Chronology of Notable Births

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Last updated: 2009 October 30.


1865

January 1
  • Birth of Giuseppe Ferrata composer. [1]
January 20
  • Birth of Friedrich A H von Waldeck brother of queen Emma/last ruler of Waldeck. [1]
January 21
  • Birth of Heinrich E Albers-Schönberg German röntgenologist. [1]
January 22
  • Birth of Friedrich Paschen German physicist. [1]
January 23
  • Birth of Benjamin Delmonte theater director/actor (Black Haired Whore). [1]
January 28
  • Birth of Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg first President of Finland (1919-25). [1]
January 30
  • Birth of Samuel Pl'h Naber Dutch rear-Admiral/librarian. [1]
February 3
  • Birth of Martinus Ballings Flemish Jesuit/author (Will Power). [1]
February 4
  • Birth of Charles Bally Swiss linguist (Le langage et la vie). [1]
February 5
  • Birth of Harvey Worthington Loomis composer. [1]
February 9
  • Birth of Erich von Drygalski German Federal Republic, geographer/glaciologist/Antarctic explorer. [1]
  • Birth of Mrs [Beatrice] Patrick Campbell England, actress (Pygmalion, Sean O'Casey's mistress). [1]
February 12
  • Birth of Kazimierz P Tetmajer Polish writer/poet (Young Poland). [1]
February 19
  • Birth of Adrian van Oordt Dutch writer (neo-romantic). [1]
  • Birth of Sven Hedin Sweden, scientist/explorer (Tibet). [1]
February 22
  • Birth of Otto Modersohn German painter. [1]
February 23
  • Birth of Barney Dreyfuss baseball owner (Pittsburgh Pirates). [1]
February 28
  • Birth of Arthur Symons Welsh poet/critic/co-founder (Savoy). [1]
  • Birth of Sir Wilfred Grenfell England, medical missionary. [1]
March 1
  • Birth of Gerard Vissering Dutch banker/president (Bank of Java). [1]
March 3
  • Birth of Alexander Gustav Adolfovich Winkler composer. [1]
March 8
  • Birth of Frederick William Goudy US, printer/type designer. [1]
March 9
  • Birth of Margaret Murray Washington wife of Booker T/head (NACW 1896-1918). [1]
March 10
  • Birth of Pim [Willem JH] Mulier Dutch journalist/writer/sport-organizer. [1]
March 22
  • Birth of Theophile Ysaye composer. [1]
March 30
  • Birth of Heinrich Rubens German physicist. [1]
April 1
  • Birth of Richard Zsigmondy Germany, chemist (Nobel Prize-1925). [1]

April 9
  • Birth of Charles Proteus Steinmetz Germany, experiment with AC electricity. [1]
  • Birth of Erich Ludendorff General (Germany). [1]
April 13
  • Birth of Heinrich Reinhardt composer. [1]
April 20
  • Birth of Max HHR Nettlau Austrian historian (Le Première Internationale). [1]
April 27
  • Birth of Emile Erens Dutch Hagiographer (Pastor of Ars). [1]
May 5
  • Birth of Felicjan Szopski composer. [1]
May 9
  • Birth of August de Boeck composer. [1]
May 15
  • Birth of Albert Verwey Dutch poet/literature historian (Motion). [1]
May 18
  • Birth of William Heinemann England, publisher (Chemical Instrumental). [1]
May 21
  • Birth of C J Thomsen Denmark, archaeologist, named Stone/Iron/Bronze Ages. [1]
May 22
  • Birth of Enrique Morera composer. [1]
May 25
  • Birth of Frederick Augustus III King of Saxon (1904-18). [1]
  • Birth of John Raleigh Mott organizer (YMCA, Nobel Prize 1946). [1]
  • Birth of Pieter Zeeman Dutch physicist (Zeeman effect, Nobel Prize 1902). [1]
May 26
  • Birth of Akseli V Gallen-Kallela Finnish painter/graphic artist/illustrator. [1]
May 28
  • Birth of Gerrit Grijns Dutch physiologist (Vitamin E). [1]
June 3
  • Birth of George V; king of England (1910-36). [1] [241.9]
June 9
  • Birth of Carl Nielsen Norre-Lyndelse Denmark, composer (Det Uuslukkelige). [1]
June 13
  • Birth of William Butler Yeats Ireland, poet (Wild Swans at Coole-Nobel Prize 1923). [1]
June 19
  • Birth of Dame May Whitty Liverpool England, actress (Mrs Minerva). [1]
June 25
  • Birth of Robert Henri US painter, leader of the Ashcan school. [1]
June 26
  • Birth of Bernard Berenson art critic (Italian Painters of the Renaissance). [1]
June 29
  • Birth of Shigechiyo Izumi achieved oldest authenticated age (120 years 237 days). [1]
  • Birth of William E Borah lawyer/(Senator-Republican-Id). [1]
July 2
  • Birth of Lili Braun Prussia, feminist/socialist writer (Im Schatten Titanen). [1]
July 14
  • Birth of Annie Jones Virginia, bearded lady. [1]
July 18
  • Birth of Laurence Housman England, author/playwright (Victoria Regina). [1]
July 19
  • Birth of Charles Horace Mayo surgeon, cofounded Mayo Clinic. [1]
August 8
  • Birth of Matthew A Henson famous African. [1]
August 10
  • Birth of Alexander Glazunov Saint Petersburg Russia, composer (Chopiniana). [1]
August 27
  • Birth of Charles Gates Dawes (Republican) 30th Vice President (1925-29, Nobel Prize 1925). [1]
October 1
  • Birth of Paul Dukas Paris France, composer (Velléda). [1]
November 2
  • Birth of Warren Gamaliel Harding, 29th USA President (1921-23). [1] [5]
November 27
  • Birth of Jose Asuncion Silva Colombia, poet (Nocturno III). [1]
December 4
  • Birth of Edith Louisa Cavell England, nurse (WWI). [1]
December 8
  • Birth of Jacques Hadamard French mathematician (Taylor series). [1]
  • Birth of Jean Sibelius Tavastehus Finland, composer (Valse Triste, Finlandia). [1]
December 13
  • Birth of Gustav Luders composer. [1]
December 16
  • Birth of Victor Rousseau Belgian sculptor. [1]
December 19
  • Birth of Hermann Hirt Magdeburg Prussia, linguist (Indo-European Grammar). [1]
  • Birth of Minnie Maddern Fiske New Orleans Louisiana, stage actress (Henrik Ibsen's plays). [1]
  • Birth of Tikhon Toropets Pskov Russia, patriarch of Russian Orthodox/saint. [1]
December 20
  • Birth of Maude Gonne Irish nationalist (Irish Joan of Arc). [1]
December 23
  • Birth of Albrecht duke of Württemberg/general-fieldmarshal. [1]
December 25
  • Birth of Evangeline Cory Booth Salvation Army general (1904-34). [1]
December 28
  • Birth of Félix E Vallotton Swiss/French painter/writer (Chaste Suzanna). [1]
December 30
  • Birth of Rudyard Kipling Bombay, author (Jungle Book, Gunga Din-Nobel Prize 1907). [1]

1866

January 1
  • Birth of [Lars] Peter Elfelt [Petersen] Denmark, director (Henrettelsen). [1]
January 9
  • Birth of Albert Baertsoen Flemish painter/etcher. [1]
January 10
  • Birth of Karl Aschoff in Berlin; pathologist, discovered phagocytes (cells which ingest foreign substances) and Aschoff's bodies (nodules in the heart related to the rheumatic process). [37]
January 13
  • Birth of Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov composer. [1]
January 15
  • Birth of Nathan Soderblom Lutheran archbishop, internationalist (Nobel '30). [1]
January 19
  • Birth of Harry Davenport New York City, New York; actor/director (Her Unborn Child, My Sin). [1]
January 20
  • Birth of Richard Le Gallienne English writer (Maker of Gainborg). [1]
January 25
  • Birth of Emile Vandervelde leader of Belgian BWP party. [1]
January 29
  • Birth of Romain Rolland France, writer (Jean-Christophe) (Nobel Prize 1915). [1]
January 30
  • Birth of Gelett Burgess author (Purple Cow). [1]
January 31
  • Birth of Emil Strauss Germany, writer (Naked Man). [1]
  • Birth of Henry Forster cricketer (Oxford blue 1887-89, later Australian Governor-General). [1]
February 5
  • Birth of Arthur Keith Scottish anthropologist. [1]
  • Birth of Henri [Hendrik J] Hall Dutch Member of Parliament/comic (Put a Lid on it). [1]
  • Birth of Rossetter Gleason Cole composer. [1]
February 6
  • Birth of Karl T Sapper German geography/geologist (Vulkankunde). [1]
February 7
  • Birth of Raf[ael] Verhulst [Koen Ravestein], Flemish writer (Jesus of Nazarus). [1]
February 9
  • Birth of George Ade US, journalist/playwright/humorist (Fables in Slang). [1]
February 10
  • Birth of Bror Beckman composer. [1]
  • Birth of Rafael Altamira Crevea Spanish lawyer/historian. [1]
February 15
  • Birth of Bannister Fletcher London, architect and architectural historian. [1]
February 16
  • Birth of Johann Strauss Austria, composer (Waltz King). [1]
  • Birth of Vyacheslav I Ivanov Russian philosopher/classical/poet. [1]
  • Birth of William "Sliding Billy" Hamilton New Jersey, hall of fame baseball player. [1]
February 24
  • Birth of Arthur Pearson Wookey Somerset England, newspaper proprietor. [1]
February 25
  • Birth of Benedetto Croce Italy, humanist/historian/editor/philosopher. [1]
February 26
  • Birth of Herbert Henry Dow pioneer in US chemical industry (Dow Chemical). [1]

February 28
  • Birth of Vyacheslav I Ivanov Russian philosopher/classical/Symbolist poet (Pilot Stars). [1]
March 7
  • Birth of Paul Ernst writer. [1]
March 18
  • Birth of Dumitru Kiriac-Georgescu composer. [1]
  • Birth of John Loudon Dutch minister of Foreign Affairs (1913-18). [1]
March 21
  • Birth of Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira Maury astronomer. [1]
March 24
  • Birth of Jack McAuliffe US lightweight boxing champion, hall of famer. [1]
April 1
  • Birth of Ferruccio D M B Busoni Italy, pianist/composer/conductor (Arlecchino). [1]
  • Birth of Johannes C H de Meÿere Dutch zoologist. [1]
  • Birth of Sophonisba Breckenridge scholar/teacher/social activist. [1]
April 3
  • Birth of James B Hertzog South African General/premier (1914-39). [1]
April 4
  • Birth of George P Baker US playwright (47 Workshop). [1]
April 6
  • Birth of Butch Cassidy [Robert Parker] US desperado (Wild Bunch Passage). [1]
  • Birth of Joseph Lincoln Steffens muckraker/journalist (Shame of the Cities). [1]
April 11
  • Birth of Carla Ford Henry's wife. [1]
April 14
  • Birth of Anne Mansfield Sullivan US, educated Helen Keller. [1]
April 19
  • Birth of Henri Deterding Dutch oil magnate (Royal Oil, Shell). [1]
April 20
  • Birth of Victor Hollaender composer. [1]
April 22
  • Birth of Hans von Seeckt German General (Future of the Reich). [1]
May 7
  • Birth of Cornelis J K van Aalst president (Dutch Trading Company). [1]
May 13
  • Birth of Ottokar Eugen Novacek composer. [1]
May 16
  • Birth of Ernest Watson Burgess US sociologist (ecological school). [1]
May 17
  • Birth of Erik Alfred Satie Honfleur France, composer (Mémoirs d'un Ambésique). [1]
May 23
  • Birth of Gustav Aschaffenburg German psychiatrist/criminalologist. [1]
May 24
  • Birth of Armando Frid Argentina, live until July 28 1990 (124 years). [1]
May 26
  • Birth of John Eigenhuis writer (Tough Workers). [1]
May 31
  • Birth of Vladimir Ivanovich Rebikov composer. [1]
July 28
  • Birth of Beatrix Potter England, children's author (Tale of Peter Rabbit). [1]
August 12
  • Birth of Jacinto Benavente y Martínez Spanish dramatist (Nobel Prize 1922). [1]
September 1
  • Birth of James "Gentleman Jim" Corbett heavyweight champion boxer (1892-97). [1]
September 2
  • Birth of Hiram Johnson (Governor-Progressive-California). [1]
September 3
  • Birth of Alain Locke famous African. [1]
September 13
  • Birth of Adolf Meyer US, psychiatrist/neurologist (pioneered mental hygiene). [1]
September 21
  • Birth of Charles Jean Henri Nicolle France bacteriologist (Nobel Prize-1928). [1]
  • Birth of H(erbert) G(eorge) Wells in Bromley, England; (War of the Worlds). [1] [5]
September 25
  • Birth of Thomas Hunt Morgan US, biologist (Nobel Prize-1933). [1]
October 6
  • Birth of Reginald Aubrey Fessenden broadcast first program of voice and music. [1]
October 7
  • Birth of Martha McChesney Berry US, founded Berry School for Children. [1]
October 12
  • Birth of Ramsay MacDonald (Liberal) British Prime Minister (1924, 1929-35). [1]
November 12
  • Birth of Sun Yat-sen father of modern China (ROC and PRC) (traditional). [1]
November 20
  • Birth of Kenesaw Mountain Landis judge/first commissioner of baseball. [1]
November 28
  • Birth of Henry Bacon architect (Lincoln Memorial). [1]
December 2
  • Birth of Henry Thacker Burleigh Erie Pennsylvania, black composer (Springarn Medal). [1]
December 4
  • Birth of Vassily Kandinsky Russian/German/French abstract artist (Dreamy Inspiration). [1]
December 12
  • Birth of Alfred Werner Swiss chemist (Nobel Prize 1913). [1]
December 22
  • Birth of Mieczyslaw Surzynski composer. [1]
December 29
  • Birth of Joseph Limburg liberal Second-Member of parliament (1905-19). [1]

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