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Months in Year 1850: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 108 of 108

Jan 5th - Theodoor Verstraete, Flemish painter/etcher
Jan 6th - Eduard "Ede" Bernstein, German marxist (New Era)
Jan 6th - Franz Xaver Scharwenka, German pianist/composer (Mataswintha)
Jan 10th - John Wellborn Root, American architect (d. 1891)
Jan 11th - J C Arthur, Lowville NY, botanist (studied rusts)
Jan 11th - Philipp la Renotiere von Ferrary, famous philatelist
Jan 13th - Leon Francis Victor Caron, composer
Jan 14th - Jean de Reszke, [Jan Mieczyslaw], Polish tenor
Jan 14th - Pierre Loti, French writer (d. 1923)
Jan 15th - Mihail Eminesco, [Eminovici], Romanian poet (Samanul Dionis)
Jan 15th - Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician. (d. 1891)
Jan 17th - Alexander Sergeyevich Taneyev, St Petersburg Russia, composer
Jan 18th - Seth Low, American politician (d. 1916)
Jan 27th - Samuel Gompers, Dutch/US 1st president (American Federation of Labor)
Jan 27th - Edward J. Smith, English captain of the Titanic (d. 1912)
Jan 29th - Ebenezer Howard, London, pioneer of garden cities
Jan 29th - Lawrence Hargrave, inventor (box kite)
Feb 2nd - Carel V Gerritsen, Dutch free thinker
Feb 12th - Amaat Vyncke, Flemish missionary (Flemish Flag)
Feb 16th - Octave Mirbeau, France, writer (Journal of a Lady's Maid)
Feb 17th - Anton Urspruch, composer
Feb 17th - Ludwig Bonvin, composer
Feb 18th - George Henschel, composer
Feb 20th - Nérée Beauchemin, Canadian physician and poet (d. 1931)
Feb 22nd - Isaac L Rice, Germany, (namesake of Columbia Univ's Rice stadium)
Feb 23rd - César Ritz, Swiss hotelier (d. 1918)
Feb 27th - Henry Edwards Huntington, US, railroad exec
Feb 28th - Hermann Schell, German theologist/philosopher (Gott und Geist)
Mar 5th - Daniel Brink Towner, composer
Mar 7th - Tomés G Masaryk, Czechoslovakia, Father/Pres of Czech (1918-35)
Mar 7th - Champ Clark, American politician (d. 1921)
Mar 9th - Alexandre Luigini, composer
Mar 10th - Mary Mills Patrick, US, 1st pres of Istanbul Woman's College
Mar 10th - Spencer Gore, British tennis player and cricketer (d. 1906)
Mar 13th - Emilio Serrano y Ruiz, composer
Mar 24th - Silas Hocking, British novelist and preacher (d. 1935)
Mar 26th - Edward Bellamy, author (Looking Backward)
Apr 8th - William Henry Welch, US, pathologist (founded John Hopkins)
Apr 9th - Herman Zumpe, composer
Apr 13th - Arthur Matthew Weld Downing, British astronomer (d. 1917)
Apr 15th - John Munroe Longyear, US, capitalist/bank president
Apr 16th - Herbert Baxter Adams, US, historian (American Historical Association)
Apr 19th - Edward John Gregory, painter/engraver
Apr 19th - Theo Mann-Bouwmeester, Dutch actress (Pink Bernd, Hedda Gabler)
Apr 20th - Daniel Chester, French/American sculptor (Minute Man)
Apr 27th - Hans Hartwig von Beseler, German general (d. 1921)
May 1st - Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Governor General of Canada (d. 1942)
May 8th - Ross Barnes, baseball player (d. 1915)
May 10th - Thomas Johnstone Lipton, Glasgow, yachtsman/tea magnate (Lipton Tea)
May 12th - Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. statesman (d. 1924)
May 16th - Arthur Henry Mann, organist/composer
May 17th - Antonio Scontrino, composer
May 18th - Oliver Heaviside, London, physicist (predicted ionosphere)
May 20th - Eaton Faning, composer
May 21st - Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (d. 1914)
May 22nd - Johann Schrammel, composer
May 24th - Ernest Albert Waterlow, water-color painter
May 26th - Christine [Elizabeth C] Poolman, Dutch actress (Stupid force)
May 27th - Thomas Neill Cream, Glasgow, Scotland, serial killer (Lambeth poisoner), (d. 1892)
Jun 5th - Pat Garrett, American Western lawman (d. 1908)
Jun 6th - Karl F Braun, Germany, co-developed wireless telegraphy (Nobel 1909)
Jun 18th - Richard Heuberger, composer
Jun 19th - David Jayne Hill, American diplomat (d. 1932)
Jun 24th - Horatio Herbert Kitchener, England, original Order of Merit member
Jun 27th - Ivan Vazov, Bulgaria, poet/novelist/playwright (Under the Yoke)
Jun 27th - Jacob Adolf Hagg, composer
Jun 27th - Lafcadio Hearn, US, journalist/author (Chita)
Jun 27th - Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician (d. 1919)
Jun 29th - Joseph Paul Skelly, composer
Jul 3rd - Alfredo Kiel, composer
Jul 4th - Ole Olsen, composer
Jul 11th - Annie Armstrong, American missionary leader (d. 1938)
Jul 12th - Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist (d. 1912)
Jul 13th - Hipolito Irigoyen, president Argentina (1916-22, 1928-30)
Jul 15th - Francesca Xavier Cabrini, [Mother Cabrini], 1st US saint
Jul 18th - Rose Hartwick Thorpe, American poet (d. 1939)
Aug 3rd - Paul A Daum, Dutch writer/founder/editor (Batavian Newspaper)
Aug 3rd - Reginald Heber Roe, 2nd Headmaster of Brisbane Grammar School (d. 1926)
Aug 5th - Anton Simon, composer
Aug 5th - Guy de Maupassant, France, author (Boule de Suif)
Aug 14th - Earnest YY [Bachigaloupi] Tourniaire, actor (Kloris & Roses)
Aug 26th - Charles Richet, French physiologist (anaphylaxis-Nobel 1913)
Sep 2nd - Albert Spaulding, baseball player/founded Spaulding sports company
Sep 2nd - Eugene Field, author/journalist (Little Boy Blue)
Sep 2nd - Woldemar Voigt, German physicist (d. 1919)
Sep 4th - Luigi Cadorna, Italian fieldmarshal/earl (WW I-Caporetto)
Sep 6th - Louis F H "Louis" Apol, painter/etcher/literary
Sep 9th - Harishchandra, India, poet/dramatist/father of modern Hindi
Sep 9th - Leopoldo Miguez, composer
Oct 4th - John W McGraw, (Gov-R-Wash) (1893-97)
Oct 5th - Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician, and President of the First Imperial Duma (d. 1910)
Oct 8th - Henri Louis le Chatelier, French chemist (d. 1936)
Oct 18th - Francis Thome, composer
Oct 19th - Annie S Peck, mountain climber/explorer/diplomat
Nov 5th - Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American author and poet (d. 1919)
Nov 8th - Karel Komzak, composer
Nov 9th - Lewis Lewin, Germany, toxicologist/father of psychopharmacologist
Nov 12th - Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player (d. 1908)
Novelist Robert Louis Stevenson (Nov 13th) Nov 13th - Robert Louis Stevenson, Edinburgh, Scotland, author (Treasure Island), (d. 1894)
Nov 20th - Arthor Goring Thomas, composer
Nov 26th - Henricus Van de Wetering, archbishop of Utrecht (1895-1929)
Dec 1st - Peter Erasmus Lange-Muller, composer
Dec 9th - Emma Abbott, American soprano (d. 1891)
Dec 13th - G F Grace, cricketer (brother of W G )
Dec 13th - Iver Paul Fredrik Holter, composer
Dec 16th - Fred Morley, cricketer (legendary Notts & England bowler 1880-83)
Dec 21st - Zdenek Fibich, composer
Dec 29th - Tomas Breton y Hernandez, composer

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