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Marcel Proust
French novelist, critic and essayist (1871–1922)
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
Benedict XV
Pope of the Catholic Church from 1914 to 1922
Ernest Shackleton
Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer (1874–1922)
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
Russian hebrew linguist, grammarian, journalist, lexicographer, newspaper editor and Zionist activist
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
French physician
Charles I of Austria
Last monarch of Austria-Hungary (r. 1916–1918)
Michael Collins
Irish revolutionary and politician (1890–1922)
Nellie Bly
American journalist
Enver Pasha
Ottoman politician and general (1881–1922)
Fredrik Bajer
Danish politician (1837-1922)
Velimir Khlebnikov
Russian writer (1885–1922)
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Russian mathematician
Giovanni Verga
Italian writer (1840-1922)
Walther Rathenau
German businessman, writer, art collector and politician (1867-1922)
Ōkuma Shigenobu
Japanese politician (1838-1922)
Paul Deschanel
11th President of the French Republic (1855–1922)
Georges Sorel
French philosopher and sociologist
Hermann Rorschach
Swiss Freudian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (1885–1922)
Erich von Falkenhayn
Chief of Germany's General Staff during the first two years of the First World War (1861-1922)
Gabriel Narutowicz
Polish politician (1865-1922)
Camille Jordan
French mathematician (1838-1922)
Yamagata Aritomo
Japanese military leader and statesman (1838–1922)
Djemal Pasha
Turkish general and politician (1872-1922)
Mori Ōgai
Japanese novelist and army physician (1862-1922)
Albert I, Prince of Monaco
Prince of Monaco (1848-1922)
Ernest Solvay
Belgian chemist, industrialist, philanthropist (1838-1922)
Sidney Sonnino
Italian politician (1847–1922)
Pandita Ramabai
Indian feminist historian and social reformer (1858–1922)
Géza Gárdonyi
Hungarian writer (1863–1922)
Jacobus Kapteyn
Dutch astronomer, best known for his extensive studies of the Milky Way and as the first discoverer of evidence for galactic rotation (1851-1922)
Arthur Griffith
Irish politician and writer, founder of Sinn Féin (1871–1922)
Léon Bonnat
French painter and educator (1833–1922)
Rafael Moreno Aranzadi
Spanish footballer (1892–1922)
Jules Guesde
French socialist journalist and politician (1845–1922)
Arthur Nikisch
Hungarian conductor (1855-1922)
Edmund Blair Leighton
British Romantic painter (1852-1922)
Max Abraham
German physicist (1875-1922)
Hermann Diels
German classical scholar (1848–1922)
Rudolf Kjellén
Swedish political scientist (1864-1922)
John William Godward
English painter (1861-1922)
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce
British academic (1838-1922)
Princess Helena, Duchess of Albany
German princess (1861-1922)
Evgeny Vakhtangov
Russian actor and theatre director (1883-1922)
Wilhelm Voigt
German impostor (1849-1922)
Vittorio Monti
Italian composer, violinist, and conductor (1868-1922)
Vlaho Bukovac
Croatian painter (1855-1922)
Wolfgang Kapp
Prussian civil servant and journalist. Nominal leader of the Kapp-Putsch (1858-1922)
Henry Lawson
Australian writer and poet (1867–1922)
Erskine Childers
Irish nationalist and author (1870-1922)
Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia
only daughter of Grand Duke Michael Nicolaievich of Russia and Princess Cecilie of Baden
Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe
British noble (1865–1922)
Vilma Hugonnai
first Hungarian female physician (1847–1922)
Axel Thue
Norwegian mathematician (1863-1922)
Prince Gaston, Count of Eu
Brazilian and French Imperial and Royal (1842–1922)
Patrick Manson
Scottish parasitologist (1844-1922)
Oscar Hertwig
German zoologist (1849–1922)
Ricardo Flores Magón
Mexican anarchist and social reform activist (1874–1922)
Lothar von Richthofen
German flying ace (1894–1922)
Cathal Brugha
Irish revolutionary and politician (1874-1922)