Chronology of Notable Births

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Last updated: 2023 December 20.


1858

January 5
  • Birth of Gustaf af Geijerstam; Swedish author (Boken om Lillebror). [1]
January 10
  • Birth of Heinrich Zille; German cartoonist (Cheerful Blätter, Simplicissimus). [1]
January 17
  • Birth of Tomas Carrasquilla; Colombian author (Frutos de mi Tierra). [1]
January 19
  • Birth of Eugene Brieux; French playwright (Blanchette, Lesson Avaries). [1]
January 22
  • Birth of Frederick Lugard; British captain/baron (Congo). [1]
February 14
  • Birth of Joseph Thomson in Scotland; geologist (Thomson's gazelle). [1]
February 15
  • Birth of William Pickering in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; astronomer (9th and 10th moons of Saturn). [1]
February 16
  • Birth of Laurence "Lon" Myers; US track star (top US miler). [1]
February 18
  • Birth of Louise M A; princess of Belgium. [1]
February 28
  • Birth of Jacob P Vis; Dutch industrialist (founder Nevada Royal Salt Industries). [1]
March 15
  • Birth of Liberty Hyde Bailey; US botanist (Plantbreeding). [1]
March 18
  • Birth of Rudolph C K Diesel; German engineer (Diesel motor). [1]
March 23
  • Birth of Ludwig Quidde; German historian/politician (Nobel Prize 1927). [1]
April 1
  • Birth of Arnold Aletrino; Dutch physician-criminologist/author (From Life). [1]
  • Birth of Gaetano Mosca; Italian sociologist (Circulation of Elite). [1]
April 4
  • Birth of Rémy de Gourmont; French critic/writer (Physique de L'amour). [1]

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April 7
  • Birth of Adrien H Gerhard; Dutch socialist politician (SDAP). [1]
April 15
  • Birth of Emile Durkheim; French sociologist (Division du travail social). [1]
April 19
  • Birth of May Robson AKA Mary J Robison in Melbourne, Australia; actress (Apple Annie). [1]
April 23
  • Birth of Max Ludwig Planck; German physicist (Quanta Physics, Planck Constant, Nobel Prize 1918). [1]
May 8
  • Birth of John Meade Falkner; novelist (Moonfleet). [1]
May 19
  • Birth of Roland Napoleon Bonaparte; French officer/traveller (Surinam). [1]
May 24
  • Birth of Johan C Braakensiek; political cartoonist (Green Amsterdammer). [1]
June 17
  • Birth of Eben Sumner Draper; Massachusetts Governor. [1]
June 22
  • Birth of Giacomo Puccini in Italy; operatic composer (Madama Butterfly). [1]
June 29
  • Birth of George Washington Goethals; engineer (built Panama Canal). [1]
July 9
  • Birth of Franz Boas; anthropologist/linguist (Mind of Primitive Man). [1]
July 14
  • Birth of Emmeline Pankhurst in England; founder (Women's Social and Political Union). [1]
July 16
  • Birth of Eugène Ysaÿe in Belgium; violinist/conductor/composer (Pierill Houïou). [1]
July 31
  • In Dublin, Ireland, Richard Dixon Oldham is born; geologist and seismologist, discovered the evidence for the existence of the Earth's core. [53]
August 19
  • Birth of Edith Nesbit in England; children books author (Railway Children). [1]
August 21
  • Birth of (Crown Prince Archduke) Rudolf to Emperor Franz Josef and Empress Elisabeth, of the House of Hapsburg. [389.22]
September 16
  • Birth of A Bonar Law; (Conservative) British Prime Minister (1922-23). [1]
September 27
  • Birth of Giuseppe Peano; Italian mathematician, founder of symbolic logic. [1]
October 15
  • Birth of John L Sullivan in Massachusetts, USA; heavyweight boxing champion (1882-92). [1]
October 27
  • Birth of Theodore Roosevelt; (Republican) 26th US President (1901-09) (Nobel Prize 1906). [1] [450.78]
November 20
  • Birth of Selma Lagerlof in Sweden; novelist (Tales of a Manor - Nobel Prize 1909). [1]
December 4
  • Birth of Billy Gunn; cricket player (Notts and England batsman in 11 Tests 1886-99). [1]
December 20
  • Birth of Jean/Johannes T "Jan" Toorop; Dutch painter/graphic artist (Three Brides). [1]
December 22
  • Birth of Giacomo Puccini Lucca in Italy; opera composer (La Bohème, La Tosca). [1]
December 23
  • Birth of Vladimir Nemirovitch-Dantshenko; playwright (Life in Russian Theater). [1]

1859

January 5
  • Birth of DeWitt B Brace; inventor (spectrophotometer). [1]
January 6
  • Birth of Samuel Alexander; English philosopher (Moral order and progress). [1]
January 9
  • Birth of Carrie Lane Chapman Catt; women's rights leader/founder (League of Women Voters). [1]
  • Birth of Frederik Pijper; Dutch vicar/church historian (The Monasteries). [1]
January 11
  • Birth of [Gerard] Jan Ligthart; Dutch educator (Nog bij mother, Ot and Sien). [1]
January 13
  • Birth of Karl Bleibtreu; German author (Revolution of Literature). [1]
  • Birth of Kostís Palamás; Greek poet/scholar (Flogera tou Basília). [1]
January 19
  • Birth of Alice Eastwood in Toronto; botanist (Handbook of Trees of California). [1]
January 27
  • Birth of Kaiser Wilhelm II in Potsdam; German emperor (1888-1918). [1]
February 1
  • Birth of Victor August Herbert in Dublin, Ireland; composer (Babes in Toyland). [1]
February 2
  • Birth of Havelock Ellis; US physician/sexologist (Psychology of Sex). [1]
February 14
  • Birth of George Washington Gale Ferris; engineer/inventor (Ferris Wheel). [1]
February 18
  • Birth of Sholem Aleichem [Solomon Rabinowitz]; author (Fiddler on the Roof). [1]
February 19
  • Birth of Svante August Arhenius; Swedish physicist/chemist (Nobel Prize 1903). [1]
  • Birth of Knut Hamsun in Gudbrandsdalen, Norway; author (Hunger, Growth of the Soil, Nobel Prize 1920). [506.50]
February 23
  • Birth of Theodor Batthyányi; Hungarian statesman, contra revolutionary. [1]
March 8
  • Birth of Kenneth Grahame; author (The Wind, Willows). [1]
March 9
  • Birth of Richard Engländer [Peter Altenberg] in Austria; author (Lebensabend). [1]
March 13
  • Birth of Ivo Bligh; cricket player [Lord Darnley] England captain versus Australia 1882-83. [1]
March 26
  • Birth of A[lfred] E[dward] Housman in England; poet (Shropshire Lad). [1]
March 27
  • Birth of George Giffen; cricket player (one of Australia's greatest all-rounders). [1]
March 28
  • Birth of Joséphin Péladan; French writer/founder (French Rosicrucians). [1]
April 7
  • Birth of Walter Camp in Connecticut, USA; father of American football (Yale). [1]
April 8
  • Birth of Edmund Husserl; German philosopher (founded Phenomenology). [1]
April 18
  • Birth of Eduard G H H Cuypers; architect (Sanatorium High-Laren). [1]
May 3
  • Birth of Andy Adams; US writer (Log of a Cowboy). [1]
May 6
  • Birth of Willem J T Kloos; Dutch poet (Act of Simple Justice). [1]
May 15
  • Birth of Pierre Curie in France; physicist (Nobel Prize 1903) (dies 1906). [1] [5]
May 19
  • Birth of Nellie Melba [Heal Mitchell]; Australian soprano (Peach Melba). [1]
May 22
  • Birth of Arthur Conan Doyle in United Kingdom; author (Sherlock Holmes) (dies 1930). [1] [5]
May 26
  • Birth of Alfred Edward Housman in Bromsgrove, England; poet (A Buried Life). [1]
June 22
  • Birth of Frank Heino Damrosch; author/musician/teacher (founder of Institute of Music). [1]
July 6
  • Birth of Verner von Heidenstam in Sweden; poet/novelist (Nobel Prize 1916). [1]
July 17
  • Birth of Luis Muñoz Rivera in Puerto Rico; journalist (founded Federalist Party). [1]
July 28
  • Birth of Balington Booth; founded Volunteers of America. [1]
August 12
  • Birth of Katharine Lee Bates; US author (America the Beautiful). [1]
August 19
  • Birth of Charles Comiskey; first basemen/manager (Chicago White Sox). [1]
October 3
  • Birth of Elenora Duse in Italy; actress (Hedda Gabler). [1]
October 9
  • Birth of Alfred Dreyfus in Mulhouse, Alsace; French artillery officer, falsely convicted of spying for the Germans in 1894 (dies 1935). [5] [1321.10]
October 17
  • Birth of William "Buck" Ewing; hall of fame catcher (New York Giants, Cincinnati Reds). [1]
October 18
  • Birth of Henri Bergson in France; philosopher (Creative Evolution - Nobel Prize 1927). [1]
October 20
  • Birth of John Dewey in Vermont, USA; philosopher, educational theorist/writer (Learn by doing), founding member of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. [1] [1321.11]
November 1
  • Birth of Charles Brantley Aycock; American politician (Governor-North Carolina). [1]
November 19
  • Birth of Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov in Russia; musician (Armenian Rhapsody). [1]
December 2
  • Birth of Georges Seurat in France; painter/pointillist (Grande Jatte). [1]
December 5
  • Birth of John Jellicoe in Southampton, England; admiral, commander of British Grand Fleet, governor-general of New Zealand. [1458.11]
December 12
  • Birth of Edward Bradley; horse owner (first to own four Kentucky Derby winners). [1]
  • Birth of Maurice Donnay; French playwright (Lovers). [1]
December 15
  • Birth of Ludwik L Zamenhof in Bialystok, Poland; physician/linguist (inventor of Esperanto language). [1] [1458.10]
December 17
  • Birth of Willem C Grünings; Curaçao publisher (People's Friend). [1]
December 29
  • Birth of Venustiano Carranza; Governor of state of Coahuila, President of México (1915-20). [1] [1028.627]

End of 1858-1859. Next: 1860.

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