Today in History for Year 1880 (Part 2)

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Historical Events

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Famous Birthdays

Results 101 - 195 of 195

Jul 18th - Otto Vrieslander, composer
Jul 20th - Hermann earl Keyserling, German philosopher/writer
Jul 21st - Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Slovak politician, French general and astronomer (d. 1919)
Jul 24th - Ernest Bloch, Geneva Switzerland, composer (MacBeth)
Jul 24th - Kristian Hellström, Swedish athlete (d. 1946)
Jul 26th - Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukrainian statesman (d. 1951)
Jul 27th - Donald Crisp, Scotland, actor (How Green Was My Valley, Pollyana)
Jul 27th - Joseph Tinker, baseball Hall of Famer, 1/3 of fame double play combo
Jul 30th - Robert Rutherford McCormick, US, editor/publisher (Chicago Tribune)
Jul 31st - Munshi Premchand, Indian Author (d. 1936)
Aug 5th - Gertrude E Durden Rush, US composer/playwright (Black Girls Burden)
Aug 6th - Hans Moser, Austrian actor (d. 1964)
Aug 7th - Ernst Laqueur, chemist/pharmacology/psychology (sexual hormones)
Aug 8th - Earle Page, Australian politician (d. 1961)
Aug 10th - Clarence Cameron White, composer
Aug 10th - Robert L. Thornton, American businessman, philanthropist, and Mayor of Dallas, Texas (d. 1964)
Aug 11th - Frederick Jerome Work, composer
Aug 12th - Christy Mathewson, HOF baseball pitcher (Won 37 in 1908)
Aug 12th - Marguerite "John" Radclyffe-Hall, author
Aug 17th - Leo Ascher, composer
Aug 17th - Percy Sherwell, cricketer (great S African batsman-keeper-captain)
Aug 21st - Johan H Westerveld, Dutch WW II resistance fighter/leader (OD)
Aug 22nd - George Herriman, American cartoonist (d. 1944)
Aug 22nd - Gorch Fock, German author and poet (d. 1916)
Aug 23rd - Alexander Grin, Russian writer (d. 1932)
Aug 24th - Joshua L Cowen, inventor (electric train)
Aug 24th - Miles W L Killearn of Killearn, Scotish baron/diplomat
Aug 25th - Robert E Stolz, Austrian composer/conductor (...smaller guard)
Aug 26th - Guillaume Apollinaire, France, poet/movie critic (Alcoola)
Aug 29th - Marie-Louise Meilleur, Canada, lived past 117
Aug 31st - Wilhelmina HPM, queen of the Netherlands (1898-1948)
Sep 4th - Leo Bittermieux, Flemish missionary (Congo)
Sep 6th - Jean-Louis Pisuisse, Dutch night club performer (French governess)
Sep 7th - Attilio Brugnoli, composer
Sep 7th - Kurt von Wolfurt, composer
Sep 8th - Roelof Kranenburg, Dutch social democratic chairman (1st Chamber)
Sep 9th - Viking Eggeling, Sweden, artist/film maker (Diagonal Symphony)
Sep 12th - Henry L Mencken, Baltimore, Md, newspaperman/critic (Prejudices)
Sep 14th - Paul Fechter, German writer (Der Zauberer Gottes)
Sep 14th - Metropolitan Benjamin (Fedchenkov), Orthodox missionary and writer (d. 1961)
Sep 14th - Archie Hahn, American athlete (d. 1955)
Sep 16th - Alfred Noyes, British poet/essayist (Loom of Years, Highwayman)
Sep 20th - Ildebrando Pizzetti, composer
Sep 20th - Louise Peete, American murderess (d. 1947)
Sep 21st - Henry Louis Mencken, US essayist/critic (American Mercury)
Sep 22nd - Asser B Kleerekoper, journalist/2nd-Member of parliament (SDAP)
Sep 22nd - Dame Christabel Pankhurst, English suffragist (d. 1958)
Sep 23rd - John Boyd Orr, nutritionist, UN's FAO (Nobel 1949)
Sep 28th - Ralph Edward Flanders, Barnet VT, (Sen-VT)
Sep 30th - Henri G Casadesus, French altviolist/composer (Viola d'amour)
Oct 2nd - George Alexander Russell, composer
Oct 3rd - Warner Oland, Umea Sweden, actor (Jazz Singer, Charlie Chan)
Oct 4th - Damon Runyon, US journalist/writer (Guys & Dolls-based on his work)
Oct 6th - Julia Culp, mezzo-soprano
Oct 7th - Jaime Pahissa, composer
Oct 8th - Ernest F E Douwes Dekker, Dutch founder (National-India Party)
Oct 12th - Healey Willan, composer
Oct 12th - Louis Hémon, French novelist (d. 1913)
Oct 13th - Sasha Cherny, Russian poet (d. 1932)
Oct 14th - Otto V Ekelund, Swedish poet/writer (Sak och sken)
Oct 22nd - Joe Carr, Ohio, NFL hall of famer/NFL president (1921-39)
Oct 23rd - Una O'Connor, Belfast Ireland, actress (David Copperfield)
Oct 26th - Andrei Bely, Russian writer (d. 1934)
Oct 30th - Abram F Joffe, Russian physicist (crystal)
Nov 1st - Alfred L Wegener, German meteorologist (continental shift)
Nov 1st - Grantland Rice, sportswriter (NY Her Trib 1914-30, Colliers 1925-37)
Nov 1st - Karel Paul van der Mandele, financier/director (Rotterdamsche Bank)
Nov 1st - Sholem Asch, Poland, Yiddish novelist/playwright (Three Cities)
Nov 2nd - John Foulds, composer
Nov 3rd - Edmond Barrett, heavyweight wrestler (Olympic-bronze-1908)
Nov 3rd - Raffaele Casimiro Casimiri, composer
Nov 6th - Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (d. 1942)
Nov 6th - Chris van Abkoude, Dutch-American writer and novelist (d. 1959)
Nov 9th - Rudolph Karel, composer
Nov 10th - Aart A van Schelven, Dutch church historian (Willem of Orange)
Nov 10th - Jacob Epstein, sculptor (Adam, Jacob & the Angel)
Nov 14th - Eugene O'Brien, Boulder OH, actor (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm)
Nov 16th - Alexander A Block, Russian poet (Dvenatsat) [NS=11/28]
Nov 20th - George McBride, baseball player (d. 1973)
Nov 21st - Franz Hessel, writer
Nov 25th - Leonard S Woolf, English author/husband of Virginia Woolf
Nov 25th - Elsie J. Oxenham, British children's author (d. 1960)
Nov 28th - Alexander A Block, Russian poet (Dvenatsat) [OS=11/16]
Nov 28th - Marinus van Meel, 1st Dutch aviator
Dec 3rd - Fedor von Bock, German field marshal (d. 1945)
Dec 5th - Alexander Schmuller, Russian/Neth violinist/conductor
Dec 10th - Fred Immler, German actor (d. 1965)
Dec 11th - Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer (d. 1951)
Dec 19th - Nemesio Otano y Eugenio, composer
Dec 24th - Johnny Gruelle, American cartoonist, children's book writer and creator of Raggedy Ann (d. 1939)
Dec 28th - Christian DFL Leipoldt, South african physician/writer/poet
Dec 29th - Jean-Fernand Vaubourgoin, composer
Dec 30th - Alfred Einstein, German/US musicologist/nephew of Albert Einstein
Dec 31st - George C Marshall, Uniontown Pa, authored Marshall Plan (Nobel 1953)
Dec 31st - Fred Beebe, American baseball player (d. 1957)

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