Famous Birthdays for Year 1875

Months in Year 1875: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 150 of 164

Jan 1st - Charles Rist, French economist
Jan 1st - N F Druce, cricketer (5 Tests for England v Australia 1897-98)
Jan 7th - Thomas Hicks, English/US marathon runner: (Olympic-gold-1904)
Jan 7th - Gustav Flatow, German gymnast (d. 1945)
Jan 9th - Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American socialite (d. 1942)
Jan 11th - Reinhold Gliere, composer
Jan 12th - Marika Stiernstedt, Swedish author (Ulla Bella)
Jan 14th - Albert Schweitzer, doctor/humanitarian/organist (Nobel 1954)
Jan 15th - Tom Burke, American runner (d. 1929)
Jan 16th - Leonor Michaelis, German enzyme kinetic theorist (d. 1947)
Jan 17th - Florencio Sánchez, Uruguayan dramatist (d. 1910)
Jan 21st - John Lindworsky, German jesuit/psychologist (Der Wille)
Jan 21st - Paul E Kahle, Germany, professor of oriental studies
Jan 22nd - Bonifacius C de Jonge, governor (Dutch East Indies)
Jan 22nd - D[avid] W Griffith, movie producer/director (Birth of a Nation)
Jan 22nd - Thomas W Ross, actor (Without Limit, Kings Row, 17, Mortal Storm)
Jan 28th - Julian Antonio Carillo-Trujillo, composer
Feb 1st - Eddie Pola, composer (Lullabye of Broadway)
Feb 2nd - Annette Kolb, German/French author (Small Fanfare)
Feb 2nd - Fritz Kreisler, Vienna Austria, violinist/composer
Feb 4th - Ludwig Prandtl, Germany, physicist (father of aerodynamics)
Feb 4th - Raymond Moulaert, composer
Feb 6th - Leonid Gobyato, Russian general (d. 1915)
Feb 7th - Erkki Gustav Melartin, composer
Feb 7th - Walter Courvoisier, composer
Feb 9th - Sidney Hugo Nicholson, composer
Feb 11th - Sara Wennerberg-Reuter, composer
Feb 18th - Walter Andrae, German archaeologist (Babylon, Assur)
Feb 21st - Jeanne Louise Calment, France, world's oldest woman (died at 122)
Feb 23rd - Jozef E Stokvis, journalist/Dutch MP (SDAP)
Feb 26th - Emma Dunn, actress (Dr Monica, Dr Kildare's Strange Case, Hideaway)
Feb 26th - Richard Wetz, composer
Feb 28th - Viliam Figus, composer
Mar 2nd - Hans Lietzman, German theologist/church historian
Mar 4th - Alberto Vaccari, Italian jesuit/old testament scholar/interpreter
Mar 4th - Enrique Larreta, [E R Maza], Argentine diplomat (Gloria de Don Ramiro)
Mar 4th - Suze Groeneweg, 1st Dutch female parliament member (SDAP, 1918-37)
Mar 7th - Maurice Ravel, French composer (d. 1937)
Mar 9th - Martin Fallas Shaw, composer
Mar 10th - Alexander Borisovich Goldenweiser, composer
Mar 12th - Julio Garreta, composer
Mar 13th - Maria E G "Lizzy" Ansingh, Dutch painter (Caught Sultane)
Mar 14th - Isadore Gilbert Mudge, US, librarian/author (Thackeray Dictionary)
Mar 14th - Norman Houstoun O'Neill, composer
Mar 25th - Spencer Charters, Duncannon PA, actor (3 Faces West)
Mar 26th - Syngman Rhee, pres of South Korea (1948-60) [or Apr 26]
Mar 29th - Lou Henry Hoover, 1st lady (1929-33)
Mar 29th - Paul Rubens, composer
Apr 1st - Edgar Wallace, England, novelist/playwright/journalist (Terror)
Apr 2nd - Walter Chrysler, Wamego, Kansas, founder of car company Chrysler
Apr 4th - Jozef Szulc, composer
Apr 4th - Pierre Monteux, Paris France, conductor (Boston Symph Orch 1919-24)
Apr 4th - Samuel S Hinds, Brooklyn NY
Apr 5th - Mistinguett, French vaudeville performer (d. 1956)
Apr 8th - Albert I LCMM von Saksen-Coburg, king of Belgium (1909-34)
Apr 13th - Ray Lyman Wilbur, U.S. university president and politician (d. 1949)
Apr 15th - Klaziena "Ina" Boudier-Bakker, Dutch playwright/novelist (Poverty)
Apr 15th - James J. Jeffries, American heavyweight boxer (d. 1953)
Apr 18th - Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic, Croatian writer (d. 1938)
Apr 24th - Jeno Huszka, composer
Apr 26th - Syngman Rhee, South Korea, pres of South Korea (1948-60) [or Mar 26]
Apr 27th - Andre Baillon, Belgian/French author (Un homme si simple)
Apr 27th - Freddie Fane, cricketer (Hobbs' 1st Test opening partner)
Apr 27th - Lumsden Hare, Ireland, actor (Oregon Trail, Desert Fox, Young Bess)
Apr 29th - Rafael Sabatini, Italian/British writer (d. 1950)
May 4th - Ramiro de Maeztu y Whitney, Spanish writer (Don Quixote & Celestine)
May 4th - Reggie Schwartz, cricketer (1st of great South African googlists)
May 6th - William Daniel Leahy, Iowa, 5 star admiral/chief of staff (1949)
May 11th - Harriet Quimby, American aviator (d. 1912)
May 18th - Guido Alberto Fano, composer
May 23rd - Alfred P. Sloan, American long-time president and chairman of General Motors (d. 1966)
May 30th - Giovanni Gentile, Italian philosopher (d. 1944)
May 31st - Italo Montemezzi, composer
Novelist Thomas Mann (Jun 6th) Jun 6th - Thomas Mann, Germany, novelist (Magic Mountain-Nobel 1929)
Jun 9th - Henry Dale, London, physiologist (Nobel-1936)
Jun 12th - Sam De Grasse, Canadian actor (d. 1953)
Jun 13th - Max d' Ollone, composer
Jun 15th - Herman Smith-Johannsen, cross-country skier (d. 1987)
Jun 17th - Philipp A Kohnstamm, philosopher/theorist (Mensch & World)
Jun 20th - Othenio Able, Austria, paleontologist
Jun 23rd - Carl Milles, Uppsala Sweden, fountain sculptor (Wedding of Rivers)
Jun 26th - Camille Zeckwer, composer
Jun 28th - Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician (d. 1941)
Jul 3rd - Ernst F Sauerbruch, German nazi/surgeon
Jul 4th - Giovanni & Giacomo Tocci, Italy, siamese twins
Jul 10th - Mary McLeod Bethune, SC, educator (Bethune-Cookman College)
Jul 15th - Frank "Pop" Morgenweck, basketball hall of famer (elected 1962)
Jul 15th - Jean van den Eeckhoudt, Belgian painter
Jul 17th - Donald Francis Tovey, Eton England, musicologist/composer
Psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung (Jul 26th) Jul 26th - Carl Gustav Jung, Switzerland, doctor (founded analytic psychology), (d. 1961)
Jul 26th - Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (d. 1939)
Jul 30th - James William Tate, composer
Jul 31st - Harry Northrup, Paris France, actor (Who's That Knocking at My Door)
Aug 2nd - Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian artist (d. 1957)
Aug 6th - Marcel Labey, composer
Aug 8th - Artur da Silva Bernardes, President of Brazil (d. 1955)
Aug 9th - Albert William Ketelbey, Aston England, composer (Wonder Worker)
Aug 9th - Reynaldo Hahn, French composer, conductor, music critic and diarist
Aug 12th - Ettore Panizza, composer
Aug 12th - Mezio Agostini, composer
Aug 15th - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, London, composer (Hiawatha's Wedding Feast)
Aug 18th - Johan E Elias, historian (Amsterdam)
Aug 19th - Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (d. 1936)
Aug 21st - Maurice Lippens, Belgian earl/minister/governor of Congo
Aug 23rd - William Eccles, English radio pioneer (d. 1966)
Aug 23rd - Eugene Lanceray, Russian artist (d. 1946)
Aug 26th - John Buchan, Scotland, Gov-Gen of Canada/writer (Battle of Somme)
Aug 27th - Katharine McCormick, American women's rights activist (d. 1967)
Sep 1st - Edgar Rice Burroughs, US, sci-fi author (Tarzan of Apes, Mars Saga)
Sep 3rd - Ferdinand Porsche, German car inventor (Porsche, Volkswagen)
Sep 5th - Napoleon "Larry" Lajoie, RI, hall of fame shortstop (.426 in 1901)
Sep 10th - Paul Scheinpflug, composer
Sep 12th - Matsunosuke Onoe, Japanese actor (d. 1926)
Department Store Founder James Cash Penney (Sep 16th) Sep 16th - James Cash Penney, Hamilton Missouri, department store founder (J C Penney), (d. 1971)
Sep 17th - Vyacheslav Gavrilovich Karatigin, composer
Sep 18th - Tomas Burgos, Chilean philanthropist (d.1945)
Sep 22nd - Mikolajus Konstantinas Ciurlionis, composer
Sep 26th - Edmund Gwenn, Wales, actor (Miracle on 34th Street)
Oct 2nd - Henry Fevrier, composer
Oct 4th - Mikolajus Konstantinas Ciurlionis, composer
Oct 5th - Cyril Rootham, composer
Oct 8th - Hugh L Doherty, tennis champ (US Open-1903)
Oct 11th - Stefan O Iosif, Romania, poet (Beautiful Irine)
Oct 12th - Aleister [Edward S] Crowley, (75 pseudonames), British occultist
Oct 17th - Alfred Polgar, Austrian writer (Yes & No!)
Oct 18th - James E K Aggrey, Ghana, US theologian/educationalist
Oct 18th - Len Braund, cricketer (great England all-rounder in 23 Tests 1901-08)
Oct 23rd - Gilbert N. Lewis, American chemist (d. 1946)
Oct 24th - Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter (d. 1958)
Oct 26th - H[arry] B[yron] Warner, London England, actor (King of Kings)
Oct 28th - Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, American geographer and editor (d. 1966)
Oct 29th - Marie, queen consort of Ferdinand I of Romania (1914-27)
Oct 31st - Seerp Anema, poet/writer (Dutch Coasts)
Oct 31st - Vallabhbhai Patel, Indian freedom fighter and statesman (d. 1950)
Nov 3rd - Emils Darzins, composer
Nov 6th - Pompeo Aloisi, Italian baron/diplomat/senator
Nov 7th - Mikhail Kalinin, Soviet politician (d. 1946)
Nov 10th - Maude Eburne, Canada, actress (Ladies They Talk About, Guardsman)
Nov 13th - Rogelio del Villar, composer
Nov 14th - Jakob Schaffner, Swiss writer: Conrad Pilater
Nov 14th - Gregorio del Pilar, Filipino general (d. 1899)
Nov 19th - Michael I Kalinin, Russian metal worker/head of state
Nov 22nd - Elizabeth Patterson, Savannah TN, actress (Climax, Tall Story)
Nov 22nd - Georges Rency, Belgian poet
Nov 23rd - Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian literary critic and politician (d. 1933)
Nov 27th - Wladyslaw Orkan, [Szmaciarz-Smreczynsky], Pol author (Nowele Zebrane)
Dec 2nd - Frank Reicher, Munich Germany, actor (King Kong, Son of Kong)
Dec 3rd - Bernhard Lichtenberg, German clergyman/antifascist
Dec 3rd - Max Meldrum, Scottish-born Australian painter (d. 1955)
Dec 4th - Rainer Maria Rilke, Austria, poet (Duino Elegies)