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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Gilbert M. Anderson
Actor
21-Mar-1880 20-Jan-1971 Broncho Billy
Walt Anderson
Business
26-Nov-1880 13-Dec-1963 Co-Founder of White Castle
Guillaume Apollinaire
Poet
26-Aug-1880 9-Nov-1918 Alcools, Calligrammes
Sholem Asch
Author
1-Nov-1880 1-Aug-1957 Yiddish novelist
Clarence G. Badger
Film Director
9-Jun-1880 17-Jun-1964 It
Fred Balzar
Politician
15-Jun-1880 21-Mar-1934 Governor of Nevada, 1927-34
Harry Baur
Actor
12-Apr-1880 8-Apr-1943 Un carnet de bal
Ludwig Beck
Military
29-Jun-1880 20-Jul-1944 Supported failed coup against Hitler
Andrei Bely
Author
26-Oct-1880 8-Jan-1934 Petersburg
Leslie Biffle
Government
9-Oct-1880 6-Apr-1966 Secretary of the Senate
Clara Blandick
Actor
4-Jun-1880 15-Apr-1962 Auntie Em in The Wizard of Oz
Ernest Bloch
Composer
24-Jul-1880 15-Jul-1959 Schelomo
Alexander Blok
Poet
16-Nov-1880 7-Aug-1921 Russian Silver Age poet
Mary Boland
Actor
28-Jan-1880 23-Jun-1965 Ruggles of Red Gap
Joe Carr
Football
22-Oct-1880 20-May-1939 NFL President, 1921-39
Roy D. Chapin, Sr.
Government
23-Feb-1880 16-Feb-1936 US Secretary of Commerce, 1932-33
Morris Raphael Cohen
Philosopher
25-Jul-1880 28-Jan-1947 Reason and Nature
Donald Crisp
Actor
27-Jul-1880 25-May-1974 Silent film actor, survived into talkies
André Derain
Painter
10-Jun-1880 8-Sep-1954 Fauvist
Father Divine
Religion
1880 1965 Founder of the International Peace Mission
Jacob Epstein
Sculptor
10-Nov-1880 21-Aug-1959 Strand Statues
W. C. Fields
Comic
29-Jan-1880 25-Dec-1946 The Bank Dick
Bertie Forbes
Business
14-May-1880 6-May-1954 Forbes Magazine founder
John Oliver La Gorce
Explorer
1880 1949 Antarctica explorer, National Geographic editor
Joseph Grew
Diplomat
27-May-1880 25-May-1965 US Ambassador to Japan, 1932-41
John Halliday
Actor
14-Sep-1880 17-Oct-1947 The Philadelphia Story
Joseph Hergesheimer
Novelist
15-Feb-1880 25-Apr-1954 Tol'Able David
Duncan Hines
Business
26-Mar-1880 15-Mar-1959 Roadside gourmet
Samuel Hoare
Politician
24-Feb-1880 7-May-1959 UK Home Secretary, 1937-39
Hans Hofmann
Painter
21-Mar-1880 17-Feb-1966 Abstract expressionist, art teacher
Albert Wallace Hull
Physicist
19-Apr-1880 22-Jan-1966 Inventor of the magnetron tube
Ze'ev Jabotinsky
Military
18-Oct-1880 4-Aug-1940 Founder of the Jewish Legion
Paul B. Johnson, Sr.
Politician
23-Mar-1880 26-Dec-1943 Governor of Mississippi, 1940-43
Paul Kammerer
Biologist
17-Aug-1880 23-Oct-1926 Proponent of Lamarckian inheritance
Helen Keller
Activist
27-Jun-1880 1-Jun-1968 Deaf and blind activist
Sophie Kerr
Novelist
23-Aug-1880 6-Feb-1965 The Sound of Petticoats
Fritz G. Lanham
Politician
3-Jan-1880 31-Jul-1965 Congressman from Texas, 1919-47
Albert Lasker
Business
1-May-1880 30-May-1952 Advertising executive and medical research patron
John L. Lewis
Labor Leader
12-Feb-1880 11-Jun-1969 President, United Mine Workers, 1920-60
Douglas MacArthur
Military
26-Jan-1880 5-Apr-1964 General of the Army
Walter J. Maddock
Politician
13-Sep-1880 25-Jan-1951 Governor of North Dakota, 1928-29
George C. Marshall
Military
31-Dec-1880 16-Oct-1959 US Army Chief of Staff, 1939-45
Christy Mathewson
Baseball
12-Aug-1880 7-Oct-1925 Pitched 37 winning games in 1908
Joe May
Film Director
7-Nov-1880 29-Apr-1954 The Invisible Man Returns
Elton Mayo
Psychologist
26-Dec-1880 7-Sep-1949 Student of Industrial Civilization
Robert McCormick
Business
30-Jul-1880 1-Apr-1955 Xenophobe in the Tribune Tower
J. P. McGowan
Actor
24-Feb-1880 26-Mar-1952 Somewhere in Sonora
H. L. Mencken
Critic
12-Sep-1880 29-Jan-1956 The American Language
Tom Mix
Actor
6-Jan-1880 12-Oct-1940 Old-time silent movie cowboy
Robert Musil
Novelist
6-Nov-1880 15-Apr-1942 Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften
Sean O'Casey
Playwright
30-Mar-1880 18-Sep-1964 Juno and the Paycock
Una O'Connor
Actor
23-Oct-1880 4-Feb-1959 Googly-eyed character actress
Álvaro Obregón
Head of State
19-Feb-1880 17-Jul-1928 President of Mexico, 1920-24
John Boyd Orr
Scientist
23-Sep-1880 25-Jun-1971 Nutritionist, Nobel Prize recipient
Frank Orth
Actor
21-Feb-1880 17-Mar-1962 Insp. Faraday on Boston Blackie
Earle Page
Head of State
8-Aug-1880 20-Dec-1961 Prime Minister of Australia, 1939
Harvey Parnell
Politician
28-Feb-1880 16-Jan-1936 Governor of Arkansas, 1928-33
Vail Pittman
Politician
17-Sep-1880 29-Jan-1964 Governor of Nevada, 1945-51
Ernest Poole
Novelist
23-Jan-1880 10-Jan-1950 His Family
David A. Reed
Politician
21-Dec-1880 10-Feb-1953 US Senator from Pennsylvania, 1922-35
Grantland Rice
Sports Journalist
1-Nov-1880 13-Jul-1954 Sportswriter, Idolmaker
James G. Scrugham
Politician
19-Jan-1880 23-Jun-1945 Governor of Nevada, 1923-27
Mack Sennett
Film/TV Producer
17-Jan-1880 5-Nov-1960 Founder of Keystone Studios
Isaac Shoenberg
Engineer
1-Mar-1880 25-Jan-1963 405-line format television
Russell Simpson
Actor
17-Jun-1880 12-Dec-1959 The Grapes of Wrath
Oswald Spengler
Historian
29-May-1880 8-May-1936 The Decline of the West
Marie Stopes
Scientist
15-Oct-1880 2-Oct-1958 Scientist and birth control advocate
Lytton Strachey
Author
1-Mar-1880 21-Jan-1932 Eminent Victorians
R. H. Tawney
Scholar
30-Nov-1880 16-Jan-1962 The Acquisitive Society
Charles W. Tobey
Politician
22-Jul-1880 24-Jul-1953 Governor and Senator from New Hampshire
Carl Van Vechten
Novelist
17-Jun-1880 21-Dec-1964 Patron of the Harlem Renaissance
Alfred Wegener
Scientist
1-Nov-1880 Nov-1930 Continental drift
Wilhelmina
Royalty
31-Aug-1880 28-Nov-1962 Queen of the Netherlands, 1890-1948
Leonard Woolf
Author
25-Nov-1880 14-Aug-1969 British memoirist, husband of Virginia
Anzia Yezierska
Novelist
c. 1880 21-Nov-1970 Bread Givers




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