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Birthdays 1 - 138 of 138

Jan 1st - Aleko Konstantinov, Bulgarian writer (To Chicago & Back)
Jan 1st - Pierre de Coubertin, France, baron (revived Olympic games)
Jan 2nd - Lucia Zarate, became lightest known adult human (2.1 kg at 17)
Jan 12th - Vivekananda, Calcutta, Hindu religious leader/reformer
Jan 14th - Pieter Oosterlee, Dutch educator
Jan 15th - Adolph Goldschmidt, German historian
Jan 15th - Wilhelm Marx, premier (Prussia)
Jan 17th - David Lloyd George, (L-PM-Britain, 1916-22)
Jan 17th - Henry Charles Tonking, composer
Jan 17th - Konstantin S Stanislavski, Russia, director (Stanislavski Method)
Jan 19th - Werner Sombart, German fascist (Juden und das Wirtschaftsleben)
Jan 28th - Ernst William Christmas, Australian painter (d. 1918)
Jan 31st - F Henri Berz, French existensialist philosopher (Revue the Synthesis)
Feb 5th - Armand Parent, composer
Feb 7th - Mieczyslaw Soltys, composer
Feb 9th - Anthony Hope [Hopkins], London, novelist
Feb 17th - Fyodor Sologub, Russian symbolist novelist and poet (d. 1927)
Feb 19th - Emanuel Moor, composer
Feb 23rd - Franz von Stuck, German painter (Der Krieg)
Mar 1st - Alexander Golovin, Russian painter (d. 1930)
Mar 3rd - Arthur Machen, Welsh-born author (d. 1947)
Mar 4th - Reginald Innes Pocock, British zoologist (d. 1947)
Mar 4th - John Henry Wigmore, American jurist and expert in the law of evidence (d. 1943)
Mar 11th - Andrew Stoddart, cricketer (My Dear Victorious Stod)
Mar 11th - Wobbe de Vries, Dutch linguist
Mar 12th - Adolf A Wolfschoon, Curacao, poet
Mar 12th - Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italy, writer/military hero (Intruder)
Mar 12th - Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist (d. 1945)
Mar 20th - Ernesto Nazareth, composer
Mar 21st - Hugo Kaun, composer
Mar 21st - George Owen Squier, American inventor and Major General in U.S. Signal Corp(d.1934)
Mar 23rd - Godfried CE van Daalen, Dutch general/governor of Atjeh
Mar 25th - Simon Flexner, American pathologist (d. 1946)
Mar 27th - Henry Royce, automobile founder (Rolls-Royce)
Apr 2nd - Henry C Van de Velde, Flemish painter/architect (Art Nouveau)
Apr 12th - Raul d'Avila Pompeia, Brazilian writer (Boarding School)
Apr 17th - Johannes P Boskaljon, Curacao composer/conductor
Apr 17th - Augustus Edward Hough Love, English mathematician (d. 1940)
Apr 18th - Felix Blumenfeld, composer
Apr 19th - Felix Blumenfeld, composer
Apr 22nd - Cornelis A J van Dishoeck, Dutch publisher
Apr 26th - Arno Holz, writer
Apr 26th - Charles Haslewood Shannon, lithographer/painter
Apr 29th - William Randolph Hearst, publisher (SF Examiner, Seattle P-I)
Apr 29th - Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet (d. 1933)
Apr 29th - Maria Theresa Ledochowska, Polish-Austrian Catholic nun (d. 1922)
May 5th - Frederik A Stoett, linguist (Dutch Proverbs)
May 12th - Charles Bordes, composer
May 24th - George Grey Barnard, American sculptor (d. 1938)
May 26th - Robert Fitzsimmons, Boxing champion (d. 1917)
May 28th - Georg Adler, German state economist
May 29th - Arthur Mold, English cricketer (d. 1921)
May 31st - Francis E Younghusband, British journalist/explorer
Jun 2nd - Paul Felix Weingartner, Germany, conductor (Zara, Dalmatia)
Jun 4th - Edmond R H Regout, Dutch industrialist/politician
Jun 5th - Arthur Somervell, composer
Jun 10th - Louis M A Couperus, Dutch poet/writer (Eline Vere)
Jun 11th - Eduard David, German undersecretary (constitution of Weimar)
Jun 13th - Josef Venantius von Woss, composer
Jun 13th - Lady Lucy Duff Gordon, English fashion designer (d. 1935)
Jun 16th - Paul Antonin Vidal, composer
Jun 17th - Duke Charles Michael of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1934)
Jun 18th - George Essex Evans, Australian poet (d. 1909)
Jun 21st - Max Wolf, German astronomer (d. 1932)
Jun 25th - Emile Francqui, Belgian soldier (d. 1935)
Jun 29th - James Harvey Robinson, Ill, historian (Ordeal of Civilization)
Jul 1st - William Grant Stairs, Canadian explorer (d. 1892)
Jul 12th - Albert Calmette, French physician (d. 1933)
Jul 12th - Paul Karl Ludwig Drude, German physicist (d. 1906)
Jul 13th - Emma Mary Wooley, educator (Mary Anna Wells)
Jul 19th - Hermann Bahr, Austria writer/director (New Men)
Jul 21st - C[harles] Aubrey Smith, London England, actor (Prisoner of Zenda)
Jul 22nd - Alec Hearne, cricketer (brother of George & Frank, Kent 1884-1910)
Jul 26th - Jazeps Witols, composer
Jul 28th - Hussein Khan Nakhichevanski, Russian general (d. 1919)
Ford Motor Company Founder Henry Ford (Jul 30th) Jul 30th - Henry Ford, Dearborn Township Michigan, industrialist and auto maker (Ford- model T), (d. 1947)
Aug 1st - Gaston Doumergue, premier/pres of France (1913..34)
Aug 11th - Arpad Szendy, composer
Aug 14th - Ernest Thayer, American poet (d. 1940)
Aug 15th - Alexei Krylov, Russian engineer and mathematician (d. 1945)
Aug 17th - Gene Stratton-Porter, American author and naturalist (d. 1924)
Aug 24th - Dragutin Lerman, Croatian explorer (d. 1918)
Sep 6th - Rodolfo Lenz, German/Chilian linguist (El Papiamento)
Sep 8th - Gustavo Emilio Campa, composer
Sep 13th - Arthur Henderson, Britain, socialist/disarmament worker (Nobel 1934)
Sep 15th - Horatio William Parker, composer
Sep 18th - Hermann Kutter, Swiss Christ-social theologist
Sep 21st - John Bunny, American film comedian (d. 1915)
Sep 23rd - Alexandre EJ Yersin, Swiss/French bacteriologist (bacteria plague)
Sep 23rd - Mary Church Terrell, civil rights activist
Sep 28th - Charles, Lisbon Portugal, king (1889-1908)
Sep 29th - Franz Zorell, German RC exegetist/lexicographer
Sep 29th - Hugo Haase, German SPD-German parliament/revolutionary
Sep 30th - Reinhard Scheer, German admiral (WW I)
Oct 3rd - Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov, Russian explorer (d. 1935)
Oct 5th - Ludwig Borchardt, German Egyptologist
Oct 8th - Edythe Chapman, American actress (d. 1948)
Oct 9th - Alexander Siloti, Kharkov Russia, pianist/prof (Moscow Cons 1888-91)
Oct 10th - Louis Cyr, French Canadian strongman (d. 1912)
Oct 10th - Helen Dunbar, American actress (d. 1933)
Oct 11th - Xavier Henry Napoleon Leroux, composer
Oct 13th - C-E Auguste Rateau, French mining engineer (Rateau steam turbine)
Oct 16th - Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary (Nobel 1925)
Oct 19th - John Huston Finley, Ill, editor (NY Times (1937-38)
Oct 24th - Manuel Manrique de Lara y Berry, composer
Nov 1st - Alfred Reisenauer, composer
Nov 3rd - Eugene Samuel-Holeman, composer
Nov 8th - René [Raphael] Viviani, French historian/social premier (1914-15)
Nov 11th - Paul Signac, French painter (d. 1935)
Nov 14th - Leo H A Baekeland, Belgian/US chemist (bakelite)
Nov 18th - Richard Dehmel, writer
Nov 20th - Maria H "Mina" Beersmans, Flemish actress (Black Griet)
Nov 21st - Arthur Quiller-Couch, [Q], editor (Oxford Book of English Verse)
Nov 21st - Mina Dilis-Beersmans, Flemish actress/wife of John Dilis (Poppenhuis)
Nov 29th - Spyridon Filiskos Samaras, composer
Nov 30th - Andres Bonifacio, leader of 1896 Philippine revolt against Spain
Nov 30th - Gellio Benevenuto Coronaro, composer
Dec 2nd - Gustav Wohlgemuth, composer
Dec 2nd - Charles Ringling, American circus owner (d. 1926)
Dec 5th - Paul P Painlevé, French PM (1917, 1925), mathematician [OS]
Dec 6th - Charles Martin Hall, American chemist (d. 1914)
Dec 7th - John Ebenezer West, composer
Dec 7th - Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer/fascist (Cavalleria Rusticana)
Dec 7th - Svetolik Rankovic, Serbian writer (Forest King)
Dec 7th - Felix Calonder
Dec 11th - Annie Jump Cannon, US, stellar spectroscopist (Harvard-classification)
Painter/Print Maker Edvard Munch (Dec 12th) Dec 12th - Edvard Munch, Løten, Norway, painter/print maker (The Scream), (d. 1944)
Dec 13th - Johannes Weiss, German New Testament scholar
Dec 15th - Arthur D Little, US, chemist (patented rayon)
Dec 15th - Paul [Prudent] Painlevé, French mathematician/minister/premier [NS]
Dec 16th - George Santayana, Spain, philosopher/poet/humanist (Last Puritan)
Dec 16th - Ralph Adams Cram, US, gothic architect (Cathedral of St Joan NYC)
Dec 17th - Ion Vidu, composer
Dec 18th - French Ferdinand, archduke of Austria (Sarajevo/WW I)
Dec 22nd - Ch'i Pai-shih, China, traditional Chinese painter
Dec 22nd - Jean-Baptiste Marchand, Thoissey France, soldier/explorer (Sudan)
Dec 25th - Charles Pathé, French pioneer of film and record industries (d. 1957)
Dec 31st - Alfredo Panzini, Italian author (Dizionario Moderno)

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