Famous Birthdays for Year 1869

Months in Year 1869: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 131 of 131

Jan 3rd - Paul Charles Rene Landormy, composer
Jan 4th - Percy Pitt, composer
Jan 4th - Tommy Corcoran, American baseball player (d. 1960)
Jan 13th - Emanuele F, duke of Aosta, Italian general (WW I)/fascist
Jan 15th - Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish dramatist (d. 1907)
Jan 18th - Willem De Vreese, Flemish linguist/biblographer
Jan 19th - Alfred R Zimmerman, mayor (Rotterdam 1906-22)/Dir (League of Nations)
Jan 22nd - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk and confidant of Russian Tsar Nicholas II (d. 1916)
Jan 23rd - Carlo Felice Boghen, composer
Jan 23rd - Herbert David Croly, US author (Promise of American Life)
Jan 27th - Will Marion Cook, composer
Jan 29th - Andrey Vladimirovich Scherbachov, composer
Jan 31st - Henri Carton de Wiart, Belgian Count/literary/premier (1920-21)
Feb 1st - Johannes F "Frits" Bakker Sr, actor (Holland Tooneelgezelschap)
Feb 7th - Jindrich S Baar, Czech pastor/writer (Jan Cimbura)
Feb 10th - Vasily Pavovlich Kalafati, composer
Feb 11th - Helene Kroller-Muller, Dutch museum founder (d. 1939)
Feb 11th - Else Lasker-Schüler, German writer (d. 1945)
Feb 12th - Hendrik P Marchant, Dutch minister of Education/Arts (VVD)
Feb 14th - Charles Wilson, English physicist (Wilson cloud chamber-Nobel)
Feb 23rd - Nadezhda Konstantinova Krupskaya, Russian revolutionary (Soc-Dem)
Feb 26th - Nadezjda K Krupskaja, Russian revolutionary/wife of Lenin
Feb 27th - Alice Hamilton, physician/writer (workmen's compensation laws)
Mar 3rd - Henry J Wood, English conductor (Gentle Art of Singing, Proms)
Mar 5th - Michael von Faulhaber, cardinal/archbishop of Munich
Mar 7th - Ernst J Cohen, Dutch chemist
Mar 14th - Algernon Blackwood, British writer (d. 1951)
Mar 15th - Stanisław Wojciechowski, President of Poland (d. 1953)
Mar 16th - F. A. Forbes, Scottish author (d. 1936)
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (Mar 18th) Mar 18th - [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain, British PM (C, 1937-40)
Mar 21st - Albert Kahn, architect, originated modern factory design
Mar 21st - Florenz Ziegfeld, producer (Ziegfield Follies)
Mar 22nd - Emilio Aguinaldo, first President of the Philippines (d. 1964)
Mar 25th - Gustaaf DFL Schamelhout, Flemish physician/writer
Mar 27th - James McNeill, Irish politician (d. 1938)
Mar 29th - Ales Hrdlicka, US, anthropologist/curator (US National Museum)
Mar 29th - Edwin Lutyens, architect, London
Apr 1st - Peter A Egge, Norwegian writer (De Droom)
Apr 5th - Albert Roussel, Tourcoing France, composer (Rapsodie Flamende)
Apr 5th - Sergei Chaplygin, Russian physicist and engineer (d. 1942)
Apr 6th - Louis Raemakers, Dutch draftsman/painter
Apr 7th - David Grandison Fairchild, US, botanist/explorer, brought plants to US
Apr 8th - Harvey Cushing, US, neurosurgeon (blood pressure studies)
Apr 11th - Kasturba Gandhi, Wife of Mohandas Gandhi (d. 1944)
Apr 11th - Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (d. 1943)
Apr 12th - Henri-Desire Landru, French sex murderer
Apr 17th - Johannes M Meulenhoff, Dutch publisher
Apr 25th - Karl Prohaska, composer
Apr 27th - William Victor Harris, composer
Apr 30th - Hans Poelzig, German architect (d. 1936)
May 2nd - Tyrone Power Sr, London England, actor (Alexanders Ragtime Band)
May 5th - Hans Pfitzner, Russian-born composer (d. 1949)
May 6th - Joseph Cuvelier, Belgian historian/archivist
May 11th - Francisco Lacerda, composer
May 18th - Ruprecht, crown prince of Bavaria/general-fieldmarshall
May 19th - Jules Poncelet, Belgian minister of State
Jun 2nd - Jack O'Connor, baseball player (d. 1937)
Jun 3rd - Maria Radulphus, inspector on Curacao (Radulphus College)
Jun 4th - Boudouin LPMCAJL, prince of Belgium/count of Vlaanderen
Jun 6th - Siegfried Wagner, German opera composer/conductor
Jun 10th - Gustave Vanzype, Belgian literary/headed La Gazette
Jun 13th - Ede Poldini, composer
Jun 22nd - Hendrikus Colijn, Dutch premier (AR 1933-39)
Jun 26th - Martin Andersen Nexø, Danish writer (d. 1954)
Jun 27th - Emma Goldman, anarchist/publisher (Mother Earth)
Jun 27th - Kate Carew, American caricaturist (d. 1961)
Jun 27th - Hans Spemann, German embryologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1941)
Jul 1st - William Strunk Jr., American grammarian (d. 1946)
Jul 4th - Karl Seitz, president of Austria
Jul 8th - William V Moody, US poet (Death of Eve, Faith Healer)
Jul 14th - Owen Wister, US, novelist (Virginian)
Jul 29th - Booth Tarkington, US, novelist (17, Magnificent Ambersons)
Aug 9th - Randle Ayrton, Chester England, actor (Manxman)
Aug 10th - Lawrence Binyon, Vienna Austria, poet (Symbolic Wounds)
Aug 14th - Edvard Armas Jornefelt, Vyborg Finland, composer (Berceuse)
Aug 23rd - Edgar Lee Masters, poet/novelist (Spoon River Anthology)
Aug 23rd - James (Sunny Jim) Rolph, SF mayor (1912-31), MUNI backer
Aug 27th - Karl Haushofer, soldier/geographer
Sep 4th - Geert A D Wumkes, Frisian theologist/writer (Frision Movement)
Sep 6th - Felix Salten, [Siegmund Salzmann], Austria journalist (Bambi)
Sep 6th - Walford Davies, composer
Sep 7th - Margot SE Scharten-Antink, Dutch author (Catherina, Sprotje)
Sep 10th - Caro Roma, composer
Sep 14th - Kid Nichols, American baseball player (d. 1953)
Sep 17th - Christian Lange, Norway, pacifist/internationalist (Nobel 1921)
Sep 20th - George Robey, [George Edward Wade], comic
Sep 20th - Marcel Cachin, co-founder (French Communistic Party)
Sep 21st - Henryk Melcer-Szczawinski, composer
Sep 26th - Komitas, Armenian composer (d. 1935)
Sep 30th - Ernest Jones, cricket pace bowler (marvellous Aust at turn of century)
Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Gandhi (Oct 2nd) Oct 2nd - Mahatma Gandhi [Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi], Porbandar Kathiawad India, pacifist and spiritual leader, (d. 1948)
Oct 3rd - Alfred Flatow, German Olympic champion gymnast (d. 1942)
Oct 8th - J Frank Duryea, inventor (1st auto built & operated in US)
Oct 9th - Harry Lawrence Freeman, composer
Oct 11th - Gordon Frederic Norton, composer
Oct 14th - Joseph Duveen, England, art connoisseur (Elgin marbles)
Oct 23rd - Jacobus H "Koos" Speenhoff, Dutch singer
Oct 25th - August Otto Halm, composer
Oct 25th - John Heisman, pioneering football coach/trophy namesake
Oct 26th - Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, President of Brazil (d. 1957)
Oct 30th - Lawrence Grant, Bournemouth England, actor (Bulldog Drummond)
Nov 9th - Marie Dressler, [Leila M Koerber], Ontario, actress (Caught Short)
Nov 11th - Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy (1900-46)/Ethiopia
Nov 11th - Gaetano Bresci, Italian-American anarchist (d. 1901)
Nov 13th - Helene Stöcker, German feminist, pacifist and publicist (d. 1943)
Nov 13th - Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams, Russian feminist (d. 1962)
Nov 18th - James E Sullivan, founder (Amateur Athletic Union)
Nov 20th - Clark Griffith, Mo, baseball player/manager (NY Yankees)
Nov 22nd - Andre Gide, France, novelist (Lafcadio's Adventures-Nobel 1947)
Nov 23rd - Valdemar Poulsen, Danish engineer (d. 1942)
Nov 24th - António Óscar Carmona, 97th Prime Minister of Portugal and 11th President of Portugal (d. 1951)
Nov 25th - Ben Lindsey, American judge and social reformer (d. 1934)
Nov 26th - Maud, Queen of Norway (d. 1938)
Nov 30th - Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1937)
Dec 1st - Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish assassin of Gabriel Narutowicz (d. 1923)
Dec 2nd - Jonas Cohn, German/English philosopher (Theory of the Dialects)
Dec 5th - Ellis Parker Butler, American author (d. 1937)
Dec 16th - Albert F Pollard, British historian (Dict of natural biography)
Dec 16th - Hristo Tatarchev, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1952)
Dec 17th - Nikolay Ivanovich Kazanli, composer
Dec 19th - Eduard Hermann, Coburg Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, German linguist (Homer)
Dec 20th - Charley Grapewin, Xenia OH, actor (Wizard of Oz, Libeled Lady)
Dec 22nd - Andre[-Paul-Guillaume] Gide, Paris France, writer (Nobel 1947)
Dec 22nd - Edwin Arlington Robinson, US, poet (Richard Corey)
Dec 22nd - Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician (d. 1931)
Dec 24th - Henriette GA Roland Holst-van der Schalk, Dutch poet (Women in Forest)
Dec 26th - Harry Redman, composer
Dec 29th - Bill Howell, cricketer (Australian bowler at turn of century)
Dec 30th - Adolphe Max, Belgian Rep (Lib)
Dec 30th - Stephen Leacock, Canada, economist/humorist/professor
Impressionist Painter Henri Matisse (Dec 31st) Dec 31st - Henri Matisse, Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Nord, impressionist painter (Odalisque), (d. 1954)