1860

January 2

• Birth of William C Mills museum curator (excavated Ohio Indian mounds). [1]

January 7

• Birth of Emanuil Mandlov composer. [1]

January 8

• Birth of Nancy Jones US black missionary in Africa. [1]

January 11

• Birth of Marie Bashkirtseff Russian/French painter/author (Journal). [1]

January 25

• Birth of Charles Curtis (Republican) 31st US Vice President (1929-33). [1]

January 29

• Birth of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov in Tagarov, Russia; playwright (Cherry Orchard). [1] [5]

February 5

• Birth of Jackson Showalter first US chess champion (1888-92, 1895-97, 1906-09). [1]

February 6

• Birth of Johan [Eliza J] de Meester Dutch journalist/writer (Geertje). [1]

February 11

• Birth of Rachilde [Marguerite Vallette-Eymery], French author (Monsieur Venus). [1]

February 18

• Birth of Anders Zorn Swedish painter/etcher/sculptor (Gustavus Vasa). [1]

February 24

• Birth of Daniel Berkeley Updike printer/publisher/writer (Printing Types). [1]

February 25

• Birth of Menso Kamerlingh Onnes painter/water colors painter. [1]
• Birth of William James Ashley English economic-historian. [1]

February 29

• Birth of Herman Hollerith inventor (first electric tabulating machine). [1]

March 1

• Birth of Suzanna Salter first US female mayor/temperance leader. [1]

March 11

• Birth of Thomas Hastings New York City, New York, architect (New York Public Library). [1]

March 12

• Birth of Salvatore Di Giacomo composer. [1]

March 13

• Birth of Hugo Filipp Jakob Wolf Windisch-Gräz Austria, composer. [1]

March 19

• Birth of William Jennings Bryan "The Great Commoner" orator/statesman. [1]

March 23

• Birth of Horatio W Bottomley British journalist/swindler. [1]

April 3

• Birth of Frederik W van Eeden Dutch utopian writer (Walden). [1]

April 6

• Birth of René Lalique French jewel designer. [1]

April 7

• Birth of W K Kellogg a real corn flake. [1]

April 13

• Birth of James Ensor Flemish painter/etcher (De lampenjongen). [1]

April 20

• Birth of Charles Gordon Curtis US attorney/inventor (Curtis Turbine). [1]
• Birth of Pieter Jelles Troelstra Dutch Member of Parliament (SDAP). [1]

April 26

• Birth of Alphonse Ariëns Dutch pastor. [1]

April 29

• Birth of Lorado Taft US, sculptor (Black Hawk). [1]

May 2

• Birth of Sir D'Arcy Thompson zoologist/classicist (On Growth and Form). [1]
• Birth of Theodor Herzl Austria, journalist/founder (Zionist movement). [1]

May 4

• Birth of Emil Nikolaus Von Reznicek Vienna Austria, composer (Donna Diana). [1]

May 9

• Birth of Sir James Matthew Barrie Scotland, novelist (Margaret Ogilvy, Peter Pan, The Little Minister). [1]

May 15

• Birth of Ellen Louise Axson Wilson first wife of Woodrow Wilson. [1]

May 19

• Birth of Victor E Orlando Italy's premier (1917-19). [1]

May 21

• Birth of Willam Einthoven Dutch physiologist/inventor (electrocardiograph). [1]

May 29

• Birth of Isaac [Manuel F] Albéniz; Spanish pianist/composer (Iberia) (dies 1909). [1] [5]

May 31

• Birth of Walter Richard Sickert Munich Danish/English painter (The Miner). [1]

July 7

• Birth of Gustav Mahler Kalischat Bohemia Austria, composer/conductor (Titan). [1]

July 19

• Birth of Lizzie Borden murderer, gave her mother forty whacks. [1]

August 3

• W.K. Dickson is born; Scottish inventor. [5]

August 5

• Birth of Joseph Carey Merrick "Elephant Man". [1]

August 13

• Birth of Annie Oakley Drake Ohio, frontierswoman (Buffalo Bill's Wild West). [1]

August 14

• Birth of Ernest T Seton naturalist/painter/author (Buffalo Wind-1938). [1]

August 15

• Birth of Florence Kling DeWolfe Harding first lady. [1]

August 16

• Birth of Jules Laforgue Uruguay, French poet (Les Complaintes). [1]

August 19

• Birth of John Kane Scottish-born US primitivist painter (Self-Portrait). [1]

August 20

• Birth of Raymond Poincaré France, Prime Minister (1912), president. [1]

September 3

• Birth of Edward Albert Filene merchant, established US credit union movement. [1]

September 6

• Birth of Jane Addams US, pacifist/social worker/feminist (Nobel Prize 1931). [1]

September 7

• Birth of (Anna Maria) "Grandma" Moses in New York; primitive painter (Old Oaken Bucket). [1] [5]

September 13

• Birth of General John J (Blackjack) Pershing US commander in WW I. [1]

October 4

• Birth of Sidney Paget illustrated Sherlock Holmes adventures. [1]

October 12

• Birth of Elmer A Sperry inventor (gyrocompass). [1]

October 31

• Birth of Juliette Gordon Low Girl Scout founder. [1]

November 6

• Birth of Ignace Jan Paderewski Kurylowka Poland, composer/pianist/patriot. [1]

November 23

• Birth of Karl Branting Sweden, statesman/diplomat (Nobel Peace Prize 1921). [1]

December 2

• Birth of C T Studd cricketer (brother of G B, five Tests for England). [1]

December 13

• Birth of Lucien G Guitry French actor/theatre director (l'Odéon). [1]

December 15

• Birth of Niels Ryberg Finsen Denmark, physician/phototherapist (Nobel Prize 1903). [1]

December 21

• Birth of Henrietta Szold founder (Hadassah). [1]

December 23

• Birth of Harriet Monroe Chicago Illinois, poet/editor of Poetry magazine (You and I). [1]

December 28

• Birth of Alexander von Fielitz composer. [1]

1861

January 1

• Birth of Isaac Murphy thoroughbred jockey, 628 wins on 1,412 mounts (44.5%). [1]
• Birth of William Morris Boston Massachusetts; actor (Brothers, The Roadhouse Murder). [1]

January 2

• Birth of Helen Herron Taft first lady (1909-13). [1]
• Birth of Wilhelm Bölsche writer. [1]

January 6

• Birth of Heinrich Gottlieb Noren composer. [1]

January 14

• Birth of Mehmed VI last sultan of Ottoman Empire (1918-22). [1]
• Birth of Wilhelm von Polenz German writer (Der Pfarrer von Breitendorf). [1]

January 18

• Birth of Hans Goldschmidt in Berlin, Germany; chemist, invented the Goldschmidt alumino-thermic reduction process used in welding. [1] [37]
• Birth of Raymond Huntington Woodman composer. [1]

January 22

• Birth of Karel Stecker composer. [1]

January 30

• Birth of Charles Martin Tornow Loeffler Mulhouse Alsace, composer. [1]

February 2

• Birth of Mehmed VI Vahideddin last sultan of Ottoman Empire (1918-22). [1]
• Birth of Solomon R Guggenheim philanthropist (died aboard the Titanic). [1]

February 3

• Birth of Léopold Courouble Belgian writer (Family Kaekebroeck). [1]

February 12

• Birth of Lou [Andreas-]Salomé Russian/German author (Im Kampf um Gott). [1]

February 13

• Birth of Uchimura Kanzo Tokyo, religious writer (How I Became a Christian). [1]

February 15

• Birth of Alfred North Whitehead English mathematician/philosopher (Adventures of Ideas). [1]
• Birth of Halford John Mackinder Gainsborough Lincolnshire, geographer. [1]

February 20

• Birth of Nicolaas van Meeteren Curaçao, folklorist. [1]

February 21

• Birth of Pierre Breville composer. [1]

February 26

• Birth of Ferdinand I Vienna, first tsar of modern Bulgaria (1908-18). [1]

February 27

• Birth of Rudolph Steiner Kraljevic Austria, founder (doctrine of anthroposophy movement). [1]

April 9

• Birth of Charles Holroyd painter/etcher. [1]

April 16

• Birth of Isaac Murphy US jockey (won 628 races). [1]

April 19

• Birth of Warden Oncle [Edward Vermeulen] Flemish farmer/writer. [1]

April 23

• Birth of Edmund Henry Hynman first viscount Allenby of Megiddo/Fieldmarshal. [1]

April 27

• Birth of Georgy L'vovich Catoire composer. [1]
• Birth of Johan M Skjoldborg Danish writer (Dynaes-Digte). [1]

May 6

• Birth of Radindranath Tagore Hindu poet/mystic/composer (Nobel Prize 1913). [1]

May 7

• Birth of Rabindranath Tagore Hindu poet/mystic/composer (Nobel '13). [1]

May 12

• Birth of Ivan Caryll English composer (Pink Lady). [1]

May 27

• Birth of Victoria E Matthews educator. [1]

May 31

• Birth of Emily Perkins Bissell welfare worker (first christmas seal drive, 1907). [1]

June 29

• Birth of William James Mayo surgeon/co-founder Mayo clinic in Minnesota. [1]

July 1

• Birth of Samuel D Riddle horse owner (Man 'o War). [1]

July 3

• Birth of Peter Jackson heavyweight, boxing hall of famer. [1]

July 11

• Birth of George William Norris (Republican-Neb). [1]

July 29

• Birth of Alica Hathaway Lee Roosevelt first wife of Theodore Roosevelt. [1]

August 6

• Birth of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt second wife of Theodore Roosevelt. [1]

August 9

• Ernest von Rebeur-Paschwitz born in Germany; physicist, made the first known recordings of a distant earthquake. [53]

October 4

• Birth of Frederic Remington US, artist/sculptor of the American West. [1]

October 10

• Birth of Fridtjof Nansen Norweg Arctic explorer/humanitarian (Nobel Prize 1922). [1]

October 26

• Birth of Richard D Sears Boston, first to win US amateur national tennis match. [1]

November 6

• Birth of James A Naismith; inventor (basketball). [1] [5]

November 10

• Birth of Robert TA Innes Edinburgh Scotland, astronomer (Proxima Centauri). [1]

November 14

• Birth of Frederick Jackson Turner Wisconsin, historian/educator (Harvard U). [1]

December 4

• Birth of Lillian Russell [Helen Leonard] US, singer/actress (Great Mogul). [1]

December 5

• Birth of Armando V Diaz Italian marshal/minister of War (1922-24). [1]

December 8

• Birth of Aristide Maillol France, painter/sculptor (Seated Woman). [1]
• Birth of Georges Méliès Paris France, magician; first to film a fictional story. [1]
• Birth of William Crapo Durant founded General Motors. [1]

December 15

• Birth of Charles Edgar Duryea inventor (first auto built and operated in US). [1]

December 17

• Birth of Fritz Volbach German musicologist/conductor/composer. [1]

December 18

• Birth of Edward Alexander MacDowell New York City, New York, composer (Indian Suite, Cairo). [1]
• Birth of Lionel Monckton composer. [1]

December 19

• Birth of Constance [Clara] Garnett Brighton England, Russian-English translator. [1]
• Birth of Italo Svevo Trieste Austria, Italian novelist (La Coscienza di Zeno). [1]

December 22

• Birth of Erich Schaeder German theologist (Theocentric Theology). [1]

December 26

• In Tilsit, Germany, Emil Wiechert is born; pioneer in the science of seismology. [53]
• Birth of Friedrich Engel German mathematician (group theory). [1]