Du Bois, W.E.B. (February 23)
Author of The Souls of Black Folk
Famous People Born in 1868
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Gorky, Maxim (March 16)
Russian writer known for his socialist realism -
Haber, Fritz (December 9)
The German chemist who made fertilizer and poison gas in World War I -
Nicholas II of Russia (May 6)
The last emperor of Russia -
Scott, Robert Falcon (June 6)
The second man to reach the South Pole