Nancy Astor (1879–1965) was the first woman to serve in the British Parliament, where she advocated temperance, women's rights and German appeasement.
1879-1964
Politician and publisher Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor became a member of Parliament and was the publisher of the London Observer from 1915 to 1945.
1879-1952
1879-1959
1879-1957
1879-1975
Albert Einstein was a German-born physicist who developed the theory of relativity. He is considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century.
1879-1955
Writer and critic E.M. Forster is the author of Howards End, A Passage to India and A Room With a View.
1879-1970
Rube Foster was a baseball player and manager who organized the Negro National League, the first long-lasting professional league for African American players.
1879-1930
Samuel Goldwyn was a Hollywood film producer who laid the groundwork for the Paramount and MGM movie studios.
1879-1974
The heavy set British actor Sydney Greenstreet made a name for himself as a character actor, taking on villainous, scheming roles, such as Kasper Gutman in The Maltese Falcon.
1879-1954
1879-1968
Raden Adjeng Kartini is a Javanese noblewoman and is best known as a pioneer in the area of women's rights for native Indonesians.
1879-1904
Paul Klee was a prolific Swiss and German artist best known for his large body of work, influenced by cubism, expressionism and surrealism.
1879-1940
Sarojini Naidu was an India political leader best known as the first female President of the India National Congress.
1879-1949
1879-1936
Will Rogers was an American humorist, actor and author best known for his Broadway and film performances, as well as his folksy persona.
1879-1935
Margaret Sanger was an early feminist and women's rights activist who coined the term "birth control" and worked towards its legalization.
1879-1966
Max Schreck made film history with his creepy portrayal of a vampire in F.W. Murnau’s classic silent film Nosferatu: A Symphony of Terror (1922).
1879-1936
Communist Leon Trotsky helped ignite the Russian Revolution of 1917, and built the Red Army afterward. He was exiled and later assassinated by Soviet agents.
1879-1940
1879-1988
Emiliano Zapata was a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution (1910–1920), during which he formed and commanded the Liberation Army of the South, an important revolutionary brigade. Followers of Zapata were known as Zapatistas.
1879-1919