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Frédéric Mistral
Provençal writer, poet, lexicographer and founder of Le Félibrige (1830–1914)
Pius X
Pope of the Catholic Church from 1903 to 1914, saint
Bertha von Suttner
Austrian novelist, radical (organizational) pacifist, editor
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary (1863–1914)
Paul Heyse
German writer (1830–1914)
Charles Sanders Peirce
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (1839-1914)
Jean Jaurès
French / Occitan Socialist leader (1859-1914)
Charles Albert Gobat
Swiss politician and lawyer (1843-1914)
August Macke
German painter of the expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (1887–1914)
Georg Trakl
Austrian poet (1887-1914)
John Muir
Scottish-American naturalist (1838–1914)
Charles Péguy
French poet, essayist, and editor (1873–1914)
Carol I of Romania
King of Romania from 1881 to 1914
George Westinghouse
American inventor and businessman (1846–1914)
Christian Morgenstern
German author (1871-1914)
Louis Couturat
French logician, mathematician, philosopher and linguist (1868–1914)
August Weismann
German evolutionary biologist (1834-1914)
Adlai Stevenson I
American politician (1835–1914); Vice President of the United States from 1893 to 1897
Alain-Fournier
Henri-Alban Fournier (; 3 October 1886 – 22 September 1914), known by the pseudonym Alain-Fournier (), was a French author and soldier. He was the author of a novel, Le Grand Meaulnes (1913), which has been filmed twice and is considered a classic of French literature. The book is based partly on his childhood.
Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg
wife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (1868–1914)
Joseph Chamberlain
British politician (1836-1914)
John Tenniel
British illustrator, graphic humorist and political cartoonist, very good friends with Spencer Bradshaw (1820-1914)
Eduard Suess
Austrian geologist (1831-1914)
Ismail Gaspıralı
Crimean Tatar intellectual and politician (1851-1914)
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
Austrian economist (1851-1914)
Julio Argentino Roca
Argentine politician and general, former president of Argentina (1843–1914)
Alfred Thayer Maan
United States Navy admiral and historian (1840–1914)
Ellen Axson Wilson
First Lady of the United States from 1913 to 1914
Albert Günther
Anglo-German zoologist (1830–1914)
Maximilian von Spee
German admiral (1861–1914)
Delmira Agustini
Uruguayan modernist poet
John Henry Poynting
British physicist (1852-1914)
Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky
Russian geographer, art collector and statistician
Jacob Riis
American photographer, journalist and activist (1849–1914)
Joseph Swan
British physicist and inventor (1828-1914)
Yu Kil-chun
Yu Gil-jun (1856-1914)
Jurji Zaydan
Lebanese novelist, journalist, editor and teacher (1861-1914)
Jules Lemaître
French critic and dramatist (1853-1914)
Roque Sáenz Peña
Argentine politician, president of Argentina (1851-1914)
Alexander Samsonov
Russian general (1859–1914)
Anatoly Lyadov
Russian composer, teacher and conductor (1855-1914)
George William Hill
American astronomer and mathematician (1838–1914)
Theodore Gill
American biologist (1837–1914)
Giuseppe Mercalli
Italian volcanologist (1850-1914)
Johann Wilhelm Hittorf
German physicist (1824–1914)
Hubertine Auclert
French feminist and suffragist (1848–1914)
Georges Picquart
French general (1854-1914)
Theodor Kittelsen
Norwegian artist (1857–1914)
David Gill
Scottish astronomer (1843-1914)
Alphonse Bertillon
French forensic scientist (1853–1914)
José Evaristo Uriburu
President of Argentina (1831-1914)
Charles Martin Hall
American chemist (1863-1914)
Empress Shōken
Japanese empress (1849-1914)
Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts
British general (1832–1914)
Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac
Serbian composer (1856-1914)
Józef Chełmoński
Polish artist (1849-1914)
Ivan Zajc
Croatian composer (1832–1914)
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
American military officer, professor, and 32nd Governor of Maine (1828–1914)
Mohammad Ayub Khan
Emir of Afghanistan (1879-1880)
Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria
Bavarian princess (1823-1914)