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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Niceto Alcalá-Zamora
Government
6-Jul-1877 18-Feb-1949 1st President of the Second Spanish Republic
Katharine Anthony
Author
27-Nov-1877 20-Nov-1965 Biographer, The Lambs
Francis W. Aston
Chemist
1-Sep-1877 20-Nov-1945 Invented the mass spectograph
Warren R. Austin
Politician
12-Nov-1877 25-Dec-1962 US Senator from Vermont, 1931-46
Oswald Avery
Biologist
21-Oct-1877 20-Feb-1955 Antibodies and DNA
Charles Glover Barkla
Physicist
7-Jun-1877 23-Oct-1944 X-ray scattering
Alben W. Barkley
Politician
24-Nov-1877 30-Apr-1956 US Vice President, 1949-53
William Beebe
Scientist
29-Jul-1877 4-Jun-1962 Ocean explorer
Theodore Bilbo
Government
13-Oct-1877 21-Aug-1947 Archangel of white supremacy
Artur Bodanzky
Conductor
16-Dec-1877 23-Nov-1939 Opera Conductor at the NY Met, 1915-39
Buddy Bolden
Jazz Musician
6-Sep-1877 4-Nov-1931 Ragtime, pre-Jazz cornetist
Plutarco Elías Calles
Head of State
25-Sep-1877 19-Oct-1945 President of Mexico, 1924-28
Edgar Cayce
Paranormal
18-Mar-1877 3-Jan-1945 Performed "paranormal" readings
Charles Coburn
Actor
17-Jun-1877 30-Aug-1961 The More the Merrier
Henry Sloane Coffin
Religion
5-Jan-1877 25-Nov-1954 Meaning of the Cross
Frederick G. Cottrell
Inventor
10-Jan-1877 16-Nov-1948 Smokestack filters to fight pollution
Arthur G. Crane
Educator
1-Sep-1877 11-Aug-1955 President, University of Wyoming, 1922-41
Ernst von Dohnányi
Composer
27-Jul-1877 9-Feb-1960 Opus 25
Raoul Dufy
Painter
3-Jun-1877 23-Mar-1953 French Fauvist painter
Isadora Duncan
Dancer
26-May-1877 14-Sep-1927 Mother of modern dance
Felix Dzerzhinsky
Government
11-Sep-1877 20-Jul-1926 The Black Pope of Bolshevism
Isabelle Eberhardt
Author
17-Feb-1877 21-Oct-1904 Transvestite Muslim author
James Montgomery Flagg
Painter
18-Jun-1877 27-May-1960 I Want YOU for U.S. Army
Wilhelm Frick
Government
12-Mar-1877 16-Oct-1946 Authored the Nuremberg Laws
Frederick Griffith
Biologist
c. 1877 16-Apr-1941 Discovered the transforming principle
G. I. Gurdjieff
Philosopher
1877 29-Oct-1949 Esoteric philosopher, The Fourth Way
G. H. Hardy
Mathematician
7-Feb-1877 1-Dec-1947 A Mathematician's Apology
Carl T. Hayden
Politician
2-Oct-1877 25-Jan-1972 US Senator from Arizona, 1927-69
Hermann Hesse
Author
2-Jul-1877 9-Aug-1962 Siddhartha
Halliwell Hobbes
Actor
16-Nov-1877 20-Feb-1962 British-American character actor
Rufus C. Holman
Politician
14-Oct-1877 27-Nov-1959 US Senator from Oregon, 1939-45
Arthur M. Hyde
Politician
12-Jul-1877 17-Oct-1947 Governor of Missouri, 1921-25
James H. Jeans
Astronomer
11-Sep-1877 16-Sep-1946 Continuous creation theory
Richard Kirman, Sr.
Politician
14-Jan-1877 19-Jan-1959 Governor of Nevada, 1935-39
Montagu Love
Actor
15-Mar-1877 17-May-1943 British character actor
John Albert Macy
Critic
10-Apr-1877 26-Aug-1932 Socialism in America
Richard Mayr
Singer
18-Nov-1877 1-Dec-1935 Operatic bass
Annie Moore
unspecified
1-Jan-1877 1924 First arrival at Ellis Island
Francis P. Murphy
Politician
16-Aug-1877 19-Dec-1958 Governor of New Hampshire, 1937-41
Billy Murray
Singer
25-May-1877 17-Aug-1954 Top recording star of the early 1900's
Ragnvald A. Nestos
Politician
12-Apr-1877 15-Jul-1942 Governor of North Dakota, 1921-25
J. J. Newberry
Business
26-Sep-1877 6-Mar-1954 Five-and-dime store magnate
William H. Regnery
Business
12-Oct-1877 c. 1954 America First Committee
Louis Renault
Engineer
15-Feb-1877 24-Oct-1944 Founder of Renault
Oscar Riddle
Biologist
27-Sep-1877 29-Nov-1968 Prolactin
Charles Stewart Rolls
Business
27-Aug-1877 12-Jul-1910 Co-Founder of Rolls-Royce
Henry Norris Russell
Astronomer
25-Oct-1877 18-Feb-1957 Giant stars and dwarfs
Hjalmar Schacht
Government
22-Jan-1877 3-Jun-1970 Reich Minister of Economics
Béla Schick
Doctor
16-Jul-1877 6-Dec-1967 Schick test for diphtheria
Jacob Schick
Inventor
16-Sep-1877 3-Jul-1937 Electric razor
Frederick Soddy
Chemist
2-Sep-1877 22-Sep-1956 Isotopes
Lewis Terman
Psychologist
15-Jan-1877 21-Dec-1956 Intelligence tests
Alice B. Toklas
Relative
30-Apr-1877 7-Mar-1967 Gertrude Stein's lover
Carl von Cosel
Criminal
8-Feb-1877 23-Jul-1952 Florida's favorite necrophile
James W. Wadsworth, Jr.
Politician
12-Aug-1877 21-Jun-1952 US Senator from New York, 1915-27
Robert F. Wagner, Sr.
Politician
8-Jun-1877 4-May-1953 US Senator from New York, 1927-49
Clifford M. Walker
Politician
4-Jul-1877 9-Nov-1954 Governor of Georgia, 1923-27
Helen Ware
Actor
15-Oct-1877 25-Jan-1939 Theater actress
Wallace H. White, Jr.
Politician
6-Aug-1877 31-Mar-1952 US Senator from Maine, 1931-49
Heinrich Wieland
Chemist
4-Jun-1877 5-Aug-1957 Studied acids of bile


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