| Rank | Name |
|---|---|
| 1923 | Anthony Fokker Dutch aviation pioneer and aircraft manufacturer |
| 1923 | George Bernard Shaw Irish playwright and co-founder of the London School of Economics |
| 1923 | Anton Lang German studio potter and an actor in the Oberammergau Passion Play |
| 1923 | Albert B Cummins Governor of Iowa (1902-1908) US Senator (1908-1926) |
| 1923 | Bob La Follette U.S. House of Representatives (1865-1891), Governor of Wisconsin (1901-1906), U.S. Senator (1906-1925) |
| 1923 | Erich Ludendorff German general in WW! |
| 1923 | Woodrow Wilson 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921 |
| 1923 | Roy Chapman Andrews Explorer became director of the American Museum of Natural History |
| 1923 | John W Weeks US House (1905-1913), US Senate (1913-1919), Secretary of War (1921-1925) |
| 1923 | H H Asquith Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1908-1916) |
| 1923 | Samuel Gompers Founded American Federation of Labor (AFL), and served as president (1886 -1894 and 1895-1924) |
| 1923 | Israel Zangwill British humorist and writer |
| 1923 | Jack Dempsey Boxer, Heavyweight Champion of the World (1919-1926) |
| 1923 | Frederick Banting Canadian physician, introduced insulin for human use |
| 1923 | Fuad I of Egypt Sultan and later King of Egypt (1922-1936) |
| 1923 | F E Smith British conservative politician |
| 1923 | Samuel George Blythe Newspaperman of the early 20th century |
| 1923 | Eleonora Duse Italian actress |
| 1923 | Roy Asa Haynes US Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of Prohibition enforcement (1920-1925) |
| 1923 | James J Couzens U.S. Senator from Michigan (1922-1936), the Mayor of Detroit (1919-1922) |
| 1923 | Mason Patrick US Army general between two world wars |
| 1923 | Edward M House Advisor to President Woodrow Wilson |
| 1923 | Herbert L Pratt Head of Standard Oil (1923-?) |
| 1923 | René Viviani Prime Minister of France for the first year of WWI (1914-1915) |
| 1923 | John Barton Payne Secretary of the Interior from 1920 until 1921 |
| 1923 | James M Beck US House (1927-1934), Solicitor General (1921-1925) |
| 1923 | Samuel M Vauclain Inventor of the Vauclain compound locomotive, and president of the Baldwin Locomotive Works |
| 1923 | Joseph Conrad Polish author, novelist |
| 1923 | Stephen Sanford US House (1869-1871) |
| 1923 | Hugo Stinnes German industrialist and politician |
| 1923 | Warren G Harding 29th U.S. President |
| 1923 | Joseph Gurney Cannon Republican from Illinois US House (1873-1891; 1893-1913), Speaker of the House (1903-1911) |
| 1924 | Dwight F Davis Tennis player; Secretary of War |
| 1924 | Plutarco Elías Calles President of Mexico (1924-1928) |
| 1924 | Chauncey Mitchell Depew Sr Co-Founder of the Pilgrims Society |
| 1924 | William Inge English author, Anglican priest, professor of divinity at Cambridge |
| 1924 | Ethel Barrymore Actress, part of the Barrymore family of actors |
| 1924 | Thomas Lipton Created the Lipton tea brand |
| 1924 | Patrick Hastings British barrister and politician |
| 1924 | Glenn Curtiss Pioneer of the aircraft industry; created G.H. Curtiss Manufacturing Company, Inc in 1905 |
| 1924 | Hiram Johnson Governor of California (1911-1917), US Senator (1917-1945) |
| 1924 | Leo Baekeland Chemist, invented Bakelite in 1907 |
| 1924 | Seymour Parker Gilbert Agent General for Reparations to Germany (1924-1930) |
| 1924 | Wu Peifu General, Republic of China |
| 1924 | Adolph Ochs Former owner of The New York Times and The Chattanooga Times |
| 1924 | Edith Cummings Chicago socialite, champion golfer |
| 1924 | Marie Of Romania Last Queen consort of Romania as the wife of King Ferdinand I |
| 1924 | William Sproule President of the Wells Fargo Express Company and later the Southern Pacific Railroad |
| 1924 | Alexei Rykov Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician; Premier of Russia (1924-1930) |
| 1924 | James Stillman Rockefeller Bank executive |
| 1924 | Hiram Wesley Evans Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan (1922-1930) |
| 1924 | Alfred Von Tirpitz German Admiral, Secretary of State of the German Imperial Naval Office |
| 1924 | James Craig First Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (1921-1940) |
| 1924 | Henry Seidel Canby Yale professor, critic, editor |
| 1924 | Homer Saint-Gaudens Son of sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens; Director of the Art Museum of the Carnegie Institute |
| 1924 | Don Gelasio Caetani Italian Ambassador to the US in 1920s |
| 1924 | George Fisher Baker, Sr. First National Bank of New York |
| 1924 | Raymond Poincaré French Prime Minister for 3 terms (1913-1920) |
| 1924 | Warren Stanford Stone Head of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (1903-1925) |
| 1924 | Reginald McKenna British banker and Liberal politician |
| 1924 | Eleftherios Venizelos Prime Minister of Greece (1910-1920 and 1928-1932) |
| 1924 | John Hessin Clarke Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court (1916-1922) |
| 1924 | Edward Walter Eberle Admiral, served as Superintendent of the United States Naval Academy and Chief of Naval Operations |
| 1924 | Herbert Bayard Swope Journalist, New York World newspaper |
| 1924 | Henry Cabot Lodge A Representative and a Senator from Massachusetts |
| 1924 | William Lawrence Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts (1893–1927) |
| 1925 | James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr US Senator from New York, 1915-27 |
| 1925 | Booth Tarkington Novelist and dramatist |
| 1925 | José Raúl Capablanca Cuban who was World Chess Champion (1921-1927) |
| 1925 | Austen Chamberlain British statesman, half brother of Neville Chamberlain |
| 1925 | Gifford Pinchot Governor of Pennsylvania (1923-1927 and 1931-1935) |
| 1925 | Paul Painlevé Prime Minister of France 3 times between 1917 and 1925 |
| 1925 | Otto Hermann Kahn Banker |
| 1925 | William S Sims US Navy admiral, commander of US forces in WWI |
| 1925 | Red Grange Football play known as the "Galloping Ghost" |
| 1925 | Frank B Kellogg US Secretary of State, 1925-29 |
| 1925 | Zachary Lansdowne Early naval aviator |
| 1925 | Joseph Caillaux Prime Minister of France (1911-1912) |
| 1925 | F Trubee Davison Assistant US Secretary of War, Director of Personnel for the Central Intelligence Agency, and President of the American Museum of Natural History |
| 1925 | Abd el-Krim Morocco guerrilla fighter against colonial rule |
| 1925 | Lincoln Clark Andrews Assistant Secretary of the Treasury who enforced Prohibition |
| 1925 | George Gershwin Composer and pianist |
| 1925 | Theodore E Burton Republican from Ohio US House (1895-1928) US Senator (1909-1915 and 1928-1929) |
| 1925 | Charles Horace Mayo Physician, one of the founders of the Mayo Clinic |
| 1925 | Victor Emmanuel III King of Spain (1900 -1946) |
| 1925 | Miguel Primo deRivera Prime Minister of Spain from 1923 to 1930 |
| 1925 | R S Lull Pathologist at Yale, champion of pre-Darwinian view of evolution |
| 1925 | Thomas J Walsh Democrat from Montana US Senator (1913-1933) |
| 1925 | J B M Hertzog Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa from 1924 to 1939 |
| 1925 | Arthur Balfour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1902-1905) |
| 1925 | John Ringling Most well-known of the seven Ringling brothers, 5 of whom merged the Barnum & Bailey Circus with their own Ringling Brothers Circus |
| 1925 | George H Sisler |
| 1925 | Ferdinand Foch French Field Marshall, Allied Generalissimo during WWI |
| 1925 | Amy Lawrence Lowell Poet |
| 1925 | Harry Stewart New Republican Senator from Indiana (1917-1923) |
| 1925 | Fritz Kreisler Austrian-born violinist and composer |
| 1925 | Charles Beecher Warren Diplomat and Republican politician |
| 1926 | Ralph Adams Cram Architect |
| 1926 | Guglielmo Marconi Italian inventor and electrical engineer, did pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission |
| 1926 | Charles M. Schwab Head of Bethlehem Steel |