Chronology of Notable Births

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Last updated: 2023 December 20.


1862

January 1
  • Birth of Snitz Edwards in Hungary; actor (College, Phantom of the Opera). [1]
January 8
  • Birth of Frank Nelson Doubleday; publisher/founder (Doubleday and Co). [1]
January 24
  • Birth of Edith Wharton[-Jones]; US novelist (Ethan Frome, Age of Innocence, House of Mirth). [1]
January 29
  • Birth of Frederick Delius in Bradford, England; composer (Hiawatha). [1]
February 7
  • Birth of Bernard Maybeck; US architect (Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco). [1]
February 10
  • Birth of W H "Gobo" Ashley; cricket player (seven wickets in one Test for South Africa 1889). [1]
February 17
  • Birth of Mori Ogai AKA Mori Rintarô; Japanese author (Maihime/Gan). [1]
February 22
  • Birth of Karen Hulda Garborg[-Bergersen]; Norwegian playwright (Mot Solen/Eli). [1]
March 2
  • Birth of John Jay Chapman; US advocate/poet/writer (Learning and Other Essays). [1]
March 4
  • Birth of Robert Emden; Swiss geologist/astro-physicist (Emden-polytroop). [1]
March 12
  • Birth of Jane Delano; US nurse/teacher/founder (Red Cross). [1]
March 28
  • Birth of Aristide Briand in France; premier (1909-22) (Nobel Prize 1926). [1]
April 2
  • Birth of Nicholas Murray Butler; Columbia University president/pacifist (Nobel Prize 1931). [1]
April 11
  • Birth of Charles Evans Hughs; 11th Chief Justice of US Supreme Court (1930-41). [1]
  • Birth of William W Campbell; US astronomer/director of Lick Observatory. [1]
April 14
  • Birth of Pyotr A Stolypin; premier of Russia (1906-11). [1]

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April 25
  • Birth of Edward Grey; English viscount of Fallodon/minister of Foreign affairs. [1]
May 1
  • Birth of Marcel Prévost; French publisher/writer (Les demis-vierges). [1]
May 2
  • Birth of Marie F M Emmanuel; French composer/musicologist (Salamine). [1]
May 5
  • Birth of Max Elskamp; Belgian author/poet (Lesson Joies Blondes, Maya). [1]
May 15
  • Birth of Arthur Schnitzler in Austria; playwright/novelist (La Ronde). [1]
May 23
  • Birth of William "Dummy" Hoy; professional baseball player who lived to age 99. [1]
May 28
  • Birth of Henry W Slocum Junior; tennis champion (US Open-1888). [1]
June 27
  • Birth of May Irwin; US comedienne/singer ("A Hot Time in the Old Town"). [1]
July 2
  • Birth of William Henry Bragg near Wigtown, Cumberland, England; physicist (Nobel Prize in Physics 1915). [1388.10]
August 11
  • Birth of Carrie Jacobs Bond in Janesville, Wisconsin, USA; songwriter ("I Love You Truly"). [1]
August 16
  • Birth of Amos Alonzo Stagg; football pioneer, inventor (tackling dummy). [1]
August 22
  • Birth of Claude Debussy in Saint Germain-en-Laye; composer (La Mer, Clair de lune). [1] [5]
August 29
  • Birth of Maurice Maeterlinck in Belgium; Symbolist poet (Nobel Prize 1911). [1]
October 6
  • Birth of Albert Jeremiah Beveridge; US politician/author (Progressive). [1]
October 19
  • Birth of Auguste Lumière; made first movie (Workers Leaving Lumière Factory). [1]
November 4
  • Birth of Eden Phillpotts in England; novelist/poet/playwright (Red Madymaynes). [1]
November 15
  • Birth of Gerhart Hauptmann in Germany; writer (Before Dawn - Nobel Prize 1912). [1]
November 23
  • Birth of Alberto Williams in Buenos Aires, Argentina; composer (Etrerno Reposo). [1]
December 3
  • Birth of Jules Renkin; Belgian jurist/minister/premier (1931-32). [1]
December 7
  • Birth of Paul Adam; French writer (La Bataille d'Uhde). [1]
December 8
  • Birth of Georges Feydeau; French playwright (La Dame de Chez Maxim's). [1]
December 12
  • Birth of Daniel Halévy; French historian/writer (La fin des notables). [1]
December 14
  • Birth of John M Acket; Dutch literary (Grammatic Conceptions). [1]
December 16
  • Birth of Eugène Demolder; Belgian writer (Sous la robe). [1]
December 22
  • Birth of Connie Mack; Hall of Fame baseball executive/manager (Philadelphia Athletics 1900-1950). [1]
December 23
  • Birth of Henri Pirenne; Belgian historian (History of Belgium). [1]

1863

January 1
  • Birth of Aleko Konstantinov; Bulgarian writer (To Chicago and Back). [1]
  • Birth of Pierre de Coubertin in France; baron, reviver of the Olympic games. [1] [1054.179]
January 2
  • Birth of Lucia Zarate; became lightest known adult human (2.1kg at age 17). [1]
January 8
  • Birth of Paul Scheerbart [Bruno Küfer]; German writer (The Seasnake). [1]
January 12
  • Birth of Vivekananda in Calcutta; Hindu religious leader/reformer. [1]
January 15
  • Birth of Wilhelm Marx in Cologne, Germany; Chancellor of the Weimar Republic, founder and first president of the Catholic Schools Organization. [1] [37]
January 17
  • Birth of David Lloyd George; British politician (Labour-Prime Minister-Britain, 1916-22). [1]
  • Birth of Konstantin S Stanislavski in Russia; director (Stanislavski Method). [1]
January 19
  • Birth of Werner Sombart; German fascist (Juden und das Wirtschaftsleben). [1]
January 31
  • Birth of F Henri Berz; French existentialist philosopher (Revue the Synthesis). [1]
February 19
  • Birth of Augusto Bernardino Leguía y Salcedo; President of Perú (1908, 1919). [1]
February 23
  • Birth of Franz von Stuck; German painter (Der Krieg). [1]
March 11
  • Birth of Andrew Stoddart; cricket player (My Dear Victorious Stod). [1]
March 12
  • Birth of Gabriele D'Annunzio in Italy; writer/military hero (The Intruder). [1]
March 23
  • Birth of Godfried CE van Daalen; Dutch General/Governor of Atjeh. [1]
March 27
  • Birth of Henry Royce; automobile founder (Rolls-Royce) (dies 1933). [1] [5]
April 2
  • Birth of Henry C Van de Velde; Flemish painter/architect (Art Nouveau). [1]
April 12
  • Birth of Raul d'Avila Pompeia; Brazilian writer (Boarding School). [1]
April 25
  • Birth of Belisario Domínguez in Mexico; senator, critic of President Victoriano Huerta. [446.50]
April 29
  • Birth of William Randolph Hearst in San Francisco, California, USA; American publisher (San Francisco Examiner, Seattle Post-Intelligencer) (dies 1951). [1] [5] [491.48] [1103.61]
May 5
  • Birth of Frederik A Stoett; linguist (Dutch Proverbs). [1]
June 2
  • Birth of Felix Weingartner in Germany; conductor (Zara, Dalmatia). [1]
June 29
  • Birth of James Harvey Robinson in Bloomington, Illinois, USA; historian (Ordeal of Civilization). [1]
July 21
  • Birth of C Aubrey Smith in London, England; actor (Prisoner of Zenda). [1]
July 30
  • Birth of Henry Ford in Dearborn Township, Michigan, USA; auto maker (Ford) (dies 1947). [1] [5]
August 16
  • Birth of Gabriel Pierné in Metz, France; composer (Edith). [1]
September 13
  • Birth of Arthur Henderson in Britain; socialist/disarmament worker (Nobel Prize 1934). [1]
October 9
  • Birth of Alexander Siloti in Kharkov, Russia; pianist/professor (Moscow Conservatory 1888-91). [1]
October 16
  • Birth of Austen Chamberlain; British Foreign Secretary (Nobel Prize 1925). [1]
October 19
  • Birth of John Huston in Finley, Illinois, USA; editor (New York Times (1937-38)). [1]
November 14
  • Birth of Leo Baekeland; Belgian chemist (Bakelite). [1]
November 21
  • Birth of Arthur Quiller-Couch; editor (Oxford Book of English Verse). [1]
November 30
  • Birth of Andres Bonifacio; leader of 1896 Philippine revolt against Spain. [1]
December 5
  • Birth of Paul Prudent Painlevé in Paris, France; French mathematician, Prime Minister (1917, 1925). [1]
December 7
  • Birth of Pietro Mascagni; Italian composer/fascist (Cavalleria Rusticana). [1]
  • Birth of Svetolik Rankovic; Serbian writer (Forest King). [1]
December 11
  • Birth of Annie Jump Cannon; US stellar spectroscopist (Harvard-classification). [1]
December 12
  • Birth of Edvard Munch in Norway; painter/print maker (The Scream). [1]
December 15
  • Birth of Arthur D Little; US chemist (patented rayon). [1]
December 16
  • Birth of George Santayana in Spain; philosopher/poet/humanist (Last Puritan). [1]
  • Birth of Ralph Adams Cram; US gothic architect (Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York City). [1]
December 18
  • Birth of Franz Ferdinand; archduke of Austria (Sarajevo/WWI). [1]
December 22
  • Birth of Jean-Baptiste Marchand in Thoissey, France; soldier/explorer (Sudan). [1]
December 31
  • Birth of Alfredo Panzini; Italian author (Dizionario Moderno). [1]

1864

January 1
  • Birth of Alfred Stieglitz; US photographer-father of modern photography/art dealer (Camera Work). [1]
January 6
  • Birth of Ban Johnson in Norwalk, Connecticut, USA; baseball founder (American League). [1]
January 11
  • Birth of Thomas Dixon; US attorney/playwright (Flaming Sword). [1]
January 13
  • Birth of Wilhelm Wien in Gaffken, Germany; physicist, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1911. [1] [37]
January 16
  • Birth of Frank Bacon; actor/author (Lightnin). [1]
January 17
  • Birth of Lucien Herr in France; scientist (Corresp entre Schiller et Schiller). [1]
February 6
  • Birth of John Henry Mackay; Scottish/German author/poet (Anarchists). [1]
February 7
  • Birth of Arthur Collins; singer/comedian (Peerless Quartet). [1]
February 14
  • Birth of Israel Zangwill in England; Jewish author/Zionist (Children of Ghetto). [1]
  • Birth of Robert E Park; US sociologist (human ecology, marginal man). [1]
February 17
  • Birth of Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson in New South Wales, Australia; poet (Waltzing Matilda). [1]
February 19
  • Birth of Aritius S Talma; Dutch minister of Agriculture (Work Law of 1911). [1]
February 22
  • Birth of Jules Renard in France; writer (Poil de Carotte). [1]
March 14
  • Birth of [John] Casey Jones; railroad engineer (Ballad of Casey Jones) (dies 1900). [1] (1863 [5])
March 18
  • Birth of Karl M Lybeck; Finnish/Swedish language poet (Samlade Arbeten). [1]
April 10
  • Birth of Eugene Francis Charles D'Albert; German pianist/composer (Golem). [1]
April 18
  • Birth of Richard Harding Davis; US journalist/author (In The Fig). [1]
April 21
  • Birth of Max Weber; German sociologist/economist/historian (Ancient Judaism). [1]
April 24
  • Birth of George Alting van Geusau; Director-General (PTT)/Dutch Minister of War (1918-20). [1]
April 28
  • Birth of William F A Ellison; Irish clergyman/director (Armagh Observatory). [1]
April 30
  • Birth of Frans Netscher; Dutch writer/journalist (Studies of nude model). [1]
May 1
  • Birth of Anna Jarvis in Webster, West Virginia, USA; founder of Mother's Day in the USA. [428.5]
May 18
  • Birth of Jan P Veth in Bayern; Dutch painter/etcher/lithographer/art historian. [1]
May 19
  • Birth of Carl Ethan Akeley; US naturalist, developed animal mount process. [1]
May 31
  • Birth of Albert J M Bakker; Dutch actor (Teun the night watch). [1]
June 3
  • Birth of Ransom Eli Olds; auto (Oldsmobile) and truck (REO) manufacturer. [1]
June 11
  • Birth of Richard Strauss in München, Germany; composer (Till Eulenspiegel). [1]
June 14
  • Birth of Alois Alzheimer in Germany; psychiatrist/pathologist (Alzheimer's Disease). [1]
June 25
  • Birth of Walther Hermann Nernst; Prussian physical chemist (Nobel Prize 1920). [1]
July 20
  • Birth of Erik Karlfeldt in Sweden; poet (Nobel Prize 1918-refused; 1931-posthumous). [1]
July 21
  • Birth of Frances Clara Folsom in Buffalo, New York, USA; spouse of US President Grover Cleveland. [1] [844.65]
September 1
  • Birth of Roger David Casement in Ireland; martyr (Irish Republican Army). [1]
September 14
  • Birth of Lord Cecil of Chelwood, United Kingdom; helped form League of Nations (Nobel Prize 1937). [1]
October 5
  • Birth of Louis Lumière; with brother Auguste made first motion picture in 1895. [1]
October 17
  • Birth of Elinor Glyn; British novelist (Three Weeks). [1]
November 11
  • Birth of Alfred Hermann Fried in Germany; pacifist (Nobel Prize 1911). [1]
November 24
  • Birth of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in France; painter (At the Moulin Rouge). [1]
December 3
  • Birth of Herman Heijermans Junior; Dutch writer (Kamertjeszonde, Diamond City). [1]
December 31
  • Birth of Robert G Aitken; US astronomer (Binary Stars). [1]

End of 1862-1864. Next: 1865.

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Last updated: 2023 December 20.
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