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Hendrikus "Hendrik" Colijn was a Dutch politician of the Anti-Revolutionary Party. He served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 4 August 1925 until 8 March 1926, and from 26…
Hendrikus Colijn, Dutch Politician and Prime Minister of the Netherlands (died 1944)
Prince George of Greece and Denmark was the second son and child of George I of Greece and Olga Konstantinovna of Russia. He served as high commissioner of the Cretan State during …
Prince George of Greece and Denmark (died 1957)
Martin Andersen Nexø was a Danish writer. He was one of the authors in the Modern Breakthrough movement in Danish art and literature. He was a socialist throughout his life and dur…
Martin Andersen Nexø, Danish journalist and author (died 1954)
Mary Williams, who wrote pseudonymously as Kate Carew, was an American caricaturist self-styled as "The Only Woman Caricaturist". She worked at the New York World, providing illust…
Kate Carew, American illustrator and journalist (died 1961)
Emma Goldman was a Russian-born anarchist revolutionary, political activist, and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North Ame…
Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-Canadian philosopher and activist (died 1940)
Hans Spemann was a German embryologist who was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1935 for his student Hilde Mangold's discovery of the effect now known as embryoni…
Hans Spemann, German embryologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1941)
William Strunk Jr. was an American professor of English at Cornell University and the author of The Elements of Style (1918). After his former student E. B. White revised and exten…
William Strunk Jr., American author and educator (died 1946)
Liane de Pougy was a French dancer, courtesan and novelist. She was a Folies Bergère vedette, and was known as one of the most beautiful and notorious courtesans in Paris. Later in…
Liane de Pougy, French-Swiss dancer and author (died 1950)
Svend Kornbeck was a Danish stage and film actor.
Svend Kornbeck, Danish actor (died 1933)
Rachel Caroline Eaton was believed to be the first Native American woman from Oklahoma to be awarded a Ph.D.
Rachel Caroline Eaton, American academic (died 1938)
Fernande Sadler was a French painter and engraver. She established the art collection at Grez-sur-Loing and became the mayor of that town in 1945.
Fernande Sadler, French painter and mayor (died 1949)
Xenophon Stratigos was a Greek military officer. He played a major role in the Balkan Wars of 1912–13 and the Asia Minor Campaign of the Greco-Turkish War in 1921–22, serving also …
Xenophon Stratigos, Greek general and politician, Greek Minister of Transport (died 1927)
Platon, born Paul Kulbusch, was an Estonian bishop and the first Orthodox saint of Estonian ethnicity.
Platon, Estonian bishop and saint (died 1919)
Newton Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and Alice Adams (1921). He is one of only four novelists t…
Booth Tarkington, American novelist and dramatist (died 1946)
Mary Frances Winston Newson was an American mathematician. She became the first American woman to receive a PhD in mathematics from a European university, namely the University of …
Mary Frances Winston, American mathematician (died 1959)
Robert Laurence Binyon, CH was an English poet, dramatist and art scholar. Born in Lancaster, England, his parents were Frederick Binyon, a clergyman, and Mary Dockray. He studied …
Laurence Binyon, English poet, playwright, and scholar (died 1943)
Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius was a leading American wildlife artist. He was born in Germany though he immigrated to the United States and he spent his career painting in the western…
Carl Rungius, German-American painter and educator (died 1959)
William Henry Ogilvie was a Scottish-Australian narrative poet and horseman, jackaroo, and drover, and described as a quiet-spoken handsome Scot of medium height, with a fair moust…
William Henry Ogilvie, Scottish-Australian poet and author (died 1963)
Thomas Francis Kiely was an Irish athlete. Kiely won gold in the all-round at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, Missouri representing Great Britain and Ireland, making him the…
Tom Kiely, British-Irish decathlete (died 1951)
Frank Elbridge Webb was an American engineer who served as the Farmer–Labor Party's presidential candidate in 1928. In the 1932 presidential election, he was initially renominated …
Frank Elbridge Webb, American engineer and presidential candidate (died 1949)
Fritz Pregl, was a Slovenian-Austrian chemist and physician from a mixed Slovene-German-speaking background. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1923 for making important contri…
Fritz Pregl, Slovenian chemist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1930)
Major Sir Henry Walford Davies was a renowned English composer, organist, and educator who was Master of the King's Music from 1934 until 1941. He was also a music adviser to the B…
Walford Davies, English organist and composer (died 1941)
Felix Salten was an Austrian author and literary critic. His most famous work is Bambi, a Life in the Woods, which was adapted into an animated feature film, Bambi, by Walt Disney …
Felix Salten, Austrian-Swiss author and critic (died 1945)
Benjamin Johannes "Ben" Viljoen was an Afrikaner-American consul, soldier, farmer, Maderista, and Boer general.
Ben Viljoen, South African general (died 1917)