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Sir William Henry Bragg OM, KBE, PRS was a British physicist, chemist, mathematician and active sportsman who uniquely shared a Nobel Prize with his son William Lawrence Bragg – the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics: "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays". The mineral Braggite is named after him and his son. He was knighted in 1920. ...more

Age: Died at 80 (1862-1942)

Birthplace: Wigton, United Kingdom

Frederic William Farrar was a cleric of the Church of England, schoolteacher and author. He was a pallbearer at the funeral of Charles Darwin in 1882. He was a member of the Cambridge Apostles secret society. ...more

Age: Died at 72 (1831-1903)

Birthplace: Mumbai, India

Captain William Henry Irvine Shakespear, was a British civil servant and explorer who mapped uncharted areas of Northern Arabia and made the first official British contact with Ibn Sa'ud, future king of Saudi Arabia. He was the military adviser to Ibn Saud from 1910 to 1915, when he was shot and killed in the Battle of Jarrab by one of Ibn Rashid's men. ...more

Age: Died at 37 (1878-1915)

Birthplace: Mumbai, India

The Rev. John Ellerton was a hymn writer and hymnologist. ...more

Age: Died at 67 (1826-1893)

Birthplace: Clerkenwell, London, United Kingdom