Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known 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 |