Chronology of Notable Births

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Last updated: 2023 December 20.


1850

January 6
  • Birth of Eduard "Ede" Bernstein; German marxist (New Era). [1]
  • Birth of Franz Xaver Scharwenka; German pianist/composer (Mataswintha). [1]
January 11
  • Birth of J C Arthur in Lowville, New York, USA; botanist (studied rusts). [1]
January 14
  • Birth of Pierre Loti [Julien Viaud]; French sea officer/writer (Pêcheur). [1]
January 15
  • Birth of Mihail Eminesco [Eminovici]; Romanian poet (Samanul Dionis). [1]
  • Birth of Sonya Kurtovsky Kovalevsky in Russia; mathemetician (Academy of Science). [1]
January 27
  • Birth of Samuel Gompers; first president of American Federation of Labor. [1]
January 29
  • Birth of Lawrence Hargrave in Greenwich, England; engineer, explorer, inventor (box kite (1893)), aeronautical engineer. [1] [1615.10]
February 12
  • Birth of Amaat Vyncke; Flemish missionary (Flemish Flag). [1]
February 16
  • Birth of Octave Mirbeau in France; writer (Journal of a Lady's Maid). [1]
February 22
  • Birth of Isaac L Rice; namesake of Columbia University's Rice stadium. [1]
February 28
  • Birth of Hermann Schell; German theologist/philosopher (Gott und Geist). [1]
March 7
  • Birth of Tomás G Masaryk; Father/President of Czechoslovakia (1918-35). [1]
March 10
  • Birth of Mary Mills Patrick; US first president of Istanbul Women's College. [1]
March 26
  • Birth of Edward Bellamy; author (Looking Backward). [1]
April 8
  • Birth of William Henry Welch; US pathologist, founded John Hopkins. [1]

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April 16
  • Birth of Herbert Baxter Adams; US historian (American Historical Association). [1]
April 19
  • Birth of Theo Mann-Bouwmeester; Dutch actress (Pink Bernd, Hedda Gabler). [1]
April 20
  • Birth of Daniel Chester; French/American sculptor (The Minute Man). [1]
May 10
  • Birth of Thomas Johnstone Lipton in Glasgow, Scotland; yachtsman/tea magnate (Lipton Tea). [1]
May 18
  • Birth of Oliver Heaviside; physicist, predicted existence of ionosphere. [1]
May 21
  • Birth of Giuseppe Mercalli in Milan, Italy; volcanologist and seismologist, inventor of the Mercalli Intensity Scale (1902). [53]
May 26
  • Birth of Christine [Elizabeth C] Poolman; Dutch actress (Stupid force). [1]
June 6
  • Birth of Karl F Braun; codeveloped wireless telegraphy (Nobel Prize 1909). [1]
June 24
  • Birth of Horatio Herbert Kitchener in England; original Order of Merit member. [1]
June 27
  • Birth of Ivan Vazov in Bulgaria; poet/novelist/playwright (Under the Yoke). [1]
  • Birth of Lafcadio Hearn; US journalist/author (Chita). [1]
July 15
  • Birth of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini [Mother Cabrini]; first US saint. [1]
August 5
  • Birth of Guy de Maupassant in France; author (Boule de Suif). [1]
August 26
  • Birth of Charles Richet; French physiologist (anaphylaxis-Nobel Prize 1913). [1]
September 2
  • Birth of Albert Spaulding; baseball player/founded Spaulding sports company. [1]
  • Birth of Eugene Field; author/journalist (Little Boy Blue). [1]
September 9
  • Birth of Harishchandra in India; poet/dramatist/father of modern Hindi. [1]
September 17
  • Birth of Abílio Manuel Guerra Junqueiro; Portuguese poet (The Simple Ones). [1]
October 4
  • Birth of John W McGraw; American politician (Republican), Governor of Washington State (1893-97). [1]
November 9
  • Birth of Lewis Lewin; German toxicologist/father of psychopharmacology. [1]
November 13
  • Birth of Robert Louis Stevenson in Scotland; author (Treasure Island). [1] [5] [559.66]
December 16
  • Birth of Fred Morley; cricket player (legendary Notts and England bowler 1880-83). [1]
December 30
  • Birth of John Milne in Liverpool, England; organized a seismic survey of Japan, recognized the importance of improving the seismogram, hypothesized that it should be possible to detect seismic waves from a large earthquake occurring anywhere on Earth, designed several types of seismometers. [53]

1851

January 8
  • Birth of Gérard Leman; Belgian count/General. [1]
January 9
  • Birth of Luis Coloma; Spanish jesuit/writer/theologian (Pequeñeces, Boy). [1]
January 19
  • Birth of David Starr Jordan in New York, USA; biologist/university president (Leland Stanford). [1]
January 25
  • Birth of Arne Garborg; Norwegian playwright (Bondestudentar). [1]
  • Birth of Jan Blockx in Belgium; opera composer (Sea Bride princess of Herberg). [1]
January 27
  • Birth of Rafael Obligado in Argentina; writer (Santos Vega). [1]
February 3
  • Birth of Johannes B van Heutsz; Lieutenant-General/Governor-General Dutch East Indies. [1]
  • Birth of Lord Harris; cricket player (four Tests for England MCC big-wig). [1]
March 19
  • Birth of Roque Sáenz Peña; President of Argentina (1910-14). [1]
March 27
  • Birth of Paul-Marie-Theodore-Vincent d'Indy in Paris, France; composer (Symphonie Cévenole). [1]
April 9
  • Birth of C E Arthur Wichmann; German/Dutch geologist (Netherlands Indies). [1]
April 24
  • Birth of Eduardo Acevedo Díaz; Uruguaian writer (Ismael, Grito de Gloria). [1]
April 30
  • Birth of Indrið Einarsson; Iceland playwright (Nyjársnóttin). [1]
May 1
  • Birth of Eberhard Nestle; German oriëntalist/biblical scholar. [1]
May 20
  • Birth of Emile Berliner in Germany; inventor (flat phonograph record). [1] [5]
May 28
  • Birth of Dick Barlow; cricket player (immortal England all-rounder of 1880s). [1]
May 29
  • Birth of Léon Bourgeois; French premier (1895-96, Nobel Prize 1920). [1]
June 21
  • Birth of Daniel Carter Beard in the USA; organized first boy scout troop. [1]
July 7
  • Birth of Lillien Jane Martin; psychologist, founded gerontology clinic. [1]
September 13
  • Birth of Walter Reed; US Army Surgeon, proved mosquitoes transmit yellow fever. [1]
October 2
  • Birth of Ferdinand Foch; believed to be responsible for Allies winning WW I. [1]
October 16
  • Birth of James Ten Eyck; champion rower/coach (Ten Eyck Trophy namesake). [1]
November 6
  • Birth of Charles H Dow; co-founder of Dow Jones/first editor of Wall Steet Journal. [1]
November 10
  • Birth of Waldemar Brígger in Norway; geologist/mineralogist (Metamict State). [1]
December 10
  • Birth of Melvil[le Louis K] Dewey; created Dewey Decimal System for libraries. [1]
December 16
  • Birth of Theodoor H de Meester; Dutch premier (1905-08). [1]
December 30
  • Birth of Asa Griggs Candler; developed Coca-Cola. [1]

1852

January 11
  • Birth of Konstantin Fehrenbach in Wellendingen, Germany; member of the Catholic Center Party, president of the Reichstag in 1918, chancellor of the Weimar Republic 1920-21. [1] [37]
January 12
  • Birth of Joseph J C Joffre; French field marshal (Indo-China, Marne). [1]
January 26
  • Birth of Pierre Brazza; explorer/colonial administrator (French Africa). [1]
January 29
  • Birth of Ion Luca Caragiale; Romanian actor/playwright (O Noapte Furtunoasa). [1]
February 2
  • Birth of Hâmid Abdülhak in Istanbul; Turkish romantic poet/playwright. [1]
  • Birth of Teunis Stoel; actor/director (Small Theater, Rotterdam). [1]
  • Birth of José Guadalupe Posada in Aguascalientes, Mexico; artist (calaveras skeletons). [1443.27]
February 12
  • Birth of Hendrik Blink; geographer (Van de Eems tot de Schelde). [1]
February 13
  • Birth of Johan L E Dreyer; Danish astronomer (New generation catalogue of nebulae). [1]
February 16
  • Birth of Charles Taze Russell; founded Jehovah's Witnesses. [1]
  • Birth of William Scarborough in Macon, Georgia, USA; linguist/author (Birds of Aristophanes). [1]
February 20
  • Birth of Nikolai Garin [Michailovski]; Russian author (Tjoma Kartashov). [1]
February 21
  • Birth of [James] Burner Matthews; US playwright/critic (New York Times). [1]
February 22
  • Birth of Pieter K Pel; internist (Pel-Ebstein fever). [1]
February 24
  • Birth of George A Moore in Ireland; painter/novelist (Esther Waters). [1]
April 1
  • Birth of Edward Austin Abbey; US painter (Quest of the Holy Grail). [1]
April 13
  • Birth of Frank W Woolworth; 5- and 10-cent King (Woolworths department store). [1]
April 23
  • Birth of Edwin Markham; US poet (first winner of American Academy of Poets Award 1937). [1]
May 1
  • Birth of Calamity [Martha] Jane [Burke]; US frontier adventurer/Indian fighter (dies 1903). [1] [5]
May 11
  • Birth of Charles Warren Fairbanks; 26th US Vice President (Republican 1905-09). [1]
May 25
  • Birth of Louis Franchet d'Espèrey AKA Desperate Frankey; French marshal (WWI). [1]
May 27
  • Birth of Billy Barnes; cricket player (England all-rounder 1880-90). [1]
June 25
  • Birth of Antonio Gaudí; Spanish architect (Sagrada Familia, in Barcelona). [1]
August 30
  • Birth of Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff in Netherlands; physical chemist (Nobel Prize 1901). [1]
September 12
  • Birth of H. H. Asquith; British Prime Minister (Liberal, 1908-16). [1]
September 23
  • Birth of William Stewart Halsted; established first US surgical school. [1]
September 28
  • Birth of Henri Moissan in France; chemist, isolated fluorine (Nobel Prize 1906). [1]
December 15
  • Birth of Antoine Henri Becquerel; discovered radioactivity (Nobel Prize 1903). [1]
  • Birth of Tewfik Pasja; khedive (viceroy) of Egypt. [1]
December 19
  • Birth of A[lbert] A Michelson in Strelno, Prussia; US physicist (Nobel Prize 1907). [1]

1853

January 11
  • Birth of Gustav Falke in Luebeck, Germany; author/poet (Der Mann im Nebel). [1] [37]
January 12
  • Birth of Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro; Italian mathematician (tensor analysis). [1]
January 16
  • Birth of André Michelin in France; industrialist/tire manufacturer (Michelin). [1]
  • Birth of Johnston Forbes-Robertson; English actor/theater director (Kathleen). [1]
January 17
  • Birth of Alva Vanderbilt Beaumont; women's rights advocate and activist. [1]
January 30
  • Birth of Leland Hone; cricket player (England keeper 1879 without county experience). [1]
February 9
  • Birth of Leander Starr Jameson; Prime Minister of South African Cape colony. [1]
February 14
  • Birth of Jan van Rijswijck; Flemish journalist/mayor (Antwerp). [1]
February 17
  • Birth of Jaroslav Vrchlicky [Emil Frída]; Czechoslovakian poet (One night on Karlstein). [1]
February 18
  • Birth of August Belmont Junior; breeder (Man 'O War)/founder (New York Jockey Club). [1]
March 5
  • Birth of Arthur W Foote in Salem, Massachusetts, USA; organist/composer (Suite for Strings in E). [1]
  • Birth of Howard Pyle; illustrator/painter/author (King Stork). [1]
March 8
  • Birth of Edward Hubertus Joannes Keurvels; Flemish composer (Parisina). [1]
March 20
  • Birth of George Godfrey in Chelsea, Massachusetts, USA; heavyweight boxer (Old Chocolate). [1]
March 28
  • Birth of Rudolf Kittel; German theologist (Psalms). [1]
March 30
  • Birth of Vincent Willem van Gogh in the Netherlands; artist (The Potato Eaters, Starry Night, Irises). [1] [129]
April 22
  • Birth of Alphonse Bertillon in France; anthropologist, devised crime ID system. [1]
May 2
  • Birth of Marie Verstraete; actress (Louise - Frou Frou). [1]
July 5
  • Birth of Cecil John Rhodes in South Africa; politician, diamond merchant. [1]
July 18
  • Birth of Hendrik Antoon Lorentz in Holland; physicist (Nobel Prize 1902). [1]
July 23
  • Birth of William H Gillette; actor, portrayed Sherlock Holmes on stage. [1]
September 2
  • Birth of Wilhelm Ostwald in Germany; physical chemist (Nobel Prize 1909). [1]
September 9
  • Birth of Frederick R Spofforth in Australia; cricket player (Demon). [1]
November 1
  • Birth of Jose Santos Zelaya; ruler of Nicaragua (Liberal, 1893-1910). [1]
December 9
  • Birth of Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourn in Rochester, New York, USA; pitcher (60-12 in 1884). [1]
December 14
  • Birth of Salvador Diaz Miron; Mexican poet (Los Cien Mejores Poemas). [1]
December 15
  • Birth of Jean B A Kessler; director of oil on Dutch Indies. [1]
December 17
  • Birth of Herbert Beerbohm Tree in England; actor/theater manager (Trilby). [1]
December 21
  • Birth of Isolde Kurz; German writer/poetess (Meine Mutter). [1]

1854

January 1
  • Birth of James Frazer in Great Britain; anthropologist/author (The Golden Bough). [1]
January 18
  • Birth of Thomas A Watson; inventor assistant (Telephone) (dies 1934). [1] [5]
February 9
  • Birth of Edward Carson, first Baron Carson; lawyer/leader (Irish Unionist Party). [1]
February 20
  • Birth of Louis F M van Westerhoven; actor/singer/opera director (Youth). [1]
February 24
  • Birth of Franz Courtens; Flemish painter (Golden Rain). [1]
March 8
  • Birth of Tom Felix Horan; cricket player (Ireland Pioneering Australia all-rounder). [1]
March 14
  • Birth of Paul Ehrlich in Upper Silesia; bacteriologist (Nobel Prize-1908). [1]
  • Birth of Thomas Riley Marshall; American politician (Democrat) 28th Vice President (1913-21). [1]
March 21
  • Birth of Alick A C Bannerman; cricket player (brother of Charles, Australia 1878-1893). [1]
March 23
  • Birth of Alfred Milner in Giessen, Hesse-Darmstadt; British Governor (Cape colony). [1]
March 27
  • Birth of Edgar Tinel; Flemish composer (Le Chant Grégorien). [1]
March 31
  • Birth of Dugald Clerk; inventor (2-stroke motorcycle engine). [1]
April 11
  • Birth of Hugh Massie; cricket player (Australian batsman of the 1880s). [1]
April 13
  • Birth of Richard T Ely; US economist (Hard Times). [1]
April 22
  • Birth of Henri-Marie Lafontaine in Belgium; international lawyer (Nobel Prize 1913). [1]
April 29
  • Birth of Henri Poincaré in France; mathematician/astronomer/philosopher. [1]
May 11
  • Birth of John Blackham; cricket player (Australia's first wicketkeeper). [1]
  • Birth of Ottmar Mergenthaler in Hachtel, Germany; inventor (linotype). [1]
May 13
  • Birth of Louis H Chrispijn; Dutch director (Lost and Found, Silvia Silombra). [1]
May 18
  • Birth of Bernard Zweers; Dutch composer (To My Fatherland). [1]
May 24
  • Birth of Louis Mountbatten; Admiral (WWI). [1]
May 27
  • Birth of Georges Eekhoud; Belgian writer (Jeune Belgium). [1]
June 26
  • Birth of Robert Laird Borden; 8th Canadian Prime Minister (Conservative, 1911-20). [1]
July 3
  • Birth of Leos Janácek Hukvaldy in Moravia; composer (Foster Suite). [1]
July 12
  • Birth of George Eastman in Waterville, New York, USA; invented Kodak camera. [1]
September 1
  • Birth of Engelbert Humperdinck in Germany; opera composer (Parsifal). [1]
October 3
  • Birth of William Crawford Gorgas; US Surgeon-General, helps cure yellow fever. [1]
October 16
  • Birth of Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde in Dublin, Ireland; (The Picture of Dorian Gray) (dies 1900). [1] [5]
October 20
  • Birth of Arthur Rimbaud in France; poet/adventurer (Illuminations). [1]
November 6
  • Birth of John Phillip Sousa in Washington DC, USA; march king ("Stars and Stripes Forever") (dies 1932). [1] [5]
November 13
  • Birth of George Whitefield Chadwick in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA; composer (Judi Van Winke). [1]
November 21
  • Birth of Benedict XV, 258th Roman Catholic pope (1914-22). [1]
November 22
  • Birth of G.F.C. Smillie in New York City, New York, USA; bank note engraver. [1048.1416]

End of 1850-1854. Next: 1855.

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