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Jules Verne
French writer (1828–1905)
Ernst Abbe
German physicist (1840-1905)
Louise Michel
French author and anarchist (1830-1905)
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
French academic painter (1825-1905)
Muhammad Abduh
Egyptian Islamic jurist, religious scholar and liberal reformer (1849-1905)
Élisée Reclus
French geographer and writer (1830–1905)
George MacDonald
Scottish writer and Christian minister (1824–1905)
Lew Wallace
American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, territorial governor and statesman, politician, and author of 'Ben Hur' (1827-1905)
Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza
Italian explorer
Alphonse Allais
French writer and humorist (1854–1905)
Ferdinand von Richthofen
German traveller, geographer and scientist (1833-1905)
José-Maria de Heredia
French poet (1842-1905)
Albert Edelfelt
Finland Swedish painter and illustrator (1854-1905)
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
Duke of Nassau (1839–1866), later Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1890–1905)
Adolph von Menzel
German artist (1815–1905)
Ivan Sechenov
Russian physiologist (1829–1905)
Adolf Bastian
German anthropologist (1826–1905)
Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia
Grand Duke of Russia (1857–1905)
Carmine Crocco
Italian brigand (1830–1905)
John Hay
American statesman (1838–1905)
Per Teodor Cleve
Swedish chemist who discovered holmium and thulium (1840-1905)
Henry Irving
English stage actor of the Victorian era (1838–1905)
Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders
Belgian prince (1837–1905)
Otto Wilhelm von Struve
Baltic German astronomer (1819–1905)
Debendranath Tagore
Indian philosopher (1817–1905)
Walther Flemming
German biologist (1843–1905)
Josip Belušić
Croatian inventor
Pedro Américo
Brazilian painter (1843-1905)
Albert von Kölliker
Swiss anatomist, physiologist (1817–1905)
Oswald Achenbach
German artist (1827-1905)
Marcel Schwob
French writer (1867–1905)
Tippu Tip
Swahili slave and ivory trader (c. 1832/7–1905)
Mary Mapes Dodge
American children's writer (1831-1905)
Rudolf von Alt
Austrian landscape and architectural painter (1812-1905)
Carl Wernicke
German physician and neuropathologist (1848–1905)
Konstantin Savitsky
Russian artist (1844-1905)
Juan Valera
Spanish writer (1824–1905)
Anton Ažbe
Slovenian artist (1862-1905)
Josip Juraj Strossmayer
Croatian Roman Catholic bishop, benefactor and politician (1815–1905)
Meyer Guggenheim
American businessperson (1828–1905)
Prince Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern
German prince (1835-1905)
Enoch Mankayi Sontonga
South African composer (1873-1905)
William Thomas Blanford
British geologist and naturalist (1832–1905)
Constantin Meunier
Belgian painter, sculptor (1831–1905)
Franz Reuleaux
German mechanical engineer (1829–1905)
René Goblet
French politician (1828-1905)
Henrik Sjöberg
Swedish sportsman (1875–1905)
Hudson Taylor
British Protestant missionary in China
Julius Oppert
Franco-German Assyriologist
Alois Riegl
Austrian art historian (1858-1905)
Étienne Desmarteau
athletics competitor
Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria
Austrian archduke (1833-1905)
Harold Mahony
Irish tennis player (1867-1905)
Ralph Copeland
British astronomer (1837-1905)
Émile Oustalet
French scientist
William Muir
Scottish Orientalist and colonial administrator (1819–1905)
Raimundo Fernández Villaverde
Spanish politician (1848–1905)
Theodore Thomas
American violinist and conductor (1835-1905)
Sarah E. Goode
American inventor
Nikolay Bauman
Russian revolutionary (1873–1905)