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Months in Year 1855: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 88 of 88

Jan 3rd - Hubert Bland, English socialist (d. 1914)
Jan 5th - King Camp Gillette, inventor (safety razor)
Jan 10th - Peter J Blok, Dutch historian (History of the Dutch People)
Jan 15th - Jacques Damala, Greek military officer and actor (d. 1889)
Jan 20th - Amedee-Ernest Chausson, composer
Jan 21st - John M Browning, US, weapons manufacturer
Jan 22nd - Ernst Kullak, composer
Jan 23rd - John Moses Browning, American inventor (d. 1926)
Jan 26th - Arthur Hervey, composer
Jan 28th - William Seward Burroughs, NY, inventor (recording adding machine)
Feb 13th - Paul Deschanel, French President (d. 1922)
Feb 15th - Gustav Hollaender, composer
Feb 17th - Otto Liman von Sanders, German general in Turkey (WW I)
Feb 21st - Alice Freeman Palmer, educator (Hall of Fame)
Feb 25th - George Bonnor, cricketer (big-hitting Aussie batter 1880-1888)
Feb 25th - Cesário Verde, Portuguese poet (d. 1886)
Mar 12th - John White, composer
Mar 13th - Percival "Percy" Lowell, US astronomer (predicted discovery of Pluto)
Mar 24th - Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, founder (Mellon Bank) and US Secretary of the Treasury (1921-32)
Astronomer Percival Lowell (Mar 13th) Mar 24th - Olive Schreiner, South African writer (Portrait of a South African Woman)
Mar 31st - Alfred E. Hunt, founder of Alcoa (d. 1899)
Apr 9th - Gyula Reviczky, Hungarian author/poet
Apr 18th - Abraham Bredius, Dutch art historian (Jan Steen)
Apr 18th - Josef Gruber, composer
Apr 29th - Anatol K Liadov, Russian composer (Bewitched Lake) [OS]
Apr 29th - Edmund van der Straeten, composer
May 2nd - Theodore Moses Tobani, composer
May 9th - Julius Rontgen, composer
May 10th - Anatoli Liadov, St Petersburg, Russia, composer (Enchanted Lake) [NS]
May 11th - Anatol Konstantinovich Lyadov, Russian composer (Bewitched Lake)
May 15th - Eduard von Keyserling, Baltic German writer (Dritte Stiege)
May 21st - Emile A G Verhaeren, Belgian poet/writer (Les Flammes Hautes)
May 24th - Arthur Wing Pinero, British playwright
Jun 14th - Robert Marion La Follette, Wisconsin, pres candidate (Progressive)
Jun 17th - Fritz Steinbach, composer
Jun 22nd - Sam Morris, Hobart, cricketer (Barbados parents only black Aus player)
Jun 23rd - Maude Valerie White, composer
Jul 3rd - Piotr Maszynski, composer
Jul 7th - Ludwig Ganghofer, German writer (d. 1920)
Jul 9th - Johann P Zilcher, German composer
Jul 14th - Richard Samuel Hughes, composer
Jul 16th - Charles Francis Abdy Williams, composer
Jul 25th - Edward Solomon, composer
Jul 26th - Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist (d. 1936)
Jul 30th - James Edward Kelly, US, sculptor "Sculptor of American History"
Aug 3rd - Joe Hunter, Former Australian cricketer (d. 1891)
Aug 11th - John Hodges, Australian cricketer (d. 1933)
Aug 18th - Alfred Wallis, English artist and mariner (d. 1942)
Aug 29th - Emil Pauer, composer
Aug 31st - Stefan Surzynski, composer
Sep 1st - Innokenty Annensky, Russian poet (d. 1909)
Sep 6th - Ferdinand B Hummel, composer
Sep 7th - William Friese-Greene, British photographer (d. 1921)
Sep 9th - Houston S Chamberlain, British/German race theorist
Sep 9th - Anthony Francis Lucas Croatian-born oil exploration pioneer (d. 1921)
Sep 12th - Simon-Napoléon Parent, Canadian politician (d. 1920)
Sep 28th - Thomas F Tout, London, historian (Manchester school of historiography)
Sep 29th - Michele Esposito, composer
Oct 8th - Gustav Ehrismann, German germanist
Oct 12th - Arthur Nikisch, Szent-Miklos Hungary, conductor (Berlin Philharmonic)
Oct 12th - August Sauer, Austria literature historian (Euphorion)
Oct 12th - Jacobus of Looy, Dutch writer/painter (Death of My Cat) [or 9/12]
Oct 14th - George Edwardes, British composer (Gaiety Girl)
Oct 16th - Camille Looten, Belgian priest/literature historian
Oct 16th - Samedbey Mehmandarov, Russian general (d. 1931)
Oct 24th - James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States (d. 1912)
Oct 26th - Charles Post, who had a way with breakfast cereals (Post Cereals)
Oct 28th - Ivan V Mitshurin, Russian botanist (new types of fruit)
Oct 29th - Paul Bruchési, archbishop of Montreal (d. 1939)
Nov 1st - Guido Adler, Austria, musicologist (Still in the Music)
Nov 5th - Eugene V Debs, labor organizer, Socialist presidential candidate
Nov 5th - Leon P Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (stratosphere)
Nov 6th - Eduard Yosif Kotek, composer
Nov 6th - Ezra Seymour Gosney, American philanthropist and eugenicist (d. 1942)
Nov 7th - Edwin H Hall, US physicist (Hall effect)
Nov 10th - Josiah Royce, US, philosopher (conception of God)
Nov 13th - Daniel F Scheurleer, Dutch musicologist/banker
Nov 19th - Billy Bates, cricketer (England all-rounder 1882-87, hat-trick 1883)
Nov 30th - Marie WF Treub, Dutch economist/minister of Agriculture/Finance
Dec 5th - Clinton Hart Merriam, American ornithologist (d. 1942)
Dec 10th - Marios Varvoglis, Greek Composer (d. 1967)
Dec 11th - Julian Edwards, composer
Dec 23rd - Alan Gray, composer
Dec 25th - James Galvin, pitcher, shut-out every opposing team in 1884
Dec 26th - Arnold Ludwig Mendelssohn, composer
Dec 27th - Paul Ehrenreich, German etnologist/mythologist
Dec 30th - Heinrich Hart, German writer (Song of Humanity)
Dec 31st - Giovanni Pascoli, Italian classicist/poet

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