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Truck Eagan
1877 births | 1949 deaths | cleveland blues players | major league baseball infielders | major league baseball players from california | pittsburgh pirates playersCharles Eugene (Truck) Eagan (August 10, 1877 to March 19, 1949), was a Major League Baseball infielder who played in 1901 with the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Cleveland Blues. He batted and threw right handed. Eagan had a .133 career batting average. He was born and died in San Francisco, California.
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Peaches Graham
1877 births | 1939 deathsGeorge Frederick "Peaches" Graham (March 23, 1877 - July 25, 1939) was a baseball player for the Cleveland Blues, Chicago Cubs, Boston Braves, and Philadelphia Phillies. Born in Aledo, Illinois]], Graham played seven seasons of professional baseball over the span of eleven years. He debuted in 1902 with the Blues as a second baseman, and came back in 1903 with the Cubs as a pitcher, but only pitched in one game, a loss.1911 to the Cubs, but only played there for three months before being traded for Dick Cotter to Philadelphia, where he would finish his career after the 1912 season at the age of thirty-five.
He had a son, Jack, born in 1916, who would go on to play professional baseball. Graham died in Long Beach, California at the age of sixty-two.
Boleslav Yavorsky
1877 births | 1942 deaths | music educators | russian classical pianists | russian music theoristsBoleslav Leopoldovich Yavorsky (1877 – 1942) was a Russian musicologist, music teacher, administrator and pianist.
Through his teachings and editorial positions he heavily influenced the Soviet music theory.Damschroder, Music Theory from Zarlino to Schenker: A Bibliography and Guide, p.386 However, outside Soviet circles, he has had little impact.
Jimmy Smith (Australian footballer)
1877 births | australian rules footballers | st kilda football club coaches | st kilda football club players James 'Jimmy' Smith (born January 4, 1877) was an Australian rules footballer who played with and coached St Kilda in the VFL during the early 1900s.
Smith was St Kilda's ruckman for ten seasons, beginning in 1899. He captained the club for the first time in 1901 and was also captain in 1903, 1904 and 1906. In 1900 and 1901 he represented Victoria at interstate football.
Jean-Emil Vanni-Marcoux
1877 births | 1962 deaths | french opera singers Jean-Emil Vanni-Marcoux (June 12, 1877, Turin, Italy - October 22, 1962, Paris, France) was a French bass-baritone. He was particularly associated with the French and Italian repertories. His huge repertoire included an estimated 240 roles. He was as admired for his vocal gifts as he was for his acting talents.
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Nikolay Matveyev
1877 births | 1951 deaths | people of the russian civil war | russian revolutionaries | soviet politiciansJames Humbert Craig
1877 births | 1944 deaths | irish painters | northern irish painters | people from belfastJames Humbert Craig (July 12, 1877 in Belfast – June 12, 1944) was an Irish painter.
Craig was born in Belfast to Alexander Craig, a tea merchant, and a Swiss mother, Marie Metzenen, from a family with a painting tradition. He was raised in County Down and maintained a studio at Cushendun, County Antrim. Craig abandoned a career in business, briefly attended the Belfast School of Art, and became a mostly self-taught painter of landscapes. Among his favorite panoramas were Donegal, Connemara and the Glens of Antrim. Craig was elected to the Royal Ulster Academy and the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1928. He also exhibited at the Fine Art Society in London. > Craig at The Oriel. Retrieved Jan. 13, 2008.
John Fulmer Bright
1877 births | 1923 deaths | mayors of richmond | people from virginiaJohn Fulmer Bright (17 November 1877-29 December 1923) was a physician who served as mayor of Richmond, Virginia, from 1924 to 1940. He received an M.D. from the Medical College of Virginia in 1898. He sat in the Virginia House of Delegates representing the city of Richmond in 1922. As mayor, Bright believed in limited government and frequently vetoed development projects. He also opposed the federal housing program during the Great Depression.
