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Anton Chekhov
Russian dramatist and author (1860–1904)
Antonín Dvořák
Czech composer (1841–1904)
Theodor Herzl
father of modern political Zionism (1860–1904)
Henry Morton Stanley
British journalist and explorer (1841–1904)
Isabella II of Spain
Queen of Spain from 1833 to 1868
Niels Ryberg Finsen
Faroese physician and scientist of Icelandic descent
Murad V
33th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1876)
Abay Kunanbaiuly
Kazakh poet, philosopher and composer (1845-1904)
Jamsetji Tata
Indian industrialist, founder of the Tata Group (born 1839)
Jean-Léon Gérôme
French painter and sculptor (1824–1904)
Paul Kruger
South African politician and President of the South African Republic (1825–1904)
Eadweard Muybridge
English-American photographer (1830–1904)
Vasily Vereshchagin
Russian painter (1842-1904)
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
French sculptor and painter (1834–1904)
Friedrich Ratzel
German geographer and ethnographer (1844–1904)
Kate Chopin
American author (1850–1904)
Samuel Smiles
Scottish author (1812-1904)
Lafcadio Hearn
Greek-Irish writer, translator, and teacher who introduced the culture and literature of Japan to the West (1850–1904)
Mór Jókai
Hungarian writer (1825–1904)
Kartini
Raden Adjeng Kartini, also known as Raden Ayu Kartini (21 April 1879 – 17 September 1904), was a prominent Indonesian advocate of women's rights and female education.
Henri Fantin-Latour
French painter and printmaker (1836-1904)
Antonio Labriola
Italian philosopher (1843-1904)
Vladimir Markovnikov
Russian chemist
Gabriel Tarde
French sociologist (1843–1904)
Isabella Bird
British traveler, writer, photographer and naturalist (1831–1904)
Stepan Makarov
Russian admiral
Étienne-Jules Marey
French scientist and chronophotographer (1830–1904)
James Longstreet
Confederate Army general (1821–1904)
Eduard Hanslick
Austrian musician and musicologist (1825–1904)
Edwin Arnold
English poet and journalist (1832–1904)
Georg I of Saxony
King of Saxony (1832–1904)
Sami Frashëri
Albanian writer, philosopher, playwright and activist (1850–1904)
María de las Mercedes, Princess of Asturias
Spanish princess and Spanish infanta (1880–1904)
Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau
Prime Minister of France (1846-1904)
Jovan Jovanović Zmaj
Serbian poet, physician (1833–1904)
Chief Joseph
19th-century Native American leader
Isabelle Eberhardt
Swiss explorer and author (1877-1904)
Prince George, Duke of Cambridge
British prince and military commander (1819–1904)
George Frederic Watts
British painter and sculptor (1817–1904)
Clemens Winkler
German chemist (1838-1904)
Franz von Lenbach
German painter (1836–1904)
Alfred von Waldersee
Prussian Field Marshal (1832-1904)
Mathilde Bonaparte
Princess of France (1820-1904)
Émile Gallé
French glass artist and cabinetmaker (1846–1904)
Norodom of Cambodia
King of Cambodia from 1860 to 1904
William Renshaw
English tennis player (1861–1904)
Sumner Paine
American sport shooter (1868–1904)
George Salmon
Irish mathematician and Anglican theologian (1819–1904)
Fyodor Bredikhin
Russian astronomer
Frances Power Cobbe
Irish writer, philosopher, social reformer, anti-vivisection activist and leading suffragist (1822-1904)
Nikolay Bobrikov
Russian politician (1839-1904)
Georges Gilles de la Tourette
French physician (1857-1904)
Mykhailo Starytskyi
Ukrainian writer (1840–1904)
Karl Alfred von Zittel
German geologist and paleontologist (1839–1904)
Alexander William Williamson
English scientist (1824-1904)
Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin
French astronomer (1845–1904)
Duke Friedrich I, Duke of Anhalt
Monarch of Anhalt (1831-1904)
Vyacheslav von Plehve
Russian politician (1846-1904)
Wilhelm Marr
German publicist (1819–1904)
Princess Alexandrine of Baden
Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha