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Months in Year 1861: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 109 of 109

Jan 2nd - Helen Herron Taft, 1st lady (1909-12)
Jan 3rd - William Renshaw, British champion tennis player (d. 1904)
Jan 6th - Heinrich Gottlieb Noren, composer
Jan 6th - George Exton Lloyd, Anglican bishop and theologian (d. 1940)
Jan 13th - Max Nonne, German neurologist (d. 1959)
Jan 14th - Wilhelm von Polenz, German writer (Der Pfarrer von Breitendorf)
Jan 18th - Hans Goldschmidt, German chemist
Jan 18th - Raymond Huntington Woodman, composer
Jan 22nd - Karel Stecker, composer
Jan 30th - Charles Martin Tornow Loeffler, Mulhouse Alsace, composer
Feb 2nd - Mehmed VI, last sultan of Ottoman Empire (1918-22)
Feb 2nd - Solomon R Guggenheim, philanthropist (Guggenheim Museum NYC)
Feb 12th - Lou [Andreas-]Salome, Russian/German author (Im Kampf um Gott)
Feb 13th - Uchimura Kanzo, Tokyo, religious writer (How I Became a Christian)
Feb 15th - Alfred North Whitehead, Engl mathematician/philosopher (Adv of Ideas)
Feb 15th - Halford John Mackinder, Gainsborough Lincolnshire, geographer
Feb 17th - Princess Helena, Duchess of Albany (d. 1922)
Feb 20th - Nicolaas van Meeteren, Curacao, folklorist
Feb 21st - Pierre Breville, composer
Feb 26th - Ferdinand I, Vienna, 1st tsar of modern Bulgaria (1908-18)
Feb 27th - Rudolph Steiner, Kraljevic Aust, founder (doctrine of anthroposophy)
Mar 19th - Lomer Gouin, Quebec politician (d. 1929)
Apr 9th - Charles Holroyd, painter/etcher
Apr 14th - Bion Joseph Arnold, electrical engineer/inventor
Apr 15th - Bliss Carman, Canadian poet (d. 1929)
Apr 16th - Isaac Murphy, US jockey (won 628 races)
Apr 19th - Warden Oncle, [Edward Vermeulen], Flemish farmer/writer
Apr 23rd - Edmund Henry Hynman, 1st viscount Allenby of Megiddo/Fieldmarshal
Apr 27th - Georgy L'vovich Catoire, composer
Apr 27th - Johan M Skjoldborg, Danish writer (Dynaes-Digte)
May 3rd - Emmett Dalton, American outlaw (d. 1937)
May 6th - Radindranath Tagore, Hindu poet/mystic/composer (Nobel 1913)
May 6th - Motilal Nehru, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1931)
May 11th - Frederick Russell Burnham, father of the international scouting movement (d. 1947)
May 19th - Dame Nellie Melba, Australian opera singer (d. 1931)
May 27th - Victoria E Matthews, educator
May 31st - Emily Perkins Bissell, welfare worker (1st christmas seal drive, 1907)
Jun 9th - Floris H Verster, [van Wulverhorst], painter/cartoonist/etcher
Jun 10th - Josephus T J Cuypers, Dutch architect (St Bavo, Haarlem)
Jun 10th - Pierre M M Duhem, French naturalist/philosopher/historian
Jun 11th - Sigismund Vladislavovich Zaremba, composer
Jun 12th - William Attewell, English cricketer (d. 1927)
Jun 16th - Scato Gocko de Vries, Dutch paleographer/librarian
Jun 17th - Sidney James Jones, composer
Jun 17th - Pete Browning, American baseball player (d. 1905)
Jun 17th - Omar Bundy, U.S. army general and soldier (d. 1940)
Jun 18th - Jose FdT Coelho, Portuguese writer (Os Meus Amores)
Jun 19th - Douglas Haig, British fieldmarshal (Sudan, WW I)
Jun 19th - Jose Protasio Rizal, Philippine optician/author/nationalist
Jun 20th - Arthur Battelle Whiting, composer
Jun 22nd - Maximilian von Spee, German admiral (d. 1914)
Jun 29th - William James Mayo, surgeon/co-founder Mayo clinic in Minnesota
Jul 1st - Samuel D Riddle, horse owner (Man 'o War)
Jul 3rd - Peter Jackson, heavyweight boxer (hall of famer)
Jul 11th - Anton Stepanovich Arensky, composer
Jul 11th - George William Norris, (Rep/Sen-Neb) (Lame duck-amendement)
Jul 12th - Anton Stepanovich Arensky, composer
Jul 23rd - Alexander W F Idenburg, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1909-16)
Jul 29th - Alica Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, 1st wife of Theodore Roosevelt
Jul 29th - Sergei D Sazonov, Russian minister of Foreign Affairs (1910-16)
Aug 1st - Sam Jones, cricketer (Australian batsman of 1880's)
Aug 6th - Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, 2nd wife of Theodore Roosevelt
Aug 8th - William Bateson, English biologist (originator of term "genetics")
Aug 9th - Wilhelm Berger, composer
Aug 10th - Almroth Wright, Yorkshire England, bacteriologist
Sep 10th - Niels Hansen Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and ceramist (d. 1941)
Sep 11th - Juhani Aho, Fins journalist/writer (Panu, Tuomio)
Sep 17th - Owen Seaman, poet/editor (Punch)
Sep 20th - Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress (d. 1955)
Sep 23rd - Edmond H H Allenby, English fieldmarshal/high director (Egypt)
Sep 23rd - Robert Bosch, German inventor and industrialist (d. 1942)
Sep 28th - Pedro De Cordoba, NYC, actor (Club Havana, Swamp Fire, Saboteur)
Sep 28th - Amélie of Orléans, queen of Portugal (d. 1951)
Sep 30th - William Wrigley Jr., American industrialist (Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company) (d. 1932)
Oct 4th - Frederic Remington, US, artist/sculptor of American West
Oct 4th - Joao Marcellino Arroyo, composer
Oct 8th - Theodore Roberts, SF CA, actor (Roaring Road, 10 Commandments)
Arctic explorer/Nobel Laureate Fridtjof Nansen (Oct 10th) Oct 10th - Fridtjof Nansen, Store Frøen, Christiania, Norway, Arctic explorer/humanitarian (Nobel 1922), (d. 1930)
Oct 14th - Bjarni Thorsteinsson, composer
Oct 14th - Artur Gavazzi, Croatian geographer (d. 1944)
Oct 16th - J. B. Bury, Irish historian (d. 1927)
Oct 26th - Richard D Sears, Boston, tennis champ, US Open (1881)
Oct 29th - Andrei Ryabushkin, Russian painter (d. 1904)
Oct 30th - Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor (d. 1929)
Nov 3rd - Johann Peter Kirsch, Luxembourg church historian/archaeologist
Nov 6th - James Naismith, Almonte, Canada, inventor (basketball, football helmet), (d.1939)
Nov 7th - Jeff Milton, American lawman (d. 1947)
Nov 10th - Robert T A Innes, Edinburgh Scotland, astronomer (Proxima Centauri)
Nov 14th - Frederick Jackson Turner, Wisc, historian/educator (Harvard U)
Nov 16th - Vaclav Suk, composer
Nov 18th - Dorothy Dix, pseudonym of US journalist Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer (d. 1951)
Nov 21st - Joao da Cruz, Brazilian poet
Inventor James Naismith (Nov 6th) Nov 23rd - Konstantin Korovin, Russian painter (d. 1939)
Nov 30th - French Gailliard, Belgian painter (Zeustempel in Athens)
Nov 30th - Ludwig Thuille, composer
Dec 4th - Lillian Russell, [Helen Leonard], US, singer/actress (Great Mogul)
Dec 5th - Armando V Diaz, Italian marshal/minister of War (1922-24)
Dec 8th - Aristide Maillol, France, painter/sculptor (Seated Woman)
Dec 8th - William Crapo Durant, founded General Machine
Dec 15th - Charles Edgar Duryea, inventor (1st auto built & operated in US)
Dec 16th - Antonio de La Gandara, French painter (d. 1917)
Dec 17th - Fritz Volbach, German musicologist/conductor/composer
Dec 18th - Lionel Monckton, composer
Dec 19th - Constance [Clara] Garnett, Brighton Engld, Russian-English translator
Dec 19th - Italo Svevo, Trieste Austria, Italian novelist (La Coscienza di Zeno)
Dec 20th - Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian painter (d. 1926)
Dec 22nd - Erich Schaeder, German theologist (Theocentric Theology)
Dec 25th - Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, Indian founder of Banaras Hindu University (d. 1946)
Dec 26th - Friedrich Engel, German mathematician (group theory)

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