Chronology of Notable Births

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Last updated: 2023 December 20.


1860

January 2
  • Birth of William C Mills; museum curator (excavated Ohio Indian mounds). [1]
January 11
  • Birth of Marie Bashkirtseff; Russian/French painter/author (Journal). [1]
January 12
  • Birth of Charles Oman in Mozzaffapur, India; military historian (History of the Peninsular War). [1615.11]
January 25
  • Birth of Charles Curtis; (Republican) 31st US Vice President (1929-33). [1]
January 29
  • Birth of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov in Tagarov, Russia; playwright (Cherry Orchard) (dies 1904). [1] [5]
February 5
  • Birth of Jackson Showalter; first US chess champion (1888-92, 1895-97, 1906-09). [1]
February 6
  • Birth of Johan [Eliza J] de Meester; Dutch journalist/writer (Geertje). [1]
February 11
  • Birth of Rachilde [Marguerite Vallette-Eymery]; French author (Monsieur Venus). [1]
February 18
  • Birth of Anders Zorn; Swedish painter/etcher/sculptor (Gustav Vasa). [1]
February 24
  • Birth of Daniel Berkeley Updike; printer/publisher/writer (Printing Types). [1]
February 29
  • Birth of Herman Hollerith; inventor (first electric tabulating machine). [1]
March 11
  • Birth of Thomas Hastings in New York City, New York, USA; architect (New York Public Library). [1]
April 3
  • Birth of Frederik W van Eeden; Dutch utopian writer (Walden). [1]
April 13
  • Birth of James Ensor; Flemish painter/etcher (De lampenjongen). [1]
April 20
  • Birth of Charles Gordon Curtis; US attorney/inventor (Curtis Turbine). [1]
  • Birth of Pieter Jelles Troelstra; Dutch Member of Parliament (SDAP). [1]

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April 29
  • Birth of Lorado Taft; US sculptor (Black Hawk). [1]
May 2
  • Birth of D'Arcy Thompson; zoologist/classicist (On Growth and Form). [1]
  • Birth of Theodor Herzl in Austria; journalist/founder (Zionist movement). [1]
May 4
  • Birth of Emil Nikolaus Von Reznicek in Vienna, Austria; composer (Donna Diana). [1]
May 9
  • Birth of James Matthew Barrie in Scotland; novelist (Margaret Ogilvy, Peter Pan, The Little Minister). [1]
May 19
  • Birth of Victor E Orlando; Italy's premier (1917-19). [1]
May 21
  • Birth of Willam Einthoven; Dutch physiologist/inventor (electrocardiograph). [1]
May 29
  • Birth of Isaac [Manuel F] Albéniz; Spanish pianist/composer (Iberia) (dies 1909). [1] [5]
May 31
  • Birth of Walter Richard Sickert in Munich; Danish/English painter (The Miner). [1]
July 7
  • Birth of Gustav Mahler Kalischat in Bohemia, Austria; composer/conductor (Titan). [1]
August 13
  • Birth of Annie Oakley in Drake, Ohio, USA; frontierswoman (Buffalo Bill's Wild West). [1]
August 14
  • Birth of Ernest T Seton; naturalist/painter/author (Buffalo Wind - 1938). [1]
August 16
  • Birth of Jules Laforgue in Uruguay; French poet (Les Complaintes). [1]
August 19
  • Birth of John Kane in Scotland; US primitivist painter (Self-Portrait). [1]
August 20
  • Birth of Raymond Poincaré in France; Prime Minister (1912), president. [1]
September 3
  • Birth of Edward Albert Filene; merchant, established US credit union movement. [1]
September 6
  • Birth of Jane Addams; US pacifist/social worker/feminist (Nobel Prize 1931). [1]
September 7
  • Birth of Anna Maria "Grandma" Moses in New York, USA; primitive painter (Old Oaken Bucket). [1] [5]
September 13
  • Birth of General John J (Blackjack) Pershing; US commander in WW I. [1]
October 4
  • Birth of Sidney Paget; illustrated Sherlock Holmes adventures. [1]
October 12
  • Birth of Elmer A Sperry; inventor (gyrocompass). [1]
October 31
  • Birth of Juliette Gordon Low; Girl Scout founder. [1]
November 12
  • Birth of Sun Yat-sen in China; first president of Republic of China (1912), founded Chinese Nationalist Party. [1113.54]
November 23
  • Birth of Karl Branting in Sweden; statesman/diplomat (Nobel Peace Prize 1921). [1]
December 2
  • Birth of C T Studd; cricket player (brother of G B Studd, five Tests for England). [1]
December 13
  • Birth of Lucien G Guitry; French actor/theatre director (l'Odéon). [1]
December 15
  • Birth of Niels Ryberg Finsen in Copenhagen, Denmark; physician/phototherapist (Nobel Prize 1903). [1]
December 21
  • Birth of Henrietta Szold; founder (Hadassah). [1]
December 23
  • Birth of Harriet Monroe in Chicago, Illinois, USA; poet/editor of Poetry magazine (You and I). [1]

1861

January 1
  • Birth of Isaac Murphy; thoroughbred jockey, 628 wins on 1,412 mounts (44.5 percent). [1]
  • Birth of William Morris in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; actor (Brothers, The Roadhouse Murder). [1]
January 14
  • Birth of Mehmed VI; last sultan of Ottoman Empire (1918-22). [1]
  • Birth of Wilhelm von Polenz; German writer (Der Pfarrer von Breitendorf). [1]
January 18
  • Birth of Hans Goldschmidt in Berlin, Germany; chemist, invented the Goldschmidt alumino-thermic reduction process used in welding. [1] [37]
February 3
  • Birth of Léopold Courouble; Belgian writer (Family Kaekebroeck). [1]
February 12
  • Birth of Lou [Andreas-]Salomé; Russian/German author (Im Kampf um Gott). [1]
February 13
  • Birth of Uchimura Kanzo in Tokyo, Japan; religious writer (How I Became a Christian). [1]
February 15
  • Birth of Alfred North Whitehead; English mathematician/philosopher (Adventures of Ideas). [1]
February 26
  • Birth of Ferdinand I in Vienna; first tsar of modern Bulgaria (1908-18). [1]
February 27
  • Birth of Rudolph Steiner in Kraljevic, Austria; founder (doctrine of anthroposophy movement). [1]
April 16
  • Birth of Isaac Murphy; US jockey (won 628 races). [1]
April 23
  • Birth of Edmund Henry Hynman; first viscount Allenby of Megiddo, Fieldmarshal. [1]
April 27
  • Birth of Johan M Skjoldborg; Danish writer (Dynaes-Digte). [1]
May 7
  • Birth of Rabindranath Tagore; Hindu poet/mystic/composer (Nobel Prize 1913). [1]
May 12
  • Birth of Ivan Caryll; English composer (Pink Lady). [1]
May 31
  • Birth of Emily Perkins Bissell; welfare worker (first Christmas seal drive, 1907). [1]
June 29
  • Birth of William James Mayo; surgeon/co-founder Mayo clinic in Minnesota, USA. [1]
July 3
  • Birth of Peter Jackson; heavyweight, boxing hall of famer. [1]
July 11
  • Birth of George William Norris; American politician (Republican-Nebraska). [1]
August 9
  • Ernest von Rebeur-Paschwitz born in Germany; physicist, made the first known recordings of a distant earthquake. [53]
October 4
  • Birth of Frederic Remington; US artist/sculptor of the American West. [1]
October 10
  • Birth of Fridtjof Nansen; Norwegian Arctic explorer/humanitarian (Nobel Prize 1922). [1]
October 26
  • Birth of Richard D Sears in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; first to win US amateur national tennis match. [1]
November 6
  • Birth of James A Naismith; inventor (basketball) (dies 1939). [1] [5]
November 10
  • Birth of Robert TA Innes in Edinburgh, Scotland; astronomer (Proxima Centauri). [1]
November 14
  • Birth of Frederick Jackson Turner in Portage, Wisconsin, USA; historian/educator (Harvard University). [1]
December 4
  • Birth of Lillian Russell [Helen Leonard]; US singer/actress (Great Mogul). [1]
December 5
  • Birth of Armando V Diaz; Italian marshal/minister of War (1922-24). [1]
December 8
  • Birth of Aristide Maillol in France; painter/sculptor (Seated Woman). [1]
  • Birth of Georges Méliès in Paris, France; magician, first to film a fictional story. [1]
  • Birth of William Crapo Durant; founded General Motors. [1]
December 15
  • Birth of Charles Edgar Duryea; inventor (first auto built and operated in US). [1]
December 18
  • Birth of Edward Alexander MacDowell in New York City, New York, USA; composer (Indian Suite, Cairo). [1]
December 19
  • Birth of Italo Svevo in Trieste, Austria; Italian novelist (La Coscienza di Zeno). [1]
December 22
  • Birth of Erich Schaeder; German theologist (Theocentric Theology). [1]
December 26
  • In Tilsit, Germany, Emil Wiechert is born; pioneer in the science of seismology. [53]
  • Birth of Friedrich Engel; German mathematician (group theory). [1]

End of 1860-1861. Next: 1862.

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