Chronology of Notable Births

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Last updated: 2023 December 20.


1845

January 7
  • Birth of Louis III; last king of Bavaria (1913-18). [1]
  • Birth of Paul Deusen; German philosopher (Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft). [1]
January 14
  • Birth of Henry C K Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th marquess of Landsdowne; Governor-General of Canada. [1]
January 15
  • Birth of Ella Flagg Young; president (National Educational Association). [1]
January 17
  • Birth of Lucas Lindeboom; Dutch vicar/evangelist (Vredebond). [1]
February 3
  • Birth of Ernest von Wildenbruch; German playwright (Sedan). [1]
February 14
  • Birth of Cecil De Vere; first official British chess champion (1866). [1]
February 15
  • Birth of Elihu Root; US Secretary of State (1905-09), Nobel Peace Prize (1912). [1]
March 3
  • Birth of Georg Cantor; German mathematician (discovers transfinite numbers). [1]
March 10
  • Birth of Alexander III [Romanov] in Saint Petersburg; Russian tsar (1881-94). [1]
March 27
  • Birth of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen in Germany; discovered X-rays (Nobel Prize 1901). [1]
April 5
  • Birth of Jules M Cambon; French Governor-General of Algeria/ambassador. [1]
April 15
  • Birth of Dave Gregory; cricket player (Australia's first Test captain). [1]
April 17
  • Birth of Isabel Barrows; US editor/penologist (Conference on Negro Question). [1]
April 24
  • Birth of Carl Spitteler in Switzerland; poet (Prometheus and Epimetheus / Nobel Prize 1919). [1]
May 12
  • Birth of Gabriel Urbain Fauré in Pamiers, France; composer (Requiem, Ballade). [1]

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May 15
  • Birth of Ilja [Elias] Metsjnikov in Russia; zoologist/bacteriologist (Nobel Prize 1908). [1]
May 16
  • Birth of Dietrich Schäfer; German historian (Deutsche Hanse). [1]
May 25
  • Birth of William Muldoon in Belfast, New York, USA; boxing commissioner (help find PAL). [1]
May 30
  • Birth of Amadeus I, duke of Aosta/king of Spain (1870-73). [1]
August 15
  • Birth of Walter Crane in England; painter/illustrator (Beauty and Beast). [1]
August 25
  • Birth of Ludwig II, mad king of Bavaria (1864-86). [1]
October 22
  • Birth of Sarah Bernhardt in France; silent film actress (Camille, Queen Elizabeth). [1]
November 2
  • Birth of John Walter Scott in London England; creator of the Scott standard catalog of world postage stamps. [1135]
December 23
  • Birth of Emmanuel-Persillier Lachapelle; doctor (founder of Notre Dame Hospital in Montréal). [1]
  • Birth of Gustave Ador; union President of Austria (1919). [1]

1846

January 1
  • Birth of Nikola Pasic; Serbian nationalist/premier (1891-1926). [1]
January 5
  • Birth of Rudolf Christoph Eucken in Aurich, Germany; philosopher, awarded Nobel Prize for Literature in 1908. [1] [37]
January 30
  • Birth of Francis H Bradley; British philosopher (neo-idealism). [1]
February 9
  • Birth of Wilhelm Maybach; German engineer, designer of first Mercedes car. [1]
February 26
  • Birth of William F "Buffalo Bill" Cody in Davenport, Iowa, USA; killed 4000 buffalos. [1] [5]
March 17
  • Birth of Kate Greenaway in England; artist/book illustrator (Under the Window). [1]
March 22
  • Birth of Randolph Caldecott in England; illustrator (Caldecott Medal namesake). [1]
April 28
  • Birth of Johann E Backlund; Swedish astronomer (planets/asteroids). [1]
May 4
  • Birth of Emile Gallé; French glass/marble/ceramic artist (Gallé Glaze). [1]
May 5
  • Birth of Federico Chueca in Madrid, Spain; composer (La Gran Via). [1]
  • Birth of Henryk Sienkiewicz in Poland; author (Quo Vadis, Nobel Prize 1905). [1]
May 8
  • Birth of Oscar Hammerstein; Germany opera/playwright (Kohinoor). [1]
May 14
  • Birth of Arnold Kerdijk; Dutch liberal politician/founder (Social Weekly newspaper). [1]
  • Birth of Pieter W A Cort van de Linden; Dutch premier (1913-18). [1]
May 17
  • Birth of Edmund Bishop; English secretary of Thomas Carlyle. [1]
May 29
  • Birth of Albert György, earl Apponyi; Hungarian minister of Education. [1]
May 30
  • Birth of Peter Carl Fabergé in Russia; goldsmith/jeweler/egg maker. [1]
June 12
  • Birth of Louis Oscar Roty in Paris, France; medalist and designer (La Semeuse on 1897+ French coins, 1890s Chile coins, 1880s Haiti coins, 1875 Grand Prix de Rome winner, 1885 Knight of the Legion of Honour). [520.64]
July 19
  • Birth of Charles Edward Pickering; pioneering American spectroscopist. [1]
October 6
  • Birth of George Westinghouse; responsible for alternating current in US. [1]
December 2
  • Birth of Pierre M Waldeck-Rousseau; French Minister of Foreign affairs/premier. [1]
December 31
  • Birth of Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis; vicar/Dutch anarchist (Right for all). [1]

1847

January 10
  • Birth of Jacob Schiff in Frankfurt am Main, Germany; American railroad banker, philanthropist. [37]
January 16
  • Birth of Kálmán Mikszáth in Hungary; writer (Wonderparaplu). [1]
February 10
  • Birth of A N Hornby; cricket player (pioneering England Test batsman). [1]
February 11
  • Birth of Thomas Alva Edison in Milan, Ohio, USA; inventor of 1300 inventions (incandescent light bulb, phonograph). [1] [447.1]
February 16
  • Birth of Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka; German composer (Album polonaise). [1]
February 25
  • Birth of John Watson; Canadian philosopher (Objective Idealism). [1]
March 3
  • Birth of Alexander Graham Bell in Edinburgh, Scotland; inventor (telephone). [1]
March 8
  • Birth of Karl von Bach; German engineer (Maschinenelemente). [1]
March 14
  • Birth of Antonio de Castro Alves; Brazilian poet (Espumas Flutuantes). [1]
March 27
  • Birth of Otto Wallach in Germany; chemist (Nobel Prize 1910). [1]
April 1
  • Birth of Jules-Nicolas Crevaux; French explorer (South America). [1]
April 10
  • Birth of Joseph Pulitzer in Hungary; publisher (Saint Louis Post-Dispatch, New York World). [1]
April 13
  • Birth of Cornelis Pijnacker Hordijk; Governor-General (Netherlands East-Indies). [1]
May 7
  • Birth of Archibald Primrose, Earl of Rosebery; British Prime Minister (Liberal, 1894-95). [1]
May 11
  • Birth of Godefroid Kurth; Belgian historian (La cité de Liège au moyen âge). [1]
July 4
  • Birth of James Anthony Bailey in Detroit, Michigan, USA; circus impresario (Barnum and Bailey). [1]
September 5
  • Birth of Jesse James in Missouri, USA; outlaw (dies 1882). [1] [5]
November 2
  • Birth of George Sorel; French Socialist thinker, writer (violent revolutions). [1]
December 7
  • Birth of James Deacon White in Canton, New York, USA; ball player jumped teams in 1876 (Chicago). [1]
  • Birth of Solomon Schechter; US Talmudic scholar/Jewish leader. [1]
December 22
  • Birth of Heihatjirô Tôjô in Japan; admiral (Russian-Japanese war). [1]
December 30
  • Birth of John Peter Altgeld; German/US (Governor-Illinois)/pardoned Haymarket-anarchists. [1]

1848

January 5
  • Birth of Khristo Botev in Bulgaria; hero of Bulgarian revolt against Turkey, poet (dies 1876). [1] [651.22] [845]
January 22
  • Birth of Samuel Muller; Dutch historian/archivist (Middle Ages). [1]
February 4
  • Birth of François-Victor-Jean Aicard; French playwright/poet (Jeune Croyances). [1]
February 5
  • Birth of Belle Starr AKA Myra Belle Shirley; US female outlaw (wild west) (dies 1889). [1] [845]
  • Birth of Joris-Karl Huysmans in France; writer (Against the Grain). [1] [845]
February 16
  • Birth of Hugo de Vries; Dutch botanist (How species emerge). [1]
February 24
  • Birth of C Grant B Allen; Canadian writer (Woman Who Did). [1]
  • Birth of Johanna C P Barbiers; actress (Voddenraper of Paris). [1]
February 25
  • Birth of King William II of Württemberg (dies 1921). [845]
February 27
  • Birth of Charles Hubert H Parry in England; musicologist/composer ("Jerusalem") (dies 1918). [1] [845]
March 1
  • Birth of Augustus Saint-Gaudens; US sculptor/designer (1907 $20 gold coin). [1]
March 18
  • Birth of Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, daughter of Queen Victoria (dies 1939). [845]
  • Birth of Nathaniel Herreshoff; America's Cup yacht designer. [1]
March 19
  • Birth of Wyatt Earp in Monmouth, Illinois, USA; marshall-fought in Gunfight at the OK Corral (dies 1929). [1] [5] [845]
March 29
  • Birth of Aleksei Kuropatkin; Russian General/minister of War. [1]
March 31
  • Birth of Viscount William Astor, British financier and statesman (dies 1919). [845]
April 7
  • Birth of Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury (dies 1930). [845]
April 9
  • Birth of F A MacKinnon; cricket player (later the 35th Mackinnon of Mackinnon). [1]
April 27
  • Birth of King Otto of Bavaria (dies 1916). [845]
May 23
  • Birth of Helmuth J L von Moltke; German general/chief of staff (WWI). [1]
  • Birth of Otto Lilienthal; German pioneer aviator (dies 1896). [1] [5] [845]
June 7
  • Birth of Paul Gaugin [Eugene Henri]; French post-impressionist painter (dies 1903). [1] [845]
July 9
  • Birth of Robert I, Duke of Parma, last ruling Duke of Parma (dies 1907). [845]
July 18
  • Birth of William Gilbert Grace; Victorian England's greatest cricket player (dies 1915). [1] [845]
July 22
  • Birth of Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (dies 1914). [845]
July 25
  • Birth of Arthur James Balfour; British Prime Minister (Conservative, 1902-05) (Balfour Declaration) (dies 1930). [1] [845]
October 17
  • Birth of William "Candy" Cummings; created the curve ball. [1]
November 8
  • Birth of Gottlob Frege; German mathematician/logician (Begriffsschrift) (dies 1925). [1] [845]
November 13
  • Birth of Albert I, Prince of Monaco (dies 1922). [845]
November 28
  • Birth of Henry Lomb, German-American optician who co-founded Bausch & Lomb (dies 1908). [845]
December 9
  • Birth of Joel Chandler Harris; US journalist (created Uncle Remus stories). [1]
December 12
  • Birth of William Vanderbilt; yachtsman (donated Vanderbilt Cup). [1]
December 15
  • Birth of Edwin Howland Blashfield; decorated the dome of US Library of Congress. [1]

1849

January 11
  • Birth of Oskar Lassar; German dermatologist (bath house). [1]
January 18
  • Birth of Edmund Barton; first Prime Minister of Australia (1900-03). [1]
January 22
  • Birth of August Strindberg in Sweden; dramatist/novelist (Apologia). [1]
February 4
  • Birth of Jean Richepin; French poet/writer (Les Chansons de Gueux). [1]
February 18
  • Birth of Alexander L Kielland; Norwegian writer/politician (Garman og Worse). [1]
April 13
  • Birth of Enrique José Varona; Cuban sociologist/psychologist. [1]
April 21
  • Birth of Oskar Hertwig; German embryologist, discovered fertilization. [1]
April 24
  • Birth of Joseph S Galliéni; General (Battle of Marne)/military governor (Paris). [1]
April 25
  • Birth of Felix Klein; German mathematician (Evanston Colloquium). [1]
May 2
  • Birth of Fürst Bernhard HM von Bülow; German chancellor/Prussian Prime Minister (1900-09). [1]
May 3
  • Birth of Jacob Riis in Denmark; reporter (New York Tribune, New York Evening Sun). [1]
May 5
  • Birth of Hambletonian in Chester, New York, USA; greatest standardbred horse. [1]
May 23
  • Birth of Károly earl Khuen-Héderváry; Premier of Hungary (1910-12). [1]
July 12
  • Birth of William Osler; Canadian physician/author (circulatory system). [1]
July 22
  • Birth of Emma Lazarus; poet ("The New Colossus"-base of Statue of Liberty). [1]
September 1
  • Birth of Elizabeth Harrison; US educator (National Congress of Parents and Teachers). [1]
September 3
  • Birth of Sarah Orne Jewett in Maine, USA; author (Country of the Pointed Firs). [1]
September 14
  • Birth of Ivan Pavlov in Russia; physiologist/pioneer in psychology (Pavlov's dog). [1] [5]
September 21
  • Birth of Edmund Gosse in London, England; translator/critic (Father and Son). [1]
September 28
  • Birth of Dudley Allen Sargent; US physician/educator (Harvard University gymnasium). [1]
October 6
  • Birth of Basil Zaharoff; arms dealer, "merchant of death". [1]
October 7
  • Birth of James Whitcomb Riley; US poet (The Raggedy Man). [1]
November 5
  • Birth of Rui Barbosa in Brazil; statesman/jurist/essayist/civil liberties. [1]
November 24
  • Birth of Frances Hodgson Burnett; author of children's book (My Secret Garden). [1]
November 29
  • Birth of Ambrose Fleming; inventor (diode). [1]
December 11
  • Birth of Ellen Key; Swedish theory/author/feminist (Courageous Woman). [1]
December 19
  • Birth of Henry Clay Frick in Pennsylvania, USA; built world's largest coke and steel operation. [1]
December 21
  • Birth of James Lane Allen; US writer (Kentucky Cardinal). [1]
December 22
  • Birth of Fritz Mauthner in Bohemia; German author/philosopher (skepticism). [1]
December 26
  • Birth of Samuel E "Sam" van Beem; actor (Fanfan la Tulipe). [1]
December 28
  • Birth of Herbert von Bismarck; German politician/son of Otto von Bismarck. [1]

End of 1845-1849. Next: 1850.

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