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Months in Year 1847: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 88 of 88

Jan 4th - Hendrik Goeman Borgesius, Dutch politician
Jan 20th - W R Pettiford, Founder (Alabama Penny Savings Bank)
Feb 2nd - Jules Francois Blasini, Curacaos pianist/composer
Feb 7th - Ernst Franck, German composer/conductor
Feb 8th - Hugh Price Hughes, English social reformer (d. 1902)
Feb 10th - A N Hornby, cricketer (pioneering England Test batsman)
Feb 11th - Thomas Alva Edison, Milan Ohio, lit up your life (held 1200 patents)
Feb 14th - Anna Howard Shaw, US, suffragette
Feb 14th - Maria Pia of Italy, queen of Portugal (d. 1911)
Feb 15th - Robert Fuchs, composer
Feb 16th - Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka, German composer (Album polonaise)
Feb 25th - John Watson, Canada, philosopher (Objective Idealism)
Feb 27th - Ellen Alice Terry, Coventry Engl, actress/director (Imperial Theatre)
Mar 3rd - Alexander Graham Bell, Scotland, inventor (telephone)
Mar 4th - Karl Bayer, Austrian chemist (d. 1904)
Mar 8th - Karl von Bach, German engineer (Maschinenelemente)
Mar 10th - Kate Sheppard, New Zealand suffragist (d. 1934)
Mar 14th - Antonio de Castro Alves, Brazilian poet (Espumas Flutuantes)
Mar 19th - Constantin Dimitrescu, composer
Inventor Alexander Graham Bell (Mar 3rd) Mar 23rd - Alexandru D Xenopol, Romania, historian
Mar 27th - Otto Wallach, Germany, chemist (Nobel 1910)
Mar 31st - Jarolslaw Zielinski, composer
Mar 31st - Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician (d. 1878)
Apr 1st - Gavriil Musicescu, composer
Apr 1st - Jules-Nicolas Crevaux, French explorer (South America)
Apr 7th - J P Jacobsen, writer
Apr 9th - Francesco Paolo Tosti, composer
Apr 9th - Francis William Davenport, composer
Apr 10th - Charles Swinnerton Heap, composer
Apr 10th - Joseph Pulitzer, Hungary, publisher (St Louis Post-Dispatch, NY World)
Apr 13th - Cornelis Pijnacker Hordijk, gov-gen (Neth East-Indies)
Apr 16th - Hans Auer, Swiss architect, (d. 1906)
May 7th - Archibald Primrose, Earl of Rosebery (Lib), British PM (1894-95)
May 10th - Wilhelm Killing, German mathematician (d. 1923)
May 13th - Johannes Haarklou, composer
May 25th - Alphonse Goovaerts, composer
May 25th - John Alexander Dowie, [Elijah the Restorer], US, evangelist
May 30th - Alice Sophia Stopford Green, Ireland, proponent of Irish independence
Jun 6th - Gerben Postma, [Ids], Frisian writer (Swealtsjeblommen)
Jun 8th - Ida Sazton McKinley, 1st lady (1897-1901)
Jun 11th - Millicent Garrett Fawcett, leader (English women's movement)
Jun 24th - Gervais Bernard Gaston Salvayre, composer
Jun 28th - Sveinbjorn Sveinbjornsson, composer
Jun 30th - Jacob T Cremer, min of Colonies/pres (Dutch Trading Comp)
Jul 2nd - Marcel Bertrand, French mine engineer (tectonic geology)
Jul 4th - James Anthony Bailey, Detroit, circus impresario (Barnum & Bailey)
Jul 5th - Agnes Marie Jacobina Zimmermann, composer
Jul 20th - Max Liebermann, German impressionist painter
Jul 31st - Ignatio Cervantes, composer
Aug 1st - Guido Papini, violinist/composer
Aug 3rd - Jan de Louter, lawyer/tutor of Dutch Queen Wilhelmina
Aug 9th - Maria Victoria al Pozzo della Cisterna, queen consort of Spain (d. 1876)
Aug 14th - Robert Comtesse, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1922)
Aug 20th - Bolesław Prus, Polish writer (d. 1912)
Aug 20th - Andrew Greenwood, England cricketer (d. 1889)
Aug 21st - Arthur T Verhaegen, Belgian worker's union leader
Aug 22nd - Alexander Campbell Mackenzie, composer
Aug 23rd - Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (d. 1927)
Aug 27th - Gustave J Waffelaert, Flemish theologist/bishop of Bridge
Sep 2nd - Roger Wolcott, 39th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1900)
Outlaw Jesse James (Sep 5th) Sep 5th - Jesse James, Missouri, outlaw, son of a clergyman, (d. 1882)
Sep 13th - Charles Dupee Blake, composer
Sep 16th - Albert Ross Parsons, composer
Sep 20th - Sergei G Netsjajev, Russian nihilist (Catechism Revolutionary)
Sep 30th - Wilhelmina E Drucker, [Lensing], Dutch feminist
Oct 1st - Annie Besant, [Wood], England, philosopher (Esoteric christianity)
Oct 2nd - Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorf und Hindenburg, German president
Oct 6th - Adolf von Hildebrand, German sculptor
Oct 9th - Andre Dumont, Belgian mine engineer (Limburg's coal basin)
Oct 9th - Stephanus J du Toit, South Africa theologist/journalist (Afr Bond)
Oct 10th - Gheorghe Dima, composer
Oct 21st - Guiseppe Giacosa, Italian songwriter (libretti opera Puccini)
Oct 22nd - Jacobus Herculas [Uncle Koos] de la Rey, South African politician
Oct 31st - Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (2-fasenmotor)
Nov 1st - Emma Albani, Canadian soprano (d. 1930)
Nov 2nd - George Sorel, French Socialist thinker/author (violent revolutions)
Nov 8th - Bram Stoker, Irish theater manager/author (Dracula)
Nov 8th - Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician (d. 1907)
Nov 16th - Edmund James Flynn, Canadian politician (d. 1927)
Nov 26th - Maria Fyodorovna, Princess of Denmark and Empress of Russia (d. 1928)
Nov 30th - August Friedrich Martin Klughardt, composer
Dec 1st - Agathe Grondahl, composer
Dec 7th - James Deacon White, Canton NY, ball player jumped teams in 1876 (Chi)
Dec 7th - Solomon Schechter, US Talmudic scholar/Jewish leader
Dec 9th - George Grossmith, English actor/writer (d. 1912)
Dec 16th - Augusta Mary Anne Holmes, composer
Dec 17th - Émile Faguet, French writer and critic (d. 1916)
Dec 30th - John Peter Altgeld, German/US (Gov-Ill)/pardoned Haymarket-anarchists

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