1867

January 1

• Birth of Charles Edward Montague English author/critic (Fiery Particles). [1]
• Birth of Lew Fields New York City, New York, comedian/actor (of Weber and Fields, 23-Skidoo). [1]

January 6

• Birth of Georges Martin Witkowski composer. [1]

January 8

• Birth of Emily Green Balch US, sociologist/feminist/pacifist (Nobel Prize 1946). [1]

January 9

• Birth of Jacques Urlus Dutch tenor (Opera of Leipzig, Song of the Earth). [1]

January 10

• Birth of Gerhard Anschütz German Member of Parliament. [1]

January 18

• Birth of Rubén Darío national poet (Nicaragua). [1]

January 21

• Birth of James Marcus; actor (Eagle, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Lone Avenger). [1]
• Birth of Maxime Weygand French General/Governor-General (Algeria). [1]
• Birth of Willem C Royaards Dutch theater director (Summer Games). [1]

January 23

• Birth of Herbert Bedford composer. [1]

January 27

• Birth of Claude Antoine Terrasse composer. [1]

January 29

• Birth of Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Spain, writer (4 Horsemen of Apocalypse). [1]

February 5

• Birth of Casper A Lingbeek vicar/Dutch Member of Parliament. [1]

February 7

• Birth of Laura Ingalls Wilder Wisconsin, children's book author (Little House on the Prairie). [1]

February 9

• Birth of Edward Naylor composer. [1]
• Birth of Natsume Sôseki [Natsume Kinnosuke] Japanese author (Kokoro). [1]

February 11

• Birth of August W Messer German philosopher/educator/psychologist. [1]

February 12

• Birth of Hedwig Courths-Mahler German author (Warbride). [1]
• Birth of Joe Howard New York City, New York, singer (Gay Nineties Revue). [1]

February 17

• Birth of William Cadbury England, chocolate manufacturer (Cadbury). [1]

February 21

• Birth of Otto Hermann Kahn Banker, organized Metropolitan Opera Company. [1]

February 26

• Birth of Siegfried Passarge German geographer (Cameroon/South Africa/America). [1]

February 27

• Birth of Irving Fisher US economist (compensating dollar). [1]
• Birth of Wilhelm Peterson-Berger composer. [1]

March 3

• Birth of Gustav Strube composer. [1]

March 5

• Birth of Theodor Zöckler German theologist (Stanislauer Anstalten). [1]

March 10

• Birth of Lillian D Wald US, sociologist/organizer (Visiting Nurses). [1]

March 15

• Birth of Lionel Pigot Johnson England, poet/critic (Ireland and Other Poems). [1]
• Birth of Will Rossiter composer. [1]

March 18

• Birth of Michael G de Boer historian (Harbor of Amsterdam). [1]

March 22

• Birth of Meijer Linnewiel [Professor Kokadorus], Amsterdam's pitchman. [1]

March 25

• Birth of Arturo Toscanini Parma Italy, temperamental conductor. [1]
• Birth of Gutzon Borglum sculptor (Mount Rushmore). [1]

March 27

• Birth of Edyth Walker US singer. [1]

March 29

• Birth of Cy [Denton True] Young Gilmore Ohio, winningest pitcher (511 wins, 1890-1911). [1]

April 11

• Birth of John P Lotsy Dutch botanist/geneticist (Genetics). [1]

April 13

• Birth of Sammy Woods cricket bowler (Australia and England Rugby wing-forward). [1]

April 16

• Birth of José de Diego Puerto Rico, patriot/Puerto Rican Secretary of Justice. [1]
• Birth of Wilbur Wright of aeronautical fame (Wright Brothers). [1]

April 21

• Birth of Benjamin A Jesurun Antillian literary. [1]

April 23

• Birth of Simon Abramsz Dutch teacher/writer (For the Young Ones). [1]

April 24

• Birth of Fannie Thomas became oldest known American (113 years 273 days at death). [1]

April 25

• Birth of Jean Demoor Belgian physician/physiologist. [1]

May 3

• Birth of Jack Hearne cricketer (cousin of George and Alec 12 Tests for England). [1]
• Birth of Valère-Gille Belgian playwright (La Corbeille d'Octobre). [1]

May 4

• Birth of Dynam-Victor Fumet composer. [1]

May 5

• Birth of Nellie Bly [Elizabeth Cochran Seaman] journalist. [1]
• Birth of Thomas Tertius Noble composer. [1]

May 7

• Birth of Philippine "Pine" Belder [Mary de Klerk], actress (Hope of Blessing). [1]

May 10

• Birth of Jim Kelly cricket wicket-keeper (Australian 1896-1905). [1]

May 12

• Birth of Hugh Trumble cricket off-spinner (great Australian at turn of century). [1]

May 13

• Birth of Sir Frank Brangwyn Wales, painter/muralist/cartoonist (Willam Morris). [1]

May 14

• Birth of Kurt Eisner German premier of revolutionary Bavaria (1918-19). [1]

May 17

• Birth of Gerrit Mannoury Dutch mathematician/philosopher. [1]

May 21

• Birth of John James Ferris cricketer (mighty Australian bowler of late 1880s). [1]
• Birth of Marie Joseph Leon Desire Paque composer. [1]

May 26

• Birth of Mary queen of Great Britain/North Ireland. [1]

May 27

• Birth of Arnold Bennett England, novelist/playwright/critic (Great Babylon). [1]

May 30

• Birth of Arthur Vining Davis Sharon Massachusetts, CEO (Alcoa-1910-57). [1]

June 4

• Birth of Carl Gustaf Mannerheim Finland, military hero, President (1944-46). [1]

June 8

• Birth of Frank Lloyd Wright Richland Center, Wisconsin, master builder. [1]

June 11

• Birth of Charles Fabry found ozone layer in upper atmosphere. [1]

June 17

• Birth of John Robert Gregg Ireland, inventor (shorthand). [1]

June 28

• Birth of Luigi Pirandello Italy, writer (6 Characters-Nobel Prize 1934). [1]

July 4

• Birth of Stephen Mather organized US National Park Service. [1]

July 5

• Birth of Dr Andrew Ellicott Douglass Dendrochronologer (study of tree rings). [1]

July 8

• Birth of Käthe Kollwitz Germany, print maker/sculptor (Bauernkrieg). [1]

July 10

• Birth of Finley Peter Dunne US, journalist/humorist (Mr Dooley). [1]

July 27

• Birth of Enrique Granados Lérida Spain, composer (Maria del Carmen). [1]

August 3

• Birth of Stanley Earl Baldwin, (Conservative) British Prime Minister (1923-24, 1924-29, 1935-37). [1]

August 11

• Birth of Joseph Weber comedian (Weber and Fields). [1]

August 12

• Birth of Edith Hamilton US, writer (Mythology). [1]

August 14

• Birth of John Galsworthy England, author (Forsyte Saga-Nobel Prize 1932). [1]

September 14

• Birth of Charles Dana Gibson illustrator, drew "Gibson Girl". [1]

September 19

• Birth of Arthur Rackham England, artist/illustrator (Grimm's Fairy Tales). [1]

October 14

• Birth of Masaoka Shiki Japan, haiku and tanka poet/diarist (Salt Water Ballads). [1]

November 7

• Birth of Madame Marie Sklodowska Curie discovered radium (Nobel Prize 1903, 1911). [1]

November 27

• Birth of Charles Koechlin Paris France, composer (Jacob Chez Luban). [1]

December 5

• Birth of Antti Aarne Finnish sociologist (Verzeichnis is der Märchentypen). [1]

December 18

• Birth of Antoon van Welie Dutch painter. [1]

December 20

• Birth of Fini Valdemar Henriques composer. [1]

December 21

• Birth of John Winter Thompson composer. [1]

December 22

• Birth of Frantisek X Salda Czechoslovakian writer/critic. [1]
• Birth of Joseph [Maria] Olbrich Silesia, German architect (Wiener Sezession). [1]
• Birth of [Karl Eduard] Wilhelm Groener Germany, general. [1]

December 23

• Birth of Madame C J Walker [Sarah Breedlove] Delta Louisiana, cosmetics mogul. [1]

December 24

• Birth of Manuel de Oliveira Lima Brazilian historian/diplomat. [1]
• Birth of Tevfik Fikret Turkish poet (Servet-i Fünun, Sis). [1]

December 25

• Birth of Alfred Kerr writer. [1]

December 26

• Birth of Julien Benda French philosopher/writer (Dialogues à Byzance). [1]

December 30

• Birth of Simon Guggenheim philanthropist (died aboard the Titanic). [1]

1868

January 3

• Birth of Franz V M Cumont Belgian religious historian. [1]

January 6

• Birth of Vittorio Monti composer. [1]

January 7

• Birth of Abraham M "Mark" Lidzbarski Polish/German orientalist. [1]

January 8

• Birth of Sir Frank Dyson proved Einstein right about light bent by gravity. [1]

January 14

• Birth of Catharina A M de Savornin Lohman Dutch author (Belief). [1]

January 15

• Birth of Noach Zjordanija Georgian veterinarian/premier (1918-21). [1]

January 16

• Birth of Cyril Metodej Hrazdira composer. [1]

January 19

• Birth of Gustav Meyrink writer. [1]

January 20

• Birth of Wilhelm Schäfer German writer (Ein Totschläger). [1]

January 23

• Birth of Juventino Rosas composer. [1]

January 27

• Birth of Cato Engelen-Sewing Dutch soprano prima donna (Dutch Opera). [1]

January 28

• Birth of Frederick Archibald Lamond composer. [1]
• Birth of Julian Aguirre composer. [1]

January 31

• Birth of Theodore William Richards chemist (atomic weights, Nobel Prize-1914). [1]

February 3

• Birth of Damaso Ledesma composer. [1]

February 4

• Birth of Constance Gore-booth Markiewicy Irish patriot/playwright/Member of Parliament. [1]

February 5

• Birth of Lodewijk Mortelmans composer. [1]

February 10

• Birth of William Allen White Emporia Kansas, editor (Pulitzer 1942). [1]

February 12

• Birth of Johan H A Schaper Dutch Member of Parliament/founder (SDAP). [1]

February 14

• Birth of Henricus A Poels Dutch Roman Catholic theologist/social foreman. [1]

February 16

• Birth of Wilhelm Schmidt German anthropologist/linguist (Anthropos). [1]

February 22

• Birth of Henri Polak union leader/politician (Social-Democrat). [1]

February 23

• Birth of William E B Du Bois Great Barrington Massachusetts, civil rights writer (Souls of Black Folk). [1]

February 25

• Birth of Anthony J Block Dutch lawyer (strafproces). [1]

February 26

• Birth of Leonard Borwick British pianist. [1]

March 3

• Birth of Alain [Emile-Auguste Chartier], French philosopher/writer. [1]

March 5

• Birth of Prosper Poullet Belgian viscount/jurist/minister. [1]

March 16

• Birth of Maxim Gorki USSR, playwright (The Lower Depths, Night Asylum). [1]

March 20

• Birth of Obe Postma Frisian poet/geography/historian (Frisian Clay Farm). [1]

March 22

• Birth of Hamish MacCunn composer. [1]
• Birth of Henry W Methorst lawyer/director (Dutch Cent Bureau of Statistics). [1]
• Birth of Robert A Millikan US physicist (photoelectric effect; Nobel Prize 1923). [1]

March 25

• Birth of Bill Lockwood cricketer (England all-rounder in 12 Tests 1893-1902). [1]

March 26

• Birth of Fuad I king of Egypt (1922-36). [1]

March 27

• Birth of Patty Smith Hill author/songwriter (Happy Birthday To You). [1]

March 28

• Birth of Cuno Amiet Swiss painter. [1]
• Birth of Maxim Gorki [Aleksei Peshikov] Russia, writer (Mother). [1]
• Birth of Wojciech Gawronski composer. [1]

March 31

• Birth of Karl Bonhoeffer German psychiatrist/neurologist. [1]

April 1

• Birth of Edmond Rostand in France; poet/playwright (Cyrano de Bergerac). [1] [242.4]

April 2

• Birth of Eduard Jacobs singer/pianist (Dutch cabaret). [1]

April 5

• Birth of J F "Flooi" Du Toit cricketer (one Test South Africa 1892). [1]

April 10

• Birth of George Arliss London England; actor (Devil, Green Goddess). [1]

April 13

• Birth of John Blackwood McEwen composer. [1]

April 16

• Birth of Joel Angel Russian musicologist/composer. [1]
• Birth of Spottiswoode Aitken Edinburgh Scotland; actor (Eagle, Home Sweet Home). [1]

April 17

• Birth of Charles R Gallas Dutch lexicographer (French dictionary). [1]

April 18

• Birth of Didericus G van Epen genealogist (Dutch Patriciate). [1]

April 19

• Birth of Max Von Schillings German composer/conductor (Der Pfeifertag). [1]

April 22

• Birth of Jose Vianna da Motta composer. [1]

April 26

• Birth of Harold Sidney Harmsworth first Viscount Rothermere/Newspaper publisher. [1]
• Birth of Robert Herrick US writer (Common lot). [1]

April 28

• Birth of Émile Bernard writer. [1]

May 6

• Birth of Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Poland, novelist (Chiopi, Nobel Prize-1924). [1]

May 12

• Birth of Halsey William Wilson US, publisher of reference books. [1]

May 13

• Birth of Paolo Gallico composer. [1]

May 18

• Birth of Nicholas II Aleksandrovitsj last tsar of Russia (1894-1917). [1]

May 28

• Birth of Claude Anet [Jean Schopfer] French writer (Fille Perdue). [1]

May 29

• Birth of Fréderic baron d'Erlanger French composer/banker. [1]

June 6

• Birth of Robert Falcon Scott; leader of ill-fated south polar expedition. [1] [5]

June 14

• Birth of Karl Landsteiner immunologist/pathologist (Nobel Prize 1930). [1]

June 20

• Birth of Helen Miller Shepard philanthropist/established Hall of Fame. [1]

July 12

• Birth of Stefan George Germany, lyric poet (Algabal). [1]

August 6

• Birth of Paul Claudel France, diplomat/poet (L'Otage-1909). [1]

August 16

• Birth of Bernard MacFadden publisher (Physical Culture, True Romances). [1]

September 9

• Birth of Mary Austin Illinois, feminist/nature writer (Land of Little Rain). [1]

October 19

• Birth of Bertha Landes first woman elected mayor of a major US city (Seattle). [1]

October 23

• Birth of Rama V [Chulalongkorn], leader of Thailand (-1910). [1]

November 22

• Birth of John Nance Garner (Democrat) 32nd Vice President (1933-41). [1]

November 24

• Birth of Scott Joplin US, entertainer/composer (The Entertainer). [1]

December 2

• Birth of Francis Jammes French poet/writer (Jammisme). [1]

December 4

• Birth of Richard N Roland Holst Dutch artist/painter. [1]

December 9

• Birth of Fritz Haber German phycist-chemist (Nobel Prize 1918). [1]

December 10

• Birth of Louis Victor Saar composer. [1]

December 11

• Birth of Ernst Henrik Ellberg composer. [1]

December 14

• Birth of Richard Batka composer. [1]

December 20

• Birth of Harvey S Firestone Industrialist, where the rubber meets the road. [1]

December 22

• Birth of John Nance Garner Texas, (Vice-President-Democrat-1933-41). [1]

December 24

• Birth of Emanuel Lasker Germany, world chess champion (1894-21). [1]

December 25

• Birth of Eugenie Besserer Watertown New York, actress (Jazz Singer). [1]

December 28

• Birth of Marie van Regteren Altena Dutch painter (Amsterdam's Joffers). [1]

1869

January 1

• Birth of Louis de la Vallée-Poussin Belgian indologist. [1]

January 3

• Birth of Paul Charles Rene Landormy composer. [1]

January 4

• Birth of Percy Pitt composer. [1]

January 9

• Birth of Richard Abegg in Danzig, Prussia; physical chemist, concept of valence. [37]

January 13

• Birth of Emanuele F duke of Aosta, Italian General (WWI)/fascist. [1]

January 18

• Birth of Willem De Vreese Flemish linguist/biblographer. [1]

January 19

• Birth of Alfred R Zimmerman mayor (Rotterdam 1906-22)/Director (League of Nations). [1]

January 23

• Birth of Carlo Felice Boghen composer. [1]
• Birth of Herbert David Croly US author (Promise of American Life). [1]

January 27

• Birth of Will Marion Cook composer. [1]

January 28

• Birth of Ozaki Kôyô Japan, novelist/essayist/haiku poet (The Heart). [1]

January 29

• Birth of Andrey Vladimirovich Scherbachov composer. [1]

January 31

• Birth of Henry graaf Carton de Wiart Belgian literary/premier (1920-21). [1]

February 1

• Birth of Johannes F "Frits" Bakker Sr; actor (Holland Tooneelgezelschap). [1]

February 7

• Birth of Jindrich S Baar Czechoslovakia pastor/writer (Jan Cimbura). [1]

February 10

• Birth of Vasily Pavovlich Kalafati composer. [1]

February 11

• Birth of Helene ELJ Kröller-Müller Dutch founder (Kröller-Müller Museum). [1]

February 12

• Birth of Hendrik P Marchant Dutch minister of Education/Arts (VVD). [1]

February 14

• Birth of Charles Wilson English physicist (Wilson cloud chamber-Nobel). [1]

February 23

• Birth of Nadezhda Konstantinova Krupskaya Russian revolutionary (Social-Democrat). [1]

February 26

• Birth of Nadezjda K Krupskaja Russian revolutionary/wife of Lenin. [1]

February 27

• Birth of Alice Hamilton physician/writer (workmen's compensation laws). [1]

March 3

• Birth of Henry J Wood English conductor (Gentle Art of Singing, Proms). [1]

March 5

• Birth of Michael von Faulhaber cardinal/archbishop of Munich. [1]

March 7

• Birth of Ernst J Cohen Dutch chemist. [1]

March 18

• Birth of [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain British Prime Minister (C, 1937-40). [1]

March 21

• Birth of Albert Kahn architect, originated modern factory design. [1]
• Birth of Florenz Ziegfeld producer (Ziegfield Follies). [1]

March 24

• Birth of Émile Fabre France, playwright, administrator of Comédie Française. [1]

March 25

• Birth of Gustaaf Schamelhout Flemish physician/writer. [1]

March 29

• Birth of Ales Hrdlicka US, anthropologist/curator (US National Museum). [1]
• Birth of Edwin Lutyens architect, London. [1]

April 1

• Birth of Peter A Egge Norwegian writer (De Droom). [1]

April 5

• Birth of Albert Roussel Tourcoing France, composer (Rapsodie Flamande). [1]
• Birth of Karl Wagenfeld Low German writer (Daud un Düwel). [1]

April 6

• Birth of Louis Raemakers Dutch draftsman/painter. [1]

April 7

• Birth of David Grandison Fairchild US, botanist/explorer, brought plants to US. [1]

April 8

• Birth of Harvey Cushing US, neurosurgeon (blood pressure studies). [1]

April 12

• Birth of Henri-Désiré Landru French sex murderer. [1]

April 17

• Birth of Johannes M Meulenhoff Dutch publisher. [1]

April 25

• Birth of Karl Prohaska composer. [1]

April 27

• Birth of William Victor Harris composer. [1]

May 2

• Birth of Tyrone Power Sr London England; actor (Alexanders Ragtime Band). [1]

May 5

• Birth of Hans Erich Pfitzner Moscow Russia, composer (Krakquer Begrüs). [1]

May 6

• Birth of Jan R Slotemaker de Bruïne Dutch clergyman/politician (CHU). [1]
• Birth of Joseph Cuvelier Belgian historian/archivist. [1]

May 11

• Birth of Francisco Lacerda composer. [1]

May 18

• Birth of Ruprecht crown prince of Bavaria/general-fieldmarshall. [1]

May 19

• Birth of Jules Poncelet Belgian minister of State. [1]

June 27

• Birth of Emma Goldman anarchist/publisher (Mother Earth). [1]

July 14

• Birth of Owen Wister US, novelist (The Virginian). [1]

July 29

• Birth of Booth Tarkington US, novelist (17, Magnificent Ambersons). [1]

August 10

• Birth of Lawrence Binyon Vienna Austria, writer (Symbolic Wounds). [1]

August 14

• Birth of Armas Järnefelt Vyborg Finland, composer (Berceuse). [1]

August 23

• Birth of James (Sunny Jim) Rolph San Francisco mayor (1912-31), MUNI backer. [1]

September 17

• Birth of Christian Lange Norway, pacifist/internationalist (Nobel Prize 1921). [1]

September 23

• Birth of Edgar Lee Masters poet/novelist (Spoon River Anthology). [1]
• Birth of Mary Church Terrell famous African. [1]

October 2

• Birth of Mohandas K Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) in Porbandar Kathiawad, India; pacifist. [1] [5]

October 8

• Birth of J Frank Duryea inventor (first auto built and operated in the US). [1]

October 14

• Birth of Joseph Duveen England, art connoisseur (Elgin marbles). [1]

October 25

• Birth of John Heisman pioneering football coach/trophy namesake. [1]

November 11

• Birth of Victor Emmanuel III king of Italy (1900-46)/Ethiopia. [1]

November 18

• Birth of James E Sullivan founder (Amateur Athletic Union). [1]

November 20

• Birth of Clark Griffith Missouri, baseball player/manager (New York Yankees). [1]

November 22

• Birth of Andre Gide France, novelist (Lafcadio's Adventures-Nobel Prize 1947). [1]

December 2

• Birth of Jonas Cohn German/English philosopher (Theory of the Dialects). [1]

December 16

• Birth of Albert F Pollard British historian (Dictionary of natural biography). [1]

December 17

• Birth of Nikolay Ivanovich Kazanli composer. [1]

December 19

• Birth of Eduard Hermann Coburg Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, German linguist (Homer). [1]

December 20

• Birth of Charley Grapewin Xenia Ohio; actor (Wizard of Oz, Libeled Lady). [1]

December 22

• Birth of Andre[-Paul-Guillaume] Gide Paris France, writer (Nobel Prize 1947). [1]
• Birth of Edwin Arlington Robinson US, poet (Richard Corey). [1]

December 24

• Birth of Henriëtte Roland Holst-van der Schalk Dutch poet (Women in Forest). [1]

December 26

• Birth of Harry Redman composer. [1]

December 27

• Birth of Aurélien FM Lugné-Poe French actor/stage manager (La Parade). [1]

December 29

• Birth of Bill Howell cricketer (Australian bowler at turn of century). [1]

December 30

• Birth of Adolphe Max Belgian Representative (Liberal). [1]
• Birth of Stephen Leacock Canada, economist/humorist/professor. [1]

December 31

• Birth of Henri Matisse France, impressionist painter (Odalisque). [1]