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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was an English philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, socialist, pacifist and social critic. Although he spent the majority of his life in England,...
Date of birth:
- May 18, 1872
Date of death:
- Feb 2, 1970 (age 97 years)
Phoebe Hearst
Phoebe Apperson Hearst (3 December 1842 – 13 April 1919) was an American philanthropist and the mother of William Randolph Hearst, feminist, and suffragist.
She was born in Franklin County, Missouri. At the age of 19, she married George Hearst, who...
Date of birth:
- Dec 3, 1842
Date of death:
- Apr 13, 1919 (age 76 years)
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele (12 June 1890 – 31 October 1918) (German pronunciation: [ˈʃiːlə], approximately SHEE-luh) was an Austrian painter. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century.
Schiele's work is noted for...
Date of birth:
- Jun 12, 1890
Date of death:
- Oct 31, 1918 (age 28 years)
Edmond Rostand
Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand (1 April 1868 – 2 December 1918) was a French poet and dramatist. He is associated with neo-romanticism, and is best known for his play Cyrano de Bergerac. Rostand's romantic plays provided an alternative to the...
Date of birth:
- Apr 1, 1868
Date of death:
- Dec 2, 1918 (age 50 years)
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (also romanized Mendeleyev or Mendeleef; Russian: Дми́трий Ива́нович Менделе́ев listen (help·info)) (8 February [O.S. 27 January] 1834 – 2 February [O.S. 20 January] 1907), was a Russian chemist and inventor. He is...
Date of birth:
- Feb 8, 1834
Date of death:
- Feb 2, 1907 (age 73 years)
Guillaume Apollinaire
Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki, known as Guillaume Apollinaire (French pronunciation: [ɡijom apɔliˈnɛʁ]; Rome, August 26, 1880 – November 9, 1918, Paris) was a French poet, writer and art critic born in Italy to a Polish mother....
Date of birth:
- Aug 26, 1880
Date of death:
- Nov 9, 1918 (age 38 years)
Isaac D'Israeli
Isaac D'Israeli (11 May 1766 – 19 January 1848) was a British writer, scholar and man of letters. He is best known for his essays, his associations with other men of letters, and for being the father of British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli....
Date of birth:
- May 11, 1766
Date of death:
- Jan 19, 1848 (age 81 years)
John Reed
John Silas Reed (October 22, 1887 – October 17, 1920), often referred to by his nickname, Jack, was an American journalist, poet, and communist activist, remembered for his first-hand account of the Bolshevik Revolution, Ten Days that Shook the...
Date of birth:
- Oct 22, 1887
Date of death:
- Oct 17, 1920 (age 33 years)
Trevor Howard
Trevor Howard (29 September 1913 – 7 January 1988), born Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith, was an English film, stage and television actor.
Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith was born in Cliftonville, Margate, Kent, England, on 29 September, 1913, the only son...
Date of birth:
- Sep 29, 1913
Date of death:
- Jan 7, 1988 (age 74 years)
Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Richard Henry Dana Jr. (August 1, 1815 – January 6, 1882) was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts, a descendant of an eminent colonial family who gained renown as the author of the American classic, the memoir Two Years Before the...
Date of birth:
- Aug 1, 1815
Date of death:
- Jan 6, 1882 (age 66 years)
Sam Steele
Major General Sir Samuel Benfield Steele, CB, KCMG, MVO (5 January 1849 – 30 January 1919) was a distinguished soldier and famous member of the North-West Mounted Police.
Born in Medonte Township, Upper Canada, the son of Elmes and Anne Steele, Sam...
Date of birth:
- Jan 5, 1849
Date of death:
- Jan 30, 1919 (age 70 years)
George Washington Hays
George Washington Hays (September 23, 1863 – September 15, 1927) was the Democratic governor of the U.S. state of Arkansas.
George Washington Hays was born in Camden, Arkansas. He attended public schools in Camden and worked as a farmer. Hays...
Date of birth:
- Sep 23, 1863
Date of death:
- Sep 15, 1927 (age 64 years)
Walter Parr
Rev. Walter Robinson Parr (May 3, 1871 – March 24, 1922) was an English-born preacher and author.
The son of Alexander and Matilda (Richards) Parr, Walter Parr was born in Liverpool, England, and graduated from the Beloit Academy in 1891, from...
Date of birth:
- May 3, 1871
Date of death:
- Mar 24, 1922 (age 50 years)
Saud of Saudi Arabia
Saud bin Abdul Aziz, King of Saudi Arabia (Kuwait, January 12 , 1902 - Greece, February 23, 1969) (Arabic: سعود بن عبد العزيز آل سعود) was King of Saudi Arabia from 1953 to November 2, 1964. He was the eldest surviving son of Ibn Saud, his mother...
Date of birth:
- Jan 15, 1902
Date of death:
- Feb 23, 1969 (age 67 years)
Princess Louise Margaret, Duchess of Connaught
Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia (Louise Margaret Alexandra Victoria Agnes; later Duchess of Connaught and Strathearn; 25 July 1860 – 14 July 1917) was a German princess, and later a member of the British Royal Family, the wife of Prince Arthur,...
Date of birth:
- Jul 25, 1860
Date of death:
- 1917 (age 56 years)
Madge Syers
Florence Madeleine Syers (née Cave) (1881 - September 9, 1917), best known as Madge Syers, was a British figure skater. She was the first woman to compete in the sport, and became the first female World and Olympic champion. She won the Olympic gold...
Date of birth:
- 1881
Date of death:
- Sep 9, 1917 (age 36 years)
Charles Tomlinson Griffes
Charles Tomlinson Griffes (Elmira, New York, September 17, 1884 – New York City, April 8, 1920) was an American composer for piano, chamber ensembles and for voice.
After early studies on piano and organ in his home town, he went to Berlin for four...
Date of birth:
- Sep 17, 1884
Date of death:
- Apr 8, 1920 (age 35 years)
Felix Arndt
Felix Arndt (May 20, 1889 – October 16, 1918) was an American pianist and composer of popular music. His mother was the Countess Fevrier, related to Napoleon III.
Educated in New York, Arndt composed songs for the famous vaudeville team of Jack...
Date of birth:
- May 20, 1889
Date of death:
- Oct 16, 1918 (age 29 years)
Daisy and Violet Hilton
Daisy Hilton and Violet Hilton (February 5, 1908 – January 4, 1969) were a pair of conjoined twins who toured in the U.S. sideshow and vaudeville circuit in the 1930s.
The girls were born in Brighton, England (East Sussex) on February 5, 1908. Their...
Date of birth:
- Feb 5, 1908
Date of death:
- Jan 4, 1969 (age 60 years)
Wallace Reid
Wallace Reid (April 15, 1891 – January 18, 1923) was an actor in silent film referred to by Motion Picture Magazine as "the screen's most perfect lover".
Born William Wallace Reid in St. Louis, Missouri into a show business family, his mother Bertha...
Date of birth:
- Apr 15, 1891
Date of death:
- Jan 18, 1923 (age 31 years)
Briton Hadden
Briton Hadden (February 18, 1898 – February 27, 1929) was the co-founder of Time Magazine with his Yale classmate Henry Luce. He was Time's first editor and the inventor of its revolutionary writing style, known as Timestyle. Though he died at 31,...
Date of birth:
- Feb 18, 1898
Date of death:
- Feb 27, 1929 (age 31 years)
Orson F. Whitney
Orson Ferguson Whitney (1 July 1855 – 16 May 1931) born in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from April 9, 1906 until his death.
Whitney...
Date of birth:
- Jul 1, 1855
Date of death:
- May 16, 1931 (age 75 years)
Alan Arnett McLeod
Alan Arnett McLeod VC (20 April 1899 – 6 November 1918) was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
He was 18...
Date of birth:
- Apr 20, 1899
Date of death:
- Nov 6, 1918 (age 19 years)
James A. Reilly
James A. Reilly is a Canadian businessman and politician. He was the sixth and twelfth mayor of Calgary, Alberta. He was married to May Watts.
Reilly was born in 1835 in Naperville, Quebec to immigrants from Ireland. In Quebec he became an architect...
Date of birth:
- 1835
Date of death:
- 1909 (age 74 years)
Albert Edward McKenzie
Albert Edward McKenzie VC (23 October 1898- 3 November 1918) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
He was...
Date of birth:
- Oct 23, 1898
Date of death:
- Nov 3, 1918 (age 20 years)
William Wilson Hunter
Sir William Wilson Hunter, KCSI , CIE (July 15, 1840 – February 6, 1900) was British historian, statistician, a compiler and a member of the Indian Civil Service, who later became Vice President of Royal Asiatic Society .
William Wilson Hunter was...
Date of birth:
- Jul 15, 1840
Date of death:
- Feb 6, 1900 (age 59 years)
Sir Robert Anderson
Sir Robert Anderson KCB (29 May 1841 – 15 November 1918) was the second Assistant Commissioner (Crime) of the London Metropolitan Police, from 1888 to 1901. He was also an intelligence officer, theologian and writer.
Anderson was born in Dublin,...
Date of birth:
- May 29, 1841
Date of death:
- Nov 15, 1918 (age 77 years)
Mark Sykes
Colonel Sir Mark Sykes, 6th Baronet (born Tatton Benvenuto Mark Sykes) (16 March 1879 – 16 February 1919) was an English traveller, Conservative Party politician and diplomatic adviser, particularly about matters respecting the Middle East at the...
Date of birth:
- Mar 16, 1879
Date of death:
- Feb 16, 1919 (age 39 years)
Lord Edward Gascoyne-Cecil
Lord Edward Herbert (Gascoyne-)Cecil KCMG DSO (12 July 1867-13 December 1918) was a British soldier and colonial administrator in Egypt. His father was Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, the Prime Minister.
Gascoyne-Cecil became a...
Date of birth:
- Jul 12, 1867
Date of death:
- Dec 13, 1918 (age 51 years)
Jacinta and Francisco Marto
Francisco Marto (June 11, 1908–April 4, 1919) and his sister Jacinta Marto (March 11, 1910–February 20, 1920), also known as Blessed Francisco Marto and Blessed Jacinta Marto, together with their cousin, Lúcia dos Santos (1907–2005) were the...
Date of birth:
- Jun 11, 1908
Date of death:
- Apr 4, 1919 (age 10 years)
Do-Hum-Me
Do-Hum-Me (1825–1843) was the daughter of the chief of the Sac Native American tribe.
In 1843, she accompanied her father in a trip east to Princeton, New Jersey for treaty negotiations. While there, she met and fell in love with an Iowa tribe...
Date of birth:
- 1825
Date of death:
- 1843 (age 18 years)
Alexander McNair
Alexander McNair (May 5, 1775 – March 18, 1826) was an American frontiersman and politician. He was the first governor of Missouri from its entry as a state in 1820, until 1824.
McNair was born in Pennsylvania where he lived for the first 30 years...
Date of birth:
- May 5, 1774
Date of death:
- Mar 18, 1826 (age 51 years)
Harold Lockwood
Harold A. Lockwood (April 12, 1887 in Newark, New Jersey – October 19, 1918 in New York City, New York) was one of the most popular original silent film actors and matinee idols of the early film period during the 1910s.
Often paired with actress...
Date of birth:
- Apr 12, 1887
Date of death:
- Oct 19, 1918 (age 31 years)
Tanikaze Kajinosuke
Kajinosuke Tanikaze (谷風梶之助, Tanikaze Kajinosuke, September 8, 1750 – February 27, 1795) was a sumo wrestler in Japan in the Tokugawa era, and the first to be awarded the title of Yokozuna within his own lifetime. He achieved great fame and won 21...
Date of birth:
- Sep 8, 1750
Date of death:
- 1795 (age 44 years)
Leefe Robinson
William Leefe Robinson VC (14 July 1895 – 31 December 1918) was the first British pilot to shoot down a German airship over Britain during the First World War. For this he was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face...
Date of birth:
- Jul 14, 1895
Date of death:
- Dec 31, 1918 (age 23 years)
Minik Wallace
Minik Wallace (ca. 1890 – October 29, 1918) was an Inuit who was brought to the United States of America from Greenland along with five other Inuit in 1897 by explorer Robert Peary.
Minik spent his childhood in Northern Greenland among his people,...
Date of birth:
- 1890
Date of death:
- Oct 29, 1918 (age 28 years)
Willard Straight
Willard Dickerman Straight (January 31, 1880 – December 1, 1918) was an American investment banker, publisher, reporter and diplomat.
An orphan, Straight was born in Oswego, New York. His father had been a faculty member at Oswego Normal School. He...
Date of birth:
- Jan 31, 1880
Date of death:
- Dec 1, 1918 (age 38 years)
Joseph R. Williams
Joseph Rickelson Williams (November 14, 1808 – June 15, 1861) was an American politician and the first president of the Agricultural College of the U. S. state of Michigan, now Michigan State University.
Williams was born in Taunton, Massachusetts...
Date of birth:
- Nov 14, 1808
Date of death:
- Jun 15, 1861 (age 52 years)
Charles Arthur Broadwater
Charles Arthur Broadwater (1840–1892) was a wealthy and influential Montana railroad, real estate, and banking magnate.
Broadwater was born in St. Charles, Missouri. He was president of the Montana Central Railroad, a spur line which ran between...
Date of birth:
- 1840
Date of death:
- 1892 (age 52 years)
Henry B. Walthall
Henry B. Walthall (March 16, 1878 – June 17, 1936) was an American film actor.
Walthall began his career as a stage actor, appearing on Broadway in a supporting role in William Vaughn Moody's The Great Divide in 1906–1908. His career in movies began...
Date of birth:
- Mar 16, 1878
Date of death:
- Jun 17, 1936 (age 58 years)
Vestal Goodman
Vestal Goodman (December 13, 1929 in Fyffe, Alabama – December 27, 2003, in Celebration, Florida) was a singer who performed in the Southern Gospel genre for more than half a century. She is known both as a solo performer and as a founding member of...
Date of birth:
- Dec 13, 1929
Date of death:
- Dec 27, 2003 (age 74 years)
Patrick Nolan
Patrick J. Nolan (March 17, 1881 - January 11, 1941) was mayor of Ottawa from 1934 to 1935.
He was born in Ottawa on St. Patrick's Day in 1881, the son of poor Irish parents. He worked as a clerk in a drug store, studied to become a pharmacist and...
Date of birth:
- Mar 17, 1881
Date of death:
- Jan 11, 1941 (age 59 years)
Valentina Zimina
Valentina Zimina (1 January 1899 — 3 December 1928) was a silent screenplay actress.
Russian-born, the daughter of a Moscow stage actress, Zimina served with the Women's Battalion of Death for three years. She was in a Siberian prison, from which...
Date of birth:
- Jan 1, 1899
Date of death:
- Dec 3, 1928 (age 29 years)
Rafael Bolivar Coronado
Rafael Bolívar Coronado was born in Villa de Cura, (Aragua), Venezuela, on June 6, 1884. He is the author of the lyrics of the popular joropo song "Alma Llanera". He arrived in Caracas in 1912 and began to channel his restlessness towards...
Date of birth:
- 1884
Date of death:
- 1924 (age 40 years)
Prince Erik, Duke of Västmanland
Prince Erik of Sweden and Norway, Duke of Västmanland (Erik Gustav Ludvig Albert) (Stockholm, 20 April 1889 – Drottningholm, 20 September 1918), Duke of Västmanland, was the third and youngest son of King Gustav V of Sweden and his wife, Queen...
Date of birth:
- Apr 20, 1889
Date of death:
- Sep 20, 1918 (age 29 years)
Georg Klebs
Georg Albrecht Klebs (23 October 1857 – 15 October 1918) was a German botanist from Neidenburg (Nidzica), Prussia. His brother was the historian Elimar Klebs.
Klebs studied chemistry, philosophy, and art history at the University of Königsberg and...
Date of birth:
- Oct 23, 1857
Date of death:
- Oct 15, 1918 (age 61 years)
William C. Farr
William C. Farr (1841 – 1921) was the fifth mayor of Bayonne, New Jersey from 1891 to 1895.
Born on March 13, 1844 in Gettenbach, near Frankfurt-am-Main, in Germany, Farr immigrated to the United States in 1861. After arriving in Baltimore, Farr...
Date of birth:
- 1841
Date of death:
- Feb 14, 1921 (age 80 years)
Egbert Seymour
Egbert Seymour (1850 - 1921) was 6th the mayor of Bayonne, New Jersey from 1895 to 1904.
Born December 15, 1850 in Walkill in upstate New York, Seymour came to Bayonne, New Jersey in the 1880s and became active in Democratic Party politics. He was...
Date of birth:
- Dec 15, 1850
Date of death:
- Feb 6, 1921 (age 70 years)
Bill Blair
William Ellsworth Blair (September 17, 1863 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – February 22, 1890 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) was a Major League Baseball player. A left-handed pitcher who batted from the left side, Blair had a listed playing weight of...
Date of birth:
- Sep 17, 1863
Date of death:
- Feb 22, 1890 (age 26 years)
Prince Fushimi Sadanaru
Prince Fushimi Sadanaru (伏見宮貞愛親王, Fushimi-no-miya Sadanaru-Shinnō, June 9, 1858 – February 4, 1923) was the 22nd head of the Fushimi-no-miya shinnōke (branch of the Imperial Family), and a field marshal in the Imperial Japanese Army.
Prince Sadanaru...
Date of birth:
- Jun 9, 1858
Date of death:
- Feb 4, 1923 (age 64 years)
Ruby Lindsay
Ruby Lindsay (20 March 1885 – 12 March 1919) was an Australian illustrator and painter, sister of Norman Lindsay and Percy Lindsay.
Lindsay was born in Creswick, Victoria, the seventh child and second daughter of Robert and Jane Lindsay, and lived...
Date of birth:
- Mar 20, 1885
Date of death:
- Mar 12, 1919 (age 33 years)
Prince Takeda Tsunehisa
Prince Takeda Tsunehisa (竹田宮恒久王, Takeda-no-miya Tsunehisa-ō, September 22, 1882 – April 23, 1919) was the founder of the Takeda-no-miya [[ōke]|collateral branch] of Japanese Imperial Family.
Prince Takeda Tsunehisa was the eldest son of Prince...
Date of birth:
- 1882
Date of death:
- 1919 (age 37 years)
James Vernor
James Vernor, Sr. (April 11, 1843 – October 29, 1927) was an American pharmacist and druggist who invented Vernor's ginger ale in 1866.
Vernor was born in Albany, New York and moved with his parents to Detroit, Michigan in his youth. While employed...
Date of birth:
- Apr 11, 1843
Date of death:
- Oct 29, 1927 (age 84 years)
Gulbrand Hagen
Gulbrand Torsteinson Hagen (1864 to 1919) was an American newspaper editor and writer in Minnesota and North Dakota at the end of 19th Century and beginning of the 20th.
Hagen was born in Sigdal, Buskerud, Norway. He immigrated to the United States...
Date of birth:
- 1864
Date of death:
- 1919 (age 55 years)
Gaby Deslys
Gaby Deslys (November 4, 1881 – February 11, 1920) was a famous dancer and actress of the early 20th century from Marseilles, France. She selected her name for her stage career. It is an abbreviation of Gabrielle of the Lillies.
Deslys heritage has...
Date of birth:
- Nov 4, 1881
Date of death:
- Feb 11, 1920 (age 38 years)
George D. Prentice
George Dennison Prentice was the editor of the Louisville Journal, which he built into a major newspaper in Louisville, Kentucky. He attracted readers by satire as well as exaggerated reporting and support of the Know-Nothing Party in the 1850s. His...
Date of birth:
- Dec 18, 1802
Date of death:
- 1870 (age 67 years)
Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache
Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache (10 June 1884 – 20 February 1917) was a captain in the British Army who died during the First World War. A common misconception is that he...
Date of birth:
- 1884
Date of death:
- 1917 (age 33 years)
Minnie B. Smith
Minnie B. Smith was an incorporator of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the first sorority founded by African American women. Although Smith died young in the influenza epidemic in 1919, the legacy she created with Alpha Kappa Alpha has continued to...
Date of death:
- 1919
Radhikabai
Radhikabai (4 July 1745 – 29 November 1798) was the daughter of Sardar Gupte of Nashik, Maharashtra, India, a Tipnis (secretary) of Baji Rao I and later Raghunathrao. She was the niece of Parvatibai, wife of Sadashivrao Bhau, and was emotionally...
Date of birth:
- Jul 4, 1745
Date of death:
- Nov 29, 1798 (age 53 years)
Frans De Haes
François "Frans" De Haes (September 24, 1895 – November 4, 1923) was a Belgian weightlifter and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp. He died from influenza.
Date of birth:
- Sep 24, 1895
Date of death:
- Nov 4, 1923 (age 28 years)
