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1246 famous people found
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Spencer TRACY
American theatrical and film actor
1900 - 1967 -
Orville WRIGHT
American inventor of the airplane
1871 - 1948 -
Wilbur WRIGHT
American inventor of the airplane
1867 - 1912 -
Melvil Dewey
American librarian and educator, inventor of the Dewey Decimal system of library classification
1851 - 1931 -
Nora Stanton Barney
English-born American civil engineer, and suffragist
1883 - 1971 -
Eddie Cantor
American comedian, actor, dancer, singer, songwriter, film producer, screenwriter and author
1892 - 1964 -
Horace Greeley
American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune
1811 - 1872 -
James Bond
American ornithologist and expert on the birds of the Caribbean
1900 - 1989 -
Josie BASSETT
American rancher
1874 - 1964 -
Ambrose BURNSIDE
American soldier, railroad executive, inventor, industrialist, and politician from Rhode Island
1824 - 1881 -
Jack DEMPSEY
American professional boxer
1895 - 1983 -
Babe RUTH
American professional baseball player
1895 - 1948 -
Rose WILDER LANE
American journalist, travel writer, novelist, and political theorist
1886 - 1968 -
James Norman HALL
American author best known for the novel Mutiny on the Bounty
1887 - 1951 -
Henry LUCE
American magazine magnate who was called "the most influential private citizen in the America of his day"
1898 - 1967 -
Helen Keller
American author, political activist, and lecturer
1880 - 1968 -
Albert FISH
American serial killer, also known as the Gray Man, the Werewolf of Wysteria, the Brooklyn Vampire, the Moon Maniac and The Boogey Man
1870 - 1936 -
Charles CURTIS
31st Vice President of the United States
1860 - 1936 -
Emily DICKINSON
American poet
1830 - 1886 -
John D. ROCKEFELLER, JR.
American philanthropist
1874 - 1960