Chronology of Notable Births

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Last updated: 2008 June 28.


1858

January 5
  • Birth of Gustaf af Geijerstam Swedish author (Boken om Lillebror). [1]
January 10
  • Birth of Heinrich Zille German cartoonist (Cheerful Blätter, Simplicissimus). [1]
January 15
  • Birth of Giovanni Segantini Italy, painter. [1]
January 17
  • Birth of Tomas Carrasquilla Colombian author (Frutos de mi Tierra). [1]
January 19
  • Birth of Eugene Brieux French playwright (Blanchette, Lesson Avaries). [1]
January 22
  • Birth of Betrice Potter Webb England, economist. [1]
  • Birth of Frederick Lugard British captain/baron (Congo). [1]
January 25
  • Birth of Giuseppe Radiciotti composer. [1]
January 27
  • Birth of Neel [Cornelia H] Doff Dutch/French/Belgian painter's model/writer. [1]
February 14
  • Birth of Charles Beach Hawley composer. [1]
  • Birth of Joseph Thomson Scotland, geologist (Thomson's gazelle). [1]
February 15
  • Birth of William Pickering Boston, astronomer (9th and 10th moons of Saturn). [1]
February 16
  • Birth of Laurence "Lon" Myers US, track star (top US miler). [1]
February 17
  • Birth of Ernest Ford composer. [1]
February 18
  • Birth of Louise M A princess of Belgium. [1]
February 24
  • Birth of Arnold Dolmetsch Le Mans, musician. [1]
February 28
  • Birth of Jacob P Vis Dutch industrialist (founder Nevada Royal Salt Industries). [1]
March 1
  • Birth of Georg Simmel German philosopher/sociologist. [1]
March 7
  • Birth of Nikolai Artzibushev composer. [1]
March 13
  • Birth of Maximilien Luce French painter. [1]
March 15
  • Birth of Liberty Hyde Bailey US botanist (Plantbreeding). [1]
March 18
  • Birth of Rudolph C K Diesel German engineer (Diesel motor). [1]
March 23
  • Birth of Ludwig Quidde German historian/politician (Nobel Prize 1927). [1]
March 27
  • Birth of Peter Christian Lutkin composer. [1]
April 1
  • Birth of Arnold Aletrino Dutch physician-criminologist/author (From Life). [1]
  • Birth of Gaetano Mosca Italian sociologist (Circulation of Elite). [1]

April 3
  • Birth of Matthew Ricketts first Black man elected to Nebraska State Legislature. [1]
April 4
  • Birth of Rémy de Gourmont French critic/writer (Physique de L'amour). [1]
April 7
  • Birth of Adrien H Gerhard Dutch socialist politician (SDAP). [1]
April 15
  • Birth of Anton G O Ridder Van Rappard Dutch painter/lithographer/etcher. [1]
  • Birth of Emile Durkheim French sociologist (Division du travail social). [1]
April 19
  • Birth of May Robson [Mary J Robison] Melbourne Australia, actress (Apple Annie). [1]
  • Birth of Siegfried Ochs composer. [1]
April 20
  • Birth of Auguste Chapuis composer. [1]
April 22
  • Birth of Ethel Mary Smyth composer. [1]
April 23
  • Birth of Max Ludwig Planck German physicist (Quanta Physics, Planck Constant, Nobel Prize 1918). [1]
April 30
  • Birth of Mary Scott Lord Dimmick Harrison first lady (1889-1893). [1]
May 1
  • Birth of Anthony Johnson Showalter composer. [1]
May 6
  • Birth of Georges Adolphe Hue composer. [1]
May 8
  • Birth of John Meade Falkner novelist (Moonfleet). [1]
May 10
  • Birth of Frederick Zech Jr composer. [1]
May 11
  • Birth of Carl Hauptmann writer. [1]
May 16
  • Birth of Frank Lynes composer. [1]
  • Birth of Hanus Trnecek composer. [1]
May 19
  • Birth of Roland Napoleon Bonaparte French officer/traveller (Surinam). [1]
May 21
  • Birth of José Battle Ordonez Uruguay, politician. [1]
May 24
  • Birth of Johan C Braakensiek political cartoonist (Green Amsterdammer). [1]
June 17
  • Birth of Eben Sumner Draper former Massachusetts Governor. [1]
June 22
  • Birth of Giacomo Puccini Italy, operatic composer (Madama Butterfly). [1]
June 29
  • Birth of George Washington Goethals engineer (built Panama Canal). [1]
July 9
  • Birth of Franz Boas anthropologist/linguist (Mind of Primitive Man). [1]
July 14
  • Birth of Emmeline Pankhurst England, found (Women's Social and Political Union). [1]
July 16
  • Birth of Eugène Ysaÿe Belgium, violinist/conductor/composer (Pierill Houïou). [1]
July 31
  • In Dublin, Ireland, Richard Dixon Oldham is born; geologist and seismologist, discovered the evidence for the existence of the Earth's core. [53]
August 19
  • Birth of Edith Nesbit England, children books author (Railway Children). [1]
September 16
  • Birth of A Bonar Law (Conservative) British Prime Minister (1922-23). [1]
September 27
  • Birth of Giuseppe Peano Italian mathematician, founder of symbolic logic. [1]
October 15
  • Birth of John L Sullivan Massachusetts, heavyweight boxing champion (1882-92). [1]
October 27
  • Birth of Theodore Roosevelt (Republican) 26th President (1901-09) (Nobel Prize 1906). [1]
November 20
  • Birth of Selma Lagerlof Sweden, novelist (Tales of a Manor-Nobel Prize 1909). [1]
December 4
  • Birth of Billy Gunn cricketer (Notts and England batsman in 11 Tests 1886-99). [1]
December 13
  • Birth of Jakab Gyula Major composer. [1]
December 20
  • Birth of Jean/Johannes T "Jan" Toorop Dutch painter/graphic artist (3 Brides). [1]
December 22
  • Birth of Giacomo Puccini Lucca Italy, opera composer (La Bohème, La Tosca). [1]
December 23
  • Birth of Vladimir Nemirovitch-Dantshenko playwright (Life in Russian Theater). [1]

1859

January 5
  • Birth of DeWitt B Brace inventor (spectrophotometer). [1]
January 6
  • Birth of Samuel Alexander English philosopher (Moral order and progress). [1]
January 9
  • Birth of Carrie Lane Chapman Catt women's rights leader/founder (League of Women Voters). [1]
  • Birth of Frederik Pijper Dutch vicar/church historian (The Monasteries). [1]
January 11
  • Birth of [Gerard] Jan Ligthart Dutch educator (Nog bij mother, Ot and Sien). [1]
January 13
  • Birth of Karl Bleibtreu German author (Revolution of Literature). [1]
  • Birth of Kostís Palamás Greek poet/scholar (Flogera tou Basília). [1]
January 19
  • Birth of Alice Eastwood Toronto, botanist (Handbook of Trees of California). [1]
January 21
  • Birth of Antoni Wincenty Rutkowski composer. [1]
January 24
  • Birth of Alexander Alexandrovich Il'yinsky composer. [1]
January 27
  • Birth of Kaiser Wilhelm II Potsdam, German emperor (1888-1918). [1]
February 1
  • Birth of Victor August Herbert Dublin Ireland, composer (Babes in Toyland). [1]
February 2
  • Birth of Havelock Ellis US physician/sexologist (Psychology of Sex). [1]
February 8
  • Birth of John H Been town's archivist of Brielle (Baasje and Witkop). [1]
February 13
  • Birth of Frank van de Goes Dutch writer/marxist theorist. [1]
  • Birth of William Strang Scottish painter/engraver. [1]
February 14
  • Birth of George Washington Gale Ferris engineer/inventor (Ferris Wheel). [1]
February 18
  • Birth of Sholem Aleichem [Solomon Rabinowitz], author (Fiddler on the Roof). [1]
February 19
  • Birth of Svante August Arhenius Swedish physicist/chemist (Nobel Prize 1903). [1]
February 23
  • Birth of Theodor Batthyányi Hungarian statesman/contra revolutionary. [1]
March 8
  • Birth of Kenneth Grahame author (The Wind, Willows). [1]
  • Birth of Otto Taubmann composer. [1]
March 9
  • Birth of Richard Engländer [Peter Altenberg], Austria, author (Lebensabend). [1]
March 12
  • Birth of Josef Cyril Sychra composer. [1]
March 13
  • Birth of Ivo Bligh cricketer [Lord Darnley] England captain vs Australia 1882-83. [1]
March 26
  • Birth of A[lfred] E[dward] Housman England, poet (Shropshire Lad). [1]
  • Birth of Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov composer. [1]
March 27
  • Birth of George Giffen cricketer (one of Australia's greatest all-rounders). [1]
March 28
  • Birth of Joséphin Péladan French writer/founder (French Rosicrucians). [1]
April 3
  • Birth of Reginald De Koven composer. [1]
April 5
  • Birth of Wilhelm Harteveld composer. [1]
April 7
  • Birth of Walter Camp Connecticut, father of American football (Yale). [1]
April 8
  • Birth of Edmund Husserl Germany, philosopher (founded Phenomenology). [1]
April 11
  • Birth of Basil Harwood composer. [1]
April 18
  • Birth of Eduard G H H Cuypers architect (Sanatorium High-Laren). [1]
May 1
  • Birth of Bohuslav Jeremias composer. [1]
  • Birth of Willem J Leyds Dutch/South Africa lawyer/politician/diplomat. [1]

May 2
  • Birth of Eugene D'Harcourt composer. [1]
May 3
  • Birth of Andy Adams US writer (Log of a Cowboy). [1]
May 6
  • Birth of Luis María Drago Argentina, statesman, anti-interventionist. [1]
  • Birth of Willem J T Kloos Dutch poet (Act of Simple Justice). [1]
May 13
  • Birth of Eugust Enna composer. [1]
May 15
  • Birth of Pierre Curie France, physicist (Nobel Prize 1903). [1]
May 19
  • Birth of Nellie Melba [Heal Mitchell] Australian soprano (Peach Melba). [1]
May 22
  • Birth of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle United Kingdom, author-brought Sherlock Holmes to life twice. [1]
May 26
  • Birth of Alfred Edward Housman Bromsgrove England, poet (A Buried Life). [1]
May 30
  • Birth of Pierre Marie Felix Janet France, psychologist/neurologist. [1]
June 22
  • Birth of Frank Heino Damrosch author/musician/teacher (found Inst of Music). [1]
July 6
  • Birth of Verner von Heidenstam Sweden, poet/novelist (Nobel Prize 1916). [1]
July 17
  • Birth of Luis Muñoz Rivera Puerto Rico, journalist (founded Federalist Party). [1]
July 28
  • Birth of Balington Booth founded Volunteers of America. [1]
August 4
  • Birth of Knut Hamsun Norway, writer/Nazi (Hunger-Nobel Prize 1920). [1]
August 12
  • Birth of Katharine Lee Bates US, author (America the Beautiful). [1]
August 19
  • Birth of Charles Comiskey first basemen/manager (Chicago White Sox). [1]
October 3
  • Birth of Elenora Duse Italy, actress (Hedda Gabler). [1]
October 17
  • Birth of William "Buck" Ewing hall of fame catcher (New York Giants, Cincinnati Reds). [1]
October 18
  • Birth of Henri Bergson France, philosopher (Creative Evolution-Nobel Prize 1927). [1]
October 20
  • Birth of John Dewey philosopher, educational theorist/writer (Learn by doing). [1]
October 29
  • Birth of Charles Ebbets (namesake of Ebbets Field, Brooklyn). [1]
November 1
  • Birth of Charles Brantley Aycock (Governor-North Carolina). [1]
November 19
  • Birth of Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov Russia, musician (Armenian Rhapsody). [1]
November 23
  • Birth of Billy the Kid [William H Bonney], criminal. [1]
December 2
  • Birth of Georges Seurat France, painter/pointillist (Grande Jatte). [1]
December 9
  • Birth of Algernon Ashton composer. [1]
December 12
  • Birth of Edward Bradley horse owner (first to own four Kentucky Derby winners). [1]
  • Birth of Maurice Donnay French playwright (Lovers). [1]
December 15
  • Birth of Ludwik L Zamenhof Russia/Poland, physician/linguist (Esperanto). [1]
December 17
  • Birth of Willem C Grünings Curaçao publisher (People's Friend). [1]
December 20
  • Birth of Antonius J Derkinderen Dutch painter/etcher. [1]
December 21
  • Birth of Gustave Kahn France, poet (claimed to have invented vers libre). [1]
December 22
  • Birth of Cecil [James] Sharp London England, folk musician. [1]
December 24
  • Birth of Roman Statkowski composer. [1]
December 25
  • Birth of Raoul Gunsbourg composer. [1]
December 26
  • Birth of Johan F van Bemmelen Dutch zoologist. [1]
December 27
  • Birth of William Henry Hadow composer. [1]
December 28
  • Birth of Gerard Brucken Fock composer. [1]
  • Birth of John W Fortescue military historian. [1]
December 29
  • Birth of Venustiano Carranza President of México (1915-20). [1]
December 30
  • Birth of Josef Bohuslav Foerster composer. [1]
December 31
  • Birth of Max Fiedler composer. [1]

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