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Rudyard Kipling
English writer and poet (1865–1936)
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William Butler Yeats
Irish poet and playwright (1865–1939)
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Warren G. Harding
president of the United States from 1921 to 1923
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George V
George V was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936.
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Jean Sibelius
Finnish composer (1865–1957)
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Pieter Zeeman
Dutch physicist (1865–1943)
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Yun Ch'iho
Korean independence activist (1864-1945)
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Erich Ludendorff
German Army officer (1865–1937)
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Charles G. Dawes
vice president of the United States from 1925 to 1929
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Richard Adolf Zsigmondy
Austrian chemist (1865-1929)
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Arthur Harden
British biochemist
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Sven Hedin
Swedish geographer, topographer, explorer, photographer, travel writer and illustrator (1865-1952)
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Ferdinand I of Romania
King of Romania (1865-1927; ruled 1914-1927)
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Alexander Glazunov
Russian composer, music teacher and conductor (1865-1936)
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Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg
President of Finland (1865-1952)
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Valentin Serov
Russian painter (1865–1911)
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Jacques Hadamard
French mathematician (1865–1963)
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Edith Cavell
British nurse (1865-1915)
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John Mott
American Methodist and founder of the YMCA (1865–1955)
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Paul Dukas
French composer (1865–1935)
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Philipp Scheidemann
German politician (1865-1939)
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Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Finnish painter (1865-1931)
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Carl Nielsen
Danish composer
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Dmitry Merezhkovsky
Russian novelist, poet, religious thinker, and literary critic (1865–1941)
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Gabriel Narutowicz
Polish politician (1865-1922)
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Suzanne Valadon
French painter (1865—1938)
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Andranik Ozanian
Andranik Ozanian, commonly known as General Andranik or simply Andranik (25 February 186531 August 1927), was an Armenian military commander and statesman, widely regarded as the preeminent fedayi and a seminal figure of the Armenian national liberation movement.
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Félix Vallotton
Swiss painter and printmaker (1865-1925)
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Nikolai Marr
Georgian ethnologist and linguist (1864–1934)
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Rainis
Jānis Pliekšāns (11 September 1865 – 11 September 1929), known by his pseudonym Rainis, was a Latvian poet, playwright, translator, and politician. Rainis' works include the classic plays Uguns un nakts (Fire and Night, 1905) and Indulis un Ārija (Indulis and Ārija, 1911), and a highly regarded translation of Goethe's Faust. His works had a profound influence on the literary Latvian language, and the ethnic symbolism he employed in his major works has been central to Latvian nationalism.
Anandi Gopal Joshi
One of the first Indian woman doctor (1865-1887)
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Sabino Arana
Basque nationalist, writer and politician (1865–1903)
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Alfred Hugenberg
German politician (1865-1951)
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Friedrich August III of Saxony
king of Saxony (1865-1932)
Olga Boznańska
Polish artist (1865–1940)
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Emma Orczy
Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright (1865-1947)
James Henry Breasted
American archaeologist, Egyptologist and historian (1865–1935)
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Tikhon of Moscow
Patriarch of Moscow (1865-1925)
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Epitácio Pessoa
Brazilian politician and judge (1865-1942)
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Lala Lajpat Rai
Indian author and politician (1865-1928)
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Rida Muhammad Rashid
Syrian Muslim scholar and reformer (1865-1935)
Wilfrid Voynich
Polish revolutionary, antiquarian, bibliophile, historian and eponym of Voynich manuscript (1865-1930)
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Abraham Isaac Kook
chief rabbi of British Mandatory Palestine (1865-1935)
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May Whitty
English actress (1865-1948)
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Archduke Otto of Austria
Austrian archduke (1865-1906)
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Prussian-American mathematician, electrical engineer (1865–1923)
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Amélie of Orléans
Queen Consort of Portugal (1889 - 1908)
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Frederick Cook
American explorer (1865-1940)
Wilbur Scoville
American pharmacist (1865–1942)
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Aspazija
Aspazija was the pen name of Elza Johanna Emilija Lizete Pliekšāne (née Elza Rozenberga; 16 March 1865 – 5 November 1943), a Latvian poet and playwright. Aspazija is the Latvian transliteration of Aspasia.
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Bernard Berenson
American art critic and collector (1865-1959)
Duan Qirui
Chinese warlord and politician (1865-1936)
Archibald Leitch
British architect (1865–1939)
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Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke
painter and prince of Sweden (1865-1947)
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Ernst Troeltsch
German philosopher and theologian (1865-1923)
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Friedrich Paschen
German physicist (1865–1947)
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Jovan Cvijić
Serbian scientist (1865–1927)
Erich von Drygalski
German geographer (1865–1949)
Benjamin Guggenheim
American businessman (1865–1912)
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Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg
German Generalfeldmarschall (1865–1939)