug-1883 |
27-Oct-1941 |
Cell surfaces and egg fertilization |
| Gus Kahn |
Songwriter |
6-Nov-1886 |
8-Oct-1941 |
Ain't We Got Fun? |
| Maurice Leblanc |
Novelist |
11-Dec-1864 |
6-Nov-1941 |
Creator of Arsène Lupin |
| Tullio Levi-Civita |
Mathematician |
29-Mar-1873 |
29-Dec-1941 |
Explored tensor calculus and PDE's |
| E. W. Marland |
Politician |
8-May-1874 |
3-Oct-1941 |
Governor of Oklahoma, 1935-39 |
| William G. McAdoo |
Politician |
31-Oct-1863 |
1-Feb-1941 |
US Secretary of the Treasury, 1913-18 |
| Helen Morgan |
Actor |
2-Aug-1900 |
9-Oct-1941 |
Show Boat |
| Jelly Roll Morton |
Jazz Musician |
20-Oct-1890 |
10-Jul-1941 |
Jazz composer, pianist |
| Walther Nernst |
Chemist |
25-Jun-1864 |
18-Nov-1941 |
Third Law of Thermodynamics |
| Ignace Paderewski |
Pianist |
18-Nov-1860 |
29-Jun-1941 |
Polish pianist and composer |
| Joe Penner |
Radio Personality |
11-Nov-1904 |
10-Jan-1941 |
Wanna buy a duck? |
| John S. Plaskett |
Astronomer |
17-Nov-1865 |
17-Oct-1941 |
Plaskett's star |
| Edwin Stanton Porter |
Film Director |
21-Apr-1870 |
30-Apr-1941 |
The Great Train Robbery |
| Ludwig Quidde |
Activist |
23-Mar-1858 |
4-Mar-1941 |
German pacifist, Nobel Prize recipient |
| Abe Reles |
Criminal |
1906 |
12-Nov-1941 |
Hitman for Murder, Inc. |
| Elizabeth Madox Roberts |
Author |
30-Oct-1881 |
13-Mar-1941 |
The Great Meadow |
| Charles Edward Russell |
Author |
25-Sep-1860 |
23-Apr-1941 |
The Greatest Trust in the World |
| Paul Sabatier |
Chemist |
5-Nov-1854 |
14-Aug-1941 |
Heterogeneous catalysis |
| Pitts Sanborn |
Critic |
1878 |
7-Mar-1941 |
Music critic for New York Globe |
| Victor Schertzinger |
Film Director |
8-Apr-1890 |
26-Oct-1941 |
Road to Singapore |
| Reed Smoot |
Politician |
10-Jan-1862 |
9-Feb-1941 |
Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act |
| Hans Spemann |
Scientist |
27-Jun-1869 |
9-Sep-1941 |
Experimental embryology |
| James Speyer |
Business |
22-Jul-1861 |
31-Oct-1941 |
New York Banker |
| Eugene O. Sykes |
Government |
16-Jul-1876 |
21-Jun-1941 |
First Chairman of the FCC, 1934-35 |
| Rabindranath Tagore |
Poet |
7-May-1861 |
7-Aug-1941 |
Gitanjali |
| Willis Van Devanter |
Judge |
17-Apr-1859 |
8-Feb-1941 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1911-37 |
| Chris Watson |
Head of State |
9-Apr-1867 |
18-Nov-1941 |
Prime Minister of Australia, 1904 |
| Kaiser Wilhelm |
Head of State |
27-Jan-1859 |
4-Jun-1941 |
Last of the German emperors |
| Virginia Woolf |
Novelist |
25-Jan-1882 |
28-Mar-1941 |
Suicidal English novelist |
