1909 - Leopold II, King of Belgium
1910: Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer
1911: Gustav Mahler
My favorite piece of his: Gustav Mahler - Adagietto from Symphony no. 5 - YouTube
I looked back at the first page and noticed that three people, including me, have used people who were named on the first go around.
So to fix that:
1901: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
1905: Lew Wallace
1909: Geronimo
And to help avoid this in the future, here’s the complete list:
1850: Zachary Taylor
1851: Louis Daguerre
1852: Louis Braille
1853: Christian Doppler
1854: Nicolas Bravo
1856: William Palmer
1857: Parley P. Pratt
1858: Dred Scott
1859: Alexis de Tocqueville
1860: Charles Goodyear
1861: Prince Albert
1862: John Tyler
1863: Stonewall Jackson
1864: John Sedgwick
1865: Abraham Lincoln
1866: George Everest
1867: Emperor Maximilian
1868: Léon Foucault
1869: Franklin Pierce
1870: Charles Dickens
1871: Robert Houdin
1872: Samuel F.B. Morse
1873: Napoleon III
1874: Chang and Eng Bunker
1875: Charles Wheatstone
1876: Harriet Martineau
1877: Crazy Horse
1878: Pope Pius IX
1879: James Clerk Maxwell
1880: Gustave Flaubert
1881: James A. Garfield
1882: Jesse James
1883: Karl Marx
1884: Gregor Mendel
1885: Victor Hugo
1886: Emily Dickinson
1887: Jenny Lind
1888: Wilhelm I and Friedrich III
1889: Jefferson Davis
1890: Vincent Van Gogh
1891: P.T. Barnum
1892: Walt Whitman
1893: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1894: Robert Louis Stevenson
1895: Louis Pasteur
1896: H.H. Holmes
1897: Johannes Brahms
1898: Charles Dodgson aka Lewis Carroll
1899: Horatio Alger Jr
1900: Oscar Wilde, Friedrich Nietzsche
1901: William McKinley, Queen Victoria, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
1902: Emile Zola, Cecil John Rhodes
1903: Judge Roy Bean, Calamity Jane
1904: Anton Chekhov, Raden Adjeng Kartini
1905: Jules Verne, Lew Wallace
1906: Princess Alexandrine of Prussia, Paul Laurence Dunbar
1907: Ida McKinley, Dmitri Mendeleev
1908: Grover Cleveland, Carlos I
1909: Leopold II, Geronimo
1910: Mark Twain, Leo Tolstoy
1911: Billy O’Brien, Gustav Mahler
1912: Robert Falcon Scott and party
1913: Francisco Maduro
1914: Ambrose Bierce
1915: Dikran Chokurian
1916: Jack London
1917: Mata Hari
1918: John McCrae
1919: Teddy Roosevelt
1920: Horace Elgin Dodge and Gaston Chevrolet
1921: Edward Douglass White and Annie Edson Taylor
1922: Lothar von Richthofen
1923: Pancho Villa
1924: Vladimir Lenin
1925: William Jennings Bryan
1926: Harry Houdini
1927: Isadora Duncan
1928: Roald Amundsen
1929: Isidor Fink
1930: William Howard Taft
1931: Thomas Alva Edison
1932: Peg Entwistle
1933: Calvin Coolidge
1934: Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrow
1935: T. E. Lawrence, aka Lawrence of Arabia
1936: Robert E. Howard
1937: Jean Harlow
1938: Thomas Wolfe
1939: Douglas Fairbanks
1940: Leon Trotsky
1941: Virginia Woolf
1942: John Barrymore
1943: Nikola Tesla
1944: Glenn Miller
1945: Adolf Hitler
1946: H.G. Wells
1947: Bugsy Siegel
1948: Mahatma Gandhi
1949: Margaret Mitchell, Frank Morgan
1950: George Orwell
1951: Shoeless Joe Jackson
1952: Curly Howard
1953: Edwin Hubble
1954: Alan Turing
1955: James Dean
1956: Bela Lugosi
1957: Diego Rivera, Humphrey Bogart, and Joseph McCarthy
1958: Julia Lennon
1959: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Henderson
1960: Albert Camus
1961: Patrice Lubumba
1962: William Faulkner
1963: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
1964: General Douglas MacArthur
1965: Nat King Cole
1966: Charles Whitman
1967: Edward White, Gus Grissom, and Roger Chaffee
1968: Helen Keller
1969: Sharon Tate
1970: Janis Joplin
1971: Jim Morrison
1972: Harry S Truman
1973: Pablo Picasso
1974: Agnes Moorehead
1975: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Jimmy Hoffa
1976: Mao Tse Tung
1977: Elvis Aaron Presley
1978: Hubert Humphrey
1979: Robert Williams
1980: George Pal
1981: Joe Louis
1982: Grace Kelly, Henry Fonda
1983: Muddy Waters
1984: Ethel Merman
1985: Eugene Ormandy
1986: L. Ron Hubbard
1987: Andy Warhol
1988: Robert A. Heinlein
1989: the Ayatollah Khomeini
1990: Jim Henson
1991: Frank Capra
1992: Jose Ferrer
1993: Audrey Hepburn
1994: Kurt Cobain
1995: Warren Burger
1996: King Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho
1997: Jimmy Stewart
1998: Frank Sinatra
1999: John F. Kennedy, Jr.
2000: Charles M. Schulz
2001: Dale Earnhardt
2002: Milton Berle, Dudley Moore, and Billy Wilder
2003: Michael P. Anderson, David M. Brown, Kalpana Chawla, Laurel Clark, Rick Husband, William McCool, Ilan Ramon, and Fred Rogers
2004: Susan Sontag
2005: James Doohan
2006: Gerald Ford
2007: Anna Nicole Smith
2008: Bobby Fischer
2009: Ricardo Montalban, Michael Jackson
2010: Ronnie James Dio
2011: Osama bin Laden
2012: Rodney King
2013: Roger Ebert
2014: Shirley Temple
2015: Wayne Rogers
2016: David Bowie
1912: Emperor Meiji
1913: J.P Morgan
1914: Franz Ferdinand
1915: Albert Spalding
1916: Rasputin
1917: Liliʻuokalani, former Queen of Hawaii
1918: Nicholas II and his immediate family
1919 - Henry John Heinz, founder H. J. Heinz Company
1920: Charles Stephens, the first person to die trying to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel. His arm, the only part of him found (it was still strapped in the harness), is buried in a cemetery nearby.
1921: Pinckney Pinchback, U.S representative, governor, and civil rights activist
1922: Alexander Graham Bell
1923: Warren Harding
1924: George Mallory and Andrew Irvine - attempting to climb Mt Everest (Mallory’s body was found in 1999.)
1925: Sun Yat-sen, Chinese nationalist
1926: Claude Monet, French impressionist painter
1927: Lizzie Borden