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Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
Douglas MacArthur
United States Army general in WWI, WWII and Korea (1880–1964)
Guillaume Apollinaire
French poet (1880–1918)
George Marshall
American army officer and statesman (1880–1959)
Alexander Blok
Russian poet (1880–1921)
Oswald Spengler
German historian and philosopher (1880-1936)
Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880–1930)
Robert Musil
Austrian philosophical writer (1880–1942)
Premchand
Dhanpat Rai Srivastava (31 July 1880 – 8 October 1936), better known as Munshi Premchand based on his pen name Premchand (), was an Indian writer famous for his modern Hindustani literature.
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands
Queen of the Netherlands from 1890 to 1948 (1880-1962)
Franz Marc
German artist (1880–1916)
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
German painter, sculptor, engraver and printmaker (1880–1938)
H. L. Mencken
American journalist and writer (1880–1956)
Manuel Azaña
prime minister of Spain, president of Spain (1880-1940)
Andrei Bely
Russian poet, writer and critic (1880–1934)
Otto Weininger
Austrian philosopher and writer (1880-1903)
Fedor von Bock
German field marshal (1880–1945)
André Derain
French painter and engraver (1880–1954)
Álvaro Obregón
Mexican politician, president of Mexico
Alexander Grin
Russian writer (1880–1932)
John Boyd Orr
Scottish nutritionist, Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (1880-1971)
Michel Fokine
Russian ballet dancer and choreographer (1880–1942)
Jeannette Rankin
American congresswoman for Montana (1880-1973)
Marie Stopes
British birth control campaigner and paleontologist (1880-1958)
Paul Ehrenfest
Austrian and Dutch theoretical physicist (1880–1933)
Seán O'Casey
Irish writer (1880–1964)
Mack Sennett
Canadian-American actor, producer and director (1880–1960)
Carl Van Vechten
American writer and photographer (1880–1964)
W. C. Fields
American comedian, actor, juggler and writer (1880–1946)
Gideon Sundback
Swedish-American inventor (1880-1954)
Ze'ev Jabotinsky
Russian Jewish poet, founder of Revisionist Zionist movement (1880–1940)
Abram Ioffe
Soviet physicist (1880–1960)
Milan Rastislav Štefánik
Slovak politician, diplomat, French Army general and astronomer (1880-1919)
Ludwig Beck
German general (1880–1944)
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
Bengali feminist writer and social reformer (1880-1932)
Kuniaki Koiso
Japanese officer, former Prime Minister (1880–1950)
Christabel Pankhurst
suffragette, co-founder of the Women's Social and Political Union, editor (1880-1958)
Earle Page
Australian politician, 11th Prime Minister of Australia (1880-1961)
Wilhelm List
German field marshal (1880–1971)
Martiros Saryan
Armenian painter (1880–1972)
Akiba Rubinstein
Russian-Polish chess player
Max Wertheimer
Austro-Hungarian psychologist (1880–1943)
Paul Hausser
German Waffen SS general (1880-1972)
Werner von Fritsch
German general (1880–1939)
Bruno Taut
German architect (1880–1938)
Johannes Aavik
Estonian philologist and Fennophile (1880–1973)
Volodymyr Vynnychenko
Ukrainian writer, playwright, artist, political activist, revolutionary, politician, and statesman (1880–1951)
Elton Mayo
Australian psychologist and sociologist
Lytton Strachey
English writer (1880–1932)
Tod Browning
American film actor and director (1880–1962)
Tudor Arghezi
Romanian writer and political figure (1880–1967)
Mitsumasa Yonai
Prime Minister of Japan (1880-1948)
Sarah Knauss
American supercentenarian (1880–1999)
Mihail Sadoveanu
Romanian writer, journalist and politician (1880–1961)
Leonard Woolley
British archaeologist (1880–1960)
Tom Mix
American film actor (1880-1940)
Mikheil Javakhishvili
Soviet writer (1880–1937)
Frances Perkins
Workers-rights advocate and United States Secretary of Labor 1933–1945
Ernest Bloch
American composer (1880-1959)
Mohammed Alim Khan
The last Amir of Emirate of Bukhara (1911–1920)