Famous People Born in 1872

• Amundsen, Roald (July 16)

  The Norwegian explorer who reached the South Pole first

• Coolidge, Calvin (July 4)

  President of the United States, 1923-29

• Davison, Emily (October 11)

  The suffragist who was run over by the king's horse in 1913

• Grey, Zane (January 31)

  Author of Riders of the Purple Sage

• McCoy, Kid (October 13)

  Barnstorming boxer who may have been "The Real McCoy"

• Mondrian, Piet (March 7)

  Dutch abstract artist with the colored rectangles

• Post, Emily (October 27)

  Mid-20th century American expert on etiquette

• Russell, Bertrand (May 18)

  The deep-thinking co-author of Principia Mathematica

• Wilson, Edith Bolling Galt (October 15)

  The second wife of President Woodrow Wilson

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