Famous Birthdays for Year 1873

Months in Year 1873: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 150 of 179

Jan 1st - Mariano Azuela, Mexico, novelist (The Flies, The Bosses)
Jan 2nd - Anton Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer/marxist theorist (Communist Tactics)
Jan 2nd - Thérèse de Lisieux, French Roman-Catholic nun (d. 1897)
Jan 3rd - Ichizo Kobayashi, Japanese businessman (d. 1957)
Jan 6th - Karl Straube, German organist/conductor
Jan 7th - Adolph Zukor, Hungary, movie producer/director/executive (Paramount)
Jan 8th - Lucien Capet, composer
Jan 8th - Iuliu Maniu, Romanian politician (d. 1953)
Jan 8th - Elena of Montenegro, queen of Italy (d. 1956)
Jan 9th - Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Hebrew poet (d. 1934)
Jan 10th - Jack O'Neill, Irish-born baseball player (d. 1935)
Jan 10th - George Orton, Canadian athlete (d. 1958)
Jan 11th - John Callan O'Laughlin, American political and military figure and journalist (d. 1949)
Jan 12th - Spiridon Louis, Greek marathon runner (d. 1940)
Jan 15th - Max Adler, Austria sociologist/socialist theorist
Jan 16th - Boyd Alexander, English explorer
Jan 17th - Francois Rasse, composer
Jan 19th - Hans E Blaich, writer
Jan 20th - Charles A Ellwood, US, sociologist/psychologist
Jan 20th - Johannes V Jensen, Denmark, novelist/poet (Energy Storage, Nobel 1944)
Novelist and Performer Colette (Jan 28th) Jan 28th - Colette [Sidonie-Gabrielle], Paris, French novelist and performer (Gigi)
Jan 28th - M A Noble, cricketer (great Australian all-rounder at turn of century)
Jan 29th - Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, Italy, explorer/climber (Mt St Elias)
Jan 30th - Rose Melville, actress (Sis)
Jan 30th - Georges Ricard-Cordingley, painter (d. 1939)
Feb 1st - Clara Butt, Southwick Sussex, contralto (Country of Hope & Glory)
Feb 1st - Joseph Allard, Canadian fiddler (d. 1947)
Feb 1st - John Barry, Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1901)
Feb 2nd - Freiherr Konstantin von Neurath, German secretary of State (1932-38)
Feb 2nd - Johan P earl van Limburg Stirum, Dutch diplomat
Feb 2nd - Leopold Fall, Austria, operetta composer (Dollar Princess)
Feb 3rd - Ernest B Allo, French theologist
Feb 4th - Étienne Desmarteau, Canadian athlete (d. 1905)
Feb 11th - Feodor Chaliapine, Russian author/novelist (Pages from My Life)
Feb 22nd - Muhammad Iqbal, Dutch East Indies lawyer/poet/philosopher
Feb 23rd - Dmitri Arakishvili, composer
Feb 23rd - Liang Qichao, Chinese scholar (d. 1929)
Feb 25th - Enrico Caruso, Naples Italy, operatic tenor (Faust)
Feb 26th - Ewoud van Everdingen, Dutch meteorologist
Mar 3rd - William Green, president of American Federation of Labor (1924-52)
Mar 4th - Guy Wetmore Carryl, American humorist and poet (d. 1904)
Mar 4th - John H. Trumbull, 54th Governor of the U.S. state of Connecticut (d. 1961)
Mar 5th - Olav Bjaaland, Norwegian explorer and cross-country skier (d. 1961)
Mar 7th - Madame Sul-Te-Wan, American actress (d. 1959)
Mar 10th - Jakob Wassermann, Germany, novelist (My Life as German & Jew)
Mar 11th - David Horsley, English-born film executive (d. 1933)
Mar 14th - Johannes Aengenent, sociologist/bishop of Haarlem (1928-35)
Mar 15th - David Vaughan Thomas, composer
Mar 15th - Lee Shubert, producer (theatres in NY & LA named after him)
Mar 16th - Hippoliet Daeye, Flemish painter (Sereniteit)
Mar 17th - Chard Somerset, 1st woman Cabinet minister (1929-31)
Mar 17th - Margaret Bondfield, Brit Labour leader/1st woman cabinet member
Mar 19th - Max Reger, Brand Bavaria, composer/pianist/prof (Leipzig Univ)
Mar 20th - Sergei V Rachmaninov, Russian/US pianist/composer (Aleko) [NS=Apr 1]
Mar 25th - Rudolf Rocker, German/US anarchist
Mar 26th - [Louise] Sophie de Vries, actress (On Hope of Blessing)
Mar 29th - Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian mathematician (d. 1941)
Apr 1st - Sergei Rachmaninoff, Novgorod Russia, composer (Prelude in C# Minor)
Apr 7th - John McGraw, American baseball player and manager (d. 1934)
Apr 11th - Edward Lawson, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1955)
Apr 13th - Theodore Morse, composer
Apr 13th - John W. Davis, American politician (d. 1955)
Apr 14th - Viktor Joseph Keldorfer, composer
Apr 18th - Jean Roger-Ducasse, composer
Apr 19th - Sydney Barnes, cricketer (probably England's greatest bowler)
Apr 22nd - Ellen Anderson Glasgow, US, novelist (Ancient Law, Pulitzer-1942)
Apr 24th - Theodor Korner von Siegringen, Austrian general/president
Apr 26th - Otto zur Linde, German author (Charon)
Apr 27th - Harry M O'Connor, Chicago IL, actor (Stranger than Fiction)
Apr 28th - Harold Bauer, English/US pianist (Beethoven-Association)
Apr 29th - Alida J M Tartaud-Klein, actress/stage star (Rotterdam Stage)
May 3rd - Nikolay N Tcherepnin, St Petersburg, composer of ballets, songs [OS]
May 3rd - [Nicoline] Magdalene Anchor-Roll, Norwegian author (Kvinnen og Den)
May 3rd - Pavlo Skoropadsky, Ukrainian general (d. 1945)
May 4th - Joe De Grasse, Canadian film director (d. 1940)
May 7th - Clarence Dickinson, composer
May 8th - Henry Leveson-Gower, cricketer (England capt 1909-10 later official)
Archaeologist and Discoverer of Tutankhamun Howard Carter (May 9th) May 9th - Howard Carter, London, British archaeologist and egyptologist (found King Tutankhamen's tomb)
May 9th - Lilian Mary Baylis, manager (Old Vic & Sadler's Wells Theater)
May 9th - Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1933)
May 10th - Carl J Eldh, Swedish sculptor
May 10th - Jan Kalf, literary/art historian (Preservation of museums)
May 15th - Nikolay N Tcherepnin, St Petersburg, composer of ballets, songs [NS]
May 17th - Dorothy Miller Richardson, Abingdon Berkshire, novelist
May 17th - Henri Barbusse, Asnieres France, novelist (Le Feu)
May 19th - Federico Gerdes, composer
May 21st - Emil Ermatinger, Switz, literature historian
May 21st - Everard Verachtert, Flemish translator (I speak beschaafd Dutch)
May 21st - Hans Berger, German neuroscientist (d. 1941)
May 23rd - Leo Baeck, rabbi/president (World Union for Progressive Judaism)
May 26th - Cornelis G N de Vooys, translator/founder (New Taalgids)
May 26th - Olaf Gulbransson, Norwegian artist (d. 1958)
Jun 3rd - Otto Loewi, Frankfurt am Main Germany, physician (Nobel-1936)
Jun 7th - Landon Ronald, composer
Jun 21st - Henry M Tomlinson, British writer (Sea & Jungle)
Jun 24th - Thomas Carl Whitmer, composer
Jun 28th - Alexis Carrel, France, surgeon/sociologist/biologist (Nobel 1912)
Jul 1st - Alice Guy-Blaché, American film director (d. 1968)
Jul 6th - Paul Keller, German writer (Ferien vom Ich)
Jul 17th - Antonina Neshdanova, Russian soprano (Rigoletto)
Jul 19th - Louis Zimmermann, violinist/1st concert master of Concert building
Jul 20th - Witold Maliszewski, composer
Jul 20th - Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian aviator (d. 1932)
Jul 22nd - Ettore Pozzoli, composer
Aug 3rd - Albert MLA de Bassompierre, Belgian ambassador to Tokyo (1921-39)
Aug 4th - Damasco Berenguer y Fuste, Spanish general/minister of War
Aug 6th - John Wesley Work, composer
Aug 6th - Mary Carr Moore, composer
Aug 11th - John Rosamond Johnson, Fla, co-composer (Lift Every Voice & Sing)
Aug 17th - John A. Sampson, American gynecologist (d. 1946)
Aug 18th - Leo Slezak, Austria tenor/actor (Othello)
Aug 18th - Otto Harbach, songwriter (Smoke Gets in Your Eyes)
Aug 19th - Fred Stone, Longmont CO, acrobat/Broadway actor (Alice Adams)
Aug 20th - Eliel Saarinen, Finland, architect (GM Tech Institute, Mich)
Aug 20th - William Henry Bell, composer
Aug 22nd - Karl Nef, Swiss musicologist
Aug 22nd - Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician and philosopher (d. 1928)
Aug 26th - Lee De Forest, Council Bluffs, inventor (Audion vacuum (radio) tube)
Sep 1st - Guy Standing, English actor (Cradle Song)
Sep 8th - David O McKay, Huntsville, Utah, 9th pres of Mormon church
Sep 8th - Max Reinhardt, Austria, theatrical director (Oedipus Rex)
Sep 8th - Alfred Jarry, French absurdist playwright (d. 1907)
Sep 9th - Edward Burlingame Hill, composer
Sep 12th - Sul-To-Wan, [Nellie Conley], US actress (Uncle Tom's Cabin)
Sep 20th - Robert D Wrenn, tennis champ (US Open - 1893)
Sep 20th - Sidney Olcott, Canadian film director (d. 1949)
Sep 20th - Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian race car driver (d. 1944)
Sep 21st - Papa Jack Laine, American musician (d. 1966)
Sep 26th - Amilcare Zanella, composer
Sep 26th - Aleksey Shchusev, Russian architect (d. 1949)
Sep 28th - Julian Lowell Coolidge, Mass, mathematician (Study-Segre school)
Sep 28th - Waclaw Rawicz, [Berent], Warsaw Poland, biologist/writer
Oct 2nd - Pelham Warner, cricketer (England 1898-1912, later notable official)
Oct 2nd - Stephen Warfield Gambrill, U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 5th District (d. 1924)
Oct 6th - Oscar George Theodore Sonneck, composer
Oct 8th - Ejnar Hertzsprung, Denmark, astronomer (Hertzsprung-Russell diagram)
Oct 9th - Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer (Schwarzschild effect)
Oct 9th - Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist (d. 1944)
Oct 14th - Jose Serrano Simeon, composer
Oct 14th - Ray Ewry, Lafayette Ind, jumper (Olympics-10 gold-1900, 04, 06, 08)
Oct 14th - Jules Rimet, president of FIFA (d. 1954)
Oct 18th - Ivanoe Bonomi, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1951)
Oct 19th - Barton King, cricketer (North America's greatest all-rounder)
Oct 19th - Jaap Eden, Dutch World Champion cycling & speed skating
Oct 21st - George P Gooch, English historian/MP
Oct 22nd - Gustaf John Ramstedt, Finland-Swedish linguist and diplomat (d. 1950)
Oct 23rd - William D. Coolidge, American physicist and inventor (d. 1975)
Oct 26th - Thorvald Stauning, Denmark, PM (1924-26, 1929-42)
Oct 27th - Henry Tate, composer
Oct 29th - Guillermo Valencia, Colombia, poet/translator/statesman