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Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell
1847 CE–1922 CE · Edinburgh
Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born Canadian-American inventor, scientist, and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. He also co-founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) in 1885.
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Scientists
- Johannes van der Waals· 1837 CE–1923 CE
- Lord Rayleigh (John Strutt)· 1842 CE–1919 CE
- Camillo Golgi· 1843 CE–1926 CE
- Wilhelm Rontgen· 1845 CE–1923 CE
- Gabriel Lippmann· 1845 CE–1921 CE
- Georg Cantor· 1845 CE–1918 CE
- Ilya Metchnikoff· 1845 CE–1916 CE
- Thomas Edison· 1847 CE–1931 CE
- Gottlob Frege· 1848 CE–1925 CE
- Felix Klein· 1849 CE–1925 CE
- William Ramsay· 1852 CE–1916 CE
- Emil Fischer· 1852 CE–1919 CE
- Jacobus van 't Hoff· 1852 CE–1911 CE
- Henri Becquerel· 1852 CE–1908 CE
- Henri Moissan· 1852 CE–1907 CE
- Hendrik Lorentz· 1853 CE–1928 CE
- Paul Ehrlich· 1854 CE–1915 CE
- Emil von Behring· 1854 CE–1917 CE
- Henri Poincaré· 1854 CE–1912 CE
- Andrey Markov· 1856 CE–1922 CE
- Rudolf Diesel· 1858 CE–1913 CE
- Émile Durkheim· 1858 CE–1917 CE
- Pierre Curie· 1859 CE–1906 CE
- Hermann Minkowski· 1864 CE–1909 CE
Jewish world
- Meir Simcha HaKohen of Dvinsk (Or Sameach, Meshech Chochmah)· 1843 CE–1926 CE
- R. Yisrael Taub (Modzitz founder)· 1849 CE–1920 CE
- Israel Meir Kagan (Chafetz Chaim)· 1838 CE–1933 CE
- Rabbi Shlomo Elyashiv· 1841 CE–1926 CE
- Yitzchak Friedman (Pachad Yitzchak of Boyan)· 1850 CE–1917 CE
- Chaim Soloveitchik (founder of the Brisker derech)· 1853 CE–1918 CE
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- Georges Clemenceau· 1841 CE–1929 CE
- Gojong of Korea· 1852 CE–1919 CE
- Emperor Meiji· 1852 CE–1912 CE
- Chulalongkorn (Rama V)· 1853 CE–1910 CE
- Yuan Shikai· 1859 CE–1916 CE
- Mehmed V· 1844 CE–1918 CE
- Yaa Asantewaa· 1840 CE–1921 CE
- Theodore Roosevelt· 1858 CE–1919 CE
- Abdulhamid II· 1842 CE–1918 CE
- Guangxu Emperor· 1871 CE–1908 CE
- Woodrow Wilson· 1856 CE–1924 CE
- Menelik II· 1844 CE–1913 CE
- Paul von Hindenburg· 1847 CE–1934 CE
- Quanah Parker· 1845 CE–1911 CE
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