Chronology of Notable Births

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Last updated: 2023 December 20.


1870

January 2
  • Ernst Barlach is born in Wedel, Germany; expressionist sculptor and dramatist (Der Tote Tag, Der Findling, Die Sündflut). [1] [37]
January 3
  • Birth of Henry Handel Richardson in Australia; novelist (Richard Mahoney). [1]
January 6
  • Birth of Gustav Bauer in Darkehmen, Germany; German chancellor when Scheidemann resigned in protest against the terms demanded by the Treaty of Versailles. [37]
January 8
  • Birth of Miguel Primo de Rivera Orbaneja; dictator of Spain (1923-30). [1]
January 9
  • Birth of Joseph B Strauss; civil engineer/builder (Golden Gate Bridge). [1]
January 13
  • Birth of Henryk Opienski; Polish composer/conductor (Saint Moniuszko). [1]
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]

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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]

End of 1870-1871. Next: 1872.

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