Frank Cadogan Cowper

•  Aga Khan III

  Sultan Mahommed Shah, Aga Khan III, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, GCVO, PC (November 2, 1877 – July 11, 1957) was the 48th Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims. He was one of the founders and the first president of the All-India Muslim League, and served as President of the League of Nations from 1937-38.

  

  38.9%
  

  44.4%
  

  16.7%
  
•  Frederick Soddy

  Frederick Soddy (2 September 1877 – 22 September 1956) was an English radiochemist who explained, with Ernest Rutherford, that radioactivity is due to the transmutation of elements, now known to involve nuclear reactions. He also proved the existence of isotopes of certain radioactive elements. He received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1921, and has a crater named for him on the far side of the Moon.

  

  37.5%
  

  25.0%
  

  37.5%
  
•  Hermann Hesse

  Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1877 – August 9, 1962) was a German-born Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known works include Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game (also known as Magister Ludi), each of which explores an individual's search for authenticity, self-knowledge and spirituality.

  

  25.0%
  

  37.5%
  

  37.5%
  
•  Felix Dzerzhinsky

  Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky was a Polish Communist revolutionary, famous as the founder of the Bolshevik secret police, the Cheka, later known by many names during the history of the Soviet Union. The agency became notorious for large-scale human rights abuses, including torture and mass summary executions, carried out especially during the Red Terror and the Russian Civil War.

  

  33.3%
  

  16.7%
  

  50.0%
  
•  Oswald Avery

  Oswald Theodore Avery (October 21, 1877 – 2 February 1955) was a Canadian-born American physician and medical researcher. The major part of his career was spent at the Rockefeller University Hospital in New York City. Avery was one of the first molecular biologists and was a pioneer in immunochemistry, but he is best known for his discovery in 1944 with his co-workers Colin MacLeod and Maclyn McCarty that DNA is the material of which genes and chromosomes are made.

  

  35.7%
  

  21.4%
  

  42.9%
  
•  Charles Rolls

  Charles Stewart Rolls (27 August 1877 - 12 July 1910) was a motoring and aviation pioneer. Together with Frederick Henry Royce he co-founded the Rolls-Royce car manufacturing firm. He was the first Briton to be killed in a flying accident when the tail of his Wright Flyer broke off during a flying display; he was 32.

  

  47.1%
  

  23.5%
  

  29.4%
  
•  Buddy Bolden

  Charles "Buddy" Bolden (September 6, 1877 – November 4, 1931) was an African American cornetist and is regarded by contemporaries as a key figure in the development of a New Orleans style of rag-time music which later came to be known as jazz.

  

  42.9%
  

  28.6%
  

  28.6%
  
•  Stanley Lord

  Stanley Lord (13 September 1877 - 24 January 1962) was captain of the SS Californian, a ship that was in the vicinity of the RMS Titanic the night it sank on 15 April 1912.

  

  26.7%
  

  33.3%
  

  40.0%
  
•  William Hope Hodgson

  William Hope Hodgson (15 November 1877 – April 1918) was an English author. He produced a large body of work, consisting of essays, short fiction, and novels, spanning several overlapping genres including horror, fantastic fiction and science fiction. Early in his writing career he dedicated effort to poetry, although few of his poems were published during his lifetime. He also attracted some notice as a photographer and achieved some renown as a bodybuilder.

  

  37.5%
  

  43.8%
  

  18.8%
  
•  Alice B. Toklas

  Alice B. Toklas (April 30, 1877 – March 7, 1967) was the life partner of writer Gertrude Stein.

  

  35.0%
  

  20.0%
  

  45.0%
  

• 1877 births by likeorhate
• 1958 deaths by likeorhate
• English painters by likeorhate
• People from Northamptonshire by likeorhate
• Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood by likeorhate

Register now, and make your vote count more!

•  August von Wasserman

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Albert Marquet

  Albert Marquet (27 March 1875 – 14 June 1947) was a French painter, associated with the Fauvist movement.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Race with the Devil

  Race with the Devil is a 1975 occult thriller and action film starring Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Loretta Swit and Lara Parker. This was the second of three films Fonda and Oates would star together (The Hired Hand was the first and 92 in the Shade was their third). The film was a B-movie hybrid of the horror, action and car chase genres.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Veljovic uros

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
• 1581 births by likeorhate