Famous Birthdays for Year 1878

Months in Year 1878: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 150 of 194

Jan 1st - Edwin Franko Goldman, composer
Jan 1st - Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish scientist and engineer (d. 1929)
Jan 4th - Alfred Edgar Coppard, England, writer (Black Dogs & Other Stories)
Jan 4th - Augustus John, Welsh painter (d. 1961)
Jan 6th - Carl Sandburg, US, poet/biographer of Lincoln (The People, Yes)
Jan 6th - Dame Adeline Genée, Danish-British ballerina (d. 1970)
Jan 11th - Theodorus Pangalos, Greek general/dictator (1926)
Jan 12th - Ferenc Molnar, Hungarian/US playwright (A Pal Utrai Fiuk)
Jan 13th - Lionel Groulx, Canadian nationalist (d. 1967)
Jan 14th - Victor A D Segalen, [Max Anely], French writer
Jan 15th - Johanna Muller-Hermann, composer
Jan 16th - Harry Carey [Henry DeWitt Carey II], Bronx New York, American actor (Aces Wild, Border Cafe, Air Force)
Jan 16th - Robert Garbe, German poet (Gorniek)
Jan 17th - Oscar Apfel, Cleve, actor (Abraham Lincoln, Inspiration, Before Dawn)
Jan 18th - Hendrik Baels, Belgian politician
Jan 19th - Herbert Chapman, English football player and manager (d. 1934)
Jan 20th - Finlay Currie, Scotland, actor (Quo Vadis, Ivanhoe, Avengers)
Jan 21st - Egon Friedell, Austria, journalist/actor/writer (Der Partylowe)
Jan 22nd - Constance Collier, Windsor England, actress/writer (Kitty, Whirlpool)
Jan 22nd - Francis Picabia, French painter/illustrator
Jan 23rd - Oton Zupancic, Slovenian poet (Zimzelen pod Snegom)
Jan 23rd - Rutland Boughton, composer
Jan 25th - Ernst Alexanderson, Swedish-born television pioneer (d. 1975)
Jan 26th - A W "Dave" Nourse, cricketer ("Grand Old Man" of South African cricket)
Jan 28th - Walter Kollo [Kollodziepski], German composer (Der Juxbaron)
Jan 29th - Barney Oldfield, Ohio, daredevil
Jan 30th - Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian author (d. 1940)
Jan 31st - Willem J M van Eysinga, Dutch international law jurist
Feb 1st - Hattie Wyatt Caraway, politician/teacher/1st woman elected to senate
Feb 1st - Milan Hodža, Slovak politician (d. 1944)
Feb 2nd - Christian Gauss, educator/writer (Phi Beta Kappa award namesake)
Feb 2nd - Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer (d. 1955)
Feb 3rd - Joseph Gordon Coates, PM of New Zealand (1925-28)
Feb 5th - André Citroën, French automobile pioneer (d. 1935)
Feb 6th - Waclaw Gieburowski, composer
Feb 7th - Ossip Gabrilovich, composer
Feb 8th - Martin Buber, German/Israeli philosopher/theologist (Ich und Du)
Feb 16th - Selim Palmgren, Finnish pianist/composer/conductor (Peter Schlemihl)
Feb 21st - Fritz Cortolezis, composer
Feb 21st - The Mother, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1973)
Feb 22nd - Walter Ritz, Swiss physicist (d. 1909)
Feb 23rd - Kazimir Malevich, Ukrainian painter and art theorist (d. 1935)
Feb 27th - Alvan T. Fuller, 50th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1958)
Feb 28th - Pierre Fatou, French mathematician (d. 1929)
Feb 28th - Artur Kapp, Estonian composer (d. 1952)
Mar 1st - Gabriel Edouard Xavier Dupont, composer
Mar 2nd - Wander J de Haas, Dutch physicist/son-in-law of Lorentz
Mar 2nd - William Kissam Vanderbilt II, member of the Vanderbilt family (d. 1944)
Mar 4th - Egbert Van Alstyne, American songwriter and pianist (d. 1951)
Mar 4th - Peter D. Ouspensky, Russian philosopher (d. 1947)
Mar 7th - Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter (d. 1927)
Mar 10th - Karel van de Woestijne, Flemish writer/poet (God at Sea)
Mar 12th - Gemma Galgani, Italian saint
Mar 12th - Joseph Gustav Mraczek, composer
Mar 14th - Carel T Scharten, Dutch poet/writer (Forces of the Future)
Mar 15th - Hanson Carter, cricketer (Yorkshire Aussie WK of early 20th century)
Mar 16th - Clemens A Graaf von Galen, cardinal/bishop of Munster/anti-nazi
Mar 16th - Henry B Walthall, Shelby City AL, actor (Birth of a Nation, Klondike)
Mar 16th - Reza Sjah Pahlawi, [Reza Chan], Shah of Iran
Mar 21st - Thurlow Weed Lieurance, composer
Mar 22nd - Michel Théato, Luxembourgian athlete (d. 1919)
Mar 23rd - Franz Schrecker, composer
Mar 23rd - Franz Schreker, Austrian composer (d. 1934)
Mar 24th - Top Naeff, [Anthonetta van Rhijn-N-Naeff], Dutch writer
Mar 25th - Henry graaf de Baillet-Latour, Belgian pres of IOC (1925-42)
Mar 25th - Theodore Samuel Holland, composer
Mar 31st - Jack Johnson,1st black heavyweight boxing champ (1908-1915)
Apr 1st - Carl Sternheim, German playwright (Hyperion/Tabula Rasa)
Apr 6th - Carl Emil Theodor Ehrenberg, composer
Apr 6th - Erich Mühsam, German author (d. 1934)
Apr 7th - C M M Hathorn, cricketer (South African Test centurion in 1905-06)
Apr 7th - Jozef C Bittremieux, Flemish theologist (Virgin & Mother of God)
Apr 8th - Rudolf Nelson, composer
Apr 12th - Richard B Goldschmidt, German/US zoologist
Apr 15th - Robert Walser, writer
Apr 16th - R E "Tip" Foster, cricketer (287 on debut England v Aust SCG 1903)
Apr 21st - Albert Weisgerber, German painter/graphic artist
Apr 22nd - Kitty Gordon, Folkestone England, entertainer
Apr 24th - Jean Crotti, Swiss artist (d. 1958)
Apr 26th - Ethel Griffies, actress (Billy Liar, Birds, We Live Again)
Apr 26th - Saint Rafael Guízar Valencia, Mexican Catholic bishop
Apr 27th - Frank Alvin Gotch, American professional wrestler (d. 1917)
Apr 28th - Lionel Barrymore, [Blythe], Phila, actor (Free Soul, Dr Kildare)
May 10th - Gustav Stresemann, German chancellor (1923, Nobel 1926)
May 11th - Jan Machiel Reyskens, oldest male resident of the Netherlands. Died 1990 aged 111.
May 14th - James L. Wilkinson, American baseball executive (d. 1964)
May 15th - Francisco Pujol, composer
May 16th - Taylor Holmes, Newark NJ, actor (Tobor the Great, Beware My Lovely)
May 19th - Adam von Ahn Carse, composer
May 21st - Glenn Hammond Curtiss, US, inventor (hydroplane)
May 21st - Louis L H de Visser, Dutch MP (CPN)
May 24th - Lillian Moller Gilbreth, engineer (CIOS Gold Medal-1954)
May 25th - Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, actor (Stormy Weather, Little Colonel)
May 28th - Paul Pelliot, French sinologist (d. 1945)
May 30th - Mike Donlin, American baseball player (d. 1933)
Jun 1st - John Masefield, England, 15th poet laureate (Salt-Water Ballads)
Jun 4th - Frank N D Buchman, US theologist (Moral Rearmament)
Jun 5th - Franklyn Farnum, actor (Cowboy & Bandit, Scarlet Car, Frontier Days)
Jun 5th - [Francisco] Pancho Villa, Mexico, revolutionary/guerrilla leader
Jun 6th - Vincent de Moro-Giafferi, French criminal attorney (d. 1956)
Jun 12th - James O Curwood, US, journalist/writer (Kazan the wolfdog)
Jun 15th - Eduard R Verkade, Dutch actor/director/critic (Pygmalion)
Jun 17th - Albert Thomas, French socialist politician
Jun 19th - James M Kilroe, priest of St Mary Star of the Sea, in the Bronx
Jun 25th - Jean Gallon, composer
Jun 26th - Albert Siklos, composer
Jun 26th - Ernest Torrence, Edinburgh Scotland, actor (Hunchback of Notre Dame)
Jun 27th - Jean François van Royen, Dutch bibliophile/secretary-general of PTT
Jul 3rd - George M Cohan, actor/singer (Phantom Pres, Give My Regards to Bdwy)
Jul 5th - Joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/conductor/composer
Jul 6th - Eino Leino, Finnish poet (d. 1926)
Jul 8th - Jimmy Quinn, Scottish footballer (d. 1945)
Jul 15th - Willem Paerels, Neth/Belgian painter/graphic artist
Jul 17th - Henri Zagwijn, composer
Jul 19th - Robert H Woltjer, classical/AR-1st-Member of parliament (About Plato)
Jul 22nd - Lucien Febvre, French historian (Un destin: Martin Luther)
Jul 24th - Lord Dunsany, [Edward JMD Plunkett], Irish sci-fi writer (Time & Gods)
Jul 27th - Th to de Weeme, painter
Jul 29th - Don Marquis, Ill, journalist/poet (archy & mehitabel) (d. 1937)
Aug 2nd - Aino J M Kallas, Finnish writer (White Ship, Estonian Tales)
Aug 2nd - Princess Ingeborg, of Sweden
Aug 3rd - Constantino Gaito, composer
Aug 10th - Alfred Döblin, German writer (d. 1957)
Aug 13th - Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev, composer
Aug 13th - Salomon "Sam" de Wolff, Dutch zionist/socialist theorist
Aug 14th - Harald Kidde, Danish writer (Aage og Else)
Aug 15th - Pjotr N Wrangel, Russian baron/general (White Armies, WW II)
Aug 17th - Reg Duff, cricketer (Australian bat, century on debut 1902)
Aug 18th - Fritz Brun, composer
Aug 19th - Manuel Luis Quezón y Molina, 1st president of Philippines (1935-42)
Aug 27th - Joseph John Richards, composer
Aug 28th - George Hoyt Whipple, US, astrophysicist (Nobel-1934)
Aug 30th - Paul Hazard, French literature historian
Aug 31st - Albert Riemenschneider, composer
Aug 31st - Frank Jarvis, American athlete (d. 1933)
Sep 1st - Princess Alexandra of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1942)
Sep 2nd - Werner von Blomberg, German minister of Reichswehr
Sep 9th - Adelaide Crapsey, American poet (d. 1914)
Sep 9th - Sergio Osmeña, 4th President of the Philippines (d. 1961)
Sep 16th - Karl Albiker, German sculptor (German Art, female nudes)
Sep 17th - Vincenzo Tommasini, composer
Author Upton Beall Sinclair (Sep 20th) Sep 20th - Upton Beall Sinclair, Baltimore, Maryland, US writer (Jungle), (d. 1968)
Sep 22nd - Shigeru Yoshida, Japanese PM (most of 1946-54)
Sep 24th - C. F. Ramuz, Swiss writer (d. 1947)
Oct 1st - Othmar Spann, Austria economist/sociologist (Geschichtsfilosofie)
Oct 2nd - Francois C Schlumberger, French physicist
Oct 5th - Louise Dresser, [Kerlin], Evansville IN, actress (Maid of Salem)
Oct 9th - Robert Warwick, [Bien], Sacramento CA, actor (Falcon's Adventure)
Oct 12th - Karl Buresch, Austria politician
Oct 13th - Patrick Joseph Hartigan, Australian Roman Catholic priest (d. 1952)