LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Charles Francis Adams III	Government	2-Aug-1866	11-Jun-1954	Secretary of the Navy, 1929-33
George Ade	Author	9-Feb-1866	16-May-1944	Fables in Slang
Giovanni Agnelli	Business	13-Aug-1866	16-Dec-1945	Founder of Fiat
Mary Anderson	Inventor	19-Feb-1866	27-Jun-1953	Inventor of the windshield wiper
Jacinto Benavente	Playwright	12-Aug-1866	14-Jul-1954	The Bonds of Interest
Sophonisba Breckinridge	Activist	1-Apr-1866	30-Jul-1948	Suffragette and abolitionist
Ernest W. Brown	Astronomer	29-Nov-1866	22-Jul-1938	Tables of the Motion of the Moon
Gelett Burgess	Cartoonist	30-Jan-1866	17-Sep-1951	Has never seen a purple cow
Ferruccio Busoni	Pianist	1-Apr-1866	27-Jul-1924	Fantasia Contrappuntistica
Pierce Butler	Judge	17-Mar-1866	16-Nov-1939	US Supreme Court Justice, 1923-39
Butch Cassidy	Criminal	13-Apr-1866	c. 1908	Train and bank robber
Voltairine de Cleyre	Anarchist	17-Nov-1866	20-Jun-1912	Anarchist without an adjective
Benedetto Croce	Philosopher	25-Feb-1866	20-Nov-1952	Philosophy of Spirit
Harry Davenport	Actor	19-Jan-1866	9-Aug-1949	Gone with the Wind
Herbert Dow	Business	26-Feb-1866	15-Oct-1930	Founder of Dow Chemical
Abraham Flexner	Educator	13-Nov-1866	21-Sep-1959	The American College
Matthew Henson	Explorer	8-Aug-1866	9-Mar-1955	Possibly first to reach North Pole
David F. Houston	Government	17-Feb-1866	2-Sep-1940	US Secretary of Agriculture, 1913-20
Hiram Johnson	Politician	2-Sep-1866	6-Aug-1945	Governor and Senator from California
Wassily Kandinsky	Artist	16-Dec-1866	13-Dec-1944	Abstractionist and theorist
Kenesaw Mountain Landis	Baseball	20-Nov-1866	25-Nov-1944	First Commissioner of Baseball
Ramsay MacDonald	Head of State	12-Oct-1866	9-Nov-1937	First Labour Prime Minister of UK
Antonia Maury	Astronomer	21-Mar-1866	8-Jan-1952	Stellar classification
W. B. Maxwell	Novelist	1866	4-Aug-1938	The Ragged Messenger
George Barr McCutcheon	Novelist	26-Jul-1866	23-Oct-1928	Brewster's Millions
Adolf Meyer	Psychiatrist	13-Sep-1866	17-Mar-1950	Commonsense Psychiatry
Thomas H. Morgan	Scientist	25-Sep-1866	4-Dec-1945	Fruit fly chromosomes and heredity
Charles Nicolle	Scientist	21-Sep-1866	28-Feb-1936	Found that lice transmit typhus
Beatrix Potter	Artist	28-Jul-1866	22-Dec-1943	Peter Rabbit
John Ringling	Business	31-May-1866	2-Dec-1936	Ringling Brothers Circus
Romain Rolland	Novelist	29-Jan-1866	30-Dec-1944	Jean-Christophe
Erik Satie	Composer	17-May-1866	1-Jul-1925	Messe des Pauvres
Nathan Söderblom	Religion	15-Jan-1866	12-Jul-1931	Archbishop of Sweden
Lincoln Steffens	Journalist	6-Apr-1866	9-Aug-1936	Early muckraking journalist
Anne Sullivan	Educator	14-Apr-1866	20-Oct-1936	The Miracle Worker
Henry C. Wallace	Government	11-May-1866	25-Oct-1924	US Secretary of Agriculture, 1921-24
Aby Warburg	Scholar	13-Jun-1866	26-Oct-1929	Founder of the Warburg Institute
Fred Wardell	Business	30-Mar-1866	1952	Founder of Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Co.
August von Wassermann	Biologist	21-Feb-1866	16-Mar-1925	Syphilis test
H. G. Wells	Author	21-Sep-1866	13-Aug-1946	The War of the Worlds
Alfred Werner	Chemist	12-Dec-1866	15-Nov-1919	Coordination theory of chemistry
Sun Yat-sen	Head of State	12-Nov-1866	12-Mar-1925	President of China, 1911-12

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