| Vaslav Nijinsky(20) | | | SU | | | 1890-50
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| Daniel Chester French(3) | | | US | | | 1850-1931 | | The Minute Man of Concord; seated Lincoln, Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.
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| Henry E. Huntington(5) | | | US | | | 1850-1927 | | railroad builder, philanthropist.
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| Samuel Gompers(12) | | | US | | | 1850-1924 | | labor leader; a founder and president of AFL.
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| Frances X. (Mother) Cabrini(12) | | | IT/US | | | 1850-1917 | | Italian-born nun; founded charitable institutions; first American canonized as a saint of the Roman Catholic church, 1946.
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| Thomas Lipton(5) | | | Scot | | | 1850-1931 | | merchant, tea empire.
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| Enrico Cecchetti(20) | | | IT | | | 1850-1928 | | ballet dancer, teacher of many leading dancers of Russia's Imperial Ballet; his technique is basis for Great Britain's Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing.
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| Jean De Reszke(21) | | | PL | | | 1850-1925 | | tenor
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| J(oseph) M(allord) W(illiam) Turner(3) | | | GB | | | 1775-1851
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| Asa Candler(5) | | | US | | | 1851-1929 | | founded Coca-Cola Co.
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| John James Audubon(3) | | | US | | | 1785-1851
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| Melvil Dewey(12) | | | US | | | 1851-1931 | | devised decimal system of library-book classification.
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| Thomas Fortune Ryan(5) | | | US | | | 1851-1928 | | financier; a founder of American Tobacco.
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| Frank W. Woolworth(5) | | | US | | | 1852-1919 | | created 5 & 10 chain.
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| Horatio Greenough(3) | | | US | | | 1805-52
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| John Vanderlyn(3) | | | US | | | 1775-1852
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| Vincent van Gogh(3) | | | NL | | | 1853-90 | | The Starry Night, L'Arlesienne, Bedroom at Arles, Self-Portrait.
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| Stanford White(2) | | | US | | | 1853-1906 | | Washington Arch in Washington Square Park, first Madison Square Garden, NYC.
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| Edouard De Reszke(21) | | | PL | | | 1853-1917 | | bass
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| Engelbert Humperdinck(17) | | | DE | | | 1854-1921 | | Hansel and Gretel.
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| George Eastman(5) | | | US | | | 1854-1932 | | inventor; manufacturer of photographic equipment.
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| John Philip Sousa(18) | | | US | | | 1854-1932 | | El Capitan; Stars and Stripes Forever.
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| Andrew W. Mellon(5) | | | US | | | 1855-1937 | | financier, industrialist; benefactor of National Gallery of Art.
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| Eugene V. Debs(12) | | | US | | | 1855-1926 | | labor leader; led Pullman strike, 1894; 4-time Socialist presidential candidate.
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| Robert Mills(2) | | | US | | | 1781-1855
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| Robert Schumann(17) | | | DE | | | 1810-56
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| Eughne Atget(3) | | | FR | | | 1856-1927 | | photographer. Parisian life.
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| Paul Delaroche(3) | | | FR | | | 1797-1856
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| Peter Henry Emerson(3) | | | GB | | | 1856-1936 | | photographer. Promoted photography as an independent art form.
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| James B. (Diamond Jim) Brady(5) | | | US | | | 1856-1917 | | financier, philanthropist, legendary bon vivant.
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| James Duke(5) | | | US | | | 1856-1925 | | founded American Tobacco, Duke Univ.
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| John Singer Sargent(3) | | | US | | | 1856-1925 | | Edwardian society portraitist. The Wyndham Sisters, Madam X.
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| Louis H. Sullivan(2) | | | US | | | 1856-1924 | | Auditorium Building, Chicago, IL.
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| Edward Elgar(17) | | | GB | | | 1857-1934 | | Enigma Variations, Pomp and Circumstance.
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| Ruggero Leoncavallo(17) | | | IT | | | 1857-1919 | | Pagliacci.
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| Mikhail Glinka(17) | | | SU | | | 1804-57
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| Clarence Darrow(12) | | | US | | | 1857-1938 | | lawyer; defender of "underdog," opponent of capital punishment.
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| Frederick Burr Opper(6) | | | US | | | 1857-1937 | | Happy Hooligan.
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| Lillian Nordica(21) | | | US | | | 1857-1914 | | soprano
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| William Colgate(5) | | | GB/US | | | 1783-1857
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| Lovis Corinth(3) | | | DE | | | 1858-1925 | | Expressionist. Apocalypse.
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| Emmeline Pankhurst(12) | | | GB | | | 1858-1928 | | woman suffragist.
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| Giacomo Puccini(17) | | | IT | | | 1858-1924 | | La Boheme, Manon Lescaut, Tosca, Madama Butterfly.
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| Chauncey Olcott(18) | | | US | | | 1858-1932 | | Mother Machree.
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| Emma Calvi(21) | | | FR | | | 1858-1942 | | soprano
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| Marcella Sembrich(21) | | | PL | | | 1858-1935 | | soprano
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| Georges Seurat(3) | | | FR | | | 1859-91 | | Pointillist. Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Grande Jatte.
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| Carrie Chapman Catt(12) | | | US | | | 1859-1947 | | suffragette; helped win passage of the 19th amendment.
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| Cass Gilbert(2) | | | US | | | 1859-1934 | | Custom House, Woolworth Bldg., NYC; Supreme Court Bldg., Washington, DC.
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| Childe Hassam(3) | | | US | | | 1859-1935 | | Impressionist. Southwest Wind, July 14 Rue Daunon.
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| Horace Mann(12) | | | US | | | 1796-1859
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| John Brown(12) | | | US | | | 1800-59
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| Victor Herbert(18) | | | Ir./US | | | 1859-1924 | | Mlle. Modiste; Babes in Toyland; The Red Mill; Naughty Marietta; Sweethearts.
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| Gustav Mahler(17) | | | AT | | | 1860-1911 | | Das Lied von der Erde.
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| Gustave Charpentier(17) | | | FR | | | 1860-1956 | | Louise.
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| Ignacy Paderewski(17) | | | PL | | | 1860-1941 | | Minuet in G.
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| Grandma Moses(3) | | | US | | | 1860-1961 | | folk painter. Out for the Christmas Trees, Thanksgiving Turkey.
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| Jane Addams(12) | | | US | | | 1860-1935 | | co-founder of Hull House; won Nobel Peace Prize, 1931.
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| Maurice B. Prendergast(3) | | | US | | | c1860-1924 | | Post-impressionist water colorist. Umbrellas in the Rain.
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| Rembrandt Peale(3) | | | US | | | 1778-1860
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| Thomas Hastings(2) | | | US | | | 1860-1929 | | NY Public Library (with John Carrhre), Frick Mansion, NYC.
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| Will K. Kellogg(5) | | | US | | | 1860-1951 | | businessman, philanthropist; founded breakfast food co.
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| Aristide Maillol(3) | | | FR | | | 1861-1944 | | sculptor. L'Harmonie.
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| Edward MacDowell(17) | | | US | | | 1861-1908 | | To a Wild Rose.
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| Frederic Remington(3) | | | US | | | 1861-1909 | | painter, sculptor. Portrayer of the American West, Bronco Buster.
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| James Thurber(6) | | | US | | | 1894-61
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| William C. Durant(5) | | | US | | | 1861-1947 | | industrialist; formed General Motors.
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| William Wrigley, Jr.(5) | | | US | | | 1861-1932 | | founded chewing gum company.
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| Nellie Melba(21) | | | AT | | | 1861-1931 | | soprano.
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| Claude Debussy(17) | | | FR | | | 1862-1918 | | Pelleas et Melisande, La Mer, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun.
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| Arthur Davies(3) | | | US | | | 1862-1928 | | Romantic landscapist. Unicorns, Leda and the Dioscuri.
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| Bernard R. Maybeck(2) | | | US | | | 1862-1957 | | Hearst Hall, Univ. of CA, Berkeley; First Church of Christ Scientist, Berkeley, CA.
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| Carrie Jacobs Bond(18) | | | US | | | 1862-1946 | | I Love You Truly.
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| Christopher Grant LaFarge(2) | | | US | | | 1862-1938 | | Roman Catholic Chapel, West Point, NY.
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| Nicholas Murray Butler(12) | | | US | | | 1862-1947 | | educator; headed Columbia Univ., 1902-45; Nobel Peace Prize, 1931.
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| William C. Procter(5) | | | US | | | 1862-1934 | | headed soap company.
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| Eughne Delacroix(3) | | | FR | | | 1798-1863
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| Pietro Mascagni(17) | | | IT | | | 1863-1945 | | Cavalleria Rusticana.
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| Edvard Munch(3) | | | NO | | | 1863-1944 | | Expressionist. The Cry.
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| Henry Ford(5) | | | US | | | 1863-1947 | | auto maker; developed first popular low-priced car.
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| Ralph Adams Cram(2) | | | US | | | 1863-1942 | | Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NYC; U.S. Military Academy (part), West Point, NY.
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| Richard Outcault(6) | | | US | | | 1863-1928 | | Yellow Kid, Buster Brown.
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| Richard Sears(5) | | | US | | | 1863-1914 | | founded mail-order co.
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| Samuel H. Kress(5) | | | US | | | 1863-1955 | | businessman, art collector, philanthropist; founded "dime store" chain.
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| William Randolph Hearst(5) | | | US | | | 1863-1951 | | a dominant figure in American journalism; built vast publishing empire.
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| Blanche Marchesi(21) | | | FR | | | 1863-1940 | | soprano
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| Richard Strauss(17) | | | DE | | | 1864-1949 | | Salome, Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier, Thus Spake Zarathustra.
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| Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec(3) | | | FR | | | 1864-1901 | | At the Moulin Rouge.
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| Alfred Stieglitz(3) | | | US | | | 1864-1946 | | photographer.
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| Stephen Collins Foster(18) | | | US | | | 1826-64
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| James Wilson Morrice(3) | | | CA | | | 1865-1924 | | landscapist. The Ferry, Quebec, Venice, Looking Over the Lagoon.
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| Jean Sibelius(17) | | | FI | | | 1865-1957 | | ) Finlandia.
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| Paul Dukas(17) | | | FR | | | 1865-1935 | | Sorcerer's Apprentice.
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| Samuel Cunard(5) | | | CA | | | 1787-1865
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| Emma Eames(21) | | | US | | | 1865-1952 | | soprano
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| Vasily Kandinsky(3) | | | SU | | | 1866-1944 | | abstractionist. Capricious Forms, Improvisation 38 (second version).
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| Art Young(6) | | | US | | | 1866-1943 | | political radical and satirist.
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| Charles M. Russell(3) | | | US | | | 1866-1926 | | Western life.
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| Henry Bacon(2) | | | US | | | 1866-1924 | | Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC.
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| Herbert H. Dow(5) | | | US | | | 1866-1930 | | founder of chemical co.
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| Theodore Rousseau(3) | | | CH | | | 1812-67
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| Kathe Kollwitz(3) | | | DE | | | 1867-1945 | | printmaker, social justice themes. The Peasant War.
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| Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres(3) | | | FR | | | 1780-1867
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| Pierre Bonnard(3) | | | FR | | | 1867-1947 | | Intimist. The Breakfast Room, Girl in a Straw Hat.
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| Frank Lloyd Wright(2) | | | US | | | 1867 (or 1869)-1959 | | Imperial Hotel, Tokyo; Guggenheim Museum, NYC; Unity Church, Oak Park, IL; Robie House, Chicago, IL; Taliesin, Spring Green, WI.
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| James Gamble Rogers(2) | | | US | | | 1867-1947 | | Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, NYC; Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL.
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| William Gregg(5) | | | US | | | 1800-67
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| Roger Fenton(3) | | | GB | | | 1819-68
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| Gioacchino Rossini(17) | | | IT | | | 1792-1868
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| Emanuel Leutze(3) | | | US | | | 1816-68
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| Harvey Firestone(5) | | | US | | | 1868-1938 | | founded tire company.
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| Scott Joplin(18) | | | US | | | 1868-1917 | | Treemonisha.
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| Charles "Buddy" Bolden(22) | | | | | | 1868-1931 | | cornet; formed the first jazz band in the 1890s
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| Scott Joplin(22) | | | | | | 1868-1917 | | composer, "Maple Leaf Rag"
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| Hector Berlioz(17) | | | FR | | | 1803-69
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| Henri Matisse(3) | | | FR | | | 1869-1954 | | Fauvist. Woman with the Hat.
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| Albert Kahn(2) | | | US | | | 1869-1942 | | General Motors Bldg., Detroit, MI.
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| Bertram G. Goodhue(2) | | | US | | | 1869-1924 | | Capitol, Lincoln, Nebraska; St. Thomas's Church, St. Bartholomew's Church, NYC.
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| Emma Goldman(12) | | | SU/US | | | 1869-1940 | | published anarchist Mother Earth, birth-control advocate.
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| George Peabody(5) | | | US | | | 1795-1869
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| Oskar Straus(18) | | | AT | | | 1870-1954 | | Chocolate Soldier.
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| Ernst Barlach(3) | | | DE | | | 1870-1938 | | Expressionist sculptor. Man Drawing a Sword.
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| Franz Lehar(18) | | | HU | | | 1870-1948 | | Merry Widow.
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| Maria Montessori(12) | | | IT | | | 1870-1952 | | educator, physician; originated Montessori method of student self-motivation.
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| Amadeo P. Giannini(5) | | | US | | | 1870-1949 | | founded Bank of America.
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| Emma Hart Willard(12) | | | US | | | 1787-1870
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| John Marin(3) | | | US | | | 1870-1953 | | Expressionist seascapes. Maine Island.
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| John T. McCutcheon(6) | | | US | | | 1870-1949 | | midwestern rural life.
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| Uncle Dave Macon(23) | | | | | | 1870-1952 | | singer, banjo player
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| Emily Carr(3) | | | CA | | | 1871-1945 | | landscapist. Blunden Harbour, Big Raven, Rushing Sea of Undergrowth.
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| Georges Rouault(3) | | | FR | | | 1871-1958 | | Expressionist. Three Judges.
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| Gutzon Borglum(3) | | | US | | | 1871-1941 | | sculptor. Mt. Rushmore Memorial.
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| John F. Sloan(3) | | | US | | | 1871-1951 | | depictions of New York City. Wake of the Ferry.
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| Luisa Tetrazzini(21) | | | IT | | | 1871-1940 | | soprano
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| Olive Fremstad(21) | | | SE/US | | | 1871-1951 | | soprano
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| Aubrey Beardsley(3) | | | GB | | | 1872-98 | | illustrator. Salome, Lysistrata, Morte d'Arthur, Volpone.
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| Piet Mondrian(3) | | | NL | | | 1872-1944 | | Abstractionist. Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue.
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| Alexander Meiklejohn(12) | | | US | | | 1872-1964 | | Br.-born educator; championed academic freedom and experimental curricula.
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| George Catlin(3) | | | US | | | 1796-1872
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| Gerard Swope(5) | | | US | | | 1872-1957 | | industrialist, economist; headed General Electric.
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| Harry von Tilzer(18) | | | US | | | 1872-1946 | | Only a Bird in a Gilded Cage; On a Sunday Afternoon.
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| Thomas Sully(3) | | | US | | | 1783-1872
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| Winsor McCay(6) | | | US | | | 1872-1934 | | Little Nemo.
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| Ralph Vaughan Williams(17) | | | Eng. | | | 1872-1958 | | Fantasiz on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, symphonies, vocal music.
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| Sergei Diaghilev(20) | | | SU | | | 1872-1929 | | impresario; founded Les Ballet Russes; saw ballet as an art unifying dance, drama, music, and decor.
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| Erastus Corning(5) | | | US | | | 1794-1872
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| Carlo Blasis(20) | | | IT | | | 1803-78
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| Sergei Rachmaninov(17) | | | SU | | | 1873-1943 | | Concertos, preludes (Prelude in csharp minor), symphonies.
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| Charles R. Walgreen(5) | | | US | | | 1873-1939 | | founded drugstore chain.
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| William Green(12) | | | US | | | 1873-1952 | | president of AFL, 1924-52.
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| William H. McGuffey(12) | | | US | | | 1800-73
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| C. Handy(22) | | | | | | 1873-1958 | | composer, "St Louis Blues"
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| Enrico Caruso(21) | | | IT | | | 1873-1921 | | tenor
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| Feodor Chaliapin(21) | | | SU | | | 1873-1938 | | bass
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| Arnold Schoenberg(17) | | | AT | | | 1874-1951 | | Pelleas and Melisande, Pierrot Lunaire, Verkldrte Nacht.
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| Gustav Holst(17) | | | GB | | | 1874-1934 | | The Planets.
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| Charles Ives(17) | | | US | | | 1874-1954 | | Concord Sonata, symphonies.
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| John D. Rockefeller, Jr.(5) | | | US | | | 1874-1960 | | philanthropist; established foundation; provided land for United Nations.
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| John Russell Pope(2) | | | US | | | 1874-1937 | | National Gallery, Washington, DC.
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| Lewis Wickes Hine(3) | | | US | | | 1874-1940 | | photographer. Studies of immigrants, children in industry.
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| Thomas J. Watson(5) | | | US | | | 1874-1956 | | IBM head, 1924-49.
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| Mary Garden(21) | | | GB | | | 1874-1967 | | soprano
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| Ezra Cornell(5) | | | US | | | 1807-74
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| Fritz Kreisler(17) | | | AT | | | 1875-1962 | | Caprice Viennois, Tambourin Chinois.
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| Georges Bizet(17) | | | FR | | | 1838-75
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| Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot(3) | | | FR | | | 1796-1875
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| Jean-Francois Millet(3) | | | FR | | | 1814-75
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| Maurice Ravel(17) | | | FR | | | 1875-1937 | | Bolhro, Daphnis et Chloh, Piano Concerto in D for Left Hand Alone.
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| Giovanni Gentile(12) | | | IT | | | 1875-1944 | | philosopher, educator; reformed Italian educational system.
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| Alfred P. Sloan(5) | | | US | | | 1875-1966 | | industrialist, philanthropist; headed General Motors.
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| Clare Briggs(6) | | | US | | | 1875-1930 | | Mr. & Mrs.
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| Fred Fisher(18) | | | US | | | 1875-1942 | | Peg O' My Heart; Chicago.
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| James C. Penney(5) | | | US | | | 1875-1971 | | businessman; developed department store chain.
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| James Swinnerton(6) | | | US | | | 1875-1974 | | Little Jimmy.
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| Rollin Kirby(6) | | | US | | | 1875-1952 | | political cartoonist.
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| Manuel de Falla(17) | | | ES | | | 1876-1946 | | El Amor Brujo, La Vida Breve, The Three-Cornered Hat.
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| Maurice de Vlaminck(3) | | | FR | | | 1876-1958 | | Fauvist landscapist.
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| Constantin Brancusi(3) | | | RO | | | 1876-1957 | | Nonobjective sculptor. Flying Turtle, The Kiss.
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| Jay N. Darling (Ding)(6) | | | US | | | 1876-1962 | | political cartoonist.
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| Samuel G. Howe(12) | | | US | | | 1801-76
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| Giuseppe De Luca(21) | | | IT | | | 1876-1950 | | baritone
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| Train Wreck(31) | | Ashtabula | OH | | | 12/29/76 92
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| Gustave Courbet(3) | | | FR | | | 1819-77
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| Raoul Dufy(3) | | | FR | | | 1877-1953 | | Fauvist. Chateau and Horses.
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| William Henry Fox Talbot(3) | | | GB | | | 1800-77
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| James Montgomery Flagg(6) | | | US | | | 1877-1960 | | illustrator, created the famous Uncle Sam recruiting poster during WWI.
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| Rudolph Dirks(6) | | | US | | | 1877-1968 | | The Katzenjammer Kids.
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| Cornelius Vanderbilt(5) | | | US | | | 1794-1877
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| Isadora Duncan(20) | | | US | | | 1877-1927 | | expressive dancer who united free movement with serious music; one of the founders of modern dance.
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| Ruth St. Denis(20) | | | US | | | 1877-1968 | | interpretive dancer, choreographer, teacher; touring widely, she influenced many early modern dancers.
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| Albert von Tilzer(18) | | | US | | | 1878-1956 | | I'll Be With You in Apple Blossom Time; Take Me Out to the Ball Game.
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| Bill (Bojangles) Robinson(20) | | | US | | | 1878-1949
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| Ernest Ball(18) | | | US | | | 1878-1927 | | Mother Machree; When Irish Eyes Are Smiling.
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| George M. Cohan(18) | | | US | | | 1878-1942 | | Give My Regards to Broadway; You're A Grand Old Flag; Over There.
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| Richard Upjohn(2) | | | US | | | 1802-78
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| Emmy Destinn(21) | | | CS | | | 1878-1930 | | soprano
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| Pasquale Amato(21) | | | IT | | | 1878-1942 | | baritone
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| Bill (Bojangles) Robinson(20) | | | US | | | 1878-1949 | | tap dancer; called the King of Tapology, he attained fame on stage and screen rare for an African-American of his era.
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| Paul Klee(3) | | | CH | | | 1879-1940 | | Abstractionist. Twittering Machine, Pastoral, Death and Fire.
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| August Bournonville(20) | | | DK | | | 1805-79
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| Honori Daumier(3) | | | FR | | | 1808-79
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| Julia Cameron(3) | | | GB | | | 1815-79
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| Edward Steichen(3) | | | US | | | 1879-1973 | | photographer. Credited with the transformation of photography into an art form.
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| George Caleb Bingham(3) | | | US | | | 1811-79
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| Gus Edwards(18) | | | US | | | 1879-1945 | | School Days; By the Light of the Silvery Moon; In My Merry Oldsmobile.
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| Rudolf Friml(18) | | | CS/US | | | 1879-1972 | | The Firefly; Rose Marie; Vagabond King; Bird of Paradise.
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| William Lloyd Garrison(12) | | | US | | | 1805-79
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| William S. Knudsen(5) | | | US | | | 1879-1948 | | Danish-born auto industry executive.
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| Bunk Johnson(22) | | | | | | 1879-1949 | | cornet, trumpet
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| Agrippina Vaganova(20) | | | SU | | | 1879-1951 | | ballet teacher, director; codified Soviet ballet technique that developed virtuosity.
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| Jack Norworth(19) | | | US | | | 1879-1959 | | Take Me Out to the Ball Game; Shine On Harvest Moon.
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