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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Maurice Barrès
Novelist
19-Aug-1862 4-Dec-1923 Cult of the Self
William Bragg
Physicist
2-Jul-1862 12-Mar-1942 Analyzed crystal structures
Aristide Briand
Politician
28-Mar-1862 7-Mar-1932 WWI French Prime Minister
Constantin Brunner
Philosopher
27-Aug-1862 17-Aug-1937 German Jewish philosopher
Nicholas Murray Butler
Educator
2-Apr-1862 7-Dec-1947 President of Columbia University, 1901-45
William W. Campbell
Astronomer
11-Apr-1862 14-Jun-1938 Stellar Motions
John Jay Chapman
Essayist
2-Mar-1862 4-Nov-1933 Essayist, founder of The Nursery
Carl Charlier
Astronomer
1-Apr-1862 5-Nov-1934 Motion and the Distribution of the Stars
George B. Cortelyou
Politician
26-Jul-1862 23-Oct-1940 US Treasury Secretary, 1907-09
Wilbur L. Cross
Politician
10-Apr-1862 5-Oct-1948 Governor of Connecticut, 1931-39
Walter Damrosch
Conductor
30-Jan-1862 22-Dec-1950 Conductor, popularizer of music
Josephus Daniels
Government
18-May-1862 15-Jan-1948 Secretary of the Navy, 1913-21
Claude Debussy
Composer
22-Aug-1862 25-Mar-1918 French Impressionist composer
Frederick Delius
Composer
29-Jan-1862 10-Jun-1934 Over the Hills and Far Away
Frank Doubleday
Business
8-Jan-1862 30-Jan-1934 Publisher
Robert Emden
Mathematician
4-Mar-1862 8-Oct-1940 Stellar structure
Andrew Fisher
Head of State
29-Aug-1862 22-Oct-1928 Former Prime Minister of Australia
Walter Lowrie Fisher
Government
4-Jul-1862 9-Nov-1935 US Interior Secretary, 1911-13
Robert Ford
Criminal
31-Jan-1862 8-Jun-1892 Shot and killed Jesse James
Walter S. Goodland
Politician
22-Dec-1862 12-Mar-1947 Governor of Wisconsin, 1943-47
Allvar Gullstrand
Doctor
5-Jun-1862 28-Jul-1930 Ophthalmologist, refraction of light in the eye
Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane
Author
27-May-1862 24-Dec-1937 Descartes: His Life and Times
Hjalmar Hammarskjöld
Head of State
4-Feb-1862 12-Oct-1953 Prime Minister of Sweden, 1914-17
Gerhart Hauptmann
Playwright
15-Nov-1862 6-Jun-1946 Die Weber
O. Henry
Author
11-Sep-1862 5-Jun-1910 The Gift of the Magi
David Hilbert
Mathematician
23-Jan-1862 14-Feb-1943 Hilbert Space
Billy Hughes
Head of State
25-Sep-1862 28-Oct-1952 Prime Minister of Australia, 1915-23
Charles Evans Hughes
Politician
11-Apr-1862 27-Aug-1948 US Chief Justice, Presidential Candidate
M. R. James
Author
1-Aug-1862 12-Jun-1936 Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
Gustav Klimt
Painter
14-Jul-1862 6-Feb-1918 Founder of the Vienna Sezession
Philipp Lenard
Physicist
7-Jun-1862 20-May-1947 Investigations of cathode rays
Auguste Lumière
Inventor
19-Oct-1862 10-Apr-1954 Co-Inventor of motion pictures
Connie Mack
Baseball
22-Dec-1862 8-Feb-1956 Manager of the Philadelphia Athletics
Maurice Maeterlinck
Playwright
29-Aug-1862 6-May-1949 Pelléas et Mélisande
James C. McReynolds
Judge
3-Feb-1862 24-Aug-1946 US Supreme Court Justice, 1914-41
Joseph Merrick
Oddity
5-Aug-1862 11-Apr-1890 The Elephant Man
Andrew J. Montague
Politician
3-Oct-1862 24-Jan-1937 Governor and Congressman from Virginia
Julius Rosenwald
Business
12-Aug-1862 6-Jan-1932 Sears executive and Good Samaritan
Arthur Schnitzler
Playwright
15-May-1862 21-Oct-1931 Reigen
Charles M. Schwab
Business
18-Feb-1862 19-Sep-1939 Founder of Bethlehem Steel
Edward Shortt
Politician
10-Mar-1862 10-Nov-1935 UK Home Secretary, 1919-22
Lennington Small
Politician
16-Jun-1862 17-May-1936 Governor of Illinois, 1921-29
Reed Smoot
Politician
10-Jan-1862 9-Feb-1941 Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
Amos Alonzo Stagg
Football
16-Aug-1862 17-Mar-1965 Mr. Football
Billy Sunday
Religion
19-Nov-1862 6-Nov-1935 Baseball evangelist
George Sutherland
Judge
25-Mar-1862 18-Jul-1942 US Supreme Court Justice, 1922-38
Claude A. Swanson
Politician
31-Mar-1862 7-Jul-1939 Governor and Senator from Virginia
Oscar W. Underwood
Politician
6-May-1862 25-Jan-1929 US Senator from Alabama, 1915-27
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Activist
16-Jul-1862 25-Mar-1931 Civil rights advocate
Edvard Westermarck
Anthropologist
20-Nov-1862 3-Sep-1939 The Origin & Development of Moral Ideas
Edith Wharton
Novelist
24-Jan-1862 11-Aug-1937 The Age of Innocence
William B. Wilson
Government
2-Apr-1862 25-May-1934 US Secretary of Labor, 1913-21


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