Chronology of Notable Births

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Last updated: 2023 December 20.


1875

January 1
  • Birth of N F Druce; cricket player (5 Tests for England versus Australia 1897-98). [1]
January 7
  • Birth of Thomas Hicks; English/US marathon runner (Olympics-gold-1904). [1]
January 12
  • Birth of Marika Stiernstedt; Swedish author (Ulla Bella). [1]
January 14
  • Albert Schweitzer is born in Kayersberg, Elsaß, Germany; philosopher, theologian, and musician, humanitarian, Nobel Prize for Peace in 1952. [1] [37] [129]
January 21
  • Birth of John Lindworsky; German jesuit/psychologist (Der Wille). [1]
January 22
  • Birth of Bonifacius C de Jonge; Governor (Dutch East Indies). [1]
  • Birth of David W Griffith; movie producer/director (Birth of a Nation). [1]
  • Birth of Thomas W Ross; actor (Without Limit, Kings Row, 17, Mortal Storm). [1]
February 1
  • Birth of Eddie Pola; composer (Lullabye of Broadway). [1]
February 2
  • Birth of Annette Kolb; German/French author (Small Fanfare). [1]
February 4
  • Birth of Ludwig Prandtl in Germany; physicist (father of aerodynamics). [1]
February 13
  • Birth of Kanouse quintuplets in Watertown, Wisconsin, USA; first quintuplets in US, born to Edna Kanouse. [1]
February 18
  • Birth of Walter Andrae; German archaeologist (Babylon, Assur). [1]
February 21
  • Birth of Jeanne Louise Calment in France; world's oldest woman (died at age 122). [1]
February 23
  • Birth of Jozef E Stokvis; journalist/Dutch Member of Parliament (SDAP). [1]
February 26
  • Birth of Emma Dunn; actress (Dr Monica, Dr Kildare's Strange Case, Hideaway). [1]

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March 2
  • Birth of Hans Lietzman; German theologist/church historian. [1]
March 4
  • Birth of Enrique Larreta [E R Maza]; Argentine diplomat (Gloria de Don Ramiro). [1]
  • Birth of Suze Groeneweg; Dutch parliament member (SDAP, 1918-37). [1]
March 7
  • Birth of Maurice Joseph Ravel in Cibourne, France; composer (Boléro). [1]
March 13
  • Birth of Maria E G "Lizzy" Ansingh; Dutch painter (Caught Sultane). [1]
March 14
  • Birth of Isadore Gilbert Mudge; US librarian/author/bibliographer (Thackeray Dictionary). [1]
March 25
  • Birth of Spencer Charters in Duncannon, Pennsylvania, USA; actor (Three Faces West). [1]
March 26
  • Birth of Syngman Rhee AKA Yi Seungman in Whanghai Province, Korea; President of South Korea (1948-60). [1]
April 1
  • Birth of Edgar Wallace in England; novelist/playwright/journalist (The Terror). [1]
April 2
  • Birth of Walter Percy Chrysler in Witchita, Kansas, USA; founder of Chrysler Corp (1925). [1]
April 4
  • Birth of Pierre Monteux in Paris, France; conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra 1919-24). [1]
  • Birth of Samuel S Hinds in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actor (The Bribe, The Egg and I, The Great Alaskan Mystery). [1]
April 8
  • Birth of Albert I von Saksen-Coburg; king of Belgium (1909-34). [1]
April 15
  • Birth of Klaziena "Ina" Boudier-Bakker; Dutch playwright/novelist (Poverty). [1]
April 27
  • Birth of André Baillon; Belgian/French author (Un homme si simple). [1]
  • Birth of Freddie Fane; cricket player (Hobbs' first Test opening partner). [1]
  • Birth of Lumsden Hare in Ireland; actor (Oregon Trail, Desert Fox, Young Bess). [1]
May 4
  • Birth of Ramiro de Maeztu y Whitney; Spanish writer (Don Quixote and Celestine). [1]
  • Birth of Reggie Schwartz; cricket player (first of great South African googlists). [1]
May 6
  • Birth of William Daniel Leahy in Iowa, USA; five star Admiral/chief of staff (1949). [1]
May 25
  • Birth of Hans Schuler in Morange, Alsace-Lorraine; American sculptor (Ariadne, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse), designer of 1934 Maryland Tercentenary commemorative half dollar. [443.80]
June 6
  • Birth of Thomas Mann in Germany; novelist (Magic Mountain - Nobel Prize 1929). [1]
June 23
  • Birth of Carl Milles near Uppsala, Sweden; sculptor (Irish Free State coinage, Wedding of the Waters, Hand of God). [1] [911.50]
July 10
  • Birth of Mary McLeod in Bethune, South Carolina, USA; slave/educator (Bethune-Cookman College). [1]
July 15
  • Birth of Frank "Pop" Morgenweck; basketball hall of famer (elected 1962). [1]
July 26
  • Birth of Carl Gustav Jung in Switzerland; founded analytic psychology. [1]
August 9
  • Birth of Albert William Ketèlbey in Aston, England; composer (Wonder Worker). [1]
August 15
  • Birth of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor in London, England; composer (Hiawatha's Wedding Feast). [1]
August 26
  • Birth of John Buchan in Scotland; Governor-General of Canada/writer. [1]
September 1
  • Birth of Edgar Rice Burroughs; novelist (Tarzan, Mars Saga). [1]
September 3
  • Birth of Ferdinand Porsche; German automaker (dies 1951). [5]
September 5
  • Birth of Napoleon "Larry" Lajoie in Rhode Island, USA; hall of fame shortstop (.426 in 1901). [1]
September 9
  • Birth of Charles Keck in New York City, New York, USA; American sculptor (Stonewall Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, James Duke, Booker T. Washington, Liberty Monument, Boy with Fish, Pandora's Box, statue of Mohammed), coin designer (US 1915 Panama-Pacific gold dollar, 1927 Vermont Sesquicentennial half dollar, 1936 Lynchburg Sesquicentennial half dollar). [464.66]
September 16
  • Birth of James Cash Penney; US department store founder (J.C. Penney). [1]
September 27
  • Birth of Grazia Deledda in Italy; novelist (Old Man of the Mountain - Nobel Prize 1926). [1]
October 29
  • Birth of Marie, queen consort of Ferdinand I of Romania (1914-27). [1]
December 2
  • Birth of Frank Reicher in Munich, Germany; actor (King Kong, Son of Kong). [1]
December 4
  • Birth of Rainer Maria Rilke in Germany; poet (Duino Elegies). [1]
December 12
  • Birth of Karl R G von Rundstedt; German general-fieldmarshal (Normandy). [1]
December 19
  • Birth of Carter G Woodson in New Canton, Virginia, USA; American historian (black studies). [1]
December 20
  • Birth of T F Powys in Wales; writer (Captain Patch, Goat Green). [1]
December 22
  • Birth of John P "Jan" Musch; Dutch actor (Dead Water). [1]
December 25
  • Birth of Theodor Innitzer; cardinal/archbishop Vienna. [1]
  • Birth of Walter Lees; cricket player (Surrey pace bowler toured for England 1905-06). [1]

1876

January 1
  • Birth of Johan C Altorf; sculptor (October 3rd monument). [1]
January 3
  • Birth of Wilhelm Pieck in Germany; founding member of the German Communist Party (KPD), co-leader of the Socialist Unity Party (SED), President of the German Democratic Republic (1949-1960). [1] [37]
January 5
  • Konrad Adenauer is born in Cologne, Germany; Oberburgermeister of Cologne, first chancellor of the new Federal Republic of Germany (1949-1963). [1] [37]
January 9
  • Birth of Robert Michels in Cologne, Germany; political sociologist and economist, developed the thesis that all organizations develop into authoritarian oligarchies. [37]
January 12
  • Birth of Jack London; writer/socialist (Call of the Wild). [1]
February 6
  • Birth of Wilhelm Schmidtbonn[-Schmidt]; German playwright (Der Sprechende Eros). [1]
February 8
  • Birth of Paula Modersohn-Becker; German "entartet" painter. [1]
February 9
  • Birth of Aloïs Walgrave; Flemish writer/pastor (Silent hours). [1]
  • Birth of Martin Stixrud in Norway; figure skater (Olympics-bronze-1920). [1]
February 16
  • Birth of George Macauley Trevelyan in England; historian (Giuseppe Garibaldi). [1]
February 21
  • Birth of Constantin Brancusi; Romanian/French sculptor (Princesse X). [1]
February 24
  • Birth of Victor Moore in Hammonton, New Jersey, USA; comedian (Ziegfeld Follies, Seven Year Itch). [1]
February 25
  • Birth of Charles Freer; art collector, endowed Freer Gallery. [1]
February 26
  • Birth of Agustin P Justo y Rolon; President of Argentina (1931-38). [1]
  • Birth of Pauline Musters; shortest known adult (58.9 cm; 23.2 inches). [1]
February 28
  • Birth of John Alden Carpenter in Chicago, Illinois, USA; composer (Sea Drift). [1]
March 2
  • Birth of Euhenio MGG Pacelli AKA Pope Pius XII; 260th Pope (1939-58). [1]
March 8
  • Birth of Franco Alfano; Italian opera composer (Il dottore Antonio). [1]
March 11
  • Birth of Carl Ruggles in East Marion, Massachusetts, USA; composer (Evocations). [1]
March 16
  • Birth of Charles Halton in Washington, DC, USA; actor (Dr Cyclops, Tugboat Annie Sails Again). [1]
April 4
  • Birth of Maurice de Vlaminck in Paris, France; Fauvist painter (Village in the Snow). [1]
April 14
  • Birth of Murray Bisset; cricket player (South African wicket-keeper 1899 and 1910). [1]
April 17
  • Birth of Ian Hay in Scotland; novelist/playwright (PIp, Carrying On). [1]
April 19
  • Birth of Hendrik, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin/king of Netherlands. [1]
April 20
  • Birth of Gerard J Arbous; actor/publicist (Prince William of Orange). [1]
April 22
  • Birth of O E Rölvaag; Norwegian-American novelist (Giants in the Earth). [1]
  • Birth of Robert Bárány in Sweden; otologist, vestibular expert (Nobel Prize 1914). [1]
May 3
  • Birth of Bert Hopkins; cricket player (Australian pace bowler of the 1900's). [1]
  • Birth of John Elicius Benedict Bernard Placid Quick Carrington Dwyer; cricket player (Sussex). [1]
May 10
  • Birth of Ivan Cankar; Slavs author (Hlapec Jernej-Njegova Pravica). [1]
May 12
  • Birth of Harold, grandson of English queen Victoria. [1]
May 19
  • Birth of Saint-Georges de Bouchélier; French author (Le Rois Sans Couronne). [1]
May 26
  • Birth of Jack Root; boxing's first light heavyweight champion. [1]
June 23
  • Birth of Irvin S Cobb in Kentucky, USA; writer/humorist (Old Judge Priest). [1]
July 17
  • Birth of Rosa Jackson in Lumpkin, Georgia, USA; lived to be 115 (died in 1991). [1]
July 19
  • Birth of Ignaz Seipel in Vienna, Austria; Catholic priest, author (Nation und Staat), chancellor of Austria (1922-24, 1926-29). [482.66]
July 26
  • Birth of Ernest Schelling in Belvidere, New Jersey, USA; composer/conductor (Victory Ball). [1]
August 5
  • Birth of Mary R Beard in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA; historian (Woman as a Force in History). [1]
August 7
  • Birth of Mata Hari; dancer/courtesan/spy (WW I) (dies 1917). [1] [5]
August 12
  • Birth of Mary Roberts Rinehart; mystery writer (Miss Pinkerton). [1]
August 17
  • Birth of Eric Drummond; first Secretary-General of League of Nations (1919-33). [1]
August 29
  • Birth of Charles F Kettering in Ohio, USA; inventor (auto self-starter). [1]
September 13
  • Birth of Sherwood Anderson in Winesburg, Ohio, USA; author/publisher (Winesburg). [1]
September 15
  • Birth of Bruno Walter (B.W. Schlesinger) in Berlin, Germany; conductor (New York Philharmonic). [1]
  • Birth of Frank E Gannett in Rochester, New York, USA; newspaper publisher (Gannett). [1]
September 26
  • Birth of Edith Abbott; dean of University of Chicago Social Sciences. [1]
November 4
  • Birth of James Fraser; designed US buffalo nickel coin. [1]
November 5
  • Birth of Raymond Duchamp-Villon; cubist sculptor (Head of Baudeaire). [1]
November 7
  • Birth of Culbert Olson in Fillmore, Utah, USA; American politician (Governor-Democrat-California). [1]
November 8
  • Birth of Frank L Gillespie in Arkansas, USA; founded Supreme Life Insurance Company. [1]
November 23
  • Birth of Manuel de Falla in Cádiz, Spain; composer (El Amor Brujo). [1]
November 24
  • Birth of Walter Griffin; US architect, city planner; designed Canberra, Australia. [1]
November 26
  • Birth of Willis Haviland Carrier; developed air-conditioning equipment. [1]
November 29
  • Birth of Nellie Davis Tayloe AKA Nellie Tayloe Ross in Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA; governor (Wyoming, 1925-1926), U.S. Mint director (1933-1952). [1835.43] [547.38] [763.104] [1835.43]
December 1
  • Birth of Johanna W "Mina" Bakker; Dutch actress (Boefje). [1]
December 4
  • Birth of Dimitur Poljanov [Popov] in Bulgaria; poet (Iron Poems). [1]
December 6
  • Birth of Dewi Angrènie [Martha CA Giese]; Flemish/Dutch actress (Champagne). [1]
December 7
  • Birth of Ludwig Schiedermair; German musicologist (Beethoven-Archiv). [1]
December 17
  • Birth of Júlio Afrânio Peixoto; Brazilian writer (O esfinge). [1]
December 20
  • Birth of Jan Van Oudshoorn [Jan K Feylbrief]; Dutch writer (Maze of Senses). [1]
  • Birth of Walter S Adams; US astronomer/director of Mount Wilson (1923-46). [1]
December 22
  • Birth of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti; Italian writer (Futurism e Futurista). [1]
December 25
  • Birth of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah in Karachi; founded Pakistan (1947)/Governor (1947-58). [1]

End of 1875-1876. Next: 1877.

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Last updated: 2023 December 20.
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