Famous Birthdays for Year 1862

Months in Year 1862: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 111 of 111

Jan 1st - Snitz Edwards, Hungary, actor (College, Phantom of the Opera)
Jan 3rd - Sir Matthew Nathan, British Governor of Queensland and other places (d. 1939)
Jan 8th - Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher/founder (Doubleday & Co)
Jan 17th - John E Akkeringa, Dutch painter/etcher
Jan 23rd - David Hilbert, Königsberg East Prussia, mathematician
Jan 24th - Edith Wharton [-Jones], New York NY, Pulitzer prize-winning novelist (Ethan Frome, House of Mirth), (d. 1937)
Jan 29th - Frederick Delius, Bradford England, composer (Hiawatha)
Jan 30th - Walter Johannes Damrosch, composer
Feb 5th - Felipe Villanueva y Gutierrez, Mexico, composer
Feb 7th - Bernard Maybeck, US architect (Palace of Fine Arts, SF)
Feb 10th - W H "Gobo" Ashley, cricketer (7 wkts in 1 Test for South Africa 1889)
Feb 13th - Karel Weis, composer
Feb 17th - Edward German (Jones), Whitchurch Shropshire, British composer
Feb 17th - Mori Ōgai, Japanese novelist and poet (d. 1922)
Feb 22nd - Karen Hulda Garborg[-Bergersen], Norwegian playwright (Mot Solen/Eli)
Feb 27th - Anastasios Metaxas, Greek architect and shooter (d. 1937)
Mar 2nd - John Jay Chapman, US advocate/poet/writer (Learning & Other Essays)
Mar 2nd - Boris Borisovich Galitzine, Russian physicist (d. 1916)
Mar 4th - Robert Emden, Swiss geo/astro physics (Emden-polytroop)
Pulitzer prize winning novelist Edith Wharton (Jan 24th) Mar 5th - Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player (d. 1934)
Mar 8th - Joseph Lee, helped develop playgrounds
Mar 12th - Jane Delano, US, nurse/teacher/founder (Red Cross)
Mar 13th - Vasily Mikhaylovich Metallov, composer
Mar 14th - Vilhelm FK Bjerknes, Norwegian/US physicist/meteorology
Mar 17th - Silvio Gesell, Belgian economist (d. 1930)
Mar 23rd - Nathaniel Reed, American outlaw turned evangelist (d.1950)
Mar 26th - George William Louis Marshall-Hall, composer
Mar 28th - Aristide Briand, France, 11x premier (1909-22) (Nobel 1926)
Apr 2nd - Nicholas Murray Butler, US, Columbia U pres/pacifist (Nobel 1931)
Apr 5th - Louis Ganne, composer
Apr 11th - Charles Evans Hughs, 11th Chief Justice of Supreme Court (1930-41)
Apr 11th - William W Campbell, US astronomer/director Lick Observatory
Apr 14th - Pyotr A Stolypin, premier Russia (1906-11)
Apr 25th - Edward Grey, English viscount of Fallodon/minister of Foreign affairs
Apr 29th - Vittorio Mario Vanzo, composer
May 2nd - Marie F M Emmanuel, French composer/musicologist (Salamine)
May 5th - Max Elskamp, Belgian author/poet (Lesson Joies Blondes, Maya)
May 15th - Arthur Schnitzler, Austria, playwright/novelist (La Ronde)
May 18th - Freiherr Albert von Schrenk-Notzing, German para-psychologist
May 19th - Mikhail Nesterov, Russian painter (d. 1942)
May 22nd - August Cuppens, Flemish author/pastor
May 23rd - William "Dummy" Hoy, professional baseball player who lived to 99
May 28th - Henry W Slocum Jr, tennis champ (US Open-1888)
Jun 1st - Antonio JdC Feijo, Portuguese diplomat/poet (Bailatas)
Jun 5th - Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish physician (Nobel 1911)
Jun 6th - Henry John Newbolt, English sea historian/poet
Jun 7th - Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947)
Jun 10th - Mrs. Leslie Carter, American actress (d. 1937)
Jun 21st - Henry Holden Huss, composer
Jun 21st - Johannes Schlaf, writer
Jun 21st - Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai prince and historian (d. 1943)
Jun 25th - Vasily Georgiyevich Wrangell, composer
Jun 27th - May Irwin, US comedienne/singer (Hot Time in the Old Town)
Jul 2nd - William Henry Bragg, English physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1942)
Jul 3rd - Friedrich Ernst Koch, composer
Jul 11th - Liza Nina Mary Frederica Lehmann, composer
Jul 14th - Florence Bascom, US, 1st American woman PhD
Jul 14th - Gustav Klimt, Austria, Art Nouveau painter
Jul 16th - Ida Bell Wells-Barnett [Iola], US civil rights activist
Jul 18th - Victor, Prince Napoleon (Napoleon V), French pretender to throne
Jul 18th - Nikolai Nikolayevich Yudenich, Russian WWI general (d. 1933)
Jul 24th - Johan A de Sleeve, [Adwaita], philosopher/classical/poet (Brahman)
Aug 1st - Montague Rhodes James, scholar/author/editor
Aug 5th - Joseph Merrick, the "Elephant Man" (d. 1890)
Aug 7th - Victoria of Baden, Queen of Sweden (d. 1931)
Aug 11th - Carrie Jacobs Bond, Janesville Wisc, songwriter (I Love You Truly)
Aug 16th - Amos Alonzo Stagg, football pioneer, inventor (tackling dummy)
Composer Claude Debussy (Aug 22nd) Aug 22nd - Claude Debussy, St Germain-en-Laye, composer (La Mer, Clair de lune), (d. 1918)
Aug 26th - Herbert Booth, American son of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1926)
Aug 29th - Maurice Maeterlinck, Ghent Belgium, poet (Blue Bird, Nobel 1911), (d. 1949)
Aug 29th - Andrew Fisher, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1928)
Sep 1st - Adolphe Appia, Swiss set designer/theorist
Sep 1st - Alphons Diepenbrock, Dutch composer [or Sept 2]
Sep 2nd - Franjo Krežma, Croatian violinist (d. 1881)
Sep 11th - O Henry, [William Sydney Porter], American short story writer (d. 1910)
Sep 11th - Julian Byng, British army officer (d. 1935)
Sep 13th - Dirk Bos, Dutch liberal 2nd Member of parliament
Sep 19th - Adeline De Walt Reynolds, Benton County IA, actress (Son of Dracula)
Sep 21st - James E. Talmage, LDS apostle and author (d. 1933)
Sep 25th - Leon Boellmann, French organist/composer (Variations Symphoniques)
Sep 25th - Billy Hughes, seventh Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1952)
Sep 27th - Louis Botha, Greytown South Africa, 1st PM of South Africa (1910-19)
Author and Nobel Laureate Maurice Maeterlinck (Aug 29th) Sep 30th - Georgy Eduardovich Konyus, composer
Oct 3rd - John Briggs, cricketer (mighty England all-rounder late 19th century)
Oct 4th - Edward Stratemeyer, American author (d. 1930)
Oct 6th - Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, US, politician/author (Progressive)
Oct 10th - Arthur De Greef, composer
Oct 13th - Mary Kingsley, English writer and explorer (d. 1900)
Oct 19th - Auguste Lumière, made 1st movie (Workers Leaving Lumière Factory)
Nov 1st - Johan Wagenaar, Dutch composer/conductor/organist (Cyrano)
Nov 4th - Eden Phillpotts, England, novelist/poet/playwright (Red Madymaynes)
Nov 15th - Adolf Bartels, German folk art writer
Nov 15th - Gerhart Hauptmann, Obersalzbrunn, Germany, author (Before Dawn-Nobel 1912), (d. 1946)
Nov 16th - Charles Thomas Biass Turner, cricketer (the "Terror")
Nov 19th - Billy Sunday, American evangelist (d. 1935)
Nov 20th - Willem H Vliegen, Dutch typographer/co-founder/chairman (SDAP)
Nov 23rd - Alberto Williams, Buenos Aires Argentina, composer (Etrerno Reposo)
Author and Nobel Laureate Gerhart Hauptmann (Nov 15th) Nov 23rd - Theo van Rysselberghe, Belgian painter (pointillism)
Nov 25th - Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin, composer
Nov 26th - Mark A Stein, archaeologist
Nov 29th - Friedrich Klose, composer
Dec 3rd - Jules Renkin, Belgian jurist/minister/premier (1931-32)
Dec 7th - Paul Adam, French writer (La Bataille d'Uhde)
Dec 8th - Georges Feydeau, French playwright (La Dame de Chez Maxim's)
Dec 9th - Karel Kovarovic, composer
Dec 14th - Alexander V Amfiteatrov, Russian/French/Italian writer [OS]
Dec 14th - John M Acket, Dutch literary (Grammatic Conceptions)
Dec 16th - Eugene Demolder, Belgian writer (Sous la robe)
Dec 22nd - Connie Mack, East Brookfield, Massachusetts, HOF baseball executive/manager (Phila A's 1900-1950), (d. 1956)
Dec 23rd - Henri Pirenne, Belgian historian (History of Belgium)
Dec 26th - Alexander V Amfiteatrov, Russian/French/Italian writer [NS]