- January 15
- Birth of Johan Peter Koch; Danish officer/explorer (Greenland). [1]
- January 16
- Birth of Wilhelm Normann; German chemist (hardening of oils). [1]
- January 18
- Birth of Berend Modderman; printer (Drukkers yearbook). [1]
- February 3
- Birth of Ada Negri; Italian poet/author (Il Libro di Mara). [1]
- February 7
- Birth of Alfred Adler in Austria; psychiatrist (Inferiority Complex). [1]
- February 17
- Birth of Louis de Raet; Belgian economist/founder (Flemish People's Party). [1]
- February 20
- Birth of Pieter Cornelis Boutens in Holland; mystic poet/scholar (Verzen). [1]
- March 5
- Birth of [B] Franc[lin] Norris; US writer (McTeague, Octopus). [1]
- March 6
- Birth of Oscar Straus in Vienna, Austria; composer (Ein Walzertraum). [1]
- March 20
- Birth of Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck; Prussian General/politician (East Africa). [1]
vvv advertisement vvv
^^^ advertisement ^^^
- April 4
- Birth of George A Smith in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; 8th president of Mormon church. [1]
- April 14
- Birth of Syd Gregory; cricket player (Australian batsman in 58 Tests 1890-1912). [1]
- April 17
- Birth of Ray Stannard Baker; US journalist (Pulitzer Prize 1940). [1]
- April 22
- Birth of Nikolai Lenin [Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov]; Bolshevik/USSR revolutionist. [1]
- April 30
- Birth of Franz Lehar; operetta composer (Naughty Marietta). [1]
- May 6
- Birth of Amedos Peter Giannini in San Jose, California, USA; founded Bank of America. [1]
- Birth of John McClutcheon; cartoonist (Pulitzer Prize-1931). [1]
- May 24
- Birth of Jan Christian Smuts; proponent of Commonwealth and League of Nations. [1]
- May 27
- Birth of Lionel Palairet; cricket player (elegant England bat in the Golden Age). [1]
- June 17
- Birth of George Cormack; created "Wheaties" cereal. [1]
- July 3
- Birth of Richard B Bennett; 11th Canadian Prime Minister (Conservative, 1930-35). [1]
- July 27
- Birth of Joseph Hilaire Belloc in England; author (Path to Rome). [1]
- August 4
- Birth of Harry Lauder in Scotland; comedian/singer (Roman in the Gloamin). [1]
- August 17
- Birth of Frederick Russell; developed first successful typhoid fever vaccine. [1]
- August 31
- Birth of Maria Montessori in Italy; educator (spontaneous response). [1]
- September 18
- Birth of Clark Wissler; anthropologist (American Indian). [1]
- September 23
- Birth of John Lomax in Mississippi, USA; folk song collector/ethnomusicologist. [1]
- September 24
- Birth of Georges Claude; inventor (neon light). [1]
- September 28
- Birth of Florent Schmitt in Blâmont, France; composer (Frédégonde). [1]
- September 30
- Birth of Jean Perrin in France; physicist, studied Brownian motion (Nobel Prize 1926). [1]
- October 22
- Birth of Ivan Bunin in Russia; poet/novelist (Gentleman from San Francisco - Nobel Prize 1933). [1]
- December 5
- Birth of Viteslav Augustin Rudolf Novák; Slovak composer (Quasi una ballata). [1]
- December 6
- Birth of William S Hart; actor, silent Western films (Wild Bill Hickok, Tumbleweeds). [1]
- December 10
- Birth of Adolf Loos in Austria; architect (building of houses). [1]
- Birth of Pierre Louis in France; novelist/poet (Aphrodite, Woman and Puppet). [1]
- Birth of Rudolf W Canne; Fries playwright (Der de Wier Us). [1]
- Birth of T R McKibbin; cricket player (New South Wales and Australia off-spinner late 19th century). [1]
- December 11
- Birth of Adolph A. Weinman; designer of US half dollar and dime. [574.62]
- December 14
- Birth of Dirk J de Geer; Dutch premier (1926-29, 1939-40). [1]
- Birth of Karl Renner; Austrian Chancellor/President (1918-20, 1945-50). [1]
- December 18
- Birth of Andres Randolf in Denmark; actor (The Kiss). [1]
- Birth of D T Suzuki in Kanazawa, Japan; Zen Buddhist scholar. [1]
- Birth of Saki (Hector Hugo Munro) in Burma; author (Reginald, When William Came). [1]
- December 20
- Birth of Pieter C Boutens; Dutch poet (Voices, Carmina). [1]
- December 23
- Birth of John Marin; painter (1948 Fine Arts Medal). [1]
- December 31
- Birth of Thomas Connolly; US Major League Baseball's major league umpire for 50 years. [1]
1871
- January 10
- Birth of Enrica Freiin von Handel-Manzetti; Austrian author (Jesse and Maria). [1]
- January 14
- Birth of Pauline Beersmans [van Cuyck]; Flemish actress (Hofslachter). [1]
- January 26
- Birth of Warner Fabian [Samuel H Adams]; US journalist/writer (Average Jones). [1]
- January 30
- Birth of Seymour Hicks in Saint Helier, Jersey; actor-manager (Scrooge). [1]
- Birth of Wilfred Lucas; actor (Pardon Us, Chump at Oxford). [1]
- February 5
- Birth of Jovan Ducic; Serbian poet (Blue Legends). [1]
- February 9
- Birth of Franc S Finzgar; Slovenian clergyman/writer (Our Blood). [1]
- Birth of Howard T Ricketts; US pathologist (studied typhus fever). [1]
- February 25
- Birth of Oliver Samuel Campbell; tennis champion (US Open-1890). [1]
- March 5
- Birth of Maria do Carmo Geronimo; Brazilian, lives to be at least 126 years old. [1]
- March 15
- Birth of Betsy van den Arend; Dutch [Betje] actress (Miss Hobbs). [1]
- March 19
- Birth of Joseph McGinnity in Rock Island, Illinois, USA; baseball pitcher (New York Giants). [1]
- Birth of Schofield Haigh; cricket player ("Sunshine of the Yorkshire 11"). [1]
- March 26
- Birth of Serafín Alvarez Quintéro; Spanish dramatist/playwright (El Flechazo). [1]
- March 27
- Birth of Heinrich Mann in Germany; novelist/essayist (Blue Angel). [1]
- Birth of Petrus J M Aalberse; Dutch minister of Labor (1918-25). [1]
- March 28
- Birth of Willem Mengelberg in Utrecht, Netherlands; conductor (New York Philharmonic 1922-30). [1]
- March 29
- Birth of Tom Hayward; cricket player (great England batsman of the Golden Age). [1]
- April 3
- Birth of José Juan Tablada; Mexican poet (El Florilegio). [1]
- April 5
- Birth of Jeanne Bougeois [La Mistinguette]; artist (French revue). [1]
- April 6
- Birth of Alexander, grandson of England's Queen Victoria. [1]
- April 12
- Birth of Ioannis Metaxas; Greek General/dictator (1936-41). [1]
- April 16
- Birth of John Millington Synge in Ireland; dramatist/poet (Riders to the Sea). [1]
- April 18
- Birth of Henry Stephenson in the British West Indies; actor (Conquest, Little Old New York, Mr Lucky). [1]
- April 20
- Birth of William Henry Davies in Wales; poet (Autobiography of a Super Tramp). [1]
- April 29
- Birth of Louis William Stern; German/US philosopher (Intelligence of Children). [1]
- May 8
- Birth of [Émile M] Louis Madelin; French historian (French revolutionary). [1]
- May 17
- Birth of Henricus P Bremmer; art historian (Modern Kunstwerken). [1]
- May 26
- Birth of Camille Huysmans; Belgian premier (1946-47). [1]
- May 27
- Birth of Georges-Henri Rouault; French expressionist painter (Miserere et Guerre). [1]
- June 12
- Birth of Victor Barnauskaus AKA Victor David Brenner in Shavli, Lithuania; engraver (Lincoln cent coin 1909-), convicted counterfeiter (1889, seal of Lithuanian government official), sculptor (A Song to Nature fountain in Pittsburgh). [434.46] [1064.1399]
- July 10
- Birth of Marcel Proust in France; novelist (Remembrance of Things Past). [1] [5]
- July 29
- Birth of Gregory Efimovich Rasputin; the mad Russian monk. [1]
- August 3
- Birth of Vernon Louis Parrington; critic/educator/author (Pulitzer 1928). [1]
- August 19
- Birth of Orville Wright; aviator (dies 1948). [1] [5]
- August 27
- Birth of Theodore Dreiser; US novelist (Sister Carrie, American Tragedy). [1]
- August 30
- Birth of Ernest Lord Rutherford in England; physicist, discovered atomic nucleus. [1]
- September 12
- Birth of Prince Friedrich of Liechtenstein, in Romania. [1]
- October 2
- Birth of Cordell Hull; US Secretary of State (1933-44), lowered tariffs (Nobel Prize 1945). [1]
- October 14
- Birth of Alexander von Zemlinsky in Vienna, Austria; composer (Der Schneeman). [1]
- October 30
- Birth of Paul Valéry in France; poet/essayist/critic (La Jeune). [1]
- November 1
- Birth of Stephen Crane; US novelist/poet (Red Badge of Courage). [1]
- December 1
- Birth of Archie MacLaren; cricket player (424 Lancashire versus Somerset 1895). [1]
- December 13
- Birth of Russell W Porter in Vermont, USA; explorer (Alaska). [1]
- December 24
- Birth of Henri Stroethoff; Dutch actor (A Chique Little Boy). [1]
|