Birthdays Date 1872 | History by KabAstro

Wilfred Baddeley (1872-1929)

Jan 11 British tennis player (Wimbledon 1891-2, 95), born in Bromley, England

Jan 15 Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian writer, born in Terek Oblast (d. 1944)
Jan 16 Edward Gordon Craig, British modernist actor, director and theorist (On the art of theatre), born in Stevenage Hertfordshire, England (d. 1966)
Jan 16 Henri-Paul Büsser, French composer and conductor, born in Toulouse, France (d. 1973)
Jan 18 Paul Léautaud [Maurice Boissard], French writer and theatre critic (Petit ami), born in Paris, France (d. 1956)
Jan 20 Julia Morgan, American architect (Hearst Castle, and other Hearst properties), first female degreed by Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and first licensed in California, born in San Francisco, California (d. 1957) [1]
Jan 23 Eugene Sullivan, American chemist and inventor (PYREX® Glass), born in Elgin, Illinois (d. 1962) [1]
Jan 23 Joze Plečnik, Slovenian architect, born in Ljubljana, Slovenia (d. 1957)
Jan 23 Paul Langevin, French physicist, born in Paris, France (d. 1946)
Jan 24 Ethel Turner, Australian author (d. 1958)
Jan 24 Konstantin Bogaevsky, Russian painter (d. 1943)
Jan 27 Learned Hand, American Chief Judge of US Court of Appeals, born in Albany, New York (d. 1961)
Jan 31 Zane Grey, American western novelist (Riders of the Purple Sage), born in Zanesville, Ohio (d. 1939)
Feb 1 Andrew Kehoe, American mass murderer (d. 1927)
Feb 1 Jerome F. Donovan, American politician (d. 1949)
Feb 1 Paul Fort, French poet (founder of Vers et Prose), born in Reims, France (d. 1960)
Feb 4 Gotse Delchev, Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary, born in Kukush, Ottoman Empire (d. 1903)
Feb 6 Alfred Mombert, German poet, born in Karlsruhe, Germany (d. 1942)
Feb 7 Nikolaos Politis, Greek foreign minister and diplomat (Greek representative League of Nations), born in Corfu, Greece (d. 1943)
Feb 8 Theodor Lessing, German writer, born in Hanover, Germany (d. 1933)
Feb 11 Edward Johnston, British craftsman and calligrapher - "the father of modern calligraphy" (d. 1944)
Feb 24 John Arthur Jarvis, English swimmer (Olympic gold 1,000m, 4,000m, water polo 1900), born in Leicester, England (d. 1933)
Mar 3 Willie Keeler, American Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder (highest career AB-per-strikeout ratio in MLB history; NL batting champion 1897, 98 Baltimore Orioles), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1923)

Piet Mondrian (1872-1944)

Mar 7 Dutch abstract painter (Broadway Boogie Woogie, Composition with Red Blue and Yellow) and art theoretician, born in Amersfoort, Netherlands

Mar 7 Vasily Andreyevich Zolotaryov, Russian composer (Rhapsodie hébraïque; Prince Lake), and teacher, born in Taganrog, Russia (d. 1964)
Mar 8 Paul Juon, Russian-Swiss violinist and composer, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1940)
Mar 10 Felix Borowski, British-American composer, educator (Chicago Musical College, 1896-1925), and musicologist (Chicago Symphony, 1908-56), born in Burton-in-Kendal, England (d. 1956)
Mar 13 Oswald Garrison Villard, American journalist and editor of the New York Evening Post, born in Wiesbaden, Germany (d. 1949)
Mar 17 Douglas Carr, England cricket spin bowler (1 Test, 7 wickets; Kent CCC), born in Cranbrook, England (d. 1950)
Mar 17 Willie Quaife, English cricket batsman (7 Tests, 1 x 50; Sussex CCC, Warwickshire CCC), born in Newhaven, England (d. 1951)
Mar 19 Anna Held, Polish-born French actress and singer (A Parisian Model), born in Warsaw (d. 1918)
Mar 20 Bernhard Seklas, German pianist, composer, conductor, and pedagogue thought to be the first jazz instructor, born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany (d. 1934)
Mar 20 Karin Michaelis, Danish writer (The Dangerous Age), born in Randers, Denmark (d. 1950)

Michael Joseph Savage (1872-1940)

Mar 23 Australian-born New Zealand politician and first Labour Prime Minister of New Zealand (1935-40), born in Tatong, Australia

Mar 25 Vito Pardo, Italian sculptor (Columbus monument in Argentina), born in the Province of Venice (d. 1933)
Mar 28 Jose Sanjurjo, Spanish general (Morocco) and high director, born in Pamplona, Spain (d. 1936)
Mar 30 Sergey Vasilenko, Russian composer, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1956)
Mar 31 Sergei Diaghilev, Russian arts patron and ballet impresario (founder of the Imperial Ballet and Ballets Russes), born in Gruzino Novgorod, Russia (d. 1929)
Apr 1 Tadeusz Joteyko, Polish conductor, composer, and musicologist (Zygmunt August), born in Poczujki, Russian Empire (d. 1932)
Apr 4 Nikolai Amani, Russian composer, born in St. Petersburg, Russia (d. 1904)
Apr 4 Pauline de Haan-Manifarges, Dutch concert and opera contralto singer, born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1954)
Apr 5 Samuel Cate Prescott, American food scientist and microbiologist, born in South Hampton, New Hampshire (d. 1962)
Apr 7 William Monroe Trotter, American newspaper editor and activist for African-Americans civil rights, born near Chillicothe, Ohio (d. 1934)

Léon Blum (1872-1950)

Apr 9 Prime Minister of France (People's Front Government), born in Paris

Apr 13 Alexander Roda Roda, Austrian writer, born in Drnowitz, Moravia (d. 1945)
Apr 14 Abdullah Yusuf Ali, British-Indian Islamic scholar and translator (translated Qu'ran into English), born in Bombay, British India (d. 1953)
Apr 18 Bernard Ogilvie Dodge, American botanist and pioneer researcher on heredity in fungi, born in Mauston, Wisconsin (d. 1960)
Apr 21 Billy Bitzer, American cinematography pioneer, born in Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1944)
Apr 22 Princess Margaret of Prussia, Queen consort-elect of Finland, born in New Palace, Potsdam, Prussia, German Empire (d. 1954)
Apr 23 Violet Gordon-Woodhouse, British musician (harpsichord and clavichord), born in Harley Street, St Marylebone, London (d. 1948)
Apr 25 C. B. Fry, English cricket batsman (26 Tests, 2 x 100s; Sussex, Hampshire), born in Croydon, England (d. 1956)
Apr 26 William Desmond Taylor [Deane-Tanner], Irish director and actor (The Awakening, Broken Coin), born in County Carlow, Ireland (d. 1922)
Apr 29 Eyvind Alnæs, Norwegian pianist, organist, choral director, and composer, born in Fredrikstad, Norway (d. 1932)
Apr 29 Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman and thoroughbred horse breeder, born in New York City (d. 1930)
May 1 Hugo Alfvén, Swedish violinist, conductor, and composer (Midsommarvaka - Midsummer Vigil), born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1960)
May 1 Sidónio Pais, Portuguese politician (4th President of Portugal, 66th Prime Minister of Portugal), born in Caminha, Portugal (d. 1918)
May 2 G. G. van der Hoeven, Dutch editor-in-chief (NRC newspaper), born in Brielle, Netherlands (d. 1955)
May 6 Willem de Sitter, Dutch scientist and cosmologist (developed theoretical models of the universe based on Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity), born in Sneek, Netherlands (d. 1934)
May 10 Marcel Mauss, French sociologist (d. 1950)
May 14 Elia Dalla Costa, Italian cardinals (d. 1961)

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

May 18 English mathematician and philosopher (Nobel 1950), born in Trellech, England

May 21 Henry E. Warren, American inventor (Telechon electric clock), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1957)
May 28 Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist (pioneer of statistical physics), born in Vorder-Brühl, Austria-Hungary (d. 1917)
May 31 Charles Greeley Abbot, American astronomer (Solar Constant), born in Wilton, New Hampshire (d. 1973)
May 31 W. Heath Robinson, English illustrator and cartoonist (Don Quixote), born in Islington, England (d. 1944)
Jun 6 Alexandra Feodorovna [Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine], last Russian Tsarina (1894-1918), born in Darmstadt, Grand Duchy of Hesse by the Rhine, German Confederation (d. 1918)
Jun 20 George Carpenter, Australian 5th General of The Salvation Army, born in Millers Forest, New South Wales (d. 1948)

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)

Jun 27 American poet and novelist (Oak & Ivory), born in Dayton, Ohio

Jul 1 Louis Blériot, French aviator and 1st man to fly an airplane across English Channel, born in Cambrai, France (d. 1936)
Jul 3 Habibullah Khan, Emir of Afghanistan (1901-19), born in Samarkand, Uzbekistan (d. 1919)

Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933)

Jul 4 30th US President (Republican: 1923-29), born in Plymouth Notch, Vermont

Édouard Herriot (1872-1957)

Jul 5 French politician (served 3 times as Prime Minister of France), born in Troyes, France

Jul 7 Juan Lamote de Grignon, Catalan pianist, composer (La nit de Nadal (Christmas Night); Hespèria), and orchestra leader (Cobla Barcelona; València Municipal Orchestra), born in Barcelona, Spain (d. 1949)
Jul 11 Rollin Henry White, American inventor of steam boilers for early automobiles and Cletrac tractors, born in Cleveland (d. 1962) [1]

Emil Hácha (1872-1945)

Jul 12 Czech politician (President of Czechoslovakia, 1938-9, State President of Bohemia and Moravia, 1939-1945), born in Trhové Sviny, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary

Roald Amundsen (1872-1928)

Jul 16 Norwegian polar explorer who led the 1st expedition to the South Pole, born in Borge, Østfold, Norway

Jul 18 Julius Fučík, Czech composer, born in Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia (now Czech Republic) (d. 1916)
Jul 20 Alexander "Alick" Maclean, British composer and conductor (Scarborough Spa Orchestra, 1912-35), born in Windsor, Berkshire, England (d. 1936) [1]
Jul 20 Déodat de Séverac, French composer (Cerdaña), born in Saint-Félix-de-Caraman, France (d. 1921)
Jul 26 George Louis Beer, American historian (authority on British colonies), born in Staten Island, New York (d. 1920)
Jul 27 Stanislav Binički, Serbian composer, born in Jasika, Kruševac, Principality of Serbia (d. 1942)
Jul 28 Albert Sarraut, French Radical politician, Prime Minister of France (1933 and 36), born in Bordeaux, France (d. 1962)
Jul 29 Eric Alfred Knudsen, American folklorist (d. 1957)
Jul 30 Clémentine, Princess of Belgium, wife of Prince Napoleon Bonaparte V, born in Royal Castle of Laeken, Brussels (d. 1955)
Aug 2 George E. Stewart, American army officer and Medal of Honor recipient, born in New South Wales, Australia (d. 1946)
Aug 3 Haakon VII, King of Norway (1905-57), born in Charlottenlund Palace, Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1957)
Aug 5 Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician and epidemiologist, born in São Luis do Paraitinga, Brazil (d. 1917)
Aug 7 Andries Cornelis Dirk de Graeff, Dutch politician (Governor-General of Dutch East Indies 1926-31), born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1957)
Aug 7 William Auchterlonie, Scottish golfer (British Open 1893), born in St. Andrews, Scotland (d. 1963)
Aug 9 Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal, born in Alcsút, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary (d. 1962)
Aug 11 Shidehara Kijuro, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1951)
Aug 12 Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein (d. 1956)
Aug 13 Richard Willstätter, German chemist (Nobel 1915), born in Karlsruhe, Baden (d. 1942)
Aug 15 Harold Fraser-Simson, English composer, born in London (d. 1944)
Aug 15 Rubin Goldmark, American composer and teacher, born in New York (d. 1936)
Aug 15 Shri Aurobindo [Aurobindo Ghose], Indian guru and nationalist, born in Calcutta, British India (d. 1950)
Aug 16 Arthur Jones, England cricket all-rounder and captain (12 Tests, 3 wickets, 15 catches; Nottinghamshire CCC), born in Shelton, England (d. 1914)
Aug 21 Aubrey Beardsley, English illustrator and author (Salome), born in Brighton, England (d. 1898)
Aug 24 Max Beerbohm, English caricaturist, writer and parodist (Saturday Review), born in London (d. 1956)
Aug 28 Alfred Baldwin Sloan, American composer, born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1925)
Sep 5 Horace Rice, Australian tennis player (Australasian C'ship 1907), born in Sydney, Australia (d. 1950)
Sep 9 Delilah Beasley, American author and the 1st Black female newspaper columnist (Oakland Tribune, The Negro Trail-Blazers of California), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1934)
Sep 9 Edward Burlingame Hill, American composer and educator (Harvard, 1908-40), born in Cambridge, Massachusetts (d. 1960)
Sep 9 Josef Stránský, Czech conductor (New York Philharmonic, 1911-23), born in Humpolec, Bohemia (d. 1936)
Sep 10 Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji, Indian cricket batsman (15 Tests, 989 runs @ 44.95, 2 x 100s) and politician (Maharaja of Nawanagar), born in Sadodar, Kathiawar, India (d. 1933)
Sep 16 Henriette deVreker-Verschuur, Dutch-Flemish actress (Roze Kate), born in Amsterdam (d. 1965)
Sep 20 Maurice Gamelin, French Army officer (World War I - First Battle of the Marne; World War II - failure to stop German assault on France), born in Paris, France (d. 1958)
Sep 21 Albert Löfgren, Swedish clarinetist and composer (Slåttergille Rhapsody), born in Hasslösa, Sweden (d. 1930)
Sep 22 Luis Villalba Muñoz, Spanish organist, sacred music composer, Augustinian priest, and musicologist, born in Valladolid, Spain (d. 1921)
Sep 25 Charles Blake Cochran, English theatrical manager and impresario, born in Sussex, England (d. 1951)
Sep 26 Ottokar Czernin, Austro-Hungarian diplomat (Imperial Foreign Minister of Austria-Hungary) and politician, born in Dimokur, Austria-Hungary (d. 1932)
Sep 28 Lena Ashwell, British actress and theatrical manager who was the 1st to organize large-scale entertainment for WWI troops at the front, born on the ship Wellesley (d. 1957)
Sep 28 Tom Terriss, English director (His Buddy's Wife, Sumuru), born in London, England (d. 1964)
Oct 1 Israël Querido, Dutch writer (Menschenwee), born in Amsterdam (d. 1932)
Oct 3 Fred Clarke, American Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder and manager (Louisville Colonels, Pittsburgh Pirates; World Series 1909 [PP]), born in Winterset, Iowa (d. 1960)
Oct 4 Ernest Blood, American Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame coach (Passaic HS, NJ, 200-1 record, 1915-24), born in Manchester, New Hampshire (d. 1955)
Oct 8 Albert Knight, English cricket batsman (3 Tests, 1 x 50; Leicestershire CCC), born in Leicester, England (d. 1946)
Oct 8 John Cowper Powys, British writer (Wood & Stone, Wolf Solent), born in Shirley, Derbyshire (d. 1963)

Emily Davison (1872-1913)

Oct 11 English suffragette who died when hit by King George V's horse at Derby at Epsom Downs, born in Greenwich, England

Oct 11 Harlan Fiske Stone, Chief Justice Supreme Court (1941-46), born in Chesterfield, New Hampshire (d. 1946)
Oct 12 Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer (Hugh the Drover), born in Down Ampney, England (d. 1958)
Oct 14 Reginald "R.F." Doherty, British tennis player (Wimbledon 1897-1900), born in Wimbledon, England (d. 1910)
Oct 15 Wilhelm Miklas, Austrian politician and 3rd President of Austria (1928-38), born in Krems, Lower Austria, Austria-Hungary (d. 1956)
Oct 18 Joséphine Caroline, Belgian royal princess, and later (1935) Benedictine nun, taking the name of Sister Marie-Josephine, born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1958)
Oct 18 Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian writer and poet, born in Yaroslavl, Russian Empire (d. 1936)
Oct 24 Peter O'Connor, Irish athlete (1st recognised world long jump record 1901), born in Millom, England (d. 1957)
Oct 27 Emily Post, American authority on social behaviour and writer (Etiquette), born in Baltimore, Maryland [or Oct 3rd, 1873] (d. 1960)
Oct 31 James Hogan, Irish College Football Hall of Fame tackle (Yale), born in Glenbane, County Tipperary, Ireland (d. 1910)
Nov 3 Paul Panzer, German-American silent film actor (The Perils of Pauline, Mildred Pierce, Hotel Berlin), born in Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany (d. 1958)
Nov 3 Wilfred Trotter, English surgeon who was a pioneer in neurosurgery, popularized the concept of herd instinct, and was an authority in cancers of the head and neck, born in Coleford, Gloucestershire, England (d. 1939)
Nov 4 Herman Finck, British conductor (Palace Theatre (London), 1900-20), theater and light classical composer (In The Shadows), born in London, England (d. 1939)
Nov 9 Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet, born in Zhukiv, Ukraine (d. 1941)
Nov 11 David I. Walsh, 46th Governor of Massachusetts, born in Leominster, Massachusetts (d. 1947)
Nov 11 Maude Adams, American actress (Baldwin's Theatre - Peter Pan), born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 1953)
Nov 15 Robert de Flers, French author and playwright (Habit Vert), born in Pont-l'Évêque, France (d. 1927)
Nov 18 Margaret Seddon, American stage and screen actress (Mr. Deeds Goes to Town), born in Washington, DC (d. 1968)
Nov 29 Anna von Mildenburg, Austrian Wagnerian soprano, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1947)

John McCrae (1872-1918)

Nov 30 Canadian physician, soldier and poet (In Flanders Fields), born in Guelph, Ontario

Dec 5 Harry Nelson Pillsbury, American chess player, born in Somerville, Massachusetts (d. 1906)
Dec 6 Mikulas Moyzes, Slovak composer, born in Zvolenská Slatina, Slovakia (d. 1944)
Dec 7 Johan Huizinga, Dutch culture historian (Homo Ludens), born in Groningen, Netherlands (d. 1945)
Dec 10 Johann Babtist Thaller, German composer, born in Röhrmoos, Germany (d. 1952)
Dec 10 Ludwig Klages, German philosopher (study of graves), born in Hannover, Germany (d. 1956)
Dec 16 Anton Ivanovich Denikin, Russian general (d. 1947)
Dec 20 Lorenzo Perosi, Italian priest and sacred oratorio composer, born in Tortona, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1956)
Dec 21 Albert Payson Terhune, American novelist (Lad, a Dog), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 1942)
Dec 21 Sidney Ainsworth, British silent film actor (Not in the News, The Rajah's Tunic), born in Manchester, England (d. 1922)
Dec 22 Camille Guérin, French veterinarian and bacteriologist, born in Poitiers, France (d. 1961)
Dec 26 Norman Angell, British politician/cowboy/journalist, Nobel laureate (1933), (d. 1967)