Famous Birthdays for Year 1871

Months in Year 1871: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 141 of 141

Jan 5th - Frederick Shepherd Converse, Newton Mass, composer
Jan 7th - Émile Borel, French mathematician and politician (d. 1956)
Jan 8th - James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, Irish politician (d. 1940)
Jan 9th - Charles Kortright, British(?) cricket player
Jan 10th - Enrica Freiin von Handel-Manzetti, Austrian author (Jesse & Maria)
Jan 12th - Paul Guthnick, German astronomer
Jan 14th - Pauline Beersmans, [PLJM van Cuyck], Flemish actress (Hofslachter)
Jan 15th - Bertram Shapleigh, composer
Jan 17th - David Earl Beatty British admiral (d. 1936)
Jan 22nd - Leon Jessel, composer
Jan 26th - Warner Fabian, [Samuel H Adams], US journalist/writer (Average Jones)
Jan 29th - Eduardo Lopez-Chavarri y Marco, composer
Jan 30th - Seymour Hicks, St Helier Jersey, actor-manager (Scrooge)
Jan 30th - Wilfred Lucas, actor (Pardon Us, Chump at Oxford)
Feb 4th - Friedrich Ebert, German politician, 1st Reichspräsident of the Weimar Republic (d. 1925)
Feb 5th - Jovan Ducic, Serb poet (Blue Legends)
Feb 7th - Karl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammer, composer
Feb 9th - Franc S Finzgar, Slovenian clergyman/writer (Our Blood)
Feb 9th - Howard T Ricketts, US pathologist (studied typhus fever)
Feb 14th - Gerda Lundequist, Swedish actress (d. 1959)
Feb 18th - Harry Brearley, English inventor (d. 1948)
Feb 25th - Oliver Samuel Campbell, tennis champ (US Open-1890)
Mar 1st - Ben Harney, American composer and ragtime pianist (d. 1938)
Mar 3rd - Maurice Garin, French cyclist (d. 1957)
Mar 4th - Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician (d. 1945)
Mar 5th - Maria do Carmo Geronimo, Brazilian lives to be at least 126
Mar 5th - Rosa Luxemburg, Socialist revolutionary (d. 1919)
Mar 15th - Betsy van den Arend, Dutch [Betje], actress (Miss Hobbs)
Mar 19th - Joseph McGinnity, Rock Island Ill, baseball pitcher (NY Giants)
Mar 19th - Schofield Haigh, cricketer ("Sunshine of the Yorkshire 11")
Mar 25th - John Gutzon Borglum, sculptor (Mt Rushmore)
Mar 26th - Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalaniana'ole of the Kingdom of Hawaii (d. 1922)
Mar 27th - Heinrich Mann, Germany, novelist/essayist (Blue Angel); bros of Thomas
Mar 27th - Petrus J M Aalberse, Dutch minister of Labor (1918-25)
Mar 28th - Willem Mengelberg, Utrecht Neth, conductor (NY Philharmonic 1922-30)
Mar 29th - Tom Hayward, cricketer (great England batsman of the Golden Age)
Mar 31st - Arthur Griffith, President of Ireland (d. 1922)
Apr 1st - F Melius Christiansen, composer
Apr 3rd - Jose Juan Tablada, Mexican poet (El Florilegio)
Apr 5th - Jeanne Bougeois, [La Mistinguette], artist (French revue)
Apr 5th - Mirko Seljan, Croatian explorer (d. 1913?)
Apr 6th - Alexander, grandson of England's Queen Victoria
Apr 8th - Clarence Hudson White American photographer (d. 1925)
Apr 9th - Arthur Fickenscher, composer
Apr 12th - Ioannis Metaxas, Greek general/dictator (1936-41)
Apr 16th - John Millington Synge, Ireland, dramatist/poet (Riders to the Sea)
Apr 16th - Martin Lunssens, composer
Apr 18th - Henry Stephenson, Brit WI, actor (Conquest, Little Old NY, Mr Lucky)
Apr 20th - William Henry Davies, Wales, poet (Autobiography of a Super Tramp)
Apr 21st - Leo Blech, composer
Apr 21st - Vojtech Rihovsky, composer
Apr 25th - Sara Amsel, Indonesian/Dutch actress
Apr 27th - Arthur Finlay Nevin, composer
Apr 29th - Louis William Stern, German/US philosopher (Intelligence of Children)
May 4th - Mynona, writer
May 5th - Alberto Cametti, composer
May 6th - August Reusner, composer
May 6th - Ch Morgenstern, writer
May 6th - Victor Grignard, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)
May 11th - Frank Schlesinger, American astronomer (d. 1943)
May 17th - Henricus P Bremmer, art historian (Modern Kunstwerken)
May 18th - Franiska zu Reventlow, writer
May 23rd - Sigurd Lie, composer
May 26th - Camille Huysmans, Belgian premier (1946-47)
May 27th - Georges-Henri Rouault, Fr expressionist painter (Miserere et Guerre)
May 30th - Olga Engl, Austrian actress (d. 1946)
Jun 14th - Jacob Ellehammer, Danish inventor (d. 1946)
Jun 17th - James Weldon Johnson, lawyer (1st black admitted to Florida Bar)
Jun 17th - Nicolae Iorga, writer/poet/literature historian/pres of Romania
Jun 22nd - William McDougall, British psychologist and polymath (d. 1938)
Jul 3rd - Vicente Arregui Garay, composer
Jul 8th - Clement Harris, composer
Jul 8th - Kornelis ter Laan, 1st Dutch socialist mayor (Zaandam)
Jul 10th - Marcel Proust, France, novelist (Remembrance of Things Past)
Jul 11th - Stjepan Radic, founder/leader (Croatian Farmers' Party)
Jul 15th - Kunikida Doppo, Japanese writer (d. 1908)
Jul 17th - Lyonel C A Feininger, US cartoonist/painter
Jul 18th - Giacomo Balla, Italian painter (Dog at a Rope)
Jul 18th - Sada Yacco, Japanese stage actress (d. 1946)
Jul 22nd - Akos Buttykai, composer
Aug 1st - Oskar Fried, composer
Aug 1st - John Lester, American cricketer (d. 1969)
Aug 2nd - John French Sloan, American artist (d. 1951)
Aug 3rd - Vernon Louis Parrington, author (Romantic Revolution, Pulitzer 1928)
Aug 6th - Emanuel Querido, [Joost Mendes], author/publisher
Aug 8th - William Henry Squire, composer
Aug 13th - Karl Liebknecht, German revolutionary marxist (Sparta Party)
Aug 16th - Zakhary Petrovich Paliashvili, composer
Aug 18th - Johan J Arch, graphic artist (wood cutter)
Aviator Orville Wright (Aug 19th) Aug 19th - Orville Wright, Dayton OH, aviator (Wright Brothers), (d. 1912)
Aug 21st - Leonid N Andrejev, Russian journalist/writer (Red Laugh)
Aug 27th - Theodore Dreiser, US, novelist (Sister Carie, American Tragedy)
Aug 29th - Albert Lebrun, French politician (d. 1950)
Aug 30th - Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, New Zealand physicist and father of nuclear physics (Nobel 1908), (d. 1937)
Aug 31st - James E. Ferguson, Texan governor (d. 1944)
Sep 1st - J. Reuben Clark, Jr., American Undersecretary of State (d. 1961)
Sep 10th - Charles Collett, British mechanical engineer (d. 1952)
Sep 12th - Friedrich, Prince of Liechtenstein, Romania
Sep 13th - Alma Kruger, Pittsburgh PA, actress (Made For Each Other)
Sep 19th - Fritz Schaudinn, German animal expert (examined syphilis)
Sep 21st - Ernst Heldring, Dutch merchant/ship owner/financier
Sep 23rd - Frantisek Kupka, Czech writer
Sep 24th - Lottie Dod, English athlete (d. 1960)
Sep 26th - Winsor McCay, American cartoonist (d. 1934)
Father of Nuclear Physics Ernest Rutherford (Aug 30th) Sep 27th - Grazia Deledda, Italian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1936)
Sep 28th - Pietro Badoglio, Grazzano Monferrato, Italy, General/Libyan Governor (1928-33) and Prime Minister of Italy (1943-44)
Sep 30th - John Fabricius, Neth/English stageauthor (Ring of Prophet)
Sep 30th - Ruben Mattias Liljefors, composer
Oct 2nd - Cordell Hull, US Sec of State (1933-44), lowered tariffs (Nobel 1945)
Oct 2nd - Martha Brookes Hutcheson, American landscape architect (d. 1959)
Oct 3rd - Stijn Streuvels, [Frank Lateur], Flemish writer (De Valschaard)
Oct 9th - Gerrit Bolkestein, minister of Education (1939-4-)
Oct 9th - George Gauthier, Bishop of Montreal and rector of the Université de Montréal (d. 1940)
Oct 9th - Didak Buntić, Croatian monk and scholar.
Oct 11th - Johan Oscar Smith, Norweigian religious leader (d. 1943)
Oct 14th - Alexander von Zemlinsky, Vienna Austria, composer (Schneeman)
Oct 18th - Louis de Vries, Dutch actor (Ghetto)
Oct 19th - Walter B Cannon, US physiologist (Wisdom of the Body)
Oct 20th - Frederick Burton, IN, actor (One Way Passage)
Oct 26th - Hermann Lohr, composer
Oct 26th - Guillermo Kahlo, father of Frida Kahlo (d. 1941)
Oct 29th - Narziss Ach, German psychologist (Analyse des Willens)
Oct 30th - Buck Freeman, American baseball player (d. 1949)
Nov 1st - Alexander Afanasii Spendiaryan, composer
Novelist Stephen Crane (Nov 1st) Nov 1st - Stephen Crane, Newark, New Jersey, novelist/poet (Red Badge of Courage), (d. 1900)
Nov 3rd - Albert Goldthorpe, English rugby league footballer
Nov 9th - Florence Sabin, scientist/1st woman to graduate from Johns Hopkins
Nov 10th - Winston Churchill, US, author (Crisis, Crossing)
Nov 18th - Amadeo Vives, composer
Nov 20th - William H Kilpatrick, US mathematician/philosopher/educator
Nov 21st - Panayot Pipkov, composer
Nov 25th - Cornelis J "Cor" van Ast, actor/director (Ghost Hotel)
Nov 27th - Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist (d. 1950)
Dec 1st - Archie MacLaren, cricketer (424 Lancashire v Somerset 1895)
Dec 5th - Bill Pickett, American rodeo performer (d. 1932)
Dec 9th - Joe Kelley, American baseball player (d. 1943)
Dec 13th - Herman T Colenbrander, Dutch historian
Dec 13th - Russell W Porter, Vermont, explorer (Alaska)
Dec 13th - Emily Carr, Canadian artist (d. 1945)
Dec 20th - Henry Kimball Hadley, composer
Dec 24th - Henri Stroethoff, Dutch actor (A Chique Little Boy)