LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Samuel Hopkins Adams	Journalist	26-Jan-1871	15-Nov-1958	The Great American Fraud
Newton D. Baker	Politician	3-Dec-1871	25-Dec-1937	US Secretary of War, 1916-21
Giacomo Balla	Painter	17-Jul-1871	1-Mar-1958	Italian futurist painter
Robert Worth Bingham	Business	8-Nov-1871	18-Dec-1937	Publisher of The Louisville Courier-Journal
Edmund Breese	Actor	18-Jun-1871	6-Apr-1936	Duck Soup
Walter Bradford Cannon	Scientist	19-Oct-1871	1-Oct-1945	Fight or flight response
Winston Churchill	Novelist	10-Nov-1871	12-Mar-1947	Early 20th century American novelist
Fred P. Cone	Politician	28-Sep-1871	28-Jul-1948	Governor of Florida, 1937-41
Stephen Crane	Novelist	1-Nov-1871	5-Jun-1900	The Red Badge of Courage
W. H. Davies	Poet	3-Jul-1871	26-Sep-1940	Tramp-Poet, The Soul's Destroyer
Grazia Deledda	Author	27-Sep-1871	15-Aug-1936	Novels of Sardinia
Hugh M. Dorsey	Politician	10-Jul-1871	11-Jun-1948	Governor of Georgia, 1917-21
Theodore Dreiser	Novelist	27-Aug-1871	28-Dec-1945	An American Tragedy
Friedrich Ebert	Head of State	4-Feb-1871	28-Feb-1925	German Chancellor, 1918-19
Victor Grignard	Chemist	6-May-1871	13-Dec-1935	Grignard Reaction
Ralph Hodgson	Poet	9-Sep-1871	3-Nov-1962	The Skylark
Louise Homer	Singer	30-Apr-1871	6-May-1947	Operatic contralto
Louis McHenry Howe	Government	14-Jan-1871	18-Apr-1936	Close advisor to FDR
Cordell Hull	Government	2-Oct-1871	23-Jul-1955	US Secretary of State, 1933-44
James Weldon Johnson	Author	17-Jun-1871	26-Jun-1938	God's Trombones
Alma Kruger	Actor	13-Sep-1871	5-Apr-1960	Molly Byrd, Dr. Kildare's head nurse
Everett J. Lake	Politician	8-Feb-1871	16-Sep-1948	Governor of Connecticut, 1921-23
Rosa Luxemburg	Activist	5-Mar-1871	15-Jan-1919	Co-Founder, Communist Party of Germany
William McDougall	Psychologist	22-Jun-1871	28-Nov-1938	An Introduction to Social Psychology
Willem Mengelberg	Conductor	28-Mar-1871	21-Mar-1951	Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, 1895-1945
John W. Nordstrom	Business	15-Feb-1871	1-Oct-1963	Founder of Nordstrom
Vernon Louis Parrington	Historian	3-Aug-1871	16-Jun-1929	Main Currents in American Thought
John G. Pollard	Politician	4-Aug-1871	28-Apr-1937	Governor of Virginia, 1930-34
Marcel Proust	Author	10-Jul-1871	18-Nov-1922	In Search of Lost Time
Rasputin	Religion	23-Jan-1871	30-Dec-1916	Russia's Greatest Love Machine
Georges Rouault	Painter	27-May-1871	13-Feb-1958	Expressionist painter of clowns, Christs
Amos Rusie	Baseball	30-May-1871	6-Dec-1942	The Hoosier Thunderbolt
Ernest Rutherford	Physicist	30-Aug-1871	19-Oct-1937	Father of nuclear physics
Frank Schlesinger	Astronomer	11-May-1871	10-Jul-1943	Stellar parallaxes
Aleksandr Scriabin	Composer	25-Dec-1871	14-Apr-1915	Prometheus: The Poem of Fire
Lee Shubert	Theatre Producer	25-Mar-1871	25-Dec-1953	Broke the Erlanger theater syndicate
Henry Stephenson	Actor	16-Apr-1871	24-Apr-1956	The Prince and the Pauper
John Millington Synge	Playwright	16-Apr-1871	24-Mar-1909	The Playboy of the Western World
Charles A. Templeton	Politician	3-Mar-1871	15-Aug-1955	Governor of Connecticut, 1923-25
Paul Valéry	Poet	30-Oct-1871	20-Jul-1945	La Jeune Parque
Felix M. Warburg	Business	14-Jan-1871	20-Oct-1937	Kuhn, Loeb and Co.
Pop Warner	Football	5-Apr-1871	7-Sep-1954	Coach and kids' football namesake
Margaret Floy Washburn	Psychologist	25-Jul-1871	29-Oct-1939	First female American psychologist
Frank B. Willis	Politician	28-Dec-1871	30-Mar-1928	Governor and Senator from Ohio
Orville Wright	Aviator	19-Aug-1871	30-Jan-1948	Co-Inventor of the airplane
Fielding H. Yost	Football	30-Apr-1871	20-Apr-1946	Legendary UMich Head Coach

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