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Willem II
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1889
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January 22
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Ernest Roland Wilberforce
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1907
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Ernst Abbe
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1905
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January 26
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John Clayton Adams
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1906
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February 4
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Hiram Stevens Maxim
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1916
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February 5
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John Boyd Dunlop
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1921
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February 21
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Murad V
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Ottoman Sultan
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1904
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February 22
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August Bebel
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1913
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February 23
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Carl Menger
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1921
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February 29
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John Philip Holland
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1914
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March 28
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Emin Pasha
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1892
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April 2
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Emile Zola
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1902
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April 22
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Odilon Redon
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1916
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April 27
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Edward Whymper
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May 7
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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1893
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May 13
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Alphonse Daudet
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1897
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Thomas Hardy
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1928
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June 10
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Theodor Philipsen
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August 4
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Richard von Krafft-Ebing
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1902
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October 9
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Simeon Solomon
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1905
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October 16
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Kuroda Kiyotaka
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Prime Minister of Japan
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1900
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November 12
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Auguste Rodin
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1917
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November 14
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Claude Monet
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1926
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November 21
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Victoria, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom and Empress of Germany
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1901
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November 29
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Rhoda Broughton
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1920
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January 6
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Fanny Burney
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1752
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January 22
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Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
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1752
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February 13
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Nicolas Joseph Maison
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1770
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Siméon-Denis Poisson
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1781
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Williamson's tunnels
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1769
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May 6
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Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin
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1770
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May 7
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Caspar David Friedrich
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1774
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May 11
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Thomas Cooper
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1759
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May 26
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Sidney Smith
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1764
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May 27
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Nicolò Paganini
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1782
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June 7
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Frederick William III of Prussia
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1770
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July 7
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Nikolai Stankevich
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1813
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August 25
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Karl Leberecht Immermann
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1796
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September 11
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Jean-Gabriel Perboyre
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September 14
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Joseph Smith, Sr.
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Joseph Smith, Jr.
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September 18
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Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
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1783
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September 20
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José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia
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1766
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November 2
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Józef Kossakowski (colonel)
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1771
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