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Konrad Adenauer
German politician, Chancellor of West Germany (1949–1963), Zentrum and CDU
Jack London
American author, journalist and social activist (1876–1916)
Pius XII
pope of the Catholic Church from 1939 to 1958
Mohammad Ali Jinnah
politician and the founder of Pakistan (1876–1948)
Ibn Saud
founder and first king of Saudi Arabia (r. 1932–1953)
Mata Hari
Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan and spy (1876-1917)
Otto Diels
German chemist (1876–1954)
Robert Bárány
Austri-Hungarian otologist and Nobel Prize laureate
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Italian poet and editor, founder of the Futurist movement (1876-1944)
Sherwood Anderson
American writer (1876–1941)
John James Rickard Macleod
Nobel prize-winning Scottish physician and physiologist; co-discoverer of insulin
Pau Casals
Spanish cellist, conductor and composer (1876–1973)
Constantin Brâncuși
Romanian sculptor, photographer and painter (1876-1960)
Adolf Windaus
German chemist (1876–1959)
Erich Raeder
German admiral (1876–1960)
Thubten Gyatso
13th Dalai Lama of Tibet (1876-1933)
Wilhelm Pieck
German communist politician, president of GDR (1876-1960)
Max Jacob
French poet, painter, writer and critic (1876-1944)
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Spanish composer (1876–1946)
Ivan Cankar
Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, poet and political activist (1876-1918)
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb
German field marshal and war criminal (1876–1956)
Hermann Müller
German politician (1876–1931)
Natalie Clifford Barney
American writer who hosted a literary salon at her home in Paris (1876-1972)
Alexander I of Serbia
king of Serbia 1889-1903
Wilhelm Cuno
German chancellor (1876-1933)
Maxim Litvinov
Soviet diplomat and foreign minister (1876–1951)
Anna de Noailles
Romanian-French writer (1876-1933)
Maurice de Vlaminck
French painter (1876-1958)
Zewditu I of Ethiopia
Zewditu (, born Askala Maryam; 29 April 1876 – 2 April 1930) was Empress of Ethiopia from 1916 until her death in 1930. She officially adopted the regnal name "Zewditu" at the beginning of her reign, which was triggered by the dethroning of Lij Iyasu in 1916. Her coronation was held on February 11, 1917, in the Cathedral of St. George in Addis Ababa—a capital founded by her father. Forty years old and childless when crowned, she is the first and only empress regnant of the Ethiopian Empire. Described as the first modern female head of a nation in Africa, she was the last female Ethiopian head
Paula Modersohn-Becker
German expressionist painter (1876–1907)
Alfred L. Kroeber
American anthropologist (1876–1960)
Kim Ku
Korean politician (1876–1949)
Walter Burley Griffin
American architect and landscape architect (1876-1937)
Willis Carrier
American inventor (1876–1950)
Ivan Bilibin
illustrator (1876-1942)
Robert Guérin
President of FIFA (1876-1952)
Ziya Gökalp
Turkish sociologist and writer (1876–1924)
Walter Sydney Adams
American astronomer
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
Bengali novelist and short story writer (1876-1938)
Hideyo Noguchi
Japanese bacteriologist (1876–1928)
James Scullin
Australian politician, ninth Prime Minister of Australia (1876-1953)
Bruno Walter
German-born conductor, pianist, and composer (1876-1962)
Robert Michels
German sociologist (1876–1936)
Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of the Belgians
Queen of the Belgians from 1909 to 1934 (1876–1965)
William, Prince of Albania
Prince of Albania (1876–1945)
Arthur Moeller van den Bruck
German historian (1876–1925)
Lev Berg
Russian and Soviet geographer, biologist and ichthyologist (1876–1950)
André Tardieu
Prime Minister of France (1876–1945)
Tatyana Afanasyeva
Russian/Dutch mathematician and physicist (1876-1964)
Henri de Baillet-Latour
Belgian sports executive (1876-1942)
Francesc Cambó
Spanish politician (1876-1947)
Senjūrō Hayashi
Japanese politician and general (1876–1943)
Alvin Kraenzlein
American athletics competitor (1876-1928)
Sibilla Aleramo
Italian writer and feminist, editor (1876-1960)
Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Grand Duchess of Russia (1876–1936)
Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski
Polish explorer and writer (1878–1945)
Agustín Pedro Justo
former President of Argentina (1876-1943)
Dragutin Dimitrijević
Serbian military commander (1876–1917)
Rodolphe Seeldrayers
President of FIFA (1876-1955)
Charles F. Kettering
American inventor, engineer, businessman, and the holder of 140 patents (1876–1958)