The Year of Death Game

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Okay here is how this plays out. We go by each year and name a notable person who died during that year. Once we get to 2016, the poster chooses the year to start again, it could be any year. Wikipedia is your friend in terms of list of people who died during a particular year.

Years after 1500 are more preferable and easier than say 24 B.C.
I wil, start with 1900 and name a famous person who died in 1900 and the next poster will name someone else who died in 1901.

Make sure to list the year along with the name so others would know the next year.
1900: Oscar Wilde

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1901 had at least two major ones.

William McKinley (US President) and Queen Victoria (UK Queen)

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1902- Emile Zola

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1903: Judge Roy Bean

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1904: Anton Chekhov

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1905: Jules Verne

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1906: Princess Alexandrine of Prussia

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1907: Ida McKinley

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1908: Grover Cleveland

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1909: Leopold II (King of Belgium)

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1910: Mark Twain

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Billy O’Brien, infielder who played baseball for the Washington Nationals in 1886-87.

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1912: Robert Falcon Scott and party

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1913 Francisco Maduro

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1914 - Ambrose Bierce

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1915: Dikran Chokurian(Armenian writer and teacher, victim of Armenian Genocide)

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1916: Jack London (American author)

P.S.: It would be interesting to learn the most recent year for which Wikipedia lists no notable deaths.

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1917: Mata Hari

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1918: John McCrae (“In Flanders Fields” poet)

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1919: Teddy Roosevelt