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Birthdays 1 - 141 of 141

Jan 4th - Edmund Rumpler, Austria, auto/airplane builder
Jan 6th - Alexander N Scriabin, Moscow, hallucinogenic composer (Prometheus)
Jan 11th - Paul Graener, composer
Jan 11th - George Washington Pierce, American physicist (d. 1956)
Jan 15th - Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian writer (d. 1944)
Jan 16th - Edward G Craig, actor/director (On the art of theatre)
Jan 16th - Henri-Paul Busser, composer
Jan 18th - Paul Leautaud, [Maurice Boissard], France, writer (Petit ami)
Jan 21st - Jonkhr Frans Beelaerts van Blokland, Dutch foreign minister
Jan 23rd - Paul Langevin, French physicist (d. 1946)
Jan 23rd - Joze Plečnik, Slovenian architect (d. 1957)
Jan 24th - Konstantin Bogaevsky, Russian painter (d. 1943)
Jan 24th - Ethel Turner, Australian author (d. 1958)
Jan 27th - Learned Hand, Albany NY, Chief judge (US Court of Appeals)
Jan 31st - Zane Grey, American West novelist (Riders of the Purple Sage)
Feb 1st - Paul Fort, French poet/founder of Vers et Prose
Feb 1st - Jerome F. Donovan, American politician (d. 1949)
Feb 1st - Andrew Kehoe, American mass murderer (d. 1927)
Feb 3rd - Lou Criger, American baseball player (d. 1934)
Feb 4th - Gotse Delchev, a great Macedonian revolutionary, (d. 1903)
Feb 6th - Theodor Lessing, writer [or Feb 8]
Feb 7th - Nikolaos "Sokrates" Politis, Greek lawyer/diplomat/foreign minister
Feb 10th - Anne Anema, Dutch lawyer/journalist/politician (ARP)
Feb 24th - John Jarvis, England, swimmer (won 108 titles)
Mar 3rd - Wee Willie Keeler, outfielder (Baltimore Orioles); hit .432 in 1897
Abstract Painter Piet Mondrian (Mar 7th) Mar 7th - Piet Mondrian, Amersfoort, Netherlands, Dutch abstract painter (Broadway Boogie Woogie)
Mar 7th - Vasily Andreyevich Zolotaryov, composer
Mar 8th - Paul Juon, Russian/Swiss violinist/composer
Mar 8th - Anna Held, Polish-born actress and singer (d. 1918)
Mar 10th - Felix Borowski, composer
Mar 11th - Abraham van Stolk Jzn, lumber merchant/art collector
Mar 13th - Oswald Garrison Villard, American journalist
Mar 17th - Billy Quaife, cricketer (England batsman 1899-1902)
Mar 18th - Frank Hoyt Losey, composer
Mar 18th - Anna Held, Polish actress and singer (d. 1918)
Mar 19th - Sergei Diaghilev, Gruzino Novgorod Russia, ballet director
Mar 20th - Bernhard Seklas, composer
Mar 20th - Karin Michaelis, writer
Mar 25th - Vito Pardo, Italian sculptor (Columbus monument in Argentina)
Mar 28th - Jose Sanjurjo y Sacanell, Spanish general (Morocco)
Mar 30th - Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko, composer
Mar 31st - Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev, Russia, dance master (Imperial Ballet)
Apr 1st - Tadeusz Joteyko, composer
Apr 4th - Nikolai Amani, composer
Apr 4th - Pauline de Haan-Manifarges, Dutch singer
Apr 5th - Samuel Cate Prescott, American food scientist and microbiologist (d. 1962)
Apr 7th - William Monroe Trotter, Hyde Park, Massachusetts, newspaper editor and African-American rights activist
Apr 9th - Leon Blum, French premier (People's front government)
Apr 13th - A Roda Roda, writer
Apr 14th - Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-born Islamic scholar and translator (d. 1953)
Apr 21st - GW Bitzer, [Johann Gottlob Wilhelm Bitzer], Roxbury MA
Apr 22nd - Princess Margaret of Prussia, queen of Finland (d. 1954)
Apr 23rd - Violet Gordon-Woodhouse, British musician (d. 1951)
Apr 25th - Charles Burgess Fry, cricketer/world record long jumper
Apr 29th - Eyvind Alnaes, composer
Apr 29th - Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman (d. 1930)
May 1st - Sidónio Pais, Portuguese military and politician (d. 1918)
May 2nd - G G van der Hoeven, Dutch editor-in-chief (NRC)
May 6th - Willem de Sitter, Dutch scientist (d. 1934)
May 10th - Marcel Mauss, French sociologist (d. 1950)
May 14th - Elia Dalla Costa, Italian cardinals (d. 1961)
May 18th - Bertrand Russell, England, mathematician/philosopher (Nobel 1950)
May 21st - Henry Warren, Boston Mass, inventor (Telechon electric clock)
May 28th - Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist (d. 1917)
May 31st - Charles G Abbot, US, astronomer (Constant Sun)
May 31st - William Heath Robinson, England, illustrator/cartoonist (Don Quixote)
Jun 6th - Alexandra Fjodorovna Romanova, last Russian tsarina (1894-1918)
Jun 20th - George Carpenter, the 5th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1948)
Jun 27th - Paul Laurence Dunbar, Dayton Ohio, poet/novelist (Oak & Ivory)
Jul 1st - Louis Bleriot, 1st man to fly an airplane across English Channel
Jul 3rd - Habib Ullah Chan, emir of Afghanistam (1901-19)
30th US President Calvin Coolidge (Jul 4th) Jul 4th - Calvin Coolidge, [Silent Cal], Plymouth Vt, (R) 30th pres (1923-29), (d. 1933)
Jul 5th - Edouard Herriot, French politician (d. 1957)
Jul 7th - Juan Lamonte de Grignon, composer
Jul 13th - Alfons van de Perre, Flemish physician/MP
Jul 16th - Roald Amundsen, Norway, explorer, discovered South Pole
Jul 18th - Julius Fucik, composer
Jul 20th - Alick Maclean, composer
Jul 20th - Deodat de Severac, composer
Jul 22nd - David D Salas, Antillian writer (Josefina)
Jul 26th - George Louis Beer, historian (authority on British colonies)
Jul 27th - Stanislav Binicki, composer
Jul 28th - Albert P Sarraut, Fren gov-gen of Indo-China (1911..19)/PM (1933/36)
Jul 29th - Eric Alfred Knudsen, American folklorist (d. 1957)
Jul 30th - Clementine, Princess of Belgium, wife of Prince Napoleon Bonaparte
Aug 2nd - George E. Stewart, American Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1946)
Aug 3rd - Haakon VII, Charlottenlund Denmark, King of Norway (1905-57)
Aug 5th - Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician (d. 1917)
Aug 7th - Andries C D de Graeff, governor-general of Neth Indies (1926-31)
Aug 9th - Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal (d. 1962)
Aug 11th - Shidehara Kijuro, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1951)
Aug 12th - Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein (d. 1956)
Aug 13th - Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1942)
Aug 15th - Harold Fraser-Simson, composer
Aug 15th - Rubin Goldmark, composer
Aug 21st - Aubrey Beardsley, England, artist (Salome)
Aug 24th - Max Beerbohm, England, caricaturist/writer/wit (Saturday Review)
Aug 28th - Alfred Baldwin Sloan, composer
Sep 4th - [Rosalie] Julia Cuypers, Flemish actress/wife of Joseph of Lyre
Sep 9th - Delilah L Beasley, US author/columnist (Negro trail-blazers)
Sep 9th - Josef Stransky, composer
Sep 10th - Josephina "Frieda" Herberich, actress (Verdoold Sheep)
Sep 10th - Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji, India, cricketer/politician
Sep 16th - Henriette de Vreker-Verschuur, Dutch/Flemish actress (Rose Kate)
Sep 20th - Maurice Gamelin, French generalissimo
Sep 22nd - Luis Villalba Munoz, composer
Sep 25th - Charles Blake Cochran, impresario
Sep 26th - Ottokar T Czernin von und zu Chudenitz, Austrian Foreign min (1916-18)
Sep 28th - Lena Ashwell, England, actress/theatrical manager (Kingsway)
Sep 28th - Tom Terriss, London England, director (His Buddy's Wife, Sumuru)
Oct 1st - Israel Querido, Dutch writer (Menschenwee)
Oct 3rd - Edward Faber Schneider, composer
Oct 6th - Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian writer (d. 1936)
Oct 8th - John Cowper Powys, British writer (Wood & Stone)
Oct 11th - Harlan Fiske Stone, NH, Supreme Court (1925-41) Chief Justice (41-46)
Oct 12th - Ralph Vaughan Williams, Down Amp England, composer (Hugh the Drover)
Oct 15th - Wilhelm Miklas, Austrian president (d. 1956)
Oct 18th - Josephine CMA, princess of Belgium/nun
Oct 24th - Peter O'Connor, Irish athlete (d. 1957)
Oct 27th - Emily Post, authority on social behavior/writer (Etiquette)
Nov 3rd - Paul Panzer, actor (Cat's Paw, Mildred Pierce, Hotel Berlin)
Nov 4th - Herman Finck, composer
Nov 9th - Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet (d. 1941)
Nov 11th - Maude K Adams, US, actress (Baldwin's Theatre)
Nov 11th - David I. Walsh, 46th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1947)
Nov 15th - Robert marquess of Flers, French author (Habit Vert)
Nov 29th - Anna Bahr-von Mildenburg, Austrian soprano/director
Nov 30th - Dr. John McCrae, Canadian physician and soldier (d. 1918)
Dec 5th - Harry N Pillsbury, US chess player
Dec 6th - Mikulas Moyzes, composer
Dec 7th - Johan Huizinga, Dutch culture historian (Homo Ludens)
Dec 8th - J C Powys, writer
Dec 10th - Johann Babtist Thaller, composer
Dec 10th - Ludwig Klages, German philosopher (study of graves)
Dec 16th - Anton Ivanovich Denikin, Russian general (d. 1947)
Dec 20th - Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer
Dec 21st - Albert P Terhune, US, novelist (Lad, a Dog)
Dec 21st - Sidney Ainsworth, British actor (d. 1922)
Dec 22nd - Camille Guérin, French veterinarian and bacteriologist (d. 1961)
Dec 26th - Norman Angell, British politician/cowboy/journalist, Nobel laureate (1933), (d. 1967)
Dec 30th - William A Larned, tennis champ (US Open-1901)

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