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Months in Year 1857: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 109 of 109

Jan 2nd - Frederick Opper, cartoonist (Maud, Alphonse & Gaston)
Jan 2nd - Martha Carey Thomas, educator/president (Bryn Mawr College)
Jan 6th - Hugh Mahon, Irish-born Australian politician (d. 1931)
Jan 6th - William E. Russell, 37th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896)
Jan 9th - Henry B Fuller, American writer (Under the Skylights)
Jan 11th - Fred[erick J] Archer, English jockey (won 5 Derbys)
Jan 17th - Eugene Augustin Lauste, developer (1st sound-on-film recording)
Jan 17th - Wilhelm Kienzl, Austrian composer (Evangelimann)
Jan 18th - Otto von Below, German commandant (WW I)
Jan 23rd - Andrija Mohorovicic, Croatian geologist (Moho discontinuity)
Jan 26th - the 12th Dalai Lama (d. 1875)
Jan 31st - George Jackson Churchward, Great Western Railway Chief mechanical engineer. (d. 1933)
Feb 2nd - Jan Six, Dutch art historian/art collector
Feb 9th - Johannes T de Visser, theologist/Dutch 1st minister of Education
Feb 12th - Bobby Peel, cricketer (great English lefty 1884-96)
Feb 17th - Samuel Sidney McClure, Irish-American newspaper editor/publisher
Feb 18th - Max Klinger, German graphic artist/painter/sculptor
Feb 21st - Jules de Trooz, baron/premier of Belgium (1907)
Feb 22nd - Heinrich Hertz, physicist, 1st to broadcast & receive radio waves
Feb 22nd - Robert Baden-Powell, founder (Boy Scouts, Girl Guides)
Feb 26th - Emile Coué, French pharmacist (recovery by auto suggestion)
Feb 28th - Gustave Adolph Kerker, composer
Mar 3rd - Alfred Bruneau, composer
Mar 7th - Julius Wagner von Jauregg, Austria, psychiatrist (Nobel 1927)
Mar 16th - Charles Harding Firth, British historian (d. 1936)
Mar 22nd - Arnold Sauwen, Flemish poet (Along the Meuse)
Mar 22nd - Paul Doumer, gov-genl of Indo-China/13th Pres of France (1931-32)
Mar 23rd - Fannie Farmer, actress (namesake of a candy company)
Mar 27th - Karl Pearson, London England, mathematician
Mar 30th - Leon Charles Thevenin, French telegraph engineer (d. 1926)
Apr 5th - Alexander-Jozef von Battenberg, ruler of Bulgaria (1879-86)
Apr 10th - Henry Ernest Dudeney, mathematician/puzzle maker
Apr 14th - Edgar Stillman Kelley, Sparta Wisconsin, composer (Gulliver)
Apr 18th - Clarence S Darrow, defense attorney at Scopes monkey trial
Apr 19th - Lucien Levy-Bruhl, philosopher
Apr 20th - Charles LP "Philip" Zilcken, painter/author (HW Knife Day)
Apr 20th - Hermann Bang, writer
Apr 23rd - Ruggero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (I pagliacci/Zaza)
Apr 29th - Edouard Rod, France/Swiss writer (Mishel' Tes'e)
Apr 29th - Frantisek Ondricek, composer
Apr 30th - Eugen Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1940)
May 2nd - Frederic Cliffe, composer
May 3rd - George Gore, American baseball player (d. 1933)
May 7th - William A. MacCorkle, American politician (d. 1930)
May 8th - Frits [Frederik H] Tartaud, Dutch actor/husband of Alida Klein
May 10th - Hendrik Zwaardemaker, Dutch physiologist (olfactometer)
May 13th - Ronald Ross, England, pathologist (Nobel 1902)
May 15th - Williamina Fleming, Scottish-born astronomer (d. 1911)
May 16th - Juan Morel Campos, composer
May 31st - Pius XI, [Ambrogio DA Ratti], Italy, 259th Pope (1922-39)
Jun 2nd - Edward William Elgar, Broadheath Engld, composer (Pomp & Circumstance)
Jun 2nd - Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Denmark, poet (Poutnici Svetem, Nobel 1917)
Jun 6th - Aleksandr Lyapunov, Russian mathematician (d. 1918)
Jun 12th - Achille Simonetti, composer
Jun 18th - Henry Clay Folger Jr, US, businessman/Shakespeare fan
Jul 1st - Roger Connor, 1st baseman (NY Giants)
Jul 2nd - Francesco Spetrino, composer
Jul 5th - Clara Zetkin, German women's rights advocate/communist
Jul 8th - Rudolf Dellinger, composer
Jul 9th - Frederik II W, grandduke of Baden (1907-18)
Jul 11th - Alfred Binet, French child psychologist
Jul 11th - Iacob Moresianu, composer
Jul 14th - Maytag, inventor (washing machine)
Jul 21st - A S C Wallis, [Adele SC von Antal-Opzoomer], Dutch writer
Jul 23rd - French [M J Francois] Erens, lawyer/literary (Pursue Years)
Jul 24th - Henrik Pontoppidan, Denmark, writer (Promised Country, Nobel 1917)
Jul 27th - Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge, orientalist/museum curator
Jul 27th - Jose Celso Barbosa, Puerto Rico, found Federalist Party in 1900
Jul 28th - Ballington Booth, co-founder of Volunteers of America (d. 1940)
Jul 30th - Thorstein Veblen, US, economist (Theory of the Leisure Class-1899)
Aug 8th - Cecile Chaminade, composer
Aug 8th - Henry Osborn, Conn, paleontologist/author (52 Years of Research)
Aug 14th - Max Wagenknecht, German composer (d. 1922)
Aug 15th - Albert Ballin, German shipping tycoon (d. 1918)
Aug 18th - Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian Catholic prelate (d. 1926)
Aug 22nd - Ned Hanlon, American baseball player and manager (d. 1937)
Aug 29th - Sandford Schultz, English cricketer (d. 1937)
Sep 2nd - Thomas Groube, Australian cricketer (d. 1927)
Sep 6th - Zelia Nuttall, American archeologist and historian (d. 1933)
Sep 8th - Georg Michaelis, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1936)
Sep 10th - James E Keeler, US, astronomer (rings of Saturn)
Sep 12th - George H Breitner, Dutch impressionist painter/water colors painter
Chocolate Tycoon Milton S. Hershey (Sep 13th) Sep 13th - Milton S. Hershey, Derry Township, Pennsylvania, American chocolate tycoon (The Hershey Chocolate Company) and philanthropist, (d. 1945)
Sep 13th - Michał Drzymała, Polish peasant rebel (d. 1937)
Sep 15th - William Howard Taft, Cin, (R) 27th pres (1909-13), chief justice
Sep 17th - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, pioneer in rocket & space research
Sep 29th - Conrad T van Deventer, lawyer/2nd-Member of parliament
Sep 30th - Hermann Sudermann, German writer (Honor, That Ehre, Frau Sorge)
Oct 2nd - Marthinus T Steyn, pres of Orange-Free state (1896-1902)
Oct 4th - Henry Schoenfeld, composer
Oct 14th - Elwood Haynes, auto pioneer, built one of 1st US autos
Oct 24th - Ned Williamson, American baseball player (d. 1894)
Oct 29th - Conrad Haebler, German historian (Early printers of Spain/Portugal)
Oct 30th - John H Aberson, 1st chancellor (Dutch Agricultural University)
Nov 2nd - Joseph F F Babinski, Polish/French neurologist (Babinski reflex)
Nov 3rd - Michail V Alekseyev, Imperial Russian general and WW I Chief of Staff (d. 1918)
Nov 5th - Ida Tarbell, muckraker (Standard Oil was very unhappy)
Nov 22nd - George Gissing, English author (Thyrza, Crown of Life)
Nov 26th - Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist (d. 1913)
Nov 27th - Charles Scott Sherrington, British physiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1952)
Nov 28th - Alfonso XII, king of Spain (1874-85)
Nov 29th - Theodor Escherich, German pediatrician (d. 1911)
Nov 30th - Robert Abel, cricketer (The Guv'nor Surrey & England batsman)
Novelist Joseph Conrad (Dec 3rd) Dec 3rd - Joseph Conrad, Berdychiv, Poland, novelist (Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness), (d. 1924)
Dec 7th - Nicola van Westerhout, composer
Dec 15th - Eugeniusz Pankiewicz, composer
Dec 16th - Edward Emerson Barnard, Tenn, astronomer (Jupiter's 5th satellite)
Dec 22nd - George [Robert] Gissing, England, novelist
Dec 31st - King Kelly, American baseball player (d. 1894)

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