LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
George Frederick Baer	Business	26-Sep-1842	26-Apr-1914	Social Darwinist railroad baron
Adolph Bandelier	Anthropologist	6-Aug-1840	18-Mar-1914	Native cultures of the American southwest
Ambrose Bierce	Author	24-Jun-1842	c. 1914	The Devil's Dictionary
Joseph Chamberlain	Politician	8-Jul-1836	3-Jul-1914	British pol revered in Birmingham
Shelby M. Cullom	Politician	22-Nov-1829	28-Jan-1914	Governor and Senator from Illinois
Franz Ferdinand	Royalty	18-Dec-1863	28-Jun-1914	Assassination touched off WWI
Albert Gobat	Politician	21-May-1843	16-Mar-1914	International Peace Bureau
F. Augustus Heinze	Business	1869	4-Nov-1914	Copper baron, went broke in the Panic of 1907
Paul von Heyse	Author	15-Mar-1830	2-Apr-1914	L'Arrabbiata
George W. Hill	Astronomer	3-Mar-1838	16-Apr-1914	A New Theorie of Jupiter and Saturn
Johann Hittorf	Physicist	27-Mar-1824	28-Nov-1914	Fluorescence in vacuum tubes
Edwin J. Houston	Inventor	9-Jul-1847	1-Mar-1914	Thomson-Houston Electric Company
Jean Jaurès	Politician	3-Sep-1859	31-Jul-1914	French socialist leader
Horace Harmon Lurton	Judge	26-Feb-1844	12-Jul-1914	US Supreme Court Justice, 1910-14
Alfred Thayer Mahan	Author	27-Sep-1840	1-Dec-1914	The Influence of Sea Power upon History
Frédéric Mistral	Poet	8-Sep-1830	25-Mar-1914	Provençal poet and ethnographer
S. Weir Mitchell	Novelist	15-Feb-1829	4-Jan-1914	The Case of George Dedlow
John Muir	Activist	21-Apr-1838	24-Dec-1914	Patron saint of Yosemite National Park
Charles Sanders Peirce	Philosopher	10-Sep-1839	19-Apr-1914	Founder of Pragmatism
Pope Pius X	Religion	2-Jun-1835	20-Aug-1914	Roman Catholic Pontiff, 1903-14
C. W. Post	Business	26-Oct-1854	9-May-1914	Invented Postum and Grape-Nuts
James D. Richardson	Politician	10-Mar-1843	24-Jul-1914	Congressman from Tennessee, 1885-1905
Jacob A. Riis	Journalist	3-May-1849	26-May-1914	How the Other Half Lives
Richard W. Sears	Business	7-Dec-1863	28-Sep-1914	Sears, Roebuck founder
Adlai E. Stevenson	Politician	23-Oct-1835	14-Jun-1914	Vice President under Cleveland
Eduard Suess	Geologist	20-Aug-1831	26-Apr-1914	Das Antlitz der Erde
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan	Physicist	31-Oct-1828	27-May-1914	Light bulb, photographic printing
Sir John Tenniel	Artist	28-Feb-1820	25-Feb-1914	Illustrator for Punch
Bertha von Suttner	Activist	9-Jun-1843	21-Jun-1914	Pacifist, Nobel Prize recipient
August Weismann	Biologist	17-Jan-1834	5-Nov-1914	Theory of Germ Plasm
George Westinghouse	Inventor	6-Oct-1846	12-Mar-1914	Air brake and A/C power
Frederick Weyerhaeuser	Business	21-Nov-1834	4-Apr-1914	Founder of Weyerhaeuser Company
Ellen Wilson	First Lady	15-May-1860	6-Aug-1914	First wife of US President Woodrow Wilson

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