Birthdays Date 1849 | History by KabAstro

Edmund Barton (1849-1920)

Jan 18 Australian politician, statesman, jurist and the 1st Prime Minister of Australia (1901-03), born in Glebe, colony of New South Wales

Jan 22 August Strindberg 'Father of modern Swedish Literature', Swedish dramatist and novelist (Apologia), born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1912)
Feb 2 Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet (d. 1921)
Feb 4 Jean Richepin, French poet and writer (Les Chansons de Gueux), born in Médéa, French Algeria (d. 1926)
Feb 13 Lord Randolph Churchill, English politician, (chancellor of the Exchequer, father of Winston Churchill), born in London, England (d. 1895)
Feb 17 Selwyn Image, English painter and designer (Arts and Crafts Movement), born in Bodiam Sussex (d. 1930)
Feb 18 Alexander Lange Kielland, Norwegian writer (Gist; Fortuna; St. Hans Fest), and politician (mayor; governor), born in Stavanger, Norway (d. 1906)

Armand Peugeot (1849-1915)

Feb 18 French industrialist, automobile pioneer and founder of Peugeot, born in Hérimoncourt, France

Feb 22 Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin, Russian mathematician (d. 1915)
Mar 2 Robert Means Thompson, American US Navy officer, lawyer, business magnate, and administrator (American Olympic Association), born in Corsica, Pennsylvania (d. 1930)
Mar 3 Jacques Oppenheim, Dutch lawyer and jurist, born in Gröningen, Netherlands (d. 1924)

Luther Burbank (1849-1926)

Mar 7 American horticulturist who developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants, born in Lancaster, Massachusetts

Mar 16 James E. Smith, American minister and "oldest new father known to medicine" at 102 with a woman 64 years younger, born in Williamsburg, Virginia [1]
Mar 19 Alfred von Tirpitz, German architect of the Imperial Navy (Tirpitz Plan, Unrestricted U-boat Warfare) and World War I Grand Admiral, born in Küstrin, Province of Brandenburg, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1930)
Mar 26 Edwin Evans, Australian cricket spin bowler (6 Tests; 7 wickets), born in Emu Plains, Australia (d. 1921)
Mar 28 James Darmesteter, French author and antiquarian (translations of the Avesta, the sacred scripture of Zoroastrianism), born in Château-Salins, France (d. 1894)
Apr 6 John William Waterhouse, British painter, born in Rome, Roman Republic (now Italy) (d. 1917)
Apr 13 Enrique José Varona, Cuban author, born in Puerto Principe, Cuba (d. 1933)
Apr 17 William R. Day, American diplomat and Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, born in Ravenna, Ohio (d. 1923)
Apr 21 Oskar Hertwig, German embryologist (discovered fertilization), born in Friedberg, Germany (d. 1922)
Apr 24 Joseph Gallieni, French general (Battle of Marne) and military governor of Paris, born in Saint-Béat, France (d. 1916)
Apr 25 Felix Klein, German mathematician (Evanston Colloquium), born in Düsseldorf, Germany (d. 1925)

Bernhard von Bülow (1849-1929)

May 3 Chancellor of the German Empire (1900-09), born in Klein-Flottbeck, Germany

May 3 Bertha Benz [Cacilie Bertha Ringer], German inventor, automotive pioneer and wife of fellow automotive inventor Karl Benz, born in Pfrozheim, German Confederation (d. 1944)
May 3 Jacob Riis, Danish-American social reformer and "muck raking" reporter (NY Tribune, NY Evening Sun), born in Ribe, Denmark (d. 1914)
May 5 Hambletonian "daddy of 'em all", American top sire standardbred horse, born in Chester, New York (d. 1876) [1]
May 6 Wyatt Eaton, Canadian-American artist, born in Philipsburg, Quebec (d. 1896)
May 22 Louis Perrier, Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council, born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland (d. 1913)
May 25 "Blind" Tom Wiggins, African-American pianist and composer, born in Harris County, Georgia (d. 1908) [1] [2]
Jun 2 Paul-Albert Besnard, French painter and graphic artist (La femme), born in Paris, France (d. 1909)
Jun 8 Julien Dillens, Flemish sculptor (Anspach Monument), born in Antwerp, Belgium (d. 1904)
Jun 9 Michael Peter Ancher, Danish painter (d. 1927)
Jun 11 Joseph Vézina, Québécois conductor, composer, organist, and music professor, born in Quebec City, British Province of Canada (d. 1924)
Jun 23 John Hunn, American businessman and 51st Governor of Delaware, born in Odessa, Delaware (d. 1926)
Jun 27 Harriet Hubbard Ayer, American cosmetics manufacturer and columnist, born in Chicago (d. 1903)
Jun 29 Sergei Witte, 1st Prime Minister of Russia (1905-06), born in Tiflis, Caucasus Viceroyalty, Russian Empire (d. 1915)
Jul 1 John Selby, England cricket batsman (6 Tests, 2 x 50; Nottinghamshire CCC), born in Nottingham, England (d. 1894)
Jul 2 Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Queen of Bavaria, born in Brno, Austrian Empire (d. 1919)
Jul 5 William T. Stead, British newspaper editor (The Pall Mall Gazette - exposed child prostitution), born in Embleton, England (d. 1912)
Jul 12 William Osler, Canadian physician and author (circulatory system), born in Bond Head, Province of Canada (d. 1919)
Jul 15 Moritz Heuzenroeder, German pianist and composer who settled in Australia, born in Ottersberg, Kingdom of Hanover (now Germany) (d. 1897)
Jul 19 Ferdinand Brunetière, French writer and critic, born in Toulon, Var, France (d. 1906)
Jul 19 François Victor Alphonse Aulard, French historian, born in Montbron, France (d. 1928)
Jul 20 Robert Anderson Van Wyck, Mayor of New York City (d. 1918)

Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)

Jul 22 American poet ("Give us your tired & poor", "New Colossus" - on the base of Statue of Liberty), born in New York City

Jul 23 Géza Zichy, Hungarian composer and one-armed pianist, born at Sztára Castle, Hungary (now Slovakia) (d. 1924)
Jul 27 John Hopkinson, British physicist and electrical engineer (Hopkinson's Law), born in Manchester (d. 1898)
Jul 29 Max Nordau, Austrian author and Zionist leader (d. 1923)
Aug 12 Abbott Handerson Thayer, American painter and naturalist (paintings of angels), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1921) [1]
Aug 18 Benjamin Godard, French violinist, orchestral and opera composer (Symphonie légendaire; Jocelyn), born in Paris, France (d. 1895)
Aug 23 William Ernest Henley, English poet, critic, and editor (Invictus), born in Gloucester, England (d. 1903)
Aug 27 Manuel Acuña, Mexican poet (Nocturno), born in Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexic0 (d. 1873)
Aug 29 Titus van Asch van Wijck, Dutch governor Suriname (1891-97), born in Utrecht, Netherlands (d. 1902)
Aug 30 J. M. Dent, British publisher (Everyman's Library), born in Darlington, England (d. 1926)
Sep 1 Elizabeth Harrison, American educator (National Congress of Parents & Teachers), born in Athens, Kentucky (d. 1927)
Sep 3 Sarah Orne Jewett, American author (Country of the Pointed Firs), born in South Berwick, Maine (d. 1909)
Sep 11 William Cooper, Australian cricket spin bowler (2 Tests, 9 wickets, BB 6/120; Victoria), born in Maidstone, England (d. 1939)
Sep 17 Vaclav Juda Novotny, Czech composer and music critic, born in Vesce (d. 1922)
Sep 21 Edmund Gosse, English poet, author (Father & Son) and critic, born in London (d. 1928)
Sep 21 Maurice Barrymore [Herbert Blythe], Indian-born British actor and patriarch of the Barrymore family, born in Fort Agra, India (d. 1905)
Sep 22 John Godden, English mining engineer in Curacao (discovered Klein Curacao)
Sep 23 Mikhail Ivanov, Russian composer, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1927)

Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936)

Sep 26 Russian physiologist and pioneer in psychology (Nobel Prize 1904), born in Ryazan, Russia [O.S. September 14]

Sep 28 Dudley Allen Sargent, American physician and educator (Harvard U gymnasium), born in Belfast, Maine (d. 1924)
Sep 29 Ladislao Zavertal, Czech-Italian conductor and composer, born in Milan, Italy (d. 1942)
Oct 6 Basil Zaharoff, Greek arms dealer (merchant of death), born in Muğla, Turkey (d. 1936)
Oct 7 James Whitcomb Riley, American author and poet (The Raggedy Man), born in Greenfield, Indiana (d. 1916)
Oct 16 Arnold Krug, German composer, born in Hamburg, German Confederation (now Germany) (d. 1904)
Oct 16 Charles Harford Lloyd, British organist and composer, born in Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England (d. 1919)
Oct 26 Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician (Frobenius–Stickelberger formulae), born in Charlotteburg, Berlin, Germany (d. 1917)
Oct 30 Johan Willem van Reinhartshausen, Dutch illegitimate son of Princess Marianne of Orange-Nassau and her coachman, Johannes van Rossum, born in Cefalù, Sicily (d. 1861)
Nov 1 William Merritt Chase, American impressionist painter, and educator (Chase School, now known as the Parsons School of Design), born in Williamsburg, Indiana (d. 1916)
Nov 5 Ruy Barbosa, Brazilian polymath, writer and politician, born in Salvador, Bahia, Empire of Brazil (d. 1923)
Nov 8 Edward Julius Biedermann, American organist and composer, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (d. 1933)
Nov 22 Christian Rohlfs, German painter and artist, born in Groß Niendorf, Kreis Segeberg, Prussia (d. 1938)
Nov 22 Friedrich von Bernhardi, German general and military historian (Germany & the Next War), born in St. Petersburg, Russia (d. 1930)
Nov 22 Fritz Mauthner, Austro-Hungarian novelist and critic, born in Hořice, Czech Republic (d. 1923)
Nov 24 Frances Hodgson Burnett, British-American playwright and children's author ("The Secret Garden"; "Little Lord Fauntleroy"), born in Manchester (d. 1924)
Nov 29 John Ambrose Fleming, English electrical engineer, physicist and inventor (vaccum diode- 1st electronic rectifier of radio waves), born in Lancaster, England (d. 1945)
Dec 6 August von Mackensen, German field marshal (WWI), born in Haus Leipnitz, Kingdom of Prussia, German Confederation (d. 1945)
Dec 7 Saionji Kinmochi, Japanese politician (Prime Minister of Japan 1906-1908, 1911-1912), born in Kyoto, Japan (d. 1940)
Dec 11 Ellen Key, Swedish author and feminist (Courageous Woman), born in Gladhammar Parish, Västervik Municipality, Sweden (d. 1926)
Dec 19 Henry Clay Frick, American industrialist (built world's largest coke & steel operation) and art collector (Frick Collection), born in West Overton, Pennsylvania (d. 1919)
Dec 21 James Lane Allen, American writer (Kentucky Cardinal), born in Lexington, Kentucky (d. 1925)
Dec 26 Samuel "Sam" van Beem, Flemish actor (Fanfan la Tulipe), born in Groningen, Netherlands (d. 1912)
Dec 28 Herbert von Bismarck, German politician, son of Otto of Bismarck, born in Berlin, Prussia (d. 1904)