| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
| Hertha Ayrton |
Physicist |
28-Apr-1854 |
26-Aug-1923 |
Electric arc |
| Emil von Behring |
Doctor |
15-Mar-1854 |
31-Mar-1917 |
Created diptheria innoculation |
| Pope Benedict XV |
Religion |
21-Nov-1854 |
22-Jan-1922 |
Sat out World War I |
| James A. Bland |
Songwriter |
22-Oct-1854 |
5-Mar-1911 |
Carry Me Back to Old Virginny |
| Robert Laird Borden |
Head of State |
26-Jun-1854 |
10-Jun-1937 |
Prime Minister of Canada, 1911-20 |
| David Buick |
Engineer |
17-Sep-1854 |
6-Mar-1929 |
Designed the first Buick motorcars |
| F. Marion Crawford |
Novelist |
2-Aug-1854 |
9-Apr-1909 |
Whosoever Shall Offend |
| George Eastman |
Inventor |
12-Jul-1854 |
14-Mar-1932 |
Inventor of the Kodak camera |
| Paul Ehrlich |
Doctor |
14-Mar-1854 |
20-Aug-1915 |
Father of chemotherapy |
| Richard T. Ely |
Economist |
13-Apr-1854 |
4-Oct-1943 |
Introduction to Political Economy |
| Sir James Frazer |
Anthropologist |
1-Jan-1854 |
7-May-1941 |
The Golden Bough |
| Herbert Gladstone |
Politician |
18-Feb-1854 |
6-Mar-1930 |
UK Home Secretary, 1905-10 |
| William C. Gorgas |
Doctor |
3-Oct-1854 |
3-Jul-1920 |
Malaria and yellow fever |
| Myron T. Herrick |
Politician |
9-Oct-1854 |
31-Mar-1929 |
Governor of Ohio, 1904-06 |
| William Temple Hornaday |
Activist |
1-Dec-1854 |
6-Mar-1937 |
Defender of the American bison |
| Frank L. Houx |
Politician |
12-Dec-1854 |
3-Apr-1941 |
Governor of Wyoming, 1917-19 |
| Victoriano Huerta |
Head of State |
23-Mar-1854 |
13-Jan-1916 |
El chacal President of Mexico, 1913-14 |
| LeoΒ Janácek |
Composer |
3-Jul-1854 |
12-Aug-1928 |
Her Foster Daughter |
| Karl Kautsky |
Politician |
16-Oct-1854 |
17-Oct-1938 |
Proponent of Marxism |
| Henri La Fontaine |
Activist |
22-Apr-1854 |
14-May-1943 |
Belgian activist, Nobel Prize recipient |
| Thomas R. Marshall |
Politician |
14-Mar-1854 |
1-Jun-1925 |
Vice President under Wilson |
| Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers |
Magician |
8-Jan-1854 |
20-Nov-1918 |
Founder of The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn |
| Ottmar Mergenthaler |
Inventor |
11-May-1854 |
28-Oct-1899 |
Automated typesetting |
| Alfred Milner |
Government |
23-Mar-1854 |
13-May-1925 |
Architect of the Balfour Declaration |
| Henri Poincaré |
Mathematician |
29-Apr-1854 |
17-Jul-1912 |
Poincaré Conjecture |
| C. W. Post |
Business |
26-Oct-1854 |
9-May-1914 |
Invented Postum and Grape-Nuts |
| Arthur Rimbaud |
Poet |
20-Oct-1854 |
10-Nov-1891 |
Une Saison en Enfer |
| Johannes Rydberg |
Physicist |
8-Nov-1854 |
28-Dec-1919 |
Rydberg constant |
| Paul Sabatier |
Chemist |
5-Nov-1854 |
14-Aug-1941 |
Heterogeneous catalysis |
| E. W. Scripps |
Publisher |
18-Jun-1854 |
12-Mar-1926 |
Founder of UPI |
| Mary See |
Chef |
15-Sep-1854 |
31-Jul-1939 |
Confectioner |
| John Philip Sousa |
Composer |
6-Nov-1854 |
6-Mar-1932 |
Stars and Stripes Forever |
| Thomas A. Watson |
Engineer |
18-Jan-1854 |
13-Dec-1934 |
Assistant to Alexander Graham Bell |
| Frank B. Weeks |
Politician |
20-Jan-1854 |
2-Oct-1935 |
Governor of Connecticut, 1909-11 |
| Oscar Wilde |
Playwright |
16-Oct-1854 |
30-Nov-1900 |
The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| John Sharp Williams |
Politician |
30-Jul-1854 |
27-Sep-1932 |
US Senator, Representative from Mississippi |
| Rollin S. Woodruff |
Politician |
14-Jul-1854 |
30-Jun-1925 |
Governor of Connecticut, 1907-09 |