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, American serial killer
1897: Johannes Brahms, composer
1898: Charles Dodgson aka Lewis Carroll
1899 - Horatio Alger Jr, American writer (“rags-to-riches” stories for boys)
1900: Friedrich Nietzsche
1901: Queen Victoria
1902: Cecil John Rhodes, British imperalist in southern Africa, diamond businessman, and prime minister of Cape Colony(modern South Africa)
1903: Calamity Jane, American frontierswoman.
1904: Raden Adjeng Kartini, women’s rights activist and journalist
1905: Jules Verne
1906: Paul Laurence Dunbar, African American poet
1907: Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist and co-creator of the Periodic Table of Elements.
1908: Carlos I of Portugal, assassinated