Died in 1905

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Died in 1905

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Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

John Bartlett Author 14-Jun-1820 3-Dec-1905 Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Adolphe-William Bouguereau Painter 30-Nov-1835 19-Aug-1905 The Abduction of Psyche

George S. Boutwell Politician 28-Jan-1818 27-Feb-1905 Senator, Governor, US Treasury Secretary

David Braham Composer 1838 11-Apr-1905 The Mulligan Guards

Per Theodor Cleve Chemist 10-Feb-1840 18-Jun-1905 Discovered holmium (Ho) and thulium (Tm)

Susan Coolidge Novelist 29-Jan-1835 9-Apr-1905 What Katy Did

Mary Mapes Dodge Editor 26-Jan-1831 21-Aug-1905 Editor of St. Nicholas, 1873-1905

Virgil Earp Government 8-Jul-1843 19-Oct-1905 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

Walther Flemming Biologist 21-Apr-1843 4-Aug-1905 Chromosomes and mitosis

Meyer Guggenheim Business 1-Feb-1828 15-Mar-1905 Patriarch of Guggenheim fortune

Henry Harland Novelist 1-Mar-1861 20-Dec-1905 The Cardinal's Snuff-box

John Hay Government 8-Oct-1838 1-Jul-1905 US Secretary of State, 1898-1905

José María de Heredia Poet 22-Nov-1842 2-Oct-1905 Les Trophées

Sir Henry Irving Actor 6-Feb-1838 13-Oct-1905 English actor, Theater manager

George MacDonald Author 10-Dec-1824 18-Sep-1905 At the Back of the North Wind

Franz Reuleaux Mathematician 30-Sep-1829 20-Aug-1905 Father of modern kinematics

Otto Wilhelm Struve Astronomer 7-May-1819 14-Apr-1905 Studied double stars

Jules Verne Author 8-Feb-1828 24-Mar-1905 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Lew Wallace Novelist 10-Apr-1827 15-Feb-1905 Civil War General, wrote Ben-Hur

Josiah Walls Politician 30-Dec-1842 15-May-1905 Congressman from Florida, 1871-76

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