Chronology of Notable Births

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Last updated: 2023 December 20.


1865

January 20
  • Birth of Friedrich A H von Waldeck; brother of queen Emma/last ruler of Waldeck. [1]
January 23
  • Birth of Benjamin Delmonte; theater director/actor (Black Haired Whore). [1]
January 28
  • Birth of Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg; first President of Finland (1919-25). [1]
February 3
  • Birth of Martinus Ballings; Flemish Jesuit/author (Will Power). [1]
February 4
  • Birth of Charles Bally; Swiss linguist (Le langage et la vie). [1]
February 9
  • Birth of Erich von Drygalski in Germany; geographer/glaciologist/Antarctic explorer. [1]
  • Birth of Beatrice Patrick Campbell in England; actress (Pygmalion, Sean O'Casey's mistress). [1]
February 12
  • Birth of Kazimierz P Tetmajer; Polish writer/poet (Young Poland). [1]
February 19
  • Birth of Adrian van Oordt; Dutch writer (neo-romantic). [1]
  • Birth of Sven Hedin in Sweden; scientist/explorer (Tibet). [1]
February 23
  • Birth of Barney Dreyfuss; baseball owner (Pittsburgh Pirates). [1]
February 28
  • Birth of Arthur Symons; Welsh poet/critic/co-founder (Savoy). [1]
March 1
  • Birth of Gerard Vissering; Dutch banker/president (Bank of Java). [1]
April 1
  • Birth of Richard Zsigmondy in Germany; chemist (Nobel Prize-1925). [1]
April 9
  • Birth of Charles Proteus Steinmetz in Germany; experimented with alternating current electricity. [1]
April 20
  • Birth of Max HHR Nettlau; Austrian historian (Le Première Internationale). [1]

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April 27
  • Birth of Emile Erens; Dutch Hagiographer (Pastor of Ars). [1]
May 15
  • Birth of Albert Verwey; Dutch poet/literature historian (Motion). [1]
May 18
  • Birth of William Heinemann in England; publisher (Chemical Instrumental). [1]
May 21
  • Birth of C J Thomsen in Denmark; archaeologist, named Stone/Iron/Bronze Ages. [1]
May 25
  • Birth of Frederick Augustus III; King of Saxon (1904-18). [1]
  • Birth of John Raleigh Mott; organizer (YMCA, Nobel Prize 1946). [1]
  • Birth of Pieter Zeeman; Dutch physicist (Zeeman effect, Nobel Prize 1902). [1]
May 28
  • Birth of Gerrit Grijns; Dutch physiologist (Vitamin E). [1]
June 3
  • Birth of George Frederick Ernest Albert in Marlborough House, London, United Kingdom; King George V of England (1910-36). [1] [241.9]
June 9
  • Birth of Carl Nielsen in Norre-Lyndelse, Denmark; composer (Det Uuslukkelige). [1]
June 13
  • Birth of William Butler Yeats in Ireland; poet (Wild Swans at Coole-Nobel Prize 1923). [1]
June 19
  • Birth of May Whitty in Liverpool, England; actress (Mrs Minerva). [1]
June 25
  • Birth of Robert Henri; US painter, leader of the Ashcan school. [1]
June 26
  • Birth of Bernard Berenson; art critic (Italian Painters of the Renaissance). [1]
June 29
  • Birth of Shigechiyo Izumi; achieved oldest authenticated age (120 years, 237 days). [1]
  • Birth of William E Borah; lawyer, American politician (Senator-Republican-Idaho). [1]
July 2
  • Birth of Lili Braun in Prussia; feminist/socialist writer (Im Schatten Titanen). [1]
July 18
  • Birth of Laurence Housman in England; author/playwright (Victoria Regina). [1]
July 19
  • Birth of Charles Horace Mayo; surgeon, cofounded Mayo Clinic. [1]
August 10
  • Birth of Alexander Glazunov in Saint Petersburg, Russia; composer (Chopiniana). [1]
August 27
  • Birth of Charles Gates Dawes; 30th US Vice President (Republican, 1925-29, Nobel Prize 1925). [1] [5]
October 1
  • Birth of Paul Dukas in Paris, France; composer (Velléda). [1]
November 2
  • Birth of Warren Gamaliel Harding; 29th USA President (1921-23). [1] [5]
November 27
  • Birth of Jose Asuncion Silva in Colombia; poet (Nocturno III). [1]
December 4
  • Birth of Edith Louisa Cavell in England; nurse (WWI). [1]
December 8
  • Birth of Jacques Hadamard; French mathematician (Taylor series). [1]
  • Birth of Jean Sibelius in Tavastehus, Finland; composer (Valse Triste, Finlandia). [1]
December 19
  • Birth of Hermann Hirt in Magdeburg, Prussia; linguist (Indo-European Grammar). [1]
  • Birth of Minnie Maddern Fiske in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; stage actress (Henrik Ibsen's plays). [1]
  • Birth of Tikhon Toropets in Pskov, Russia; patriarch of Russian Orthodox/saint. [1]
December 20
  • Birth of Maude Gonne; Irish nationalist (Irish Joan of Arc). [1]
December 23
  • Birth of Albrecht; duke of Württemberg/general-fieldmarshal. [1]
December 25
  • Birth of Evangeline Cory Booth; Salvation Army general (1904-34). [1]
December 28
  • Birth of Félix E Vallotton; Swiss/French painter/writer (Chaste Suzanna). [1]
December 30
  • Birth of Rudyard Kipling in Bombay; author (Jungle Book, Gunga Din - Nobel Prize 1907). [1]

1866

January 1
  • Birth of [Lars] Peter Elfelt [Petersen] in Denmark; director (Henrettelsen). [1]
January 10
  • Birth of Karl Aschoff in Berlin; pathologist, discovered phagocytes (cells which ingest foreign substances) and Aschoff's bodies (nodules in the heart related to the rheumatic process). [37]
January 15
  • Birth of Nathan Soderblom; Lutheran archbishop, internationalist (Nobel Prize 1930). [1]
January 19
  • Birth of Harry Davenport in New York City, New York, USA; actor/director (Her Unborn Child, My Sin). [1]
January 20
  • Birth of Richard Le Gallienne; English writer (Maker of Gainborg). [1]
January 25
  • Birth of Emile Vandervelde; leader of Belgian BWP party. [1]
January 29
  • Birth of Romain Rolland in France; writer (Jean-Christophe) (Nobel Prize 1915). [1]
January 30
  • Birth of Gelett Burgess; author (Purple Cow). [1]
January 31
  • Birth of Emil Strauss in Germany; writer (Naked Man). [1]
  • Birth of Henry Forster; cricket player (Oxford blue 1887-89, later Australian Governor-General). [1]
February 5
  • Birth of Henri [Hendrik J] Hall; Dutch Member of Parliament/comic (Put a Lid on it). [1]
February 6
  • Birth of Karl T Sapper; German geography/geologist (Vulkankunde). [1]
February 7
  • Birth of Raf[ael] Verhulst [Koen Ravestein]; Flemish writer (Jesus of Nazarus). [1]
February 9
  • Birth of George Ade; US journalist/playwright/humorist (Fables in Slang). [1]
February 15
  • Birth of Bannister Fletcher in London, England; architect and architectural historian. [1]
February 16
  • Birth of Johann Strauss in Austria; composer (Waltz King). [1]
  • Birth of William "Sliding Billy" Hamilton in New Jersey, USA; hall of fame baseball player. [1]
February 26
  • Birth of Herbert Henry Dow; pioneer in US chemical industry (Dow Chemical). [1]
February 28
  • Birth of Vyacheslav I Ivanov; Russian philosopher/classical/Symbolist poet (Pilot Stars). [1]
March 18
  • Birth of John Loudon; Dutch minister of Foreign Affairs (1913-18). [1]
March 24
  • Birth of Jack McAuliffe; US lightweight boxing champion, hall of famer. [1]
April 1
  • Birth of Ferruccio D M B Busoni in Italy; pianist/composer/conductor (Arlecchino). [1]
April 3
  • Birth of James B Hertzog; South African General/premier (1914-39). [1]
April 4
  • Birth of George P Baker; US playwright (47 Workshop). [1]
April 6
  • Birth of Butch Cassidy AKA Robert Parker; US desperado (Wild Bunch Passage). [1]
  • Birth of Joseph Lincoln Steffens; muckraker/journalist (Shame of the Cities). [1]
April 19
  • Birth of Henri Deterding; Dutch oil magnate (Royal Oil, Shell). [1]
April 22
  • Birth of Hans von Seeckt; German General (Future of the Reich). [1]
May 7
  • Birth of Cornelis J K van Aalst; president (Dutch Trading Company). [1]
May 16
  • Birth of Ernest Watson Burgess; US sociologist (ecological school). [1]
May 17
  • Birth of Erik Alfred Satie Honfleur in France; composer (Mémoirs d'un Ambésique). [1]
May 24
  • Birth of Armando Frid in Argentina; lives 124 years. [1]
May 26
  • Birth of John Eigenhuis; writer (Tough Workers). [1]
July 28
  • Birth of Beatrix Potter in England; children's author (Tale of Peter Rabbit). [1]
August 12
  • Birth of Jacinto Benavente y Martínez; Spanish dramatist (Nobel Prize 1922). [1]
September 1
  • Birth of James "Gentleman Jim" Corbett; heavyweight champion boxer (1892-97). [1]
September 2
  • Birth of Hiram Johnson; American politician (Governor-Progressive-California). [1]
September 13
  • Birth of Adolf Meyer; US psychiatrist/neurologist (pioneered mental hygiene). [1]
September 21
  • Birth of Charles Jean Henri Nicolle in France; bacteriologist (Nobel Prize-1928). [1]
  • Birth of Herbert George Wells in Bromley, England; author (War of the Worlds). [1] [5]
September 25
  • Birth of Thomas Hunt Morgan; US biologist (Nobel Prize-1933). [1]
October 6
  • Birth of Reginald Aubrey Fessenden at Milton [East Bolton], Quebec, Canada; radio pioneer, made first two-way radio voice transmission (1906) between Scotland and Massachusetts, made world's first public program of music and voice transmitted to ships, holder of 300 patents. [1] [457]
October 7
  • Birth of Martha McChesney Berry; founded US Berry School for Children. [1]
October 12
  • Birth of Ramsay MacDonald; British Prime Minister (Liberal, 1924, 1929-35). [1]
November 20
  • Birth of Kenesaw Mountain Landis; judge/first commissioner of baseball. [1]
November 28
  • Birth of Henry Bacon; architect (Lincoln Memorial). [1]
December 2
  • Birth of Henry Thacker Burleigh in Erie, Pennsylvania, USA; composer (Springarn Medal). [1]
December 4
  • Birth of Vassily Kandinsky; Russian/German/French abstract artist (Dreamy Inspiration). [1]
December 12
  • Birth of Alfred Werner; Swiss chemist (Nobel Prize 1913). [1]
December 29
  • Birth of Joseph Limburg; liberal Second-Member of parliament (1905-19). [1]

End of 1865-1866. Next: 1867.

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