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1863-1944, chemist; inventor, Belgian; American

Baekeland, Leo Hendrik

1863 - 1944
published 1868-1914, magazine, English; British

Vanity Fair

1868 - 1914
1865-1935, physicist, French

Féry, Charles

1865 - 1935
1854-1920, US army physician and surgeon, American

Gorgas, William Crawford

1854 - 1920
1862-1931, engineer, British

Darling, Alfred

1862 - 1931
1867-1942, cinematographer; film producer, active England from about 1915, American

Urban, Charles

1867 - 1942
1855-1944, physicist; inventor, English; British

Boys, Sir Charles Vernon

1855 - 1944
1860-1922, railway company, United Kingdom

East Coast Joint Stock Railway

1860 - 1922
1862-1982, manufacturer, Chicago

Pullman Car Company

1862 - 1982
1856-1999, manufacturer of phosphorous; manufacturer of chemicals, Oldbury, England

Albright and Wilson Limited

1856 - 1999
1864-1944, geologist; museum director, British; English

Lyons, Sir Henry George

1864 - 1944
1867-1943, aeronautical pioneer; balloonist; meteorologist, British

Alexander, Patrick Young

1867 - 1943
1858-1939, journalist; politician, British; English

Norman, Sir Henry

1858 - 1939
1862-1912, mechanical engineer, German?

Zodel, Louis

1862 - 1912
1854-1932, inventor; businessman, American

Eastman, George

1854 - 1932
1858-1929, scientist; inventor, Austrian

Auer von Welsbach, Carl

1858 - 1929
1862-present, pen manufacturer, Birmingham

C. Brandauer & Co

1862
1854, vessel; screw sloop

HMS Curlew (1854)

1854 - 1865
1861-1935, wrote letter in 1917 on 'les moteurs a petrole pour sous-marins', French

Rey, Jean Alexandre

1861 - 1935
1866-1962, worked as a chemist in Wales, German-born

Wolf, Hans Karl

1866 - 1962
1867-1949, Director of the 1917 Geological Survey of Egypt, British

Hume, William Fraser

1867 - 1949

Brewer, Griffith

1867 - 1948

Hume, William Fraser

1867 - 1949

Ayrton, Hertha

1854 - 1923

Chapman Jones, Henry

1854 - 1932

Hackworth, Esther Ann

1862 - 1917

Burden, Harold Nelson

1860 - 1930

Sherrington, Charles Scott

1857 - 1952

Bridges-Lee, John

1867 - 1917

Norman, Henry (first baronet)

1858 - 1939

Plummer, John James

1806 - 1907

Crew, Henry

1859 - 1953

Tutton, Alfred Edwin Howard

1864 - 1938

Hale, George Ellery

1868 - 1938

Boys, Charles Vernon

1855 - 1944

Carus-Wilson, Charles Ashley

1812 - 1942

Young, Robert

1860 - 1932

Kingsbury, John Edward

1855 - 1948

Trotter, Alexander Pelham

1857 - 1947

Heron, Edward Thomas

1867 - 1949

Young, Samuel Holmes

1869 - 1936

Jenkins, Rhys

1859 - 1953

Paget, Richard Arthur Surtees (second baronet of Cranmore)

1869 - 1955

Allison, Richard John

1869 - 1958

Evershed, John

1864 - 1956

Pearson, Weetman Dickinson (first Viscount Cowdray)

1856 - 1927

Cody, Samuel Franklin

1861 - 1913

Harland and Wolff

1861 - 1885

Wakefield, Charles Cheers

1859 - 1941

Perkins, Loftus Patton

1868 - 1940