Chronology of Notable Births

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Last updated: 2023 December 20.


1855

January 5
  • Birth of King Camp Gillette; inventor (safety razor). [1]
January 7
  • Birth of Eliëzer Ben-Jehuda [Perelmann] in Latvia; writer (first Hebrew newspaper). [1]
January 10
  • Birth of Peter J Blok; Dutch historian (History of the Dutch People). [1]
January 20
  • Birth of Amedee-Ernest Chausson in Paris, France; composer (Poème for Violin and Orchestra). [1]
January 21
  • Birth of John M Browning; American weapons manufacturer. [1]
January 28
  • Birth of William Seward Burroughs in New York, USA; inventor (recording adding machine). [1]
February 17
  • Birth of Otto Liman von Sanders; German general in Turkey (WWI). [1]
February 21
  • Birth of Alice Freeman Palmer; educator (Hall of Fame). [1]
February 25
  • Birth of George Bonnor; cricket player (big-hitting Aussie batter 1880-1888). [1]
March 13
  • Birth of Percival "Percy" Lowell; US astronomer (predicted discovery of Pluto). [1]
March 15
  • Birth of Lútzen Wagenaar; Frisian writer/vicar (Tsjerk Ages). [1]
March 24
  • Birth of Andrew W Mellon; founder (Mellon Bank)/US Secretary of Treasury. [1]
  • Birth of Olive Schreiner; South African writer (Portrait of a South African Woman). [1]
April 18
  • Birth of Abraham Bredius; Dutch art historian (Jan Steen). [1]
April 23
  • Birth of Ernst L Wolzogen; German writer/founder (Cabaret Überbrettl). [1]
May 10
  • Birth of Anatol Konstantinovich Liadov in Saint Petersburg, Russia; composer (Enchanted Lake). [1]

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May 15
  • Birth of Eduard, earl of Keyserling; German writer (Dritte Stiege). [1]
May 21
  • Birth of Emile A G Verhaeren; Belgian poet/writer (Les Flammes Hautes). [1]
June 14
  • Birth of Robert Marion in La Follette, Wisconsin, USA; presidential candidate (Progressive). [1]
July 30
  • Birth of James Edward Kelly; US sculptor "Sculptor of American History". [1]
October 12
  • Birth of Arthur Nikisch in Szent-Miklós, Hungary; conductor (Berlin Philharmonic). [1]
October 26
  • Birth of Charles Post; breakfast cereal maker (Post). [1]
November 5
  • Birth of Eugene V Debs; labor organizer, Socialist presidential candidate. [1]
December 25
  • Birth of James Galvin; pitcher, shut-out every opposing team in 1884. [1]
December 28
  • Birth of Juan Zorrilla de San Martin; Uruguay's diplomat/poet (Tabaré). [1]
December 30
  • Birth of Heinrich Hart; German writer (Song of Humanity). [1]

1856

January 9
  • Birth of Anton Askerc; Slavic priest/poet (Primoz Trubar). [1]
  • Birth of Lizette Woodworth Reese; US poet (Branch of May, Tears). [1]
January 12
  • Birth of John Singer Sargent; US portrait painter (Wyndham Sisters). [1]
February 5
  • Birth of Otto Brahm; German critic/founder (Neue Deutsche Rundschau). [1]
February 14
  • Birth of Frank Harris in England; journalist/writer (My Life and Loves). [1]
February 16
  • Birth of Willem Kes; Dutch violinist/composer/conductor (Parkorkest Amsterdam). [1]
February 21
  • Birth of Hendrik P Berlage; architect (Stock exchange Amsterdam). [1]
March 1
  • Birth of Florimond Fonteyne; Flemish priest/politician (Volkseeuw). [1]
March 7
  • Birth of Matilde Serao [Tuffolina]; Italian writer (Land of Cockayne). [1]
March 16
  • Birth of E Louis YY Napoleon Bonaparte; French/English prince. [1]
March 20
  • Birth of Frederick Winslow Taylor; father of scientific management. [1]
March 26
  • Birth of David Alfred Thomas in Glamorganshire, United Kingdom; first Viscount Rhondda. [1]
April 11
  • Birth of Arthur Shrewsbury; cricket player (dominant England bat late 19th cent). [1]
  • Birth of Constantly Lievens; Flemish missionary in India. [1]
April 12
  • Birth of William M Conway; English historian/explorer (Spitzbergen). [1]
April 22
  • Birth of [Marie] Louise Hens; Flemish actress (Two Orphans). [1]
April 24
  • Birth of Henri POBJ Pétain; French marshal (Verdun/Vichy regime). [1]
May 6
  • Birth of Robert Edwin Peary; American Arctic explorer (North Pole-April 6, 1909). [1]
  • Birth of Sigmund Freud in Freiberg, Moravia; father of psycho-analysis. [1] [5]
May 13
  • Birth of Peter Henry Emerson; first to promote photography as an independent art. [1]
May 15
  • Birth of Lyman Frank Baum in Chittenango, New York, USA; children's book author (The Wizard of Oz) (dies 1919). [1] [5]
June 14
  • Birth of Andrey Markov in Russia; mathematician (Markov Chain). [1]
June 19
  • Birth of Elbert Hubbard; US editor/publisher/author (Message to Garcia). [1]
June 22
  • Birth of H Rider Haggard; author (King Solomon's Mine, She). [1]
July 10
  • Birth of Nikola Tesla; physicist, developed alternating current (dies 1943). [1] [5] [403.46]
July 26
  • Birth of George Bernard Shaw in Dublin Ireland; dramatist (Pygmalion - Nobel Prize 1925). [1]
August 15
  • Birth of J Keir Hardie; first Labour representative in British Parliament. [1]
September 2
  • Birth of Yang Hsiu-ch'ing; commander in chief of the Taiping Rebellion. [1]
September 3
  • Birth of Louis Henri Sullivan in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; father of modern US architecture. [1]
September 28
  • Birth of Edward Thompson; US archeologist who explored Mayan ruins. [1]
  • Birth of Kate Douglas Wiggins; author (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm). [1]
November 13
  • Birth of Louis D Brandeis in Massachusetts, USA; US Supreme Court Justice (1916-39). [1]
November 22
  • Birth of Heber J Grant in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; 7th President of Mormon church. [1]
November 25
  • Birth of Sergei Taneyev in Russia; composer (Oresteia). [1]
December 18
  • Birth of Joseph John Thomson in England; physicist, discovered electron (Nobel Prize 1906). [1]
December 22
  • Birth of Frank Kellogg; US Secretary of State (1925-29), tried to outlaw war (Nobel Prize 1929). [1]
December 28
  • Birth of Thomas Woodrow Wilson in Staunton, Virginia, USA; American politician (28th US President, Democrat, 1913-21, Nobel Prize 1919). [1] [5]
December 29
  • Birth of Thomas J Stieltjes; mathematician (Stieltjes integral). [1]
December 31
  • Birth of Charles A van Ophuysen; orientalist (Maleisisch Volksrecht). [1]

1857

January 2
  • Birth of Frederick Opper; cartoonist (Willie and His Papa, Maud the Mule, Alphonse and Gaston). [1]
  • Birth of Martha Carey Thomas; educator/president (Bryn Mawr College). [1]
January 9
  • Birth of Henry B Fuller; American writer (Under the Skylights). [1]
January 11
  • Birth of Fred[erick J] Archer; English jockey (winner of five Derbys). [1]
January 17
  • Birth of Eugene Augustin Lauste; developer (first sound-on-film recording). [1]
  • Birth of Wilhelm Kienzl; Austrian composer (Evangelimann). [1]
January 18
  • Birth of Otto von Below; German commandant (WWI). [1]
January 23
  • Birth of Andrija Mohorovicic in Volosko, Croatia; meteorologist and geophysicist, discovered the boundary between the Earth's crust and mantle. [1] [53]
February 9
  • Birth of Johannes T de Visser; theologist/Dutch first minister of Education. [1]
February 12
  • Birth of Bobby Peel; cricket player (great English lefty 1884-96). [1]
February 17
  • Birth of Samuel Sidney McClure; Irish-American newspaper editor/publisher. [1]
February 21
  • Birth of Jules de Trooz; baron/premier of Belgium (1907). [1]
February 22
  • Birth of Heinrich Hertz; physicist, first to broadcast and receive radio waves. [1]
  • Birth of Robert Baden-Powell; founder (Boy Scouts, Girl Guides). [1]
March 7
  • Birth of Julius Wagner von Jauregg in Austria; psychiatrist (Nobel Prize 1927). [1]
March 22
  • Birth of Arnold Sauwen; Flemish poet (Along the Meuse). [1]
  • Birth of Paul Doumer; Governor-General of Indo-China/13th President of France (1931-32). [1]
April 5
  • Birth of Alexander-Jozef von Battenberg; ruler of Bulgaria (1879-86). [1]
April 14
  • Birth of Edgar Stillman Kelley in Sparta, Wisconsin, USA; composer (Gulliver). [1]
April 18
  • Birth of Clarence S Darrow; defense attorney at the Scopes monkey trial. [1]
April 20
  • Birth of Charles LP "Philip" Zilcken; painter/author (HW Knife Day). [1]
April 23
  • Birth of Ruggero Leoncavallo in Naples, Italy; composer (I Medici). [1]
April 29
  • Birth of Edouard Rod; France/Swiss writer (Mishel' Tes'e). [1]
May 10
  • Birth of Hendrik Zwaardemaker; Dutch physiologist (olfactometer). [1]
May 13
  • Birth of Ronald Ross in England; pathologist (Nobel Prize 1902). [1]
May 31
  • Birth of Ambrogio DA Ratti AKA Pope Pius XI in Italy; 259th Roman Catholic Pope (1922-39). [1]
June 2
  • Birth of Edward Elgar in Broadheath, England; composer ("Pomp and Circumstance"). [1]
  • Birth of Karl Gjellerup in Denmark; poet/novelist (Nobel Prize 1917). [1]
July 1
  • Birth of Roger Connor; first baseman (New York Giants). [1]
July 24
  • Birth of Henrik Pontoppidan in Denmark; realist writer (Nobel Prize 1971). [1]
July 27
  • Birth of José Celso Barbosa in Puerto Rico; founder of Federalist Party in 1900. [1]
July 30
  • Birth of Thorstein Veblen; US economist (Theory of the Leisure Class - 1899). [1]
August 8
  • Birth of Henry Osborn in Connecticut, USA; paleontologist/author (52 Years of Research). [1]
September 13
  • Birth of Milton S Hershey; chocolate manufacturer/philanthropist. [1]
September 15
  • Birth of William Howard Taft in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; (Republican) 27th US President (1909-13), chief justice. [1]
September 17
  • Birth of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky; pioneer in rocket and space research. [1]
October 10
  • Death of Thomas Crawford in London, England; sculptor (Freedom atop dome of US Capitol). [1058.796]
October 14
  • Birth of Elwood Haynes; auto pioneer, built one of first US autos. [1]
November 22
  • Birth of George Gissing; English writer (Thyrza, Crown of Life). [1]
November 26
  • Birth of Ferdinand de Saussure in Switzerland; linguist (Cours de Laguistique Generale). [1]
November 27
  • Birth of Charles Scott Sherrington; 1932 Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology, author of the classic The Integrative Action of the Nervous System, discoverer of Sherrington's Law, coiner of the terms "neuron" and "synapse". [1]
December 3
  • Birth of Joseph Conrad in Poland; novelist (Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness). [1]
December 16
  • Birth of Edward Emerson Barnard in Tennessee, USA; astronomer (Jupiter's 5th satellite). [1]

End of 1855-1857. Next: 1858.

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Last updated: 2023 December 20.
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