LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
William Waldorf Astor	Publisher	31-Mar-1848	18-Oct-1919	The Observer
Robert Bacon	Government	5-Jul-1860	29-May-1919	US Ambassador to France, 1909-12
L. Frank Baum	Novelist	15-May-1856	6-May-1919	The Wizard of Oz
Andrew Carnegie	Business	25-Nov-1835	11-Aug-1919	Robber baron turned philanthropist
Sir William Crookes	Chemist	17-Jun-1832	4-Apr-1919	Discovered element Thallium
Alfred Deakin	Head of State	3-Aug-1856	7-Oct-1919	2nd Prime Minister of Australia
Emil Fischer	Chemist	9-Oct-1852	15-Jul-1919	Peptide bond
Henry Clay Frick	Business	19-Dec-1849	2-Dec-1919	Robber baron, Johnstown flood
Henry Gantt	Engineer	1861	23-Nov-1919	Management as a science
Karl Gjellerup	Author	2-Jun-1857	11-Oct-1919	The Pilgrim Kamanita
Hugo Haase	Politician	29-Sep-1863	7-Nov-1919	German parliamentarian, Marxist, pacifist
Ernst Haeckel	Zoologist	16-Feb-1834	9-Aug-1919	Proponent of evolution
Henry J. Heinz	Business	11-Oct-1844	14-May-1919	Founder of Heinz Foods
Oscar Hammerstein I	Theatre Producer	8-May-1847	1-Aug-1919	Olympia Theatre
Taisuke Itagaki	Politician	17-Apr-1837	11-Jul-1919	Founder of Japan's Liberal party
Theophilus Van Kannel	Inventor	1841	24-Dec-1919	Revolving door
Wilfrid Laurier	Head of State	20-Nov-1841	17-Feb-1919	Canadian Prime Minister
Ruggero Leoncavallo	Composer	8-Mar-1857	9-Aug-1919	Pagliacci
Rosa Luxemburg	Activist	5-Mar-1871	15-Jan-1919	Co-Founder, Communist Party of Germany
Evelyn De Morgan	Painter	30-Aug-1855	1919	British Pre-Raphaelite painter
Amado Nervo	Poet	27-Aug-1870	24-May-1919	Modernismo poet, La Revista Moderna
George T. Oliver	Politician	26-Jan-1848	22-Jan-1919	US Senator from Pennsylvania, 1909-17
William Osler	Doctor	12-Jul-1849	29-Dec-1919	Father of psychosomatic medicine
Adelina Patti	Singer	10-Feb-1843	27-Sep-1919	Coloratura soprano
Edward Charles Pickering	Astronomer	19-Jul-1846	3-Feb-1919	Photometer inventor and surveyor
Sir Edward Poynter	Painter	20-Mar-1836	26-Jul-1919	British Neo-Classical painter
Lord Rayleigh	Physicist	12-Nov-1842	30-Jun-1919	Why the sky is blue
Auguste Renoir	Painter	25-Feb-1841	3-Dec-1919	Le Bal au Moulin de la Galette
Theodore Roosevelt	Head of State	27-Oct-1858	6-Jan-1919	26th US President, 1901-09
Johannes Rydberg	Physicist	8-Nov-1854	28-Dec-1919	Rydberg constant
John Walter Scott	Stamp Collector	2-Nov-1845	4-Jan-1919	Father of American Philately
Anna Howard Shaw	Activist	14-Feb-1847	2-Jul-1919	National American Women's Suffrage Association
Georg von Hertling	Head of State	31-Aug-1843	4-Jan-1919	German Chancellor 1917-18
Mary Edwards Walker	Doctor	26-Nov-1832	21-Feb-1919	First female US Army surgeon
Alfred Werner	Chemist	12-Dec-1866	15-Nov-1919	Coordination theory of chemistry
Ella Wheeler Wilcox	Poet	5-Nov-1850	30-Oct-1919	Poems of Passion
F. W. Woolworth	Business	13-Apr-1852	8-Apr-1919	Five and dime magnate
Emiliano Zapata	Activist	8-Aug-1879	10-Apr-1919	Mexican patriot, revolutionary

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