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Arthur Conan Doyle
British writer and physician (1859–1930)
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William Howard Taft
27th President of the United States from 1909 to 1913 (1857–1930)
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Vladimir Mayakovsky
Russian and Soviet poet (1893–1930)
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Fridtjof Nansen
Norwegian polar explorer and diplomat; Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1861-1930)
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D. H. Lawrence
English writer and poet (1885–1930)
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Ilya Repin
Russian-empire painter of Ukrainian birth (1844-1930)
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Arthur Balfour
British Prime Minister, Conservative politician, and statesman (1848-1930)
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Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880–1930)
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Allvar Gullstrand
Swedish ophthalmologist (1862-1930)
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Mary Harris Jones
Irish-born American labor and community organizer (1837–1930)
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Christiaan Eijkman
Dutch physician (1858–1930)
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Miguel Primo de Rivera, 2nd Marquis of Estella
Spanish politician; dictator, aristocrat, and military officer who served as Prime Minister of Spain from 1923 to 1930
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Fritz Pregl
Slovene-Austrian Nobel prize laureate and scientist (1869-1930)
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Ahmad Shah Qajar
The seventh and last Shah of Iran Qajar (1909–1925)
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Zewditu I of Ethiopia
Zewditu (, born Askala Maryam; 29 April 1876 – 2 April 1930) was Empress of Ethiopia from 1916 until her death in 1930. She officially adopted the regnal name "Zewditu" at the beginning of her reign, which was triggered by the dethroning of Lij Iyasu in 1916. Her coronation was held on February 11, 1917, in the Cathedral of St. George in Addis Ababa—a capital founded by her father. Forty years old and childless when crowned, she is the first and only empress regnant of the Ethiopian Empire. Described as the first modern female head of a nation in Africa, she was the last female Ethiopian head
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Horst Wessel
Horst Ludwig Georg Erich Wessel was a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party, who became a propaganda symbol in Nazi Germany following his murder in 1930 by two members of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). After his death, Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels elevated him into a martyr for the Nazi Party.
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Lon Chaney
American actor (1883–1930)
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Victoria of Baden
Queen consort of Sweden (1907-1930)
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Jeppe Aakjær
Danish poet and novelist (1866–1930)
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Joan Gamper
Swiss football pioneer, player and club president (1877-1930)
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Adolf von Harnack
Baltic German theologian and prominent church historian (1851–1930)
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Vladimir Arsenyev
Russian and Soviet explorer, ethnographer and writer (1872-1930)
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Luigi Facta
Italian politician (1861-1930)
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Alfred von Tirpitz
German Admiral and Secretary of State of the German Imperial Naval Office (1849-1930)
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Frank P. Ramsey
British mathematician, philosopher, and economist (1903–1930)
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Adolf Engler
German botanist (1844-1930)
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José Carlos Mariátegui
Peruvian writer and academic (1894–1930)
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Mabel Normand
American actress (1893–1930)
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Waldemar Haffkine
bacteriologist (1856–1930)
Wilfrid Voynich
Polish revolutionary, antiquarian, bibliophile, historian and eponym of Voynich manuscript (1865-1930)
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Cosima Wagner
daughter of the Hungarian pianist and composer Franz Liszt and wife of Hans von Bülow and Richard Wagner (1837-1930)
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Alois Jirásek
Czech writer (1851–1930)
Leopold Auer
Hungarian violinist, conductor and composer (1845–1930)
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Silvio Gesell
German-Argentine economist (1862–1930)
Sakichi Toyoda
Japanese inventor and industrialist (1867–1930)
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Otto Mueller
German painter and printmaker of the expressionist movement (1874–1930)
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Theodor Nöldeke
German orientalist and scholar (1836–1930)
Paul Appell
French mathematician (1855-1930)
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Mary Whiton Calkins
American philosopher and psychologist (1863–1930)
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Otto Sverdrup
Norwegian sailor and Arctic explorer (1854-1930)
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Rebecca Latimer Felton
American politician (1835-1930)
Olena Pchilka
Ukrainian academic (1849–1930)
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Viggo Jensen
Danish sportsman (1874–1930)
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Abram Arkhipov
Russian artist (1862-1930)
Mary Harrison McKee
daughter of President Benjamin Harrison (1858-1930)
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Siegfried Wagner
German opera producer and composer, son of Richard Wagner and Cosima Liszt (1869–1930)
Glenn Curtiss
American aviator and industrialist (1878-1930)
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Prince Leopold of Bavaria
German general (1846-1930)
Eugen Goldstein
German physicist and the great science-history maker (1850-1930)
Jules Pascin
French painter (1885-1930)
Launceston Elliot
Scottish weightlifter (1874–1930)
Vasily Bartold
Russian orientalist (1869–1930)
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Isidor Gunsberg
Hungarian-born British chess player
Eric Lemming
Swedish athlete (1880–1930)
Giulio Douhet
Italian general (1869–1930)
Florian Cajori
American mathematician (1859–1930)
Florbela Espanca
Portuguese poet (1894–1930)
Yang Kaihui
wife of Mao Zedong (1901-1930)
Eduard Meyer
German ancient historian, Egyptologist and ancient orientalist (1855–1930)
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Milton Sills
American stage and film actor (1882-1930)