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Thomas Mann
German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)
Carl Jung
Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist (1875–1961)
Rainer Maria Rilke
Austrian poet and writer (1875–1926)
Albert Schweitzer
French-German physician, theologian, musician, and philosopher (1875-1965)
Maurice Ravel
French composer (1875–1937)
Syngman Rhee
President of South Korea from 1948 to 1960
Edgar Rice Burroughs
American writer (1875–1950)
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Indian barrister, leader of the Indian National Congress and founding father of the Republic of India (1875-1950)
D. W. Griffith
American filmmaker (1875–1948)
Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin
Soviet politician (1875–1946)
Aleister Crowley
English occultist (1875–1947)
Jeanne Calment
French supercentenarian, person with the longest confirmed lifespan (1875–1997)
Albert I of Belgium
King of the Belgians from 1909 to 1934 (1875–1934)
Antonio Machado
Spanish poet and essayist (1875–1939); created the apocryphal poets Abel Martín and Juan de Mairena as philosophical heteronyms
Mileva Marić
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875–1948)
Gilbert N. Lewis
American physical chemist
Anatoly Lunacharsky
Russian Soviet revolutionary, politician and writer (1875–1933)
Ferdinand Porsche
Austrian-born German automotive engineer, inventor (1875–1951)
Gerd von Rundstedt
German Field Marshal during World War II (1875-1953)
Edgar Wallace
British crime writer, journalist and playwright (1875–1932)
Henry Hallett Dale
English pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (1875–1968)
Marie of Romania
last Queen consort of Romania (1875-1938; r. 1914-1927)
Giovanni Gentile
Italian philosopher, educator, fascist theoretician and politician (1875-1944)
Henri Lebesgue
French mathematician (1875–1941)
Hiram Bingham III
American academic, explorer, treasure hunter and politician (1875–1956)
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis
Lithuanian painter, composer and writer (1875-1911)
John Buchan
Scottish author and politician (1875–1940)
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American astronomer (1875–1969)
Qiu Jin
Chinese revolutionary, feminist, and writer (1875-1907)
Fritz Kreisler
Austrian violinist and composer (1875-1962)
Rafael Sabatini
Italian–English writer (1875–1950)
Artur Bernardes
Brazilian politician (1875–1955)
Thomas Burke
American sprinter
Jim Corbett
British hunter, tracker, naturalist and author (1875-1955)
Nobuyuki Abe
general in the Imperial Japanese Army (1875-1953). Dictator of Japan
Walter Percy Chrysler Sr.
(1875-1940) American automotive industry executive
Othenio Abel
Austrian botanist, paleontologist and evolutionary biologist (1875–1946)
Mihály Károlyi
Hungarian politician, president, prime minister of Hungary and ambassador to France (1875–1955)
Reinhold Glière
Soviet Ukrainian composer (1875–1956)
Avetik Isahakyan
Soviet Armenian poet (1875-1957)
Zhang Zuolin
Chinese warlord and politician (1875-1928)
Ludwig Prandtl
German physicist (1875-1953)
Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia
Grand Duchess of Russia (1875–1960)
Leonardo De Lorenzo
Italian flautist and music educator (1875–1962)
Robert Garrett
American athlete and collector (1875-1961)
Harriet Quimby
American aviator, screenwriter (1875-1912)
Franco Alfano
Italian composer and pianist (1875-1954)
Albert Marquet
French painter (1875-1947)
Matthias Erzberger
German politician (1875–1921)
Max Abraham
German physicist (1875-1922)
Otto Strandman
Estonian politician (1875–1941)
Felix Hamrin
Swedish 20th century prime minister (1875-1937)
Issai Schur
German mathematician (1875–1941)
Norman Pritchard
Indian athlete and the first Olympic medal winner from India (1877-1929)
Paul Landowski
French sculptor (1875-1961)
William D. Leahy
United States admiral, ambassador to France, Chief of Staff (1875–1959)
Abd al-Hafid of Morocco
Sultan of Morocco (1875-1937)
William Hoyt
American pole vaulter (1875–1954)
Henri Farman
French pilot, aviator and aircraft designer and manufacturer
Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg
German diplomat who served as the last German ambassador to the Soviet Union before Operation Barbarossa