Cause of Death: Influenza

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Cause of Death: Influenza

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Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Edwin A. Abbott Author 20-Dec-1838 12-Oct-1926 Flatland

Guillaume Apollinaire Poet 26-Aug-1880 9-Nov-1918 Alcools, Calligrammes

H. P. Blavatsky Author 12-Aug-1831 8-May-1891 Founded Theosophy; The Secret Doctrine

Lewis Carroll Author 27-Jan-1832 14-Jan-1898 Alice in Wonderland

Jules Dassin Film Director 18-Dec-1911 31-Mar-2008 Topkapi

George H. Dern Government 8-Sep-1872 27-Aug-1936 Governor of Utah, 1925-33

Allen W. Dulles Spy 7-Apr-1893 29-Jan-1969 CIA Director, 1953-61

Charles Griffes Composer 17-Sep-1884 8-Apr-1920 The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan

Trevor Howard Actor 29-Sep-1913 7-Jan-1988 Sons and Lovers

Jack MacGowran Actor 13-Oct-1918 30-Jan-1973 The Fearless Vampire Killers

Queen Mary I Royalty 18-Feb-1516 17-Nov-1558 Queen of England, 1553-58

James L. McConaughy Politician 21-Oct-1887 7-Mar-1948 Governor of Connecticut, 1947-48

Dmitri Mendeleev Chemist 8-Feb-1834 2-Feb-1907 Periodic Table of the Elements

Billy Mitchell Military 28-Dec-1879 19-Feb-1936 Proponent of air power

John Alexander Reina Newlands Chemist 26-Nov-1837 29-Jul-1898 Periodic Law of Elements

Wallace Reid Actor 15-Apr-1891 18-Jan-1923 Silent film actor and director

Edmond Rostand Playwright 1-Apr-1868 2-Dec-1918 Cyrano de Bergerac

John Ruskin Critic 8-Feb-1819 20-Jan-1900 Greatest Victorian art critic

Bertrand Russell Mathematician 18-May-1872 2-Feb-1970 Mathematician, atheist, and social critic

Egon Schiele Painter 12-Jun-1890 31-Oct-1918 Painted many nudes

Algernon Charles Swinburne Poet 5-Apr-1837 10-Apr-1909 Masochist Victorian poet

Alfred Lord Tennyson Poet 6-Aug-1809 6-Oct-1892 The Charge of the Light Brigade

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