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Birthdays 1 - 133 of 133

Jan 2nd - Prof Gilbert Murray, Australian classical scholar (d. 1957)
Jan 8th - William G. Conley, American politician (d. 1940)
Jan 9th - Albert Baertsoen, Flemish painter/etcher
Jan 13th - Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov, composer
Jan 15th - Nathan Söderblom, Swedish archbishop, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1931)
Jan 19th - Harry Davenport, NYC, actor/director (Her Unborn Child, My Sin)
Jan 20th - Richard Le Gallienne, English writer (Maker of Gainborg)
Jan 25th - Emile Vandervelde, President (1900–1918) of the International Socialist Bureau and Minister of 3 Belgian governments (d. 1938)
Jan 29th - Romain Rolland, France, writer (Jean-Christophe) (Nobel 1915)
Jan 30th - Gelett Burgess, author (Purple Cow)
Jan 31st - Emil Strauss, Germany, writer (Naked Man)
Jan 31st - Henry Forster, cricketer (Oxford blue 1887-89, later Aust Gov-General)
Feb 5th - Arthur Keith, Scottish anthropologist
Feb 5th - Henri [Hendrik J] Hall, Dutch MP/comic (Put a Lid on it)
Feb 5th - Rossetter Gleason Cole, composer
Feb 6th - Karl T Sapper, German geography/geologist (Vulkankunde)
Feb 7th - Raf[ael] Verhulst, [Koen Ravestein], Flemish writer (Jesus of Nazarus)
Feb 9th - George Ade, US, journalist/playwright/humorist (Fables in Slang)
Feb 10th - Bror Beckman, composer
Feb 10th - Rafael Altamira Crevea, Spanish lawyer/historian
Feb 15th - Bannister Fletcher, London, architect & architectural historian
Feb 16th - Johann Strauss, Austria, composer (Waltz King)
Feb 16th - Vyacheslav I Ivanov, Russian philosopher/classical/poet [NS=Feb 28]
Feb 16th - William "Sliding Billy" Hamilton, NJ, hall of fame baseball player
Feb 20th - Carl Westman, Swedish architect and designer (d. 1936)
Feb 24th - Arthur Pearson, Wookey Somerset England, newspaper proprietor
Feb 24th - Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev, Russian physicist (d. 1912)
Feb 24th - Hubert Van Innis, Belgian archer (d. 1961)
Feb 25th - Benedetto Croce, Italy, humanist/historian/editor/philosopher
Feb 26th - Herbert Henry Dow, pioneer in US chemical industry (Dow Chemical)
Feb 28th - Vyacheslav I Ivanov, Russian philosopher/classical/poet [OS=2/16]
Mar 3rd - Fred A. Busse, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1914)
Mar 7th - Paul Ernst, writer
Mar 14th - Alexey Troitsky, Russian chess problemist (d. 1942)
Mar 15th - Matthew Charlton, Australian politician (d. 1948)
Mar 15th - Johan Vaaler, Norwegian inventor (d. 1910)
Mar 17th - Pierce Butler, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1939)
Mar 18th - Dumitru Kiriac-Georgescu, composer
Mar 18th - John Loudon, Dutch minister of Foreign Affairs (1913-18)
Mar 21st - Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira Maury, astronomer
Mar 22nd - Jack Boyle, American baseball player (d. 1913)
Mar 24th - Jack McAuliffe, US lightweight boxing champ, hall of famer
Mar 28th - Jimmy Ross, Scottish footballer (d. 1902)
Apr 1st - Ferruccio D M B Busoni, Italy, pianist/composer/conductor (Arlecchino)
Apr 1st - Sophonisba Breckenridge, scholar/teacher/social activist
Apr 3rd - James B Hertzog, South African general/premier (1914-39)
Apr 4th - George P Baker, US playwright (47 Workshop)
Apr 6th - Joseph Lincoln Steffens, muckraker/journalist (Shame of the Cities)
Apr 11th - Carla Ford, Henry's wife
Apr 11th - Bernard O'Dowd, Australian poet (d. 1953)
Apr 13th - Butch Cassidy, [Robert LeRoy Parker], American desperado (Wild Bunch Passage)
Apr 14th - Anne Mansfield Sullivan, US, educated Helen Keller
Apr 17th - Ernest Starling, British physiologist (d. 1927)
Apr 19th - Henri WA Deterding, Dutch oil magnate (Royal Oil, Shell)
Apr 20th - Victor Hollaender, composer
Apr 22nd - Hans von Seeckt, German general (Future of the Reich)
May 5th - Thomas B. Thrige, Danish industrialist (d. 1938)
May 7th - Cornelis J K van Aalst, president (Dutch Trading Company)
May 9th - Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Leader of Indian Independence Movement (d. 1915)
May 10th - Léon Bakst, Russian artist (d. 1924)
May 13th - Ottokar Eugen Novacek, composer
May 16th - Ernest Watson Burgess, US sociologist (ecological school)
May 23rd - Gustav Aschaffenburg, German psychiatrist/criminalologist
May 24th - Armando Frid, Argentina, live until July 28 1990 (124 years)
May 26th - John Eigenhuis, writer (Tough Workers)
May 31st - Vladimir Ivanovich Rebikov, composer
Jun 3rd - George Howells Broadhurst, English director (d. 1952)
Jun 4th - Miina Sillanpää, Finnish politician (d. 1952)
Jun 13th - Lambertus Zijl, sculptor (Trade scholarship)
Jun 20th - Ivans, [Jacob van Schevichaven], Dutch lawyer/detective writer
Jun 20th - Lord George ESMH Carnarvon, England, egyptologist (Tutanchamon)
Jun 26th - Josef Swickard, Coblenz Germany, actor (Lost City, Tale of 2 Cities)
Jun 29th - Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ukrainian statesman (d. 1934)
Jul 3rd - Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter
Jul 11th - R Beer-Hofmann, writer
Jul 11th - Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1953)
Jul 23rd - Francesco Cilea, composer
Jul 25th - Frederick Frost Blackman, English botanist
Jul 26th - Francesco Cilea, composer
Children's Author Beatrix Potter (Jul 28th) Jul 28th - Beatrix Potter, England, children's author (Tale of Peter Rabbit)
Aug 5th - Alfred Holy, composer
Aug 5th - Carl Harries, German chemist (d. 1923)
Aug 5th - Harry Trott, Australian cricketer (d. 1917)
Aug 6th - Chief Thundercloud, [Scott T Williams], MT, actor (Lone Ranger)
Aug 8th - Matthew A Henson, 1st Black to reach North Pole (Jun 4 1909)
Aug 12th - Jacinto Benavente y Martínez, Spanish playwright (Nobel 1922)
Aug 13th - Giovanni Agnelli, Italian industrialist (d. 1945)
Aug 14th - Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin, Belgian mathematician (d. 1962)
Aug 17th - Mir Mahboob Ali Khan, 6th Nizam of Hyderabad (d. 1911)
Aug 17th - Julia Marlowe, English actress (d. 1950)
Aug 30th - Georges Minne, Flemish sculptor
Sep 1st - James "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, heavyweight champion boxer (1892-97)
Sep 2nd - Hiram Johnson, (Gov-Progressive-Cal)
Sep 7th - Tristan Bernard, French playwright and novelist (d. 1947)
Sep 10th - Tor Bernhard Vilhelm Aulin, composer
Sep 10th - Jeppe Aakjær, Danish writer (d. 1930)
Sep 13th - Adolf Meyer, US, psychiatrist/neurologist (pioneered mental hygiene)
Sep 20th - Gustave Doret, composer
Sep 21st - Charles Jean Henri Nicolle France, bacteriologist (Nobel-1928)
Science Fiction Writer H. G. Wells (Sep 21st) Sep 21st - H. G. Wells, Bromley, Kent, , English writer (War of the Worlds, Kipps), (d. 1946)
Sep 23rd - Edouard Combe, composer
Sep 25th - Thomas Hunt Morgan, US, biologist (Nobel-1933)
Sep 27th - Tryggve Andersen, Norwegian writer (Fra Cancelliraadens Dage)
Sep 27th - Eurosia Fabris, Italian Catholic Blessed (d. 1932)
Oct 2nd - Charles de Souzy Ricketts, artist
Oct 3rd - Learmont Drysdale, composer
Oct 6th - Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, broadcast 1st program of voice & music
Oct 7th - Martha McChesney Berry, US, founded Berry School for Children
Oct 7th - Wlodimir Ledochowski, Polish-Austrian director of the Society of Jesus (d. 1942)
Oct 12th - Antonie Waldrop, painter/lithographer
Oct 12th - James Ramsay MacDonald, (L) British PM (1924, 1929-35)
Oct 16th - Pieter J Kromsigt, theologist/publicist (Troffel & Sword)
Oct 19th - Clarence Lucas, composer
Oct 25th - Georg Alfred Schumann, composer
Nov 5th - Daniel Protheroe, composer
Nov 7th - Carl Emil Paul Lincke, composer
Nov 7th - Paul Lincke, German composer/conductor/publisher (Frau Luna)
Nov 8th - Herbert Austin, English automobile pioneer (d. 1941)
Nov 12th - Sun Yat-sen, father of modern China (ROC & PRC) (traditional)
Nov 13th - Abraham Flexner, American educator (d. 1959)
Nov 17th - Voltairine de Cleyre, American anarchist (d. 1912)
Nov 20th - Kenesaw Mountain Landis, judge/1st commissioner of baseball
Nov 28th - Arthur Frederick Augustus "Dick" Lilley, cricket keeper (England)
Nov 28th - Henry Bacon, architect (Lincoln Memorial)
Nov 28th - Johannes F "Johan" Bakker Sr, Dutch actor/husband of Truus Soete
Nov 29th - Waldemar von Baussnern, composer
Dec 2nd - Henry Thacker Burleigh, Erie Pa, black composer (Springarn Medal)
Dec 4th - Vassily V Kandinsky, Russ/Ger/Fr abstract painter (Dreamy Inspiration)
Dec 12th - Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist (Nobel 1913)
Dec 14th - Roger Fry, English artist and art critic (d. 1934)
Dec 22nd - Mieczyslaw Surzynski, composer
Dec 28th - Szymon Askenazy, Polish historian and diplomat (d. 1935)
Dec 29th - Joseph Limburg, liberal Second-Member of parliament (1905-19)

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