Vaslav Nijinsky(20)SU1890-50
Daniel Chester French(3)US1850-1931The Minute Man of Concord; seated Lincoln, Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.
Henry E. Huntington(5)US1850-1927railroad builder, philanthropist.
Samuel Gompers(12)US1850-1924labor leader; a founder and president of AFL.
Frances X. (Mother) Cabrini(12)IT/US1850-1917Italian-born nun; founded charitable institutions; first American canonized as a saint of the Roman Catholic church, 1946.
Thomas Lipton(5)Scot1850-1931merchant, tea empire.
Enrico Cecchetti(20)IT1850-1928ballet 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.
Jean De Reszke(21)PL1850-1925tenor
J(oseph) M(allord) W(illiam) Turner(3)GB1775-1851
Asa Candler(5)US1851-1929founded Coca-Cola Co.
John James Audubon(3)US1785-1851
Melvil Dewey(12)US1851-1931devised decimal system of library-book classification.
Thomas Fortune Ryan(5)US1851-1928financier; a founder of American Tobacco.
Frank W. Woolworth(5)US1852-1919created 5 & 10 chain.
Horatio Greenough(3)US1805-52
John Vanderlyn(3)US1775-1852
Vincent van Gogh(3)NL1853-90The Starry Night, L'Arlesienne, Bedroom at Arles, Self-Portrait.
Stanford White(2)US1853-1906Washington Arch in Washington Square Park, first Madison Square Garden, NYC.
Edouard De Reszke(21)PL1853-1917bass
Engelbert Humperdinck(17)DE1854-1921Hansel and Gretel.
George Eastman(5)US1854-1932inventor; manufacturer of photographic equipment.
John Philip Sousa(18)US1854-1932El Capitan; Stars and Stripes Forever.
Andrew W. Mellon(5)US1855-1937financier, industrialist; benefactor of National Gallery of Art.
Eugene V. Debs(12)US1855-1926labor leader; led Pullman strike, 1894; 4-time Socialist presidential candidate.
Robert Mills(2)US1781-1855
Robert Schumann(17)DE1810-56
Eughne Atget(3)FR1856-1927photographer. Parisian life.
Paul Delaroche(3)FR1797-1856
Peter Henry Emerson(3)GB1856-1936photographer. Promoted photography as an independent art form.
James B. (Diamond Jim) Brady(5)US1856-1917financier, philanthropist, legendary bon vivant.
James Duke(5)US1856-1925founded American Tobacco, Duke Univ.
John Singer Sargent(3)US1856-1925Edwardian society portraitist. The Wyndham Sisters, Madam X.
Louis H. Sullivan(2)US1856-1924Auditorium Building, Chicago, IL.
Edward Elgar(17)GB1857-1934Enigma Variations, Pomp and Circumstance.
Ruggero Leoncavallo(17)IT1857-1919Pagliacci.
Mikhail Glinka(17)SU1804-57
Clarence Darrow(12)US1857-1938lawyer; defender of "underdog," opponent of capital punishment.
Frederick Burr Opper(6)US1857-1937Happy Hooligan.
Lillian Nordica(21)US1857-1914soprano
William Colgate(5)GB/US1783-1857
Lovis Corinth(3)DE1858-1925Expressionist. Apocalypse.
Emmeline Pankhurst(12)GB1858-1928woman suffragist.
Giacomo Puccini(17)IT1858-1924La Boheme, Manon Lescaut, Tosca, Madama Butterfly.
Chauncey Olcott(18)US1858-1932Mother Machree.
Emma Calvi(21)FR1858-1942soprano
Marcella Sembrich(21)PL1858-1935soprano
Georges Seurat(3)FR1859-91Pointillist. Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Grande Jatte.
Carrie Chapman Catt(12)US1859-1947suffragette; helped win passage of the 19th amendment.
Cass Gilbert(2)US1859-1934Custom House, Woolworth Bldg., NYC; Supreme Court Bldg., Washington, DC.
Childe Hassam(3)US1859-1935Impressionist. Southwest Wind, July 14 Rue Daunon.
Horace Mann(12)US1796-1859
John Brown(12)US1800-59
Victor Herbert(18)Ir./US1859-1924Mlle. Modiste; Babes in Toyland; The Red Mill; Naughty Marietta; Sweethearts.
Gustav Mahler(17)AT1860-1911Das Lied von der Erde.
Gustave Charpentier(17)FR1860-1956Louise.
Ignacy Paderewski(17)PL1860-1941Minuet in G.
Grandma Moses(3)US1860-1961folk painter. Out for the Christmas Trees, Thanksgiving Turkey.
Jane Addams(12)US1860-1935co-founder of Hull House; won Nobel Peace Prize, 1931.
Maurice B. Prendergast(3)USc1860-1924Post-impressionist water colorist. Umbrellas in the Rain.
Rembrandt Peale(3)US1778-1860
Thomas Hastings(2)US1860-1929NY Public Library (with John Carrhre), Frick Mansion, NYC.
Will K. Kellogg(5)US1860-1951businessman, philanthropist; founded breakfast food co.
Aristide Maillol(3)FR1861-1944sculptor. L'Harmonie.
Edward MacDowell(17)US1861-1908To a Wild Rose.
Frederic Remington(3)US1861-1909painter, sculptor. Portrayer of the American West, Bronco Buster.
James Thurber(6)US1894-61
William C. Durant(5)US1861-1947industrialist; formed General Motors.
William Wrigley, Jr.(5)US1861-1932founded chewing gum company.
Nellie Melba(21)AT1861-1931soprano.
Claude Debussy(17)FR1862-1918Pelleas et Melisande, La Mer, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun.
Arthur Davies(3)US1862-1928Romantic landscapist. Unicorns, Leda and the Dioscuri.
Bernard R. Maybeck(2)US1862-1957Hearst Hall, Univ. of CA, Berkeley; First Church of Christ Scientist, Berkeley, CA.
Carrie Jacobs Bond(18)US1862-1946I Love You Truly.
Christopher Grant LaFarge(2)US1862-1938Roman Catholic Chapel, West Point, NY.
Nicholas Murray Butler(12)US1862-1947educator; headed Columbia Univ., 1902-45; Nobel Peace Prize, 1931.
William C. Procter(5)US1862-1934headed soap company.
Eughne Delacroix(3)FR1798-1863
Pietro Mascagni(17)IT1863-1945Cavalleria Rusticana.
Edvard Munch(3)NO1863-1944Expressionist. The Cry.
Henry Ford(5)US1863-1947auto maker; developed first popular low-priced car.
Ralph Adams Cram(2)US1863-1942Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NYC; U.S. Military Academy (part), West Point, NY.
Richard Outcault(6)US1863-1928Yellow Kid, Buster Brown.
Richard Sears(5)US1863-1914founded mail-order co.
Samuel H. Kress(5)US1863-1955businessman, art collector, philanthropist; founded "dime store" chain.
William Randolph Hearst(5)US1863-1951a dominant figure in American journalism; built vast publishing empire.
Blanche Marchesi(21)FR1863-1940soprano
Richard Strauss(17)DE1864-1949Salome, Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier, Thus Spake Zarathustra.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec(3)FR1864-1901At the Moulin Rouge.
Alfred Stieglitz(3)US1864-1946photographer.
Stephen Collins Foster(18)US1826-64
James Wilson Morrice(3)CA1865-1924landscapist. The Ferry, Quebec, Venice, Looking Over the Lagoon.
Jean Sibelius(17)FI1865-1957) Finlandia.
Paul Dukas(17)FR1865-1935Sorcerer's Apprentice.
Samuel Cunard(5)CA1787-1865
Emma Eames(21)US1865-1952soprano
Vasily Kandinsky(3)SU1866-1944abstractionist. Capricious Forms, Improvisation 38 (second version).
Art Young(6)US1866-1943political radical and satirist.
Charles M. Russell(3)US1866-1926Western life.
Henry Bacon(2)US1866-1924Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC.
Herbert H. Dow(5)US1866-1930founder of chemical co.
Theodore Rousseau(3)CH1812-67
Kathe Kollwitz(3)DE1867-1945printmaker, social justice themes. The Peasant War.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres(3)FR1780-1867
Pierre Bonnard(3)FR1867-1947Intimist. The Breakfast Room, Girl in a Straw Hat.
Frank Lloyd Wright(2)US1867 (or 1869)-1959Imperial Hotel, Tokyo; Guggenheim Museum, NYC; Unity Church, Oak Park, IL; Robie House, Chicago, IL; Taliesin, Spring Green, WI.
James Gamble Rogers(2)US1867-1947Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, NYC; Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL.
William Gregg(5)US1800-67
Roger Fenton(3)GB1819-68
Gioacchino Rossini(17)IT1792-1868
Emanuel Leutze(3)US1816-68
Harvey Firestone(5)US1868-1938founded tire company.
Scott Joplin(18)US1868-1917Treemonisha.
Charles "Buddy" Bolden(22)1868-1931cornet; formed the first jazz band in the 1890s
Scott Joplin(22)1868-1917composer, "Maple Leaf Rag"
Hector Berlioz(17)FR1803-69
Henri Matisse(3)FR1869-1954Fauvist. Woman with the Hat.
Albert Kahn(2)US1869-1942General Motors Bldg., Detroit, MI.
Bertram G. Goodhue(2)US1869-1924Capitol, Lincoln, Nebraska; St. Thomas's Church, St. Bartholomew's Church, NYC.
Emma Goldman(12)SU/US1869-1940published anarchist Mother Earth, birth-control advocate.
George Peabody(5)US1795-1869
Oskar Straus(18)AT1870-1954Chocolate Soldier.
Ernst Barlach(3)DE1870-1938Expressionist sculptor. Man Drawing a Sword.
Franz Lehar(18)HU1870-1948Merry Widow.
Maria Montessori(12)IT1870-1952educator, physician; originated Montessori method of student self-motivation.
Amadeo P. Giannini(5)US1870-1949founded Bank of America.
Emma Hart Willard(12)US1787-1870
John Marin(3)US1870-1953Expressionist seascapes. Maine Island.
John T. McCutcheon(6)US1870-1949midwestern rural life.
Uncle Dave Macon(23)1870-1952singer, banjo player
Emily Carr(3)CA1871-1945landscapist. Blunden Harbour, Big Raven, Rushing Sea of Undergrowth.
Georges Rouault(3)FR1871-1958Expressionist. Three Judges.
Gutzon Borglum(3)US1871-1941sculptor. Mt. Rushmore Memorial.
John F. Sloan(3)US1871-1951depictions of New York City. Wake of the Ferry.
Luisa Tetrazzini(21)IT1871-1940soprano
Olive Fremstad(21)SE/US1871-1951soprano
Aubrey Beardsley(3)GB1872-98illustrator. Salome, Lysistrata, Morte d'Arthur, Volpone.
Piet Mondrian(3)NL1872-1944Abstractionist. Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue.
Alexander Meiklejohn(12)US1872-1964Br.-born educator; championed academic freedom and experimental curricula.
George Catlin(3)US1796-1872
Gerard Swope(5)US1872-1957industrialist, economist; headed General Electric.
Harry von Tilzer(18)US1872-1946Only a Bird in a Gilded Cage; On a Sunday Afternoon.
Thomas Sully(3)US1783-1872
Winsor McCay(6)US1872-1934Little Nemo.
Ralph Vaughan Williams(17)Eng.1872-1958Fantasiz on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, symphonies, vocal music.
Sergei Diaghilev(20)SU1872-1929impresario; founded Les Ballet Russes; saw ballet as an art unifying dance, drama, music, and decor.
Erastus Corning(5)US1794-1872
Carlo Blasis(20)IT1803-78
Sergei Rachmaninov(17)SU1873-1943Concertos, preludes (Prelude in csharp minor), symphonies.
Charles R. Walgreen(5)US1873-1939founded drugstore chain.
William Green(12)US1873-1952president of AFL, 1924-52.
William H. McGuffey(12)US1800-73
C. Handy(22)1873-1958composer, "St Louis Blues"
Enrico Caruso(21)IT1873-1921tenor
Feodor Chaliapin(21)SU1873-1938bass
Arnold Schoenberg(17)AT1874-1951Pelleas and Melisande, Pierrot Lunaire, Verkldrte Nacht.
Gustav Holst(17)GB1874-1934The Planets.
Charles Ives(17)US1874-1954Concord Sonata, symphonies.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.(5)US1874-1960philanthropist; established foundation; provided land for United Nations.
John Russell Pope(2)US1874-1937National Gallery, Washington, DC.
Lewis Wickes Hine(3)US1874-1940photographer. Studies of immigrants, children in industry.
Thomas J. Watson(5)US1874-1956IBM head, 1924-49.
Mary Garden(21)GB1874-1967soprano
Ezra Cornell(5)US1807-74
Fritz Kreisler(17)AT1875-1962Caprice Viennois, Tambourin Chinois.
Georges Bizet(17)FR1838-75
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot(3)FR1796-1875
Jean-Francois Millet(3)FR1814-75
Maurice Ravel(17)FR1875-1937Bolhro, Daphnis et Chloh, Piano Concerto in D for Left Hand Alone.
Giovanni Gentile(12)IT1875-1944philosopher, educator; reformed Italian educational system.
Alfred P. Sloan(5)US1875-1966industrialist, philanthropist; headed General Motors.
Clare Briggs(6)US1875-1930Mr. & Mrs.
Fred Fisher(18)US1875-1942Peg O' My Heart; Chicago.
James C. Penney(5)US1875-1971businessman; developed department store chain.
James Swinnerton(6)US1875-1974Little Jimmy.
Rollin Kirby(6)US1875-1952political cartoonist.
Manuel de Falla(17)ES1876-1946El Amor Brujo, La Vida Breve, The Three-Cornered Hat.
Maurice de Vlaminck(3)FR1876-1958Fauvist landscapist.
Constantin Brancusi(3)RO1876-1957 Nonobjective sculptor. Flying Turtle, The Kiss.
Jay N. Darling (Ding)(6)US1876-1962political cartoonist.
Samuel G. Howe(12)US1801-76
Giuseppe De Luca(21)IT1876-1950baritone
Train Wreck(31)AshtabulaOH12/29/76 92
Gustave Courbet(3)FR1819-77
Raoul Dufy(3)FR1877-1953Fauvist. Chateau and Horses.
William Henry Fox Talbot(3)GB1800-77
James Montgomery Flagg(6)US1877-1960illustrator, created the famous Uncle Sam recruiting poster during WWI.
Rudolph Dirks(6)US1877-1968The Katzenjammer Kids.
Cornelius Vanderbilt(5)US1794-1877
Isadora Duncan(20)US1877-1927expressive dancer who united free movement with serious music; one of the founders of modern dance.
Ruth St. Denis(20)US1877-1968interpretive dancer, choreographer, teacher; touring widely, she influenced many early modern dancers.
Albert von Tilzer(18)US1878-1956I'll Be With You in Apple Blossom Time; Take Me Out to the Ball Game.
Bill (Bojangles) Robinson(20)US1878-1949
Ernest Ball(18)US1878-1927Mother Machree; When Irish Eyes Are Smiling.
George M. Cohan(18)US1878-1942Give My Regards to Broadway; You're A Grand Old Flag; Over There.
Richard Upjohn(2)US1802-78
Emmy Destinn(21)CS1878-1930soprano
Pasquale Amato(21)IT1878-1942baritone
Bill (Bojangles) Robinson(20)US1878-1949tap dancer; called the King of Tapology, he attained fame on stage and screen rare for an African-American of his era.
Paul Klee(3)CH1879-1940Abstractionist. Twittering Machine, Pastoral, Death and Fire.
August Bournonville(20)DK1805-79
Honori Daumier(3)FR1808-79
Julia Cameron(3)GB1815-79
Edward Steichen(3)US1879-1973photographer. Credited with the transformation of photography into an art form.
George Caleb Bingham(3)US1811-79
Gus Edwards(18)US1879-1945School Days; By the Light of the Silvery Moon; In My Merry Oldsmobile.
Rudolf Friml(18)CS/US1879-1972The Firefly; Rose Marie; Vagabond King; Bird of Paradise.
William Lloyd Garrison(12)US1805-79
William S. Knudsen(5)US1879-1948Danish-born auto industry executive.
Bunk Johnson(22)1879-1949cornet, trumpet
Agrippina Vaganova(20)SU1879-1951ballet teacher, director; codified Soviet ballet technique that developed virtuosity.
Jack Norworth(19)US1879-1959Take Me Out to the Ball Game; Shine On Harvest Moon.