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•  Anton Chekhov

  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian short-story writer, playwright and physician, considered to be one of the greatest short-story writers in the history of world literature. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Chekhov practised as a doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress.

  

  46.7%
  

  40.0%
  

  13.3%
  
•  Herman Hollerith

  Herman Hollerith (February 29, 1860 – November 17, 1929) was a German-American statistician who developed a mechanical tabulator based on punched cards to rapidly tabulate statistics from millions of pieces of data. He was the founder of the company that became IBM.

  

  15.8%
  

  42.1%
  

  42.1%
  
•  Isaac Albéniz

  Isaac Albéniz i Pascual (29 May 1860, Camprodon – 18 May 1909, Cambo-les-Bains) was a Spanish Catalan pianist and composer best known for his piano works based on folk music idioms (many of which have been transcribed by others for guitar).

  

  21.4%
  

  28.6%
  

  50.0%
  
•  Otto Jespersen

  Jens Otto Harry Jespersen or Otto Jespersen (July 16, 1860-April 30, 1943) was a Danish linguist who specialized in the grammar of the English language. He was born in Randers in northern Jutland and attended Copenhagen University, earning degrees in English, French, and Latin. He also studied linguistics at Oxford.

  

  25.0%
  

  37.5%
  

  37.5%
  
•  William Kennedy Dickson

  William Kennedy Laurie Dickson (3 August 1860 – 28 September 1935) was a French-Anglo-Scottish inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employ of Thomas Edison (post-dating the work of Louis Le Prince).

  

  40.0%
  

  30.0%
  

  30.0%
  
•  Carter Harrison, Jr.

  Carter Henry Harrison, Jr. (April 23, 1860, Chicago, Illinois - December 25, 1953; buried in Graceland Cemetery) served as Mayor of Chicago (1897-1905 and 1911-1915). The City's 30th mayor, he was the first actually born in Chicago. Like his father, Carter Harrison, Sr. , Carter Harrison, Jr. gained election to five terms as Chicago's mayor. Educated in Saxe-Altenburg, Germany, Harrison returned to Chicago to help his brother run the Chicago Times, which their father bought in 1891.

  

  25.0%
  

  50.0%
  

  25.0%
  
•  William Jennings Bryan

  William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 – July 26, 1925) was the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States in 1896, 1900 and 1908, a lawyer, and the 41st United States Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson. He was noted for a deep, commanding voice.

  

  36.8%
  

  15.8%
  

  47.4%
  
•  John Coughlin (alderman)

  "Bathhouse" John Coughlin (1860-1938) was an alderman of Chicago's First Ward from 1893 until his death in 1938. Coughlin acquired his nickname as a result of working in a bathhouse as a masseur. Eventually he was able to purchase a tavern and several bathhouses of his own. Coughlin and his partner, fellow First Ward alderman Michael "Hinky Dink" Kenna, were known as the "Lords of the Levee," a district which was part of their ward.

  

  54.5%
  

  18.2%
  

  27.3%
  
•  Gustav Mahler

  Gustav Mahler (7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austrian composer and conductor. He was best known during his own lifetime as one of the leading orchestral and operatic conductors of the day. He has since come to be acknowledged as among the most important late-Romantic/early-Modernist composers, although his music was never completely accepted by the musical establishment of Vienna while he was still alive.

  

  33.3%
  

  40.7%
  

  25.9%
  
•  René Lalique

  René Jules Lalique was born in Ay, a small village in the Marne region of France on April 6, 1860, and died May 5, 1945. He was a glass designer, renowned for his stunning creations of perfume bottles, vases, jewellery, chandeliers, clocks and in the latter part of his life, automobile hood ornaments. The firm he founded is still active today.

  

  50.0%
  

  16.7%
  

  33.3%
  

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•  Vermont Route 114

  Vermont Route 114 is a 51.24-mile (82.46 km) long state highway in northeastern Vermont, United States. It runs northward from U.S. Route 5 in Lyndon until nearing the Canadian border in the town of Norton; thereafter, the road continues east to the New Hampshire state line in Canaan. The vast majority of VT 114 is situated within Essex County; however, the route also passes through a small, isolated portion of Orleans County in the town of Morgan.

  

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•  Delorentos

  Delorentos are a Dublin-based Irish alternative rock band, formed in 2005. They consist of Rónan Yourell (vocals, guitar, piano), Kieran McGuinness (vocals, guitar), Níal Conlan (bass, backing vocals) and Ross McCormick (drums, backing vocals). The band's debut album In Love with Detail was critically acclaimed in Ireland, being nominated for the Choice Music Prize and in the Best Irish Album category at the 2007 Meteor Awards, at which Delorentos were also nominated for Best New Irish Band.

  

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•  Bab El Oued

  Bab el-Oued is a neighbourhood in Algiers, the capital of Algeria, along the coast north of the city centre. During the existence of French Algeria, Bab el-Oued became the main neighbourhood of poor pied-noirs, including many poor fishermen. Towards the end of the Algerian War of Independence, the neighbourhood became the stronghold of the Organisation de l'Armee Secrete, until OAS attacks on the French Army led them to assault and purge the neighbourhood.

  

  21.1%
  

  15.8%
  

  63.2%
  
•  Margaret Omolola Young

  

  29.6%
  

  18.5%
  

  51.9%
  
•  Esco dal mio corpo e ho molta paura: Gli inediti 1979-1986

  

  28.6%
  

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  35.7%