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Vladimir Purishkevich
Russian politician (1870-1920)
Otto Gross
Austrian psychoanalyst (1877-1920)
Mary Augusta Ward
British novelist (1851-1920)
Hermann Oldenberg
German indologist (1854–1920)
Herbert James Draper
British painter (1863-1920)
Robert Harron
American actor (1893-1920)
Muhammad ʿAbdallah Hasan
emir of Diiriye Guure and his Dervish Kingdom (1856-1920)
Hector Hodler
Swiss Esperantist (1887-1920)
John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher
Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet (1841–1920)
Giorgos Papasideris
Greek sportsman (1875–1920)
John Gilbert Baker
British botanist (1834-1920)
Ömer Seyfettin
Ottoman writer, teacher and soldier (1884–1920)
Augusto Righi
Italian physicist (1850-1920)
Jaan Poska
Estonian politician (1866-1920)
Gyula Benczúr
Hungarian artist (1844–1920)
John Wesley Hyatt
American inventor of plastic (1837-1920)
William Crawford Gorgas
22nd Surgeon General of the United States Army
Albert Zürner
German diver (1890–1920)
Hermann Struve
Baltic German astronomer (1854–1920)
Jacob Schiff
American banker, philanthropist (1847–1920)
Teresa of the Andes
Chilean nun of the Discalced Carmelite Order
Heinrich Lammasch
Last prime minister of imperial Austria (1853-1920)
Khrystyna Alchevska
Ukrainian teacher and pedagogue
Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta
Spanish painter (1841-1920)
Yu Gwansun
Korean independence activist (1902-1920)
Heorhii Narbut
Ukrainian painter (1886-1920)
Jacinta Marto
Portuguese visionary and Roman Catholic saint
Louisa Lawson
Australian poet, writer, publisher, suffragist, and feminist (1848–1920)
Joseph Trumpeldor
Russian World War I veteran (1880–1920)
Duke Johann Albrecht of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
German monarch and explorer (1857–1920)
Otto Bütschli
German biologist (1848-1920)
Adolf Albin
Romanian chess player (1848-1920)
Remus von Woyrsch
German Field Marshal (1847-1920)
Samuel Colman
American artist and writer (1832-1920)
Pál Szinyei Merse
Hungarian painter (1845-1920)
Vladimir Kappel
Russian White Army general (1883–1920)
Zygmunt Gorazdowski
Polish saint from Lwow (1845–1920)
William de Wiveleslie Abney
British astronomer, chemist and photographer (1843–1920)
Theodor Philipsen
Danish artist (1840-1920)
Rhoda Broughton
Welsh novelist (1840–1920)
Wilhelm Pfeffer
German botanist (1845–1920)
Patriarch Germanus V of Constantinople
Patriarch of Constantinople (1835-1920)
Panas Myrnyi
Ukrainian writer (1849–1920)
Théodore Flournoy
Swiss psychologist and parapsychologist (1853–1920)
Meri Mangakāhia
New Zealand suffragist (1868–1920)
Nasib bey Yusifbeyli
2nd Prime Minister of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (1881–1920)
Luís de Orléans e Bragança
military descendant of the extinct Brazilian imperial family (1878–1920)
Nikolai Korotkov
Russian surgeon
William Chester Minor
American army surgeon, psychiatric-hospital patient, and lexicographical researcher
Briton Rivière
British artist of Huguenot descent (1840-1920)
Ludwig Ganghofer
German writer (1855–1920)
Alberto Nepomuceno
Brazilian composer and conductor (1864-1920)
Victor Willems
fencer
Harry Solter
American actor, screenwriter and film director (1873–1920)
Mahmud Hasan Deobandi
Indian Muslim scholar and independence activist (1851–1920)
Ion Dragoumis
Greek diplomat and philosopher (1878–1920)
Vincent Arthur Smith
Irish historian and indologist (1843–1920)
Anna Maria Mozzoni
Italian journalist (1837–1920)
Max Fürbringer
German anatomist and ornithologist (1846-1920)
Giovanni Capurro
lyricist and poet from Italy (1859-1920)