Birthdays Date 1860 | History by KabAstro

Charles Curtis (1860-1936)

Jan 25 American Republican Senator (Kansas: 1907-13, 1915-29) and 31st US Vice President (1929-33) who was the first Native American to become a Senator and Vice President, born in North Topeka, Kansas

Jan 26 Harry Micajah Daugherty, American politician, lawyer and political manager accused of corruption, born in Washington Court House, Ohio (d. 1941)

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)

Jan 29 Russian author and playwright (Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya), born in Taganrog, Russia

Feb 2 Curtis Guild, Jr., American politician, journalist and soldier, 43rd Governor of Massachusetts (1906-09), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1915)
Feb 6 Eliza Johannes Meester, Dutch journalist and writer (Geertje), born in Harderwijk, Netherlands (d. 1931)
Feb 11 Rachilde [Marguerite Vallette-Eymery], French author (Monsieur Venus), born near Périgueux, France (d. 1953)
Feb 14 Eugen Schiffer, German lawyer and liberal politician, born in Breslau, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1954)
Feb 14 Waldemar Lindgren, Swedish-American Geologist (economic geology, ore classification), born in Vassmolösa, Kalmar, Sweden (d. 1939)
Feb 18 Anders Zorn, Swedish painter, etcher and sculptor (Gustavus Vasa), born in Mora, Sweden-Norway (d. 1920)
Feb 21 Goscombe John, Welsh sculptor (d. 1952)
Feb 21 Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod, Czech journalist (d. 1927)
Feb 24 Daniel Berkeley Updike, American printer, publisher and writer (Printing Types), born in Providence, Rhode Island (d. 1941)
Feb 25 Menso Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch painter, born in Brussels (d. 1925)
Feb 25 William Ashley, English economic historian (The Economic Organisation of England), born in London, England (d. 1927)
Feb 29 Herman Hollerith, American inventor (1st electric tabulating machine), born in Buffalo, New York (d. 1929)
Mar 2 Susanna M. Salter, 1st American female mayor and temperance leader, born in Lamira, Ohio (d. 1961)
Mar 3 John Montgomery Ward, American Baseball HOF pitcher (perfect game 1880; NL ERA leader 1878; NL strikeout leader & NL wins leader 1879; Providence Grays), born in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania (d. 1925)
Mar 5 Sam Thompson, American Baseball HOF right fielder (NL batting champion 1887 Detroit Wolverines; NL HR leader 1889, 1895 Philadelphia Quakers), born in Danville, Indiana (d. 1922)
Mar 11 Thomas Hastings, American architect (NY Public Library), born in New York City (d. 1929)
Mar 12 Salvatore Di Giacomo, Italian poet and songwriter during "Golden Age of Neapolitan Song", born in Naples, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (d. 1934)
Mar 13 Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer, born in Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia (d. 1903)
Mar 15 Waldemar Haffkine, Ukrainian bacteriologist (1st to develop and use vaccines against cholera and bubonic plague), born in Odessa, Russian Empire (d. 1930)

William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925)

Mar 19 American orator and statesman known as "The Great Commoner", born in Salem, Illinois

Mar 22 Alfred Ploetz, German physician (d. 1940)
Mar 27 Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar, born in Redding, Connecticut (d. 1924)
Mar 31 Isidor Traube, German chemist who founded capillary chemistry and researched liquids (osmosis, surface tension), born in Hildesheim Hanover (d. 1943)
Apr 3 Frederik Willem van Eeden, Dutch utopian writer (Walden), born in Haarlem, Netherlands (d. 1932)
Apr 6 René Lalique, French jeweller (“the inventor of modern jewellery”) and glass designer, born in Aÿ-Champagne, France (d. 1945) [1]

Will Keith Kellogg (1860-1951)

Apr 7 American cereal manufacturer (Kellogg's cereal brand), born in Battle Creek, Michigan

Apr 13 James Ensor, Flemish painter and etcher (De lampenjongen), born in Ostend, Belgium (d. 1949)
Apr 20 Charles Gordon Curtis, American inventor (Curtis-steam turbine), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1953)
Apr 20 Pieter Jelles Troelstra, Dutch politician (SDAP), born in Leeuwarden, Netherlands (d. 1930)
Apr 22 Ada Rehan, Irish-American stage actress and comedian (Daly's Fifth Avenue Theatre), born in County Limerick, Ireland (d. 1916)
Apr 29 Lorado Taft, American sculptor (Black Hawk), born in Elmwood, Illinois (d. 1936)
May 2 D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Scottish zoologist and classicist (On Growth & Form), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1948)

Theodor Herzl (1860-1904)

May 2 Austrian journalist and father of modern political Zionism (World Zionist Organization), born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary

May 2 William Maddock Bayliss, British physiologist, co-discoverer of hormones, born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire (d. 1924)
May 3 John Scott Haldane, Scottish physiologist, born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1936)
May 3 Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician and physicist, born in Ancona, Italy (d. 1940)
May 4 Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek, Austrian composer (Donna Diana), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1945)

J. M. Barrie (1860-1937)

May 9 Scottish novelist and playwright who created Peter Pan, born in Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland

May 15 Ellen Axson Wilson (née Ellen Louise Axson), American artist and First Lady (US, 1913-14; New Jersey, 1911-13), 1st wife of US President Woodrow Wilson, born in Savannah, Georgia (d. 1914)
May 17 Austin Lane Crothers, American politician (Governor of Maryland, 1908-12), born in Conowingo, Maryland (d. 1912)
May 19 Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, Prime Minister of Italy (1917-19) who represented Italy at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, born in Palermo, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (d. 1952)
May 20 Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1917)
May 21 Willem Einthoven, Dutch physiologist and inventor of the electrocardiodiogram (Nobel Prize in Medicine 1924), born in Semarang, Dutch East Indies (d. 1927)
May 25 James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist, born in Easton, Pennsylvania (d. 1944)
May 27 Manuel Teixeira Gomes, Portuguese politician and writer (7th President of Portugal 1923-25), born in Portimão, Portugal (d. 1941)
May 29 Isaac Albéniz, Spanish pianist, conductor, and composer (Suite española; Tango in D), born in Camprodon, Spain (d. 1909)
May 31 Walter Sickert, Danish-English painter (The Miner), born in Munich (d. 1942)
Jun 6 William Inge, English author, theologist and Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, born in Crayke, Yorkshire (d. 1954)
Jun 8 Alicia Boole Stott, Irish mathematician, born in Cork, Ireland (d. 1940)
Jun 12 Jack Edwards, Australian cricket batsman (3 Tests, Victoria CA), born in Melbourne, Australia (d. 1911)
Jun 18 Hugo Loudon, Dutch businessman (President of Royal Dutch Shell), (d. 1941)
Jun 20 Alexander Winton, Scottish-American automotive pioneer, designed and sold 1st gasoline automobile in America, born in Grangemouth, Scotland (d. 1932) [1]
Jun 20 Jack Worrall, Australian cricket batsman (11 Tests, 5 x 50s; Victoria CA) and VFL premiership coach (Carlton 1906, 07, 08; Essendon 1911, 12), born in Maryborough, Australia (d. 1937)
Jun 24 Mercedes of Orléans, Queen of Spain, born in Palacio Real, Madrid, Spain (d. 1878)
Jun 25 Gustave Charpentier, French opera composer (Louise), born in Dieuze, France (d. 1956)
Jun 30 Gyula Andrássy, Jr., Hungarian politician and Foreign Minister of Austria-Hungary (1918-20), born in Tőketerebes, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire (d. 1929)
Jul 3 Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American feminist, writer and lecturer for social reform, born in Hartford, Connecticut (d. 1935)
Jul 3 William Wallace, Scottish composer, born in Greenock, Scotland (d. 1940)
Jul 5 Robert Bacon, American politician (39th United States Secretary of State), born in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts (d. 1919)

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)

Jul 7 Austrian composer (Symphony No. 2 - "Resurrection"), and conductor (New York Philharmonic, 1909-11), born in Kalischat, Kingdom of Bohemia, Habsburg Empire

Jul 11 Johannes van Laar, Dutch chemist (thermodynamics), born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1938)
Jul 16 Otto Jespersen, Danish linguist, born in Randers, Denmark (d. 1943)

Lizzie Borden (1860-1927)

Jul 19 American woman acquitted of the murder of her parents (gave her mother forty whacks), born in Fall River, Massachusetts

Jul 24 Alphonse Mucha, Czech Nouveau painter and artist, born in Ivančice, Margraviate of Moravia, Austrian Empire (now Czech Republic) (d. 1939)
Jul 25 Princess Louise Margaret, Duchess of Connaught, born in Potsdam, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1917)
Jul 26 Philippe J Bunau-Varilla, French engineer (Colombia-Panama), born in Paris (d. 1940)
Jul 28 Elias M. Ammons, governor of Colorado, born in Macon County, North Carolina (d. 1925)
Jul 28 Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia, born in Peterhof Palace, Empire of Russia (d. 1922)
Jul 31 Mary Vaux Walcott, American artist and naturalist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1940)
Aug 3 William Kennedy Dickson, Scottish inventor (devised an early motion picture camera), born in Le Minihic-sur-Rance, Brittany, France (d. 1935)
Aug 6 Fernando Canon, Filipino revolutionary general, poet, and the Philippines 1st National Chess Champion, born in Biñan, Laguna, Captaincy General of the Philippines (d. 1938)
Aug 7 Alan Leo, British astrologer, born in Westminster, London (d. 1917)
Aug 10 Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian musicologist (Hundu classical music), born in Walkeshwar, Bombay. British India (now in Mumbai, Indaia) (d. 1936)
Aug 11 Alfred Coville, French historian (Lesson etats de Normandie) (d. 1942)

Annie Oakley (1860-1926)

Aug 13 American sharp shooter (Buffalo Bill's Wild West), born in North Star, Ohio

Aug 14 Ernest T. Seton, naturalist, painter and author (Buffalo Wind-1938), born in South Shields, Durham, England (d. 1946)
Aug 15 Florence Harding [DeWolfe], US 1st lady (1921-23), born in Marion, Ohio (d. 1924)
Aug 15 Roosje Vos, Dutch seamstress, and trade union leader, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1932)
Aug 16 Jules Laforgue, French poet (Les Complaintas), born in Montevideo, Uruguay (d. 1887)
Aug 16 Lord Hawke [Martin Hawke], English cricket batsman (5 Tests; Yorkshire CCC, Cambridge Uni CC, MCC), born in Willingham by Stow, England (d. 1938)
Aug 19 John Kane, Scottish-American primitivist painter (Self-Portrait), born in West Calder, Scotland (d. 1934)

Raymond Poincaré (1860-1934)

Aug 20 French President (1913-20) and three time Prime Minister (1912-13, 1922-24, 1926-29), born in Bar-le-Duc, France

Aug 22 Eleonore of Reuss-Köstritz, Tsaritsa of Bulgaria, born in Trzebiechów, Zielona Góra County, Poland (d. 1917)
Aug 22 Paul G. Nipkow, German TV pioneer (Nipkow Award), born in Lebork, Poland (d. 1940)
Aug 25 George Fawcett, American actor (Intolerance), born in Alexandria, Virginia (d. 1939)
Aug 25 Henrietta Vinton Davis, African-American elocutionist, dramatist, impersonator and public speaker, born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1941)
Aug 30 (Giuseppe) "Joe" Petrosino, Italian-American NYPD lieutenant and organized crime fighter, born in Padula, Campania, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (now Italy) (d. 1909)
Aug 30 Isaac Levitan, Russian classical painter, born in Kybartai, Lithuania (d. 1900)
Sep 3 Edward A. Filene, American entrepreneur and philanthropist, born in Salem, Massachusetts (d. 1937)

Jane Addams (1860-1935)

Sep 6 American pacifist, social activist, feminist, author, co-founder of ACLU (Nobel Prize for Peace, 1931), born in Cedarville, Illinois [1]

Grandma Moses (1860-1961)

Sep 7 American primitive painter (Old Oaken Bucket), born in Greenwich, New York

Sep 7 Willem Hubert Nolens, Dutch Catholic priest, politician (MP, 1896-1931) and law professor (University of Amsterdam, 1909-26), born in Venlo, Netherlands (d. 1931)
Sep 10 Marianne Von Werefkin, Russian-German-Swiss Expressionist painter, born in Tula, Russia (d. 1938)
Sep 11 James Allan, New Zealand rugby union player and All Black, born in Taieri, Otago, New Zealand (d. 1934)

John J. Pershing (1860-1948)

Sep 13 American army general and World War I commander known as "Black Jack", born in Laclede, Missouri

Sep 14 Hamlin Garland, American writer (Middle Border), born in West Salem, Wisconsin (d. 1940)
Sep 15 M. Visvesvaraya, Indian civil engineer and statesman (19th Diwan of the Mysore Kingdom), born in Muddenahalli, Chikkaballapura, Kingdom of Mysore, born in (d. 1962)
Sep 18 Alberto Franchetti, Italian composer, born in Turin, Kingdom of Sardinia (now Italy) (d. 1942)
Sep 24 S. R. Crockett, Scottish novelist (The Stickit Minister), born in Duchrae, Balmaghie, Kirkcudbrightshire (d. 1914)
Sep 28 Paul Ulrich Villard, French chemist and physicist who discovered gamma rays, born in Saint-Germain-au-Mont-d'Or, France (d. 1934)
Oct 3 Annie Horniman, English theater owner (Abbey Theatre, Dublin), born in Surrey Mount, Forest Hill, London (d. 1937)
Oct 4 Sidney Paget, British illustrator (Sherlock Holmes), born in London (d. 1908)
Oct 8 Felix Woyrsch, German composer, born in Opava, Czech Republic (d. 1944)
Oct 12 Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American entrepreneur and inventor (gyrocompass), born in Cincinnatus, New York (d. 1930)
Oct 17 Dionyssios Lavrangas, Greek conductor, composer, and pedagogue, born in Argostólion, Greece (d. 1915)
Oct 19 Affie Jarvis, Australian cricket wicket-keeper (11 Tests, 18 dismissals; South Australia), born in Adelaide, Australia (d. 1933)
Oct 28 Kanō Jigorō, Japanese educator and the founder of Judo, born in Mikage, Japan (d. 1938)

Juliette Gordon Low (1860-1927)

Oct 31 American activist and founder of the Girl Scouts of America, born in Savannah, Georgia

Nov 1 Boies Penrose, American politician (U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania (1897-1921)), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1921)
Nov 7 Jean-Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general (Father of The Tank), born in Condé en Barrois, France (d. 1936)
Nov 13 Percy McDonnell, Australian cricket batsman (19 Tests, 3 x 100s; Victoria CA, NSW CA, Queensland CA), born in London, England (d. 1896)
Nov 16 Edmund Schücker, Austrian composer, born in Vienna (d. 1911)

Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941)

Nov 18 Polish pianist, composer and statesman (Prime Minister of Poland, 1919), born in Kuryłówka, Russian Empire (now Ukraine)

Tom Horn (1860-1903)

Nov 21 American gunfighter and outlaw, born in Scotland County, Missouri

Nov 23 Karl Hjalmar Branting, Swedish statesman and diplomat (Nobel Peace Prize 1921), born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1925)
Nov 29 Hans Haym, German conductor, born in Halle, Province of Saxony, Kingdom of Prussia (now Germany) (d. 1921)
Dec 2 Charles Studd, English cricket all-rounder (5 Tests; Middlesex) and missionary (Cambridge Seven), born in Spratton, England (d. 1931)
Dec 7 Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia, born in Silverdale, Staffordshire, England (d. 1947)
Dec 13 Lucien Guitry, French actor (La Dame aux camélias), born in Paris, France (d. 1925)
Dec 15 Abner Powell, American baseball utility, team owner and executive (first to use infield tarpaulin after rain), born in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania (d. 1953)
Dec 15 Niels Ryberg Finsen, Danish-Farosese physician and phototherapist (Nobel Prize for Medicine 1903 for treatment for Lupus), born in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands (d. 1904)
Dec 18 Edward Alexander MacDowell, American composer (Indian Suite), born in New York (d. 1908)
Dec 20 Dan Leno [George Wild Galvin], English comedian and stage actor, born in Somers Town, London (d. 1904)
Dec 21 Henrietta Szold, U.S. Jewish Zionist leader and founder of Hadassah, born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1945)
Dec 22 Austin Norman Palmer, American penmanship innovator, born in Fort Jackson, New York (d. 1927)
Dec 23 Harriet Monroe, American poet (You & I, A Poet's Life) and editor of Poetry magazine, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1936)
Dec 25 Manuel Dimech, Maltese philosopher and social reformer (d. 1921)
Dec 28 Alexander von Fielitz, German composer and conductor (Chicago Symphony Orchestra), born in Leipzig, Saxony (d. 1930)
Dec 31 Joseph S. Cullinan, American oil industrialist, born in Pennsylvania, United States (d. 1937)