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Months in Year 1854: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 104 of 104

Jan 1st - James Frazer, Britain, anthropologist/author (The Golden Bough)
Jan 6th - Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft, fictional detective (via Arthur Conan Doyle)
Jan 9th - Jennie Jerome, American society beauty and mother of Winston Churchill (d. 1921)
Jan 10th - Peter Gast, composer
Jan 18th - Thomas A Watson, needed by Bell, inventor assistant (Telephone)
Jan 29th - Willem PC Knuttel, Dutch bibliographer/librarian
Feb 9th - Aletta [Henriette] Jacobs, 1st Dutch female physician
Feb 9th - Edward Carson, 1st Baron Carson, lawyer/leader (Irish Unionist Party)
Feb 16th - Oscar Fetras, composer
Feb 17th - Friedrich A Krupp, German arms manufacturer
Feb 20th - Louis F M van Westerhoven, actor/singer/opera director (Youth)
Feb 24th - Franz Courtens, Flemish painter (Golden Rain)
Feb 28th - Juliusz Zarebski, composer
Mar 4th - Sir Napier Shaw, British meteorologist (d. 1945)
Mar 8th - Tom Felix Horan, cricketer (Ireland Pioneering Aust all-rounder)
Mar 14th - Paul Ehrlich, Germany, bacteriologist (Nobel-1908)
Mar 14th - Thomas Riley Marshall, (D) 28th VP (1913-21)
Mar 14th - Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian writer (d. 1920)
Mar 14th - John Lane, British publisher (d. 1925)
Mar 15th - Emil Adolf von Behring, German physician; Nobel laureate (d. 1917)
Mar 21st - Alick A C Bannerman, cricketer (bro of Charles, Australia 1878-1893)
Mar 23rd - Alfred Milner, Giessen Germany, British governor (Cape colony)
Mar 26th - Braulio Dueno Colon, composer
Mar 31st - Dugald Clerk, inventor (2-stroke motorcycle engine)
Apr 1st - Bill Traylor, American artist (d. 1949)
Apr 5th - Vicente Goicoechea Errasti, composer
Apr 9th - Seaborn M Denson, composer
Apr 10th - Jozef M T Orelio, baritone
Apr 11th - Hugh Massie, cricketer (Australian batsman of the 1880's)
Apr 13th - Richard T Ely, US economist (Hard Times)
Apr 21st - Eusapia Palladino, Napolitanse with parergische phenomenons
Apr 21st - Wladyslaw Rzepko, composer
Apr 21st - William Stang, Roman Catholic Bishop (d. 1907)
Apr 22nd - Henri-Marie Lafontaine, Belgium, international lawyer (Nobel 1913)
Apr 29th - Henri Poincaré, France, mathematician/astronomer/philosopher
May 5th - Antonio Smareglia, composer
May 11th - John Blackham, cricketer (Australia's 1st wicketkeeper)
May 11th - Ottmar Mergenthaler, Hachtel Germany, inventor (linotype)
May 13th - Louis H Chrispijn, Dutch director (Lost & Found, Silvia Silombra)
May 13th - Paul Klengel, composer
May 18th - Bernard Zweers, Dutch composer (To my Fatherland)
May 24th - Louis Mountbatten, admiral (WW I)
May 24th - John Riley Banister, American law officer and cowboy (d. 1918)
May 27th - Georges Eekhoud, Belgian writer (Jeune Belgium)
Jun 8th - Douglas Colin Cameron, Canadian politician (d. 1921)
Jun 9th - Gerardus J P J Bolland, Dutch philosopher (Bolland Society)
Jun 13th - Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor (steam turbine)
Jun 14th - Frederik Rung, composer
Jun 18th - Edward Wyllis Scripps, publisher/journalist
Jun 19th - Alfredo Catalani, composer
Jun 26th - Robert Laird Borden, (C), 8th Canadian PM (1911-20)
Jul 3rd - Leoš Janáček, Czech composer (d. 1928)
Jul 4th - Heinrich Zollner, composer
Jul 4th - Victor Babeş, Romanian bacteriologist (d. 1926)
Jul 12th - George Eastman, Waterville NY, inventor (Kodak camera)
Jul 14th - Alexander Alexandrovich Kopilov, composer
Jul 19th - Daniel Josephus Jitta, Dutch High Court lawyer
Jul 29th - Georg Kerschensteiner, German educator (Theory of Education)
Jul 31st - Jose Canalejas contributes Mendez, premier of Spain (1910-12)
Aug 2nd - Francis Marion Crawford, British author
Aug 3rd - Fernand de La Tombelle, composer
Aug 10th - J Scott Lidgett, London, theologist
Aug 12th - Alfred Gilbert, sculptor/goldsmith
Aug 12th - Johannes P Kelly, Dutch [Kellij], actor/operetta writer
Aug 22nd - Milan I, King of Serbia
Aug 23rd - Moritz Moszkowski, composer
Aug 24th - Nikolay Vladimirovich Scherbachov, composer
Aug 26th - Arnold Fothergill, England cricketer (d. 1932)
Sep 1st - Engelbert Humperdinck, Germany, opera composer (Parisfal)
Sep 2nd - Hans Jæger, Norwegian writer and political activist (d. 1910)
Sep 8th - Willem M van Rossum, Dutch cardinal/prefect of Propaganda File
Sep 10th - Anton CR Dreesmann, German/Neth manufacturer (Vroom & Dreesman)
Sep 17th - Hans Muller, music historian
Sep 17th - David Dunbar Buick, American automobile pioneer (d.1929)
Sep 23rd - Cornelis W Lely, Dutch engineer/gov of Suriname (1902-05)
Sep 28th - Adam Sedgwick, Norwich England, English zoologist (Peripatus)
Sep 29th - Martin Pluddemann, composer
Oct 3rd - William Crawford Gorgas, US, Surgeon-Gen, help cure yellow fever
Oct 7th - Christiaan R de Wet, South African rebel leader, politician and general in the Boer War
Oct 10th - Jeronimo Gimenez y Bellido, composer
Oct 16th - Karl J Kautsky, Austrian marxist/socialist
Writer/Poet Oscar Wilde (Oct 16th) Oct 16th - Oscar Wilde, [Fingal O'Flahertie Wills], Dublin, (Pic of Dorian Gray), (d. 1900)
Oct 18th - Bill Murdoch, cricketer (great pioneer of Australian Test cricket)
Oct 18th - Solomon A Andree, Swedish engineer/balloonist/Artic explorer
Oct 20th - Alphonse Allais, French author/humorist (Pass the Bile)
Oct 20th - Arthur Rimbaud, France, poet/adventurer (Illuminations)
Oct 24th - Hendrik W Bakhuis Roozeboom, chemist (Heterogenen Gleichgewichte)
Oct 26th - August T C Kiehl, Dutch actor (Pearl of Zaandam)
Oct 26th - C. W. Post, American entrepreneur (d. 1914)
Oct 27th - Sir William Smith, Scottish founder of the Boys' Brigade (d. 1914)
Oct 31st - Georg A Erman, German Egyptologist (Grammar of Ancient Egypt)
Nov 5th - Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
Nov 5th - Alphonse Desjardins, founder of the Caisses populaires Desjardins (d. 1920)
Nov 6th - John Philip Sousa, Wash DC, march king (Stars & Stripes Forever), (d. 1932)
Nov 8th - Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (d. 1919)
Nov 9th - Joseph Miroslav Weber, composer
March King John Philip Sousa (Nov 6th) Nov 13th - George Whitfield Chadwick, Lowell Mass, composer (Judi Van Winke)
Nov 16th - Jules van de Heuvel, Belgian lawyer/politician
Nov 17th - Louis HG Lyautey, French minister of Defense (1916-17)
Nov 21st - Benedict XV, [Giacomo PGB marques della Chiessa], 258th Pope (1914-22)
Nov 27th - Aloys L earl von Aehrenthal, Austrian minister of Foreign affairs
Nov 28th - Gottlieb J Haberlandt, Hungarians/German botanist
Dec 9th - Pekka Hannikainen, composer
Dec 23rd - Henry B. Guppy, British botanist (d. 1926)

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