LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Adolf von Baeyer	Chemist	31-Oct-1835	20-Aug-1917	Synthesized indigo
Emil von Behring	Doctor	15-Mar-1854	31-Mar-1917	Created diptheria innoculation
Naaman Belkind	Spy	1889	16-Dec-1917	Israeli spy
Mackenzie Bowell	Head of State	27-Dec-1824	10-Dec-1917	Prime Minister of Canada, 1894-96
Eduard Buchner	Chemist	20-May-1860	13-Aug-1917	Cell-free fermentation
Buffalo Bill	Performance Artist	26-Feb-1846	10-Jan-1917	Wild West showman
St. Frances Xavier Cabrini	Religion	15-Jul-1850	22-Dec-1917	Missionaries of the Sacred Heart
Joseph Choate	Attorney	24-Jan-1832	14-May-1917	Attorney, ambassador
Edgar Degas	Painter	19-Jul-1834	27-Sep-1917	Impressionist painter
George Dewey	Military	26-Dec-1837	16-Jan-1917	Sank the Spanish fleet at Manila
William Duddell	Physicist	1872	4-Nov-1917	Electronic music
Émile Durkheim	Sociologist	15-Apr-1858	15-Nov-1917	Rules of the Sociological Method
John W. Foster	Diplomat	2-Mar-1836	15-Mar-1917	US Secretary of State, 1892-93
Mata Hari	Spy	7-Aug-1876	15-Oct-1917	Framed by the Germans
T. E. Hulme	Poet	16-Sep-1883	28-Sep-1917	Modernist poet and critic
Leander Starr Jameson	Head of State	9-Feb-1853	26-Nov-1917	Last Prime Minister of Capetown
Diamond Jim Brady	Business	12-Aug-1856	13-Apr-1917	Larger-than-life millionaire
Scott Joplin	Musician	24-Nov-1868	1-Apr-1917	The King of Ragtime
John W. Kern	Politician	20-Dec-1849	17-Aug-1917	US Senator from Indiana, 1911-17
Theodor Kocher	Doctor	25-Aug-1841	27-Jul-1917	Thyroid surgeon
George P. Lawrence	Politician	19-May-1859	21-Nov-1917	Congressman, committed suicide
Francis Ledwidge	Poet	19-Aug-1887	31-Jul-1917	Songs of the Fields
Belva Lockwood	Activist	24-Oct-1830	19-May-1917	Feminist
Wayne MacVeagh	Government	19-Apr-1833	11-Jan-1917	US Attorney General, 1881
Octave Mirbeau	Novelist	16-Feb-1850	16-Feb-1917	Le Jardin des supplices
William H. Moody	Judge	23-Feb-1853	2-Jul-1917	US Supreme Court Justice, 1906-10
Richard Olney	Government	15-Sep-1835	8-Apr-1917	US Secretary of State, 1895-97
Auguste Rodin	Sculptor	12-Nov-1840	17-Nov-1917	Sculptor in bronze
Albert Pinkham Ryder	Painter	19-Mar-1847	28-Mar-1917	Idyllic American painter
Gideon Daniel Searle	Business	13-Feb-1846	25-Jan-1917	Founder of Searle Pharmaceuticals
James Sheakley	Politician	24-Apr-1829	10-Dec-1917	Territorial Governor of Alaska, 1893-97
Herbert Beerbohm Tree	Actor	17-Dec-1853	2-Jul-1917	Founder, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Edward Tylor	Anthropologist	2-Oct-1832	2-Jan-1917	Founder of cultural anthropology
John William Waterhouse	Painter	6-Apr-1849	10-Feb-1917	British Pre-Raphaelite painter
Ferdinand von Zeppelin	Business	8-Jul-1838	8-Mar-1917	Builder of rigid airships

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