1866-1924
1866-1909
1866-1953
Matthew Henson was an African American explorer best known as the co-discoverer of the North Pole with Robert Edwin Peary in 1909.
1866-1955
Danish silversmith Georg Jensen was one of the first people to use steel for cutlery and recognize modern silverware as profitable.
1866-1935
Russian-born painter Wassily Kandinsky is credited as a leader in avant-garde art as one of the founders of pure abstraction in painting in the early 20th century.
1866-1944
Ramsay MacDonald was the first Labour Party prime minister of Great Britain, in Labour governments and the national coalition government.
1866-1937
1866-1943
John Ringling co-founded the Ringling Bros., and later co-owned the Barnum & Bailey Circus.
1866-1936
1866-1925
Anne Sullivan was a teacher who, at age 21, taught Helen Keller, who was deaf, mute, and blind, how to communicate and read Braille.
1866-1936
H.G. Wells was a writer of science-fiction works—including The Time Machine and War of the Worlds—who had a great influence on our vision of the future.
1866-1946