Famous Birthdays for Year 1868

Months in Year 1868: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 139 of 139

Jan 1st - Snitz Edwards, American actor (d. 1937)
Jan 3rd - Franz V M Cumont, Belgian religious historian
Jan 6th - Vittorio Monti, composer
Jan 7th - Abraham M "Mark" Lidzbarski, Polish/German orientalist
Jan 8th - Frank Dyson, proved Einstein right about light bent by gravity
Jan 9th - S. P. L. Sørensen, Danish chemist (d. 1939)
Jan 11th - Cai Yuanpei, Chinese educator (d. 1940)
Jan 14th - Catharina A M de Savornin Lohman, Dutch author (Belief)
Jan 15th - Noach Zjordanija, Georgian veterinarian/premier (1918-21)
Jan 16th - Cyril Metodej Hrazdira, composer
Jan 19th - Gustav Meyrink, writer
Jan 23rd - Juventino Rosas, composer
Jan 27th - Cato Engelen-Sewing, Dutch soprano prima donna (Dutch Opera)
Jan 28th - Frederick Archibald Lamond, composer
Jan 28th - Julian Aguirre, composer
Jan 31st - Theodore William Richards, chemist (atomic weights, Nobel-1914)
Feb 3rd - Damaso Ledesma, composer
Feb 4th - Constance Gore-booth Markiewicy, Irish patriot/playwright/MP
Feb 5th - Lodewijk Mortelmans, composer
Feb 10th - William Allen White, Emporia KS, editor (Pulitzer 1942)
Feb 12th - Johan H A Schaper, Dutch MP/founder (SDAP)
Feb 14th - Henricus A Poels, Dutch RC theologist/social foreman
Feb 16th - Wilhelm Schmidt, German anthropologist/linguist (Anthropos)
Feb 22nd - Henri Polak, union leader/politician (soc-dem)
Feb 23rd - William E B Du Bois, Mass, civil rights activist and writer (Souls of Black Folk)
Feb 25th - Anthony J Block, Dutch lawyer (strafproces)
Feb 26th - Leonard Borwick, British(?) pianist
Mar 3rd - Alain, [Emile-Auguste Chartier], French philosopher/writer
Mar 5th - Prosper Poullet, Belgian viscount/jurist/minister
Mar 15th - Grace Chisholm Young, English mathematician (d. 1944)
Mar 20th - Obe Postma, Frisian poet/geography/historian (Frisian Clay Farm)
Mar 22nd - Hamish MacCunn, composer
Mar 22nd - Henry W Methorst, lawyer/director (Dutch Cent Bureau of Statistics)
Mar 22nd - Robert A Millikan, US physicist (photoelectric effect; Nobel 1923)
Mar 23rd - Dietrich Eckart, early supporter of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party and member of Thule Society (d. 1923)
Mar 25th - Bill Lockwood, cricketer (England all-rounder in 12 Tests 1893-1902)
Mar 26th - Fuad I, king of Egypt (1922-36)
Mar 27th - Patty Smith Hill, author/songwriter (Happy Birthday To You)
Mar 28th - Cuno Amiet, Swiss painter
Playwright & Author Maxim Gorky (Mar 28th) Mar 28th - Maxim Gorky [Alexei Maximovich Peshkov], Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire, Russian playwright and author (Mother and The Lower Depths)
Mar 28th - Wojciech Gawronski, composer
Mar 31st - Karl Bonhoeffer, German psychiatrist/neurologist
Apr 1st - Edmond Rostand, France, poet/playwright (Cyrano de Bergerac)
Apr 2nd - Eduard Jacobs, singer/pianist (Dutch cabaret)
Apr 5th - J F "Flooi" Du Toit, cricketer (one Test South Africa 1892)
Apr 10th - George Arliss, London England, actor (Devil, Green Goddess)
Apr 12th - Akiyama Saneyuki, Japanese naval commander (d. 1918)
Apr 13th - John Blackwood McEwen, composer
Apr 14th - Peter Behrens, German architect (d. 1940)
Apr 16th - Joel Angel, Russian musicologist/composer
Apr 16th - Spottiswoode Aitken, Edinburgh Scot, actor (Eagle, Home Sweet Home)
Apr 17th - Charles R Gallas, Dutch lexicographer (French dictionary)
Apr 18th - Didericus G van Epen, genealogist (Dutch Patriciate)
Apr 19th - Max Von Schillings, German composer/conductor (Der Pfeifertag)
Apr 22nd - Jose Vianna da Motta, composer
Apr 22nd - Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria (d. 1924)
Apr 25th - John Bevins Moisant, pioneer aviator, first to cross English Channel with passenger and a cat, killed in New Orleans whose present day airport was originally name for him. (D. 1910)
Apr 26th - Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere/Newspaper publisher
Apr 26th - Robert Herrick, US writer (Common lot)
Apr 28th - Georgy Voronoy, Russian mathematician (d. 1908)
May 6th - Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont, Poland, novelist (Chiopi, Nobel-1924)
May 6th - Gaston Leroux, French writer (d. 1927)
May 10th - Ed Barrow, American baseball manager (d. 1953)
May 12th - Halsey William Wilson, US, publisher of reference books
May 13th - Paolo Gallico, composer
May 17th - Horace Elgin Dodge, American automobile manufacturer (d. 1920)
Last Emperor of Russia Nicholas II (May 18th) May 18th - Nicholas II Aleksandrovitsj, last tsar of Russia (1894-1917)
May 24th - Charles E. Taylor, First aircraft maintenance professional (d. 1956)
May 28th - Claude Anet, [Jean Schopfer], French writer (Fille Perdue)
Jun 3rd - Lvar Henning Mankell, composer
Jun 5th - James Connolly, Irish socialist (d. 1916)
Jun 6th - Robert Falcon Scott, Plymouth, British leader of ill-fated south pole expedition
Jun 7th - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect, designer, and illustrator (d. 1928)
Jun 14th - Karl Landsteiner, Austria, immunologist/pathologist (Nobel 1930)
Jun 18th - Miklos Horthy von Nagybanya, Hungarian admiral/regent (1910-44)
Jun 19th - Heinrich Schenker, [A Niloff], Austrian musicologist (Urlinie)
Jun 20th - Helen Miller Shepard, philanthropist/established Hall of Fame
Jun 21st - Edwin Stephen Goodrich, English zoologist (d. 1946)
Jun 29th - George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (d. 1938)
Jun 30th - C V France, Bradford Engld, actor (Skin Game, Adventure in Blackmail)
Jul 4th - Henrietta Swan Leavitt, American astronomer (d. 1921)
Antarctic Explorer Robert Scott (Jun 6th) Jul 5th - William H Singer, US painter/collector (Singer Museum, Laren)
Jul 6th - Petrus A Euwens, Dutch vicar/editor (Amigoe di Curacao)
Jul 6th - Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom (d. 1935)
Jul 12th - Stefan George, Germany, lyric poet (Algabal)
Jul 14th - Gertrude Bell, Durham, British archaeologist (Desert & The Sown), (d. 1926)
Jul 20th - Miron Cristea, 1st Patriarch of All Romania (d. 1939)
Jul 28th - George Morren, Flemish painter/sculptor
Jul 28th - Thomas P Krag, Norwegian writer (Jon Graeff, Ulf Ran)
Jul 30th - Alfred Weber, German economist/sociologist
Aug 2nd - Constantine I, king of Greece
Aug 5th - Oskar Merikanto, composer
Aug 6th - Paul Claudel, France, diplomat/poet (L'Otage-1909)
Aug 7th - Granville Bantock, English composer/conductor (Hebridean Symphony)
Aug 7th - Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian mathematician (d. 1931)
Aug 12th - Frederick JNT lord Chelmsford, viceroy of British-India (1916-21)
Archaelogist Gertrude Bell (Jul 14th) Aug 14th - Leone Sinigaglia, composer
Aug 16th - Charles Sanford Skilton, composer
Aug 16th - Bernarr McFadden, American physical culture advocate and (d. 1955)
Aug 20th - Ellen Roosevelt, American tennis player (d. 1954)
Aug 25th - Nikolaos Levidis, Greek shooter
Sep 1st - Henri Bourassa, French Canadian politician and publisher (d. 1952)
Sep 6th - Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1947)
Sep 9th - Mary Austin, Ill, feminist/nature writer (Land of Little Rain)
Sep 15th - Dirk B Nanninga, Dutch painter
Sep 17th - James Alexander Calder, Canadian politician (d. 1956)
Sep 26th - Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert, composer
Oct 4th - Marcelo Torcuato the Alvear, president of Argentina (1922-28)
Oct 7th - Fred H Hovey, tennis champ (US Open-1895)
Oct 8th - Max Slevogt, German painter
Oct 10th - Guillermo M Tomas, composer
Oct 16th - Franz X Ritter von Epp, German general (China)
Oct 18th - Ernst Didring, Swedish author (d. 1931)
Oct 19th - Bertha Landes, 1st woman elected mayor of a major US city (Seattle)
Oct 23rd - Rama V, [Chulalongkorn], leader of Thailand (-1910)
Oct 24th - Alexandra David-Néel, French explorer and writer (d. 1969)
Nov 4th - Carolina Otero, a.k.a La Belle Otero, Spanish actress, singer and courtesan (d. 1965)
Nov 8th - Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (d. 1942)
Nov 9th - Andrea d' Angeli, composer
Nov 9th - Emmanuel K de Bom, Flemish author (Wrakken)
Nov 10th - Gichin Funakoshi, Japanese martial artist (d. 1957)
Nov 11th - Edouard Vuillard, French painter/graphic artist
Nov 13th - Pierre Maurice, composer
Nov 22nd - John Nance Garner, (D) 32nd VP (1933-41)
Ragtime Composer Scott Joplin (Nov 24th) Nov 24th - Scott Joplin, Texas, US ragtime entertainer and composer (The Entertainer)
Nov 28th - Frantisek Alois Drdla, composer
Dec 2nd - Francis Jammes, French poet/writer (Jammisme)
Dec 4th - Richard N Roland Holst, Dutch artist/painter
Dec 4th - Jesse Burkett, American baseball player (d. 1953)
Dec 5th - Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist (d. 1951)
Dec 9th - Fritz Haber, German phycist-chemist (Nobel 1919)
Dec 10th - Louis Victor Saar, composer
Dec 11th - Ernst Henrik Ellberg, composer
Dec 14th - Richard Batka, composer
Dec 20th - Harvey Firestone, Columbia, Ohio, Industrialist, where the rubber meets the road, (d. 1938)
Dec 22nd - John Nance Garner, Texas, (VP-D-1933-41)
Dec 24th - Emanuel Lasker, Germany, world chess champion (1894-21)
Dec 25th - Eugenie Besserer, Watertown NY, actress (Jazz Singer)
Dec 28th - Marie van Regteren Altena, Dutch painter (Amsterdam's Joffers)