Chronology of Notable Births

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Last updated: 2023 December 20.


1877

January 4
  • Birth of Gibson Gowland in England; actor (Blind Husbands, Phantom of the Opera). [1]
January 7
  • Birth of Johannes F Buziau; Dutch cabaret performer (one great dog). [1]
January 10
  • Birth of Frederick Gardner Cottrell; inventor (electrostatic precipitator). [1]
January 15
  • Birth of Lewis M Terman in Indiana, USA; psychologist (developed Stanford-Binet IQ test). [1]
January 19
  • Birth of Charles Coburn in Savannah, Georgia, USA; actor (Devil and Miss Jones). [1]
January 20
  • Birth of Ruth Saint Denis in Newark, New Jersey, USA; ballerina (Dances of the Five Senses). [1]
January 22
  • Birth of Hjalmar Schacht; president of German Reichsbank/minister of Economics. [1]
February 7
  • Birth of Julius Curtius; German minister of Foreign affairs (1929-). [1]
February 17
  • Birth of Henri Vandeputte; Belgian author/poet (L'homme Jeune). [1]
February 18
  • Birth of Betsy Ranucci-Beckmann [Theodora]; Dutch author/actress (Dead Water). [1]
February 19
  • Birth of Louis François-Marie Aubert; French composer (Habanera). [1]
February 26
  • Birth of Carel S Adama van Scheltema; Dutch poet/writer (socialism). [1]
March 5
  • Birth of Malcolm D Whitman; tennis champion (US Open-1898). [1]
March 10
  • Birth of David Mendes Chumaceiro in Curaçao; poet (Crisálidas). [1]
March 12
  • Birth of Wilhelm Frick; German protector of Bohemia/Moravia. [1]
March 17
  • Birth of Albert P Hahn; Dutch political cartoonist (People/Nutcracker). [1]

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March 18
  • Birth of Clem Hill; cricket player (all-time great Australian batsman). [1]
March 25
  • Birth of Alphonse de Châteaubriant; French writer (Instantanés aux Pays-Bas). [1]
April 2
  • Birth of Arnold Schering; German musicologist (Humor, Heldentum, Tragik). [1]
April 19
  • Birth of Ole Evinrude; inventor (outboard marine engine). [1]
May 26
  • Birth of Jean Schlumberger; French writer (La Mort de Sparte). [1]
  • Birth of Sadao Araki; Japanese general/minister of War (1931-34). [1]
June 3
  • Birth of Raoul Dufy in France; Fauvist painter (The Palm). [1]
June 4
  • Birth of Heinrich Wieland; German chemist (bile acids-Nobel Prize 1927). [1]
June 18
  • Birth of James Montgomery Flagg; illustrator "I want you" US recruiting poster. [1]
June 19
  • Birth of Charles Coburn in Macon, Georgia, USA; actor (Academy Award-1943, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes). [1]
July 2
  • Birth of Hermann Hesse in Switzerland; novelist/poet (Steppenwolf, Nobel Prize 1946) (dies 1962). [1] [5]
July 27
  • Birth of Ernö (Ernst von) Dohnányi in Hungary; composer (Message to Posterity). [1]
September 16
  • Birth of James J. Jeans in England; physicist/mathematician/cosmologist/astrophysicist (Mysterious Universe). [1]
September 25
  • Birth of Plutarco Elías Calles; Mexican revolutionary, president (1924-28). [1]
October 18
  • Birth of Florence Dahl Walrath; humanitarian, founded Cradle society. [1]
October 25
  • Birth of Henry Norris Russell; astronomer (Hertzsprung-Russell diagram). [1]
November 24
  • Birth of Alben W Barkley in Graves County, Kentucky, USA; 35th US Vice President-Democrat (1949-53). [1]
December 14
  • Birth of Lieven Duvosel; Flemish music writer/composer (Leiecyclys). [1]
December 18
  • Birth of Max Pallenberg in Austria; actor (Brave Suender)/husband of Fritzi Massary. [1]

1878

January 1
  • Birth of François Ambrosiny; French dancer/choreograph (L'oiseau enchanté). [1]
January 4
  • Birth of Alfred Edgar Coppard in England; writer (Black Dogs and Other Stories). [1]
January 6
  • Birth of Carl Sandburg; US poet/biographer of Abraham Lincoln (The People, Yes). [1]
January 11
  • Birth of Theodorus Pangalos; Greek General, dictator (1926). [1]
January 12
  • Birth of Ferenc Molnár in Budapest, Hungary; playwright (The Play's The Thing, A Pal Utrai Fiuk). [1]
January 16
  • Birth of Harry [Henry Dewitt] Carey in Bronx, New York, USA; actor (Informer, Aces Wild, Border Cafe, Air Force). [1]
  • Birth of Robert Garbe; German poet (Görniek). [1]
January 17
  • Birth of Oscar Apfel in Cleveland, Ohio, USA; actor (Abraham Lincoln, Inspiration, Before Dawn). [1]
January 20
  • Birth of Finlay Currie in Scotland; actor (Quo Vadis, Ivanhoe, Avengers). [1]
January 21
  • Birth of Egon Friedell in Austria; journalist/actor/writer (Der Partylowe). [1]
January 22
  • Birth of Constance Collier in Windsor, England; actress/writer (Kitty, Whirlpool). [1]
January 23
  • Birth of Oton Zupancic; Slovenian poet (Zimzelen pod Snegom). [1]
January 26
  • Birth of A W "Dave" Nourse; cricket player ("Grand Old Man" of South African cricket). [1]
January 28
  • Birth of Walter Kollo [Kollodziepski]; German composer (Der Juxbaron). [1]
February 2
  • Birth of Christian Gauss; educator/writer (Phi Beta Kappa award namesake). [1]
February 3
  • Birth of Joseph Gordon Coates; Prime Minister of New Zealand (1925-28). [1]
February 5
  • Birth of André-Gustave Citroën in France; auto maker (Citroën). [1]
February 8
  • Birth of Martin Buber; German/Israeli philosopher/theologist (Ich und Du). [1]
February 16
  • Birth of Selim Palmgren; Finnish pianist/composer/conductor (Peter Schlemihl). [1]
March 10
  • Birth of Karel van de Woestijne; Flemish writer/poet (God at Sea). [1]
March 14
  • Birth of Carel T Scharten; Dutch poet/writer (Forces of the Future). [1]
March 15
  • Birth of Hanson Carter; cricket player (Yorkshire Aussie wicketkeeper of early 20th century). [1]
March 16
  • Birth of Clemens A Graaf von Galen; cardinal/bishop of Munster/anti-Nazi. [1]
  • Birth of Henry B Walthall in Shelby City, Alabama, USA; actor (Birth of a Nation, Klondike). [1]
  • Birth of Reza Sjah Pahlawi [Reza Chan]; shah of Iran. [1]
March 25
  • Birth of Henry graaf de Baillet-Latour; Belgian President of International Olympic Committee (1925-42). [1]
March 31
  • Birth of Arthur John Johnson AKA Jack Johnson in Galveston, Texas, USA; heavyweight boxing champion (1908-1915). [1] [1302.37]
April 1
  • Birth of Carl Sternheim; German playwright (Hyperion/Tabula Rasa). [1]
April 7
  • Birth of C M M Hathorn; cricket player (South African Test centurion in 1905-06). [1]
  • Birth of Jozef C Bittremieux; Flemish theologist (Virgin and Mother of God). [1]
April 16
  • Birth of R E "Tip" Foster; cricket player (287 on debut England versus Australia Sydney Cricket Ground 1903). [1]
April 26
  • Birth of Ethel Griffies; actress (Billy Liar, Birds, We Live Again). [1]
April 28
  • Birth of Lionel [Herbert Blythe] Barrymore in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; actor (A Free Soul, David Cooperfield, Dr Kildare). [1]
May 10
  • Birth of Gustav Stresemann; German chancellor (1923, Nobel Prize 1926). [1]
May 16
  • Birth of Taylor Holmes in Newark, New Jersey, USA; actor (Tobor the Great, Beware My Lovely). [1]
May 17
  • Birth of Conway Tearle; US actor (Klondike Annie, Should Ladies Behave?). [1]
May 21
  • Birth of Glenn Hammond Curtiss; American inventor (hydroplane). [1]
  • Birth of Louis L H de Visser; Dutch Member of Parliament (CPN). [1]
May 24
  • Birth of Lillian Moller Gilbreth; engineer (CIOS Gold Medal-1954). [1]
May 25
  • Birth of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson; actor (Stormy Weather, Little Colonel). [1] [5]
June 1
  • Birth of John Masefield in England; 15th poet laureate (Salt-Water Ballads). [1]
June 5
  • Birth of Francisco (Pancho) Villa in Mexico; revolutionary/guerrilla leader (dies 1923). [1] [5]
June 19
  • Birth of James M Kilroe; priest of Saint Mary Star of the Sea, in the Bronx, New York, USA. [1]
July 6
  • Birth of Eino Leino in Finland; poet/playwright/novelist (Elámän Koreus). [1]
July 9
  • Birth of H.V. Kaltenborn in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA; newscaster (Who Said That?). [1]
July 24
  • Birth of Lord Edward Dunsany in Ireland; dramatist/poet (Mirage Water). [1]
July 29
  • Birth of Don Marquis in Illinois, USA; journalist/poet (archy and mehitabel). [1]
August 2
  • Birth of Princess Ingeborg of Sweden. [1]
August 19
  • Birth of Manuel Quezon; first president of Philippine Commonwealth (1935-42). [1]
August 28
  • Birth of George Hoyt Whipple; US astrophysicist (Nobel Prize-1934). [1]
September 20
  • Birth of Upton Sinclair; novelist (Jungle). [1]
September 22
  • Birth of Shigeru Yoshida; Japanese Prime Minister (most of 1946-54). [1]
October 18
  • Birth of James Truslow Adams; historian (Founding of New England (Pulitzer Prize 1921)). [1]
November 1
  • Birth of Carlos Saavedra Lamas in Buenos Aires, Argentina; jurist (Nobel Peace Prize 1936). [1]
November 17
  • Birth of Grace Abbott in Grand Island, Nebraska, USA; social worker (US Children Bureau). [1]
December 1
  • Birth of Arthur B Spingarn; US NAACP-chairman (1940-65). [1]
December 7
  • Birth of Akiko Yosano in Japan; poet (Tangled Hair). [1]
December 9
  • Birth of Géza Révész; Hungarian/Dutch psychologist (Talent and Genius). [1]
December 18
  • Birth of Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili AKA Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin in Gori, Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire; General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee (1922-1953), Premier of the Soviet Union (1941-1953), Marshal of the Soviet Union (1943-1945) (dies 1953). [5]
December 25
  • Birth of W Starling Burgess; yacht designer (America Cup's Enterprise). [1]
December 26
  • Birth of Isaiah Bowman; US geography/co-founder (Geographical Review). [1]
December 29
  • Birth of Felix M Abel; French bible scholar (Jérusalem Nouvelle). [1]
December 31
  • Birth of Horacio Quiroga; Uruguayan author/poet (El Crimen del Otro). [1]

1879

January 1
  • Birth of Edward M Forster in London, England; novelist (Howard's End, Passage to India). [1]
  • Birth of Edward Dillon in New York City, New York, USA; actor/director (Young Ironsides, The Golden West). [1]
  • Birth of Emile Argand; Swiss geologist (Dekbladen Theory). [1]
  • Birth of Ernest Jones; British psychoanalyst (Life and Work of Sigmund Freud). [1]
  • Birth of Paul Porcasi in Palermo, Sicily, Italy; actor (Say It Again, I'll Remember April). [1]
  • Birth of William Fox in Tulchva, Hungary; US film pioneer (Nickelodeon). [1]
January 2
  • Birth of Johannes L "Jan" Walch; Dutch literary (Grimaces). [1]
  • Birth of Pieter Tesch; Dutch geologist (Pedestal of Nederlands). [1]
January 15
  • Birth of Ernest Thesiger in London, England; actor (Bride of Frankenstein, Ghoul). [1]
January 18
  • Birth of Henri-Honoré Giraud; French General / member of parliament. [1]
January 19
  • Birth of Marie Koenen; author/wife of Felix Rutten (Wassend Cereal). [1]
January 26
  • Birth of Ludovicus H [Lode] Baekelmans; Flemish (stage)author (Tille). [1]
February 5
  • Birth of Edward Rigby in England; actor (Star Look Down, Young and Innocent). [1]
February 17
  • Birth of Dorothy Canfield Fisher; US novelist (Book of the Month Club). [1]
February 22
  • Birth of Johannes Brønsted; Danish physical chemist (acid-base reactions). [1]
February 23
  • Birth of Agnes Arber; English biologist/philosopher (Mind and the Eye). [1]
February 24
  • Birth of Herman Teirlinck; Belgian writer (Sun). [1]
February 26
  • Birth of Frank Bridge; English violinist/composer/conductor/tutor of B Britten. [1]
March 5
  • Birth of Walter Long; actor (Moby Dick, Sheik, Sea Devils, Dragnet Patrol). [1]
March 8
  • Birth of Otto Hahn; German physicist/chemist (Nobel Prize 1944, radiothorium/actinium, co-discoverer-nuclear fission). [1]
March 11
  • Birth of Niels Bjerrum; Danish chemist (ph tests). [1]
March 14
  • Birth of Albert Einstein in Ulm, Germany; physicist (E=mc^2 / Theory of Relativity, Nobel Prize for Physics 1921 for work on photoelectric effects). [1] [5] [129] [1061.333]
March 15
  • Birth of Gerrit J Heering; Dutch theologist (Fall of Christianity). [1]
March 19
  • Birth of Joseph Haas; German (opera) composer (Tobias Wunderlich). [1]
March 27
  • Birth of Edward Steichen; pioneered American photography. [1]
April 11
  • Birth of Leendert Round; Dutch sculptor (entrance Rotterdam Zoo). [1]
April 12
  • Birth of Frederick G Melcher; US publisher/editor/founded children book week. [1]
April 14
  • Birth of James Branch Cabell; American novelist/essayist (Restless Heads). [1]
April 19
  • Birth of Richard Scheibe; German sculptor (Adler mit Hakenkreuz). [1]
April 20
  • Birth of Robert Lynd; Irish writer/critic (Pleasures of Ignorance). [1]
April 26
  • Birth of Owen Williams Richardson in England; physicist (Nobel Prize 1928). [1]
April 29
  • Birth of Thomas Beecham in England; composer, founded London Philharmonic. [1]
May 5
  • Birth of Symon Petlyura; leader Ukraine (pogroms). [1]
May 19
  • Birth of Lord Waldorf Astor in England; second viscount (Conservative)/publisher (London Observer). [1]
  • Birth of Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor; US/England's feminist/ex of Waldorf Astor. [1]
May 22
  • Birth of Hendrik Heyman; Belgian minister of Nÿverheid/mayor. [1]
  • Birth of Warwick Armstrong; cricket player (Big Ship Great Aussie skipper 1920-21). [1]
May 25
  • Birth of W Maxwell Aitken; Lord Beaverbrook, Canada/English banker. [1]
May 27
  • Birth of Lucile Watson; actress (Great Lie, Watch on the Rhine, Let's Dance). [1]
May 30
  • Birth of Colin Blythe; cricket player (outstanding English slow lefty pre-WWI). [1]
July 1
  • Birth of Léon Jouhaux in France; socialist, cofounded United Nations's ILO (Nobel Prize 1951). [1]
July 5
  • Birth of Dwight Filley Davis; donated tennis' Davis Cup. [1]
  • Birth of Wanda A Landowska in Warsaw, Poland; harpsichordist (Musique Ancienne). [1]
July 9
  • Birth of Ottorino Respighi in Bologna, Italy; composer (Pines of Rome). [1]
July 10
  • Birth of Dr Harry Nicholls in Holmes, Pennsylvania, USA; crystallized vitamin A. [1]
August 8
  • Birth of Emiliano Zapata; Mexican revolutionary, peasant leader. [1]
August 15
  • Birth of Ethel Barrymore in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; actress (Constant Wife, Corn is Green). [1]
September 14
  • Birth of Margaret Sanger; feminist/nurse/birth control proponent. [1]
October 2
  • Birth of Wallace Stevens in Reading, Pennsylvania, USA; poet (Ideas of Order). [1]
October 7
  • Birth of Joe Hill in Jevla, Sweden; organizer (IWW)/songwriter (Union Scab)/martyr. [1]
November 4
  • Birth of Will Rogers in Oologah Indian Territory (Oklahoma); humorist. [1] [457]
November 7
  • Birth of Leon Trotsky; Russian revolutionary leader/writer (Diary in Exile). [1]
November 10
  • Birth of Nicholas Vachel Lindsay; US poet (General William Booth enters Heaven). [1]
  • Birth of Vachel Lindsay in Springfield, Illinois, USA; poet (Johnny Appleseed). [1]
November 15
  • Birth of Lewis Stone in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; actor (Prisoner of Zenda). [1]
December 7
  • Birth of Rudolf Friml; Czechoslovakian/US composer (Bohemian suite). [1]
December 8
  • Birth of Paul Klee; Swiss/German painter/tutor (Bauhaus). [1]
December 12
  • Birth of Friedrich Christiansen; German commander Wehrmacht Netherlands. [1]
  • Birth of Laura Hope Crews; US actress (Camille, Gone With the Wind). [1]
December 15
  • Birth of Rudolf von Laban; Czechoslovakian/German choreographer (modern dance). [1]
December 16
  • Birth of William Duncan in Scotland; actor (Thunder Trail). [1]
December 18
  • Birth of Paul Klee in Switzerland; abstract painter (Twittering Machine). [1] [5]
December 19
  • Birth of Beals C Wright; tennis champion (US Open-1905). [1]
December 21
  • Birth of Theodore Limperg; business economist (substitute value). [1]
December 22
  • Birth of Ralph Hawtrey in Buckinghamshire, England; economist (multiplier). [1]
  • Birth of Stanislas Bizot; French world checker champion (1925). [1]
December 27
  • Birth of Robert Greig in Australia; actor (Horse Feathers). [1]
  • Birth of Sydney Greenstreet in Sandwich, England; actor (The Maltese Falcon). [1]
December 29
  • Birth of Billy Mitchell; aviation hero general (WWI). [1]
December 30
  • Birth of Sri Ramana Maharshi; Hindu philosopher/yogi (Maharshi Research Institute). [1]

End of 1877-1879. Next: 1880.

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