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]