Birthdays Date 1871 | History by KabAstro

David Beatty (1871-1936)

Jan 17 1st Earl Beatty and British Admiral of the Fleet during World War I (Battle of Jutland), born in Nantwich, England

Jan 22 Léon Jessel, German light classical and operetta composer (The Parade of the Tin Soldiers; Schwarzwaldmädel (The Black Forest Girl)), born in Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland) (d. 1942)
Jan 26 Samuel Hopkins Adams [Warner Fabian], American journalist and muckraker (Average Jones), born in Dunkirk, New York (d. 1958)
Jan 29 Eduardo Lopez-Chavarri y Marco, Spanish composer, born in Valencia, Spain (d. 1970)
Jan 30 Seymour Hicks, British actor and theatrical impresario (Scrooge), born in St. Hélier, Isle of Jersey, England (d. 1949)
Jan 30 Wilfred Lucas, Canadian actor (Pardon Us, Chump at Oxford), born in Ontario, Canada (d. 1940)

Friedrich Ebert (1871-1925)

Feb 4 German politician, 1st Reichspräsident of the Weimar Republic

Feb 5 Jovan Dučić, Herzegovinian Serb poet (Blue Legends), born in Trebinje, Ottoman Empire (d. 1943)
Feb 7 (Carl) Wilhelm Stenhammar, Swedish composer considered the finest Swedish pianist of his time, born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1927)
Feb 9 Fran Saleški Finžgar, Slovene folk writer (Our Blood, Service Girls), born in Doslovče, Austro-Hungarian Empire (d. 1962)
Feb 9 Howard T Ricketts, American pathologist (studied typhus fever), born in Findlay, Ohio (d. 1910)
Feb 14 Gerda Lundequist, Swedish actress (The Saga of Gösta Berling), born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1959)
Feb 18 Harry Brearley, English inventor (d. 1948)
Feb 23 Theo Molkenboer, Dutch painter ("The Toilette"), and graphic designer of book covers and posters, born in Leeuwarden, Netherlands (d. 1920)
Feb 25 Oliver Campbell, American tennis player (US Open 1890-92), born in Brooklyn, NY (d. 1953)
Mar 3 Maurice Garin, French cyclist (d. 1957)
Mar 4 Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician (d. 1945)
Mar 5 Maria do Carmo Geronimo, Brazilian maid, former slave and oldest Brazilian (lived to be at about 129), born in Carmo de Minas, Brazil (d. 2000)
Mar 5 Rosa Luxemburg, Polish-German Marxist revolutionary and founder of the Spartacus League, born in Zamość, Poland (d. 1919)
Mar 6 Ben Harney, American composer and "Father of Ragtime Piano" (You've Been a Good Old Wagon, But You Done Broke Down), born on the Mississippi River (d. 1938) [1]
Mar 9 Arthur Fickenscher, American microtonal composer, and educator (University of Virginia, 1920-41), born in Aurora, Illinois (d. 1954)
Mar 15 Betsy van den Arend, Dutch actress (Miss Hobbs), (d. 1950)
Mar 19 Schofield Haigh, English cricket fast bowler (11 Tests, 24 wickets, BB 6/11; Yorkshire CCC), born in Berry Brow, Yorkshire, England (d. 1921)
Mar 20 Joe McGinnity, American Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (World Series 1905; 5 × NL wins leader; NL ERA leader 1904; Baltimore Orioles, NY Giants), born in Rock Island, Illinois (d. 1929)
Mar 24 Leslie Gay, English cricket wicket-keeper (1 Test; Cambridge Uni, Hampshire CCC) and soccer goalkeeper (3 caps; Cambridge Uni), born in Brighton, Sussex (d. 1949)
Mar 26 Jonah Kūhiō Kalaniana'ole, Prince of the Kingdom of Hawaii, born in Kukui‘ula, Kōloa, Kauaʻi, Kingdom of Hawaii (d. 1922)
Mar 27 Heinrich Mann, German novelist and essayist (Professor Unrat); brother of Thomas, born in the Free Imperial City of Lübeck (d. 1950)
Mar 27 Piet Aalberse, Dutch minister of Labor (1918-25), born in Leiden, Netherlands (d. 1948)
Mar 28 Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (Concertgebouw Orchestra, 1895-1945; New York Philharmonic, 1922-30), born in Utrecht, Netherlands (d. 1951)
Mar 29 Tom Hayward, English cricket batsman (35 Tests, 3 x 100; HS 137; Surrey CCC), born in Cambridge (d. 1939)

Arthur Griffith (1871-1922)

Mar 31 Irish writer and politician who founded Sinn Féin (President of Ireland 1922), born in Dublin, Ireland, United Kingdom

Apr 1 F. Melius Christiansen, Norwegian-American violinist, and choral conductor (St. Olaf Choir, 1912-44), born in Eidsvold, Norway (d. 1955)
Apr 2 Marshall Newell, American College Football Hall of Fame tackle (Harvard; All-American 1890-93) and coach (Cornell, Tufts), born in Springfield, Massachusetts (d. 1897)
Apr 3 Jose Juan Tablada, Mexican poet (El Florilegio), born in Mexico City (d. 1941)
Apr 3 Mistinguett [Jeanne Florentine Bourgeois], French actress and singer (Moulin Rouge star), born in Enghien-les-Bains, Val-d'Oise, France (d. 1956)
Apr 5 Mirko Seljan, Croatian explorer, born in Karlovac, Croatia (d. 1913)
Apr 6 Alexander of Wales, British Prince, son of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, born at Sandringham House, England (d. 1871 1 day later)
Apr 8 Clarence Hudson White, American photographer, born in Newark, Ohio (d. 1925)
Apr 12 Ioannis Metaxas, Greek military officer, politician, and dictator (1936-41), born in Ithaca, Greece (d. 1941)
Apr 16 John Millington Synge, Irish dramatist and poet (Riders to the Sea), born in Rathfarnham, County Dublin, Ireland (d. 1909)
Apr 16 Martin Lunssens, Belgian composer, born in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, Belgium (d. 1944)
Apr 18 Henry Stephenson, British actor (Conquest, Little Old NY, Mr Lucky), born in Grenada, British West Indies (d. 1956)
Apr 21 Leo Blech, German composer and conductor, born in Aachen, Rhenish Prussia (d. 1958)
Apr 21 Vojtěch Říhovský, Czech composer, born in Dub nad Moravou, Bohemia, Austro-Hungarian Empire (d. 1950)
Apr 24 Blanche Ring, American singer ("In The Good Old Summer Time"), and stage and screen actress, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1961)
Apr 27 Arthur Nevin, American composer, born in Edgeworth, Pennsylvania (d. 1943)
Apr 29 William Stern, German-American philosopher (Intelligence of Children), born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1938)
May 4 Mynona, Polish writer (The Creator), born in Gołańcz, Poland (d. 1946)
May 5 Alberto Cametti, Italian composer, born in Rome, Italy (d. 1935)
May 6 August Reusner, German composer, born in Löwenberg, Silesia (d. 1935)
May 6 Christian Morgenstern, German poet (Ich und die Welt), born in Munich (d. 1914)
May 6 Victor Grignard, French chemist (Nobel 1912 - development of the Grignard reaction), born in Cherbourg, France (d. 1935)
May 11 Frank Schlesinger, American astronomer (d. 1943)
May 17 Henk Bremmer, Dutch art historian (Modern Kunstwerken), born in Leiden, Netherlands (d. 1956)
May 18 Franiska [Franny] zu Reventlow, German writer and feminist, born in Husum, Germany (d. 1918)
May 19 Reginald Aldworth Daly, Canadian-American Geologist who independently developed the theory of magmatic stopping, born in Napanee, Ontario (d. 1957)
May 23 Sigurd Lie, Norwegian composer and conductor, born in Drammen (d. 1904)
May 26 Camille Huysmans, Belgian premier (1946-47), born in Bilzen, Belgium (d. 1968)
May 27 Georges Rouault, French expressionist painter (Miserere et Guerre), born in Paris (d. 1958)
May 30 Amos Rusie, American Baseball HOF pitcher (Triple Crown & NL wins leader 1894; 5 × NL strikeout leader; pitched no-hitter 1891; NY Giants), born in Mooresville, Indiana (d. 1942)
May 30 Olga Engl, Austrian actress (Phantom), born in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (d. 1946)
Jun 14 Jacob Ellehammer, Danish watchmaker and inventor (powered flight), born in Bakkebølle, Denmark (d. 1946)
Jun 14 Theo Frenkel, Dutch actor (Footlights, Hague's Comedy), born in Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands (d. 1956)

James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)

Jun 17 American Harlem Renaissance poet, lyricist ("Lift Every Voice And Sing"), civil rights activist, and leader of the NAACP, born in Jacksonville, Florida

Jun 17 Nicolae Iorga, Romanian writer, literature historian and Prime Minister of Romania, born in Botoșani, Kingdom of Romania (d. 1940)
Jun 22 William McDougall, English psychologist and polymath, born in Tonge, Middleton (d. 1938)
Jul 3 Vicente Arregui Garay, Spanish composer, born in Madrid, Spain (d. 1925)
Jul 3 William Henry Davies, Welsh poet (Autobiography of a Super Tramp), born in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales (d. 1940)
Jul 8 Clement Harris, English composer, born in London (d. 1897)
Jul 8 Kornelis ter Laan, 1st Dutch socialist mayor (Zaandam), born in Slochteren, Netherlands (d. 1963)
Jul 10 Marcel Proust, French intellectual and novelist (Remembrance of Things Past), born in Paris, France (d. 1922)
Jul 11 Stjepan Radic, Croatian politician (founder of Croatian People's Peasant Party), born in Desno Trebarjevo, Austria-Hungary (d. 1928)
Jul 15 Kunikida Doppo, Japanese writer (d. 1908)
Jul 17 Lyonel Feininger, German-American cartoonist and painter, born in New York City (d. 1956)
Jul 18 Giacomo Balla, Italian painter (Dog at a Rope), born in Turin, Italy (d. 1958)
Jul 18 Sada Yacco [Kawakami Sadayakko], Japanese geisha and stage actress, born in Tokyo, Japan (d. 1946)
Jul 22 Akos Buttykai, Hungarian composer, born in Halmeu, Romania (d. 1935)
Aug 1 John Lester, American cricket all-rounder (Gentlemen of Philadelphia CC), born in Penrith, England (d. 1969)
Aug 1 Oskar Fried, German-Russian composer, born in Berlin, German Empire (d. 1941)
Aug 2 John French Sloan, American painter and etcher, born in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania (d. 1951)
Aug 3 Vernon Louis Parrington, American author (Romantic Revolution, Pulitzer 1928), born in Aurora, Illinois (d. 1929)
Aug 6 Emanuel Querido, Dutch author and publisher (N.V. Em. Querido Uitgeversmaatschappij), born in Amsterdam (d. 1943)
Aug 8 William Henry Squire, British cellist, music educator, and composer, born in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England (d. 1963)
Aug 13 Karl Liebknecht, German Marxist revolutionary (Sparta Party), born in Leipzig, Germany (d. 1919)
Aug 16 Zakhary Petrovich Paliashvili, Georgian composer (Abesalom and Eteri), born in Kutaisi (d. 1933)

Orville Wright (1871-1948)

Aug 19 American aviator (Wright Brothers), born in Dayton, Ohio

Aug 21 Leonid Andreyev, Russian journalist and writer (Red Laugh, Seven Hangs), born in Oryol, Russia (d. 1919)
Aug 22 James Foulis, Scottish golfer (US Open 1896), born in St. Andrews, Scotland (d. 1928)

Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)

Aug 27 American novelist (Sister Carie, American Tragedy), born in Terre Haute, Indiana

Aug 29 Albert Lebrun, President of France (1932-40), born in Mercy-le-Haut, France (d. 1950)

Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937)

Aug 30 New Zealand physicist and father of nuclear physics (Nobel 1908), born in Brightwater, New Zealand

Aug 31 James E. Ferguson, American Democratic politician and Texan Governor (1915-17), born in Salado, Texas (d. 1944)
Sep 1 J. Reuben Clark, Jr., American Undersecretary of State (d. 1961)
Sep 4 [Rosalie] Julia Cuypers, Flemish actress and wife of Joseph of Lyre, born in St-Jans-Molenbeek, Belgium (d. 1952)
Sep 10 Charles Collett, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Western Railway (1922-41) (d. 1952)
Sep 12 Prince Friedrich Aloys Johannes Maria, Prince of Liechtenstein, born in Arad, Hungarian Kingdom (now Romania) (d. 1959)
Sep 13 Alma Kruger, American actress (Made For Each Other), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1960)
Sep 19 Fritz Schaudinn, German zoologist (examined syphilis), born in Röseningken, East Prussia (d. 1906)
Sep 21 Ernst Heldring, Dutch ship owner and financier, born in Amsterdam (d. 1954)
Sep 23 Frantisek Kupka, Czech pioneering abstract artist, born in Opočno, Austria-Hungary (d. 1957)
Sep 24 George Arthur Crump, American golf course architect (Founder Pine Valley Golf Club), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1918)

Lottie Dod (1871-1960)

Sep 24 British all-round athlete (Wimbledon 1887-88, 1891-93), born in Bebington, England

Sep 26 Winsor McCay, American cartoonist (Little Nemo), born in Spring Lake, Michigan (d. 1934)
Sep 27 Grazia Deledda, Italian author (Nobel 1926), born in Nuoro, Sardinia, Italy (d. 1936)

Pietro Badoglio (1871-1956)

Sep 28 41st Prime Minister of Italy (1943-44) and Italian General (1922-43), born in Grazzano Monferrato, Italy

Sep 30 Jan Fabricius, Dutch-English playwright (Dolle Hans), born in Assen, Netherlands (d. 1964)
Sep 30 Ruben Liljefors, Swedish composer, born in Uppsala, Sweden (d. 1936)
Oct 2 Cordell Hull, American Secretary of State (1933-44) who established United Nation (Nobel 1945), born in Olympus, Tennessee (d. 1955)
Oct 2 Martha Brookes Hutcheson, American landscape architect, born in New York City (d. 1959)
Oct 3 Stijn Streuvels [Frank Lateur], Flemish writer (De Valschaard), born in Heule, Belgium (d. 1969)
Oct 9 Didak Buntić, Croatian monk and scholar, born in Paoča, Bosnia and Herzegovina (d. 1922)
Oct 9 George Gauthier, Bishop of Montreal and rector of the Université de Montréal, born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 1940)
Oct 9 Gerrit Bolkestein, Dutch minister of Education (1939-45), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1956)
Oct 11 Johan Oscar Smith, Norwegian Christian leader who founded the evangelical Brunstad Christian Church, born in Fredrikstad, Norway (d. 1943)
Oct 14 Alexander von Zemlinsky, Austrian composer, conductor, and arranger (The Mermaid; Lyric Symphony), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1942)
Oct 18 Louis de Vries, Dutch actor (Blokkade, Ghetto), born in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands (d. 1940)
Oct 19 Walter Bradford Cannon, American physiologist (Wisdom of the Body, coined term "fight or flight response"), born in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin (d. 1945)
Oct 20 Frederick Burton, American actor (The Big Trail, One Way Passage), born in Indianapolis, Indiana (d. 1957)
Oct 26 Guillermo Kahlo, German-Mexican photographer and father of Frida Kahlo, born in Pforzheim, Grand Duchy of Baden, German Empire (d. 1941)
Oct 26 Hermann Löhr, British composer, born in Plymouth, England (d. 1943)
Oct 29 Narziss Ach, German psychologist (Analyse des Willens), born in Ermershausen, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire (d. 1946)
Oct 30 Buck Freeman, American baseball outfielder (World Series 1903; HR leader 1899, 1903; AL RBI leader 1902, 03; Boston Americans), born in Catasauqua, Pennsylvania (d. 1949)
Oct 30 Paul Valéry [Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules Valéry], French author, philosopher and poet (La Jeune Parque), born in Sète, France (d. 1945)
Nov 1 Alexander Spendiaryan, Armenian-Soviet conductor and composer (Three Palms; Yerevan Sketches), born in Kakhovka, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) (d. 1928)

Stephen Crane (1871-1900)

Nov 1 American novelist (Red Badge of Courage), born in Newark, New Jersey

Nov 3 Albert Goldthorpe, English rugby league five eighth (RL pioneer; Hunslet 713 games), born in Leeds, West Yorkshire (d. 1943)
Nov 9 Florence Sabin, American Scientist who was the first woman to graduate from Johns Hopkins and the first lifetime woman member of the National Academy of Sciences, born in Central City, Colorado (d. 1953)
Nov 10 Winston Churchill, American author (Crisis, Crossing), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1947)
Nov 15 Erich Tschermak von Seysenegg, Austrian botanist who was one of three scientists (also Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns) who independently rediscovered Gregor Mendel's work on the laws of genetics, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1962)
Nov 18 Amadeo Vives, Spanish composer, born in Collbató, Spain (d. 1932)
Nov 20 William Heard Kilpatrick, American mathematician and philosopher, born in White Plains, Georgia (d. 1965)
Nov 21 Panayot Pipkov, Bulgarian bandmaster, composer, pedagogue, and (with his son) Antarctic glacier namesake, born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria (d. 1942)
Nov 25 Cornelis J "Cor" van Ast, Dutch actor and director (Ghost Hotel, Two Boys), born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1939)
Nov 27 Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist and electrical engineer (Giorgi system of measurement), born in Lucca, Italy (d. 1950)
Dec 1 Archie MacLaren, English cricket batsman and captain (35 Tests; 424 Lancashire v Somerset 1895), born in Manchester, England (d. 1944)
Dec 5 Bill Pickett, American rodeo performer (invented bulldogging), born in Jenks-Branch, Texas (d. 1932)
Dec 9 Joe Kelley, American Baseball HOF left fielder (NL stolen base leader 1896 Baltimore Orioles) and manager (Cincinnati Reds, Boston Doves), born in Cambridge, Massachusetts (d. 1943)
Dec 13 Emily Carr, Canadian painter, born in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada (d. 1945)
Dec 13 Herman Theodoor Colenbrander, Dutch historian, born in Drachten, Netherlands (d. 1945)
Dec 13 Russell W. Porter, American artist and explorer (Alaska), born in Springfield, Vermont (d. 1949)
Dec 20 Henry Kimball Hadley, American composer and conductor, born in Somerville, Massachusetts (d. 1937)
Dec 24 Henri Stroethoff, Dutch actor (A Chique Little Boy, Bright Paradise), (d. 1932)