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British-born American physician and minister who was president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (1904-1915).

American clarinetist, band leader, composer, and arranger whose swing band, formed in 1937, exemplified the big band sound.

Irish-born British playwright, essayist, and critic. A member of the Fabian Society, a group of writers committed to promoting socialism, he wrote plays of iconoclastic social criticism, including Arms and the Man (1894), Pygmalion (1913), and Saint Joan (1923). He won the 1925 Nobel Prize for literature.

American humorist noted for his essays on rural life, characterized by intentional misspellings and published annually in the Farmers' Allminax (1869-1880).