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H. G. Wells
English writer (1866–1946)
Sun Yat-sen
Chinese politician, physician, and revolutionary (1866–1925)
Romain Rolland
French author (1866-1944)
Wassily Kandinsky
avant-garde painter of Russian origin (1866-1944)
Jacinto Benavente
Spanish writer (1866-1954)
Beatrix Potter
British children's writer and illustrator (1866–1943)
Erik Satie
French composer and pianist (1866-1925)
Benedetto Croce
Italian philosopher (1866-1952)
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist (1866–1945)
Ramsay MacDonald
British prime minister in 1924 and 1929 to 1935 (1866–1937)
Alfred Werner
Swiss chemist Nobel laureate (1866-1919)
Charles Nicolle
French microbiologist (1866–1936)
Nathan Söderblom
Swedish clergyman and archbishop (1866–1931)
Mykhailo Hrushevskyi
Ukrainian politician and historian (1866–1934)
Ferruccio Busoni
Italian composer, pianist, conductor, editor, born 1866
Anne Sullivan
teacher and companion of Helen Keller
Antoine Meillet
French linguist (1866–1936)
Léon Bakst
Russian artist (1866–1924)
Ramón María del Valle-Inclán
Spanish author (1866-1936)
Lev Shestov
Russian existentialist philosopher (1866 – 1938)
Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Indian political leader and social reformer (1866–1915)
Alexander Ulyanov
Russian revolutionary and activist (1866–1887)
Jeppe Aakjær
Danish poet and novelist (1866–1930)
Hans von Seeckt
German general (1866-1936)
Voltairine de Cleyre
American anarchist writer and feminist
George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon
British aristocrat (1866-1923)
Emilio De Bono
Italian General (1866-1944)
Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov
Russian Symbolist poet, playwright, theatre theorist, translator (1866–1949)
Enrique Simonet
Spanish painter (1866-1927)
Tristan Bernard
French playwright (1866–1947)
Mary Anderson
inventor of the windshield wiper blade (1866–1953)
Giovanni Agnelli
Italian entrepreneur (1866–1945)
Kazys Grinius
Third President of Lithuania from 7 June 1926 until 17 December 1926 (1866-1950)
Aby Warburg
German art historian and cultural theorist (1866–1929)
Wakatsuki Reijirō
Japanese politician (1866–1949)
Roger Fry
English artist and art critic (1866-1934)
Butch Cassidy
American Old West outlaw (1866–1908)
Adrien de Gerlache
Belgian explorer (1866–1934)
Draga Mašin
Queen of Serbia (1861-1903)
Reginald Fessenden
Canadian radio pioneer (1866–1932)
Pyotr Lebedev
Russian Physicist (1866–1912)
Hubert Van Innis
Belgian archer (1866–1961)
Elizabeth Magie
American board game designer (1866–1948)
Émile Vandervelde
Belgian politician (1866-1938)
August von Wassermann
German bacteriologist (1866-1925)
Robert Broom
South African doctor and paleontologist (1866–1951)
Francesco Cilea
Italian composer (1866-1950)
James John Corbett
American boxer (1866-1933)
Ernest William Brown
English-American astronomer and mathematician
Maud Gonne
Irish revolutionary and activist (1866-1953)
Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine
daughter of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom (1866-1953)
Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia
dynast of the Russian Empire (1866-1933); brother-in-law of Tsar Nicholas II
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British philosopher (1866-1925)
George Coșbuc
Romanian poet, translator, teacher and journalist (1866-1918)
Ignacy Daszyński
Polish politician (1866-1936)
Ramon Casas
Spanish artist (1866-1932)
James Barry Munnik Hertzog
Boer general (1866-1942)
Cornelia Dorabuji
Indian barrister, writer, and social reformer; first female graduate from Bombay University, first woman to study law at Oxford University; first Indian national to study at a British university (1866-1954)
Elizabeth von Arnim
British-Australian novelist (1866–1941)
Princess Milica of Montenegro
Montenegrin princess and Grand Duchess of Russia (1866-1951)