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Claude Monet
French painter (1840–1926)
Rainer Maria Rilke
Austrian poet and writer (1875–1926)
Antoni Gaudí
Catalan architect (1852–1926)
Rudolf Christoph Eucken
(1846-1926) German philosopher
Harry Houdini
Hungarian-born American illusionist, escapologist, and stunt performer (1874–1926)
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
Dutch physicist, Nobel prize winner (1853-1926)
Mary Cassatt
American painter and printmaker (1844—1926)
Mehmed VI
36th and last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1918–1922)
Felix Dzerzhinsky
Bolshevik revolutionary and founder of the first Soviet secret police organs (1877-1926)
Camillo Golgi
Italian physician, pathologist, scientist, and Nobel laureate (1843-1926)
Emperor Taishō
Emperor of Japan from 1912 until 1926
Rudolph Valentino
Italian actor (1895–1926)
Viktor Vasnetsov
Russian artist (1848-1926)
Symon Petliura
Ukrainian military leader (1879–1926)
Gertrude Bell
British traveller, writer, mountaineer, politician, archaeologist and spy (1868–1926)
Aleksey Brusilov
Russian and Soviet military commander
Eino Leino
Finnish poet and journalist (1878–1926)
Emil Kraepelin
German psychiatrist (1856–1926)
John Browning
firearms designer of the United States (1855-1926)
Constantin Fehrenbach
German politician (1852-1926)
Eugene V. Debs
American labor and political leader (1855–1926)
Nikola Pašić
Serbian politician (1845-1926)
Ellen Key
Swedish writer (1849-1926)
Olga Constantinovna of Russia
Queen of the Hellenes (1851–1926)
Luther Burbank
American botanist and horticulturist (1849–1926)
Bessie Coleman
American aviator (1892–1926)
Louise of Sweden
Queen consort of Denmark; wife of Frederick VIII of Denmark
John Louis Emil Dreyer
Danish-Irish astronomer
Friedrich von Wieser
Austrian economist (1851-1926)
William Bateson
British geneticist and biologist (1861-1926)
Jean Richepin
French poet, novelist and dramatist (1849-1926)
Margherita of Savoy
Queen of Italy from 1878 to 1900
Ugyen Wangchuck
king of Bhutan (1862-1926)
Sunjong of the Korean Empire
The 2nd emperor of the Korean Empire. (1874–1926)
Edwin Abbott Abbott
British theologian and author (1838-1926)
Annie Oakley
American exhibition sharpshooter (1860–1926)
Katō Takaaki
Japanese politician (1860-1926)
Knut Wicksell
Swedish economist (1851–1926)
Israel Zangwill
British Zionist author (1864–1926)
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth
Irish economist (1845–1926)
Robert Todd Lincoln
Union Army officer, U.S. ambassador, and Secretary of War (1843–1926)
Alphonse Borrelly
French astronomer
Ivana Kobilca
Slovenian artist (1861–1926)
Leonid Krasin
Russian revolutionary (1870-1926)
Sanford B. Dole
American judge (1844-1926)
Théo van Rysselberghe
Belgian painter (1862-1926)
Sofia Okunevska
first woman who graduated university and became a doctor in Austria-Hungary, the first Ukrainian female doctor
Krste Misirkov
Philologist, journalist, historian and ethnographer
Dmitry Furmanov
Russian writer (1891-1926)
Émile Coué
French psychologist and pharmacist (1857-1926)
Kim Hyŏng-jik
father of Kim Il-sung
Carl Swartz
Swedish 20th century prime minister (1858-1926)
Mikao Usui
founder of Reiki (1865-1926)
Eliška Krásnohorská
Czech feminist author, editor (1847-1926)
Nikolay Chkheidze
Georgian politician (1864-1926)
Vladimir Steklov
Russian mathematician (1863–1926)
Edward Granville Browne
British Iranologist (1862–1926)
Karl Harrer
German journalist and politician (1890-1926)
Jan Kasprowicz
Polish poet (1860–1926)
Helen Allingham
English watercolour painter and illustrator (1848-1926)