Birthdays Date 1875 | History by KabAstro

Ibn Saud (1875-1953)

Jan 15 Founder and first King of Saudi Arabia (1932-53), born in Riyadh, Emirate of Nejd

Jan 15 Tom Burke, American athlete (Olympic gold 100m, 400m 1896), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1929)
Jan 16 Leonor Michaelis, German enzyme kinetic theorist (d. 1947)
Jan 17 Florencio Sánchez, Uruguayan dramatist, born in Montevideo, Uruguay (d. 1910)
Jan 21 John Lindworsky, German Jesuit and psychologist (Der Wille) (d. 1939)
Jan 21 Paul E. Kahle, German professor of oriental studies, born in Hohenstein, Prussia (d. 1964)
Jan 22 Bonifacius Cornelius de Jonge, Dutch politician (Governor General of the Dutch East Indies 1931-6) (d. 1958)

D. W. Griffith (1875-1948)

Jan 22 American film director and producer (Birth of a Nation, Intolerance), born in LaGrange, Kentucky

Jan 22 Thomas W Ross, American actor (Without Limit, Kings Row, 17, Mortal Storm), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1959)
Jan 28 Julian Antonio Carillo Trujillo, Mexican composer, musician and conductor (developed theory of microtonal music "The Thirteenth Sound"), born in Ahualulco, Mexico (d. 1965)
Feb 2 Annette Kolb, German author (Small Fanfare) and pacifist, born in Munich (d. 1967)
Feb 2 Friedrich-Max "Fritz" Kreisler, Austrian-American violinist and composer (Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1962)
Feb 4 Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (considered the father of aerodynamics - discovered the boundary layer), born in Freising, Germany (d. 1953)
Feb 4 Raymond Moulaert, Belgian pianist and composer, born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1962)
Feb 6 Leonid Gobyato, Russian general and inventor (man-portable mortar), born in Taganrog, Russia (d. 1915)
Feb 7 Erkki Melartin, Finnish composer (Juhlamarssi; Summer Symphony; Fantasia Apocaliptica), born in Käkisalmi, Grand Duchy of Finland (d. 1937)
Feb 7 Walter Courvoisier, Swiss composer, born in Riehen, Switzerland (d. 1931)
Feb 9 Sydney Hugo Nicholson, British choir director, organist, composer, and founder of the Royal School of Church Music, born in London, England (d. 1947)
Feb 11 Sara Wennerberg-Reuter, Swedish organist and composer, born in Otterstad, Sweden (d. 1959)
Feb 18 Walter Andrae, German archaeologist (Babylon, Assur), born in Leipzig, Germany (d. 1956)
Feb 21 Jeanne Louise Calment, French world's oldest woman (d. 1997 at 122)
Feb 26 Emma Dunn, British-American stage, silent and sound film actress (Dr. Monica; Dr. Kildare (films); Hideaway), born in Birkenhead, Cheshire (d. 1966)
Feb 26 Richard Wetz, German composer (Requiem, Op. 50 in B minor), born in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia (now Gliwice, Poland) (d. 1935)
Feb 27 Manuel Ugarte, Argentine diplomat, politician, newspaper owner, and author, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (d. 1951)
Feb 28 Viliam Figus-Bystry, Slovakian composer, born in Banská Bystrica, Kingdom of Hungary (d. 1937)
Mar 2 Hans Lietzman, German theologist and church historian, born in Düsseldorf (d. 1942)
Mar 4 Alberto Vaccari, Italian Jesuit, old testament scholar and interpreter (d. 1965)
Mar 4 Enrique Larreta [E R Maza], Argentine diplomat and writer (Gloria de Don Ramiro), born in Buenos Aires (d. 1961)
Mar 4 Suze Groeneweg, 1st Dutch women elected to parliament (SDAP, 1918-37), born in Strijensas, Netherlands (d. 1940)

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

Mar 7 French composer, pianist and conductor (Daphnis et Chloé; Boléro), born in Ciboure, France

Mar 9 Evelyn Sears, American tennis player (US National 1907), born in Waltham, Massachusetts (d. 1966)
Mar 9 Martin Shaw, English composer, born in London, England (d. 1958)
Mar 10 Alexander Borisovich Goldenweiser, Russian pianist, and composer (Contrapuntal Sketches), born in Kishinev, Russia (d. 1961)
Mar 12 Juli Garreta, Spanish-Catalan composer (Sardanes; Les illes Medes), born in Sant Feliu de Guíxols, Spain (d. 1925)
Mar 13 Lizzy Ansingh, Dutch painter (Caught Sultane), born in Utrecht, Netherlands (d. 1959)
Mar 14 Isadore Gilbert Mudge, American librarian and author (Thackeray Dictionary), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1957)
Mar 14 Norman O'Neill, English composer, born in Kensington, London, England (d. 1934)
Mar 25 Spencer Charters, American actor (3 Faces West, Big Town Girl, St Louis Kid), born in Duncannon, Pennsylvania (d. 1943)

Syngman Rhee (1875-1965)

Mar 26 1st President of South Korea (1948-60), born in Haeju, North Korea

Mar 29 Paul Rubens, English musical comedy composer (Miss Hook of Holland), born in London (d. 1917)

Edgar Wallace (1875-1932)

Apr 1 English novelist, playwright and journalist (The Terror, The Four Just Men) who created King Kong, born in Greenwich, England

Walter Chrysler (1875-1940)

Apr 2 American automotive pioneer (Chrysler Corporation) and thoroughbred breeder, born in Wamego, Kansas

Apr 2 William Donne, English cricket batsman, (Olympic gold 1900) and administrator (President England Rugby Football Union), born in Wincanton, England (d. 1934)
Apr 4 Jozef Szulc, Polish composer, born in Warsaw, Russian Poland (d. 1956)
Apr 4 Pierre Monteux, French-American conductor (Boston Symphony, 1919-24; Concertgebouw, 1924–34; Orchestre Symphonique de Paris, 1929–38; San Francisco Symphony, 1936–52, London Symphony, 1961-64), born in Paris, France (d. 1964)
Apr 4 Samuel S. Hinds, American actor (Raven, Test Pilot), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1948)
Apr 8 Albert I, King of Belgium (1909-34), born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1934)
Apr 13 Ray Lyman Wilbur, American politician and 3rd President of Stanford University, born in Boonesboro, Iowa (d. 1949)

James J. Jeffries (1875-1953)

Apr 15 American heavyweight boxer, born in Carroll, Ohio

Apr 15 Klaziena "Ina" Boudier-Bakker, Dutch playwright and novelist (Poverty), born in Amsterdam (d. 1966)
Apr 18 Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, Croatian writer (The Brave Adventures of Lapitch), born in Ogulin, Croatian Military Frontier, Austria-Hungary (d. 1938)
Apr 24 Jenő Huszka, Hungarian composer (Bob herceg (Prince Bob)), born in Szeged, Hungary (d. 1960)
Apr 27 André Baillon, Belgian-French author (Un homme si simple), born in Antwerp, Belgium (d. 1932)
Apr 27 Frederick Fane, English cricket batsman (14 Tests, 1 x 100, HS 143; Essex CCC, Oxford University CC, London County CC), born in Curragh Camp, County Kildare, Ireland (d. 1960)
Apr 27 Lumsden Hare, Irish actor (Oregon Trail, Desert Fox, Young Bess), born in Ireland (d. 1964)
Apr 27 Maurice de Broglie, French physicist (studied X-ray diffraction and spectroscopy), born in Paris, France (d. 1960)
Apr 29 Rafael Sabatini, Italian-British writer (The Sea Hawk), born in Iesi, Italy (d. 1950)
May 4 Ramiro de Maeztu, Spanish writer (Don Quixote & Celestine), born in Alava, Spain (d. 1936)
May 4 Reggie Schwartz, English cricket spin bowler (20 Tests South Africa, 55 wickets, BB 6/47) and rugby union fly half (3 Tests England), born in London, England (d. 1918)
May 6 William D. Leahy, American admiral and chief of staff (1949), born in Hampton, Iowa (d. 1959)

Harriet Quimby (1875-1912)

May 11 American pioneering aviator, 1st woman in the US to receive a pilot certificate and to cross the English Channel, born in Arcadia, Michigan [1]

May 18 Guido Alberto Fano, Italian composer and pianist, born in Padua, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1961)
May 23 Alfred P. Sloan, American long-time president and chairman of General Motors (d. 1966)
May 30 Giovanni Gentile, Italian philosopher (The Doctrine of Fascism), born in Castelvetrano, Italy (d. 1944)
May 31 Italo Montemezzi, Italian composer (L'amore dei tre re), born in Vigasio, Italy (d. 1952)

Thomas Mann (1875-1955)

Jun 6 German novelist (Magic Mountain-Nobel 1929), born in Lübeck, Germany

Jun 7 George Simpson-Hayward, English cricket spin bowler (5 Tests, 23 wickets @ 18.26; last great underarm bowler; Cambridge University CC, Worcestershire CCC), born in Stoneleigh, England (d. 1936)
Jun 9 Henry Dale, English physiologist (Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology 1936), born in London, England (d. 1968)
Jun 12 Sam De Grasse, Canadian actor, born in Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada (d. 1953)
Jun 13 Max d'Ollone, French composer and writer (Le Ménestrel), born in Besançon, France (d. 1959)
Jun 13 Miriam (Ma) Ferguson, US politician, 1st US elected woman governor, Governor of Texas (1925-27, 1933-35), born in Bell County, Texas (d. 1961)
Jun 15 Herman Smith-Johannsen, Norwegian cross-country skier who introduced sport to North America, born in Horten, Norway (d. 1987)
Jun 17 Philipp Abraham Kohnstamm, Dutch philosopher and physicist, born in Bonn, Germany (d. 1951)
Jun 20 Othenio Able, Austrian artist, fossil creator and founder of paleobiology, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1946)
Jun 23 Carl Milles, Swedish sculptor (Wedding of Rivers), born in Lagga, Sweden (d. 1955)
Jun 26 Camille Zeckwer, American pianist, organist, composer, and educator (Philadelphia Musical Academy, 1917-24), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1924)
Jun 28 Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician (Lebesgue integration), born in Beauvais, Oise, France (d. 1941)
Jul 3 Ernst Ferdinand Sauerbruch, German Nazi surgeon, born in Barmen, German Empire (d. 1951)
Jul 4 Giovanni & Giacomo Tocci, Italian con-joined twins, born in Locana (probable date)
Jul 10 Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator (Bethune-Cookman College) and civil rights leader, born in Maysville, South Carolina (d. 1955)
Jul 15 Frank "Pop" Morgenweck, American Basketball HOF contributor (team owner/coach in 18 cities), born in Egg Harbor City, New Jersey (d. 1941)
Jul 15 Jean van den Eeckhoudt, Belgian painter (d. 1946)
Jul 17 Donald Tovey, British musicologist (Essays in Musical Analysis), pianist, and composer (The Bride of Dionysus), born in Eton, England (d. 1940)
Jul 26 Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (Campos de Castilla), born in Seville, Spain (d. 1939)

Carl Jung (1875-1961)

Jul 26 Swiss Psychiatrist (founded analytic psychology), born in Kesswil, Switzerland

Jul 30 James W. Tate, English composer, born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England (d. 1922)
Jul 31 Harry Northrup [Henri N.], French-born American poet and actor (The Heart of Maryland, The Unchastened Woman), born in Paris, France (d. 1936)
Aug 2 Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian-Lithuanian artist, born in Veliky Novgorod, Russia (d. 1957)
Aug 6 Marcel Labey, French conductor and composer, born in Vésinet, France (d. 1968)
Aug 8 Artur da Silva Bernardes, President of Brazil (d. 1955)
Aug 9 Albert William Ketèlbey, British pianist and composer (In A Monastery Garden), born in Aston, Birmingham (d. 1959)
Aug 12 (Héctor) Ettore Panizza, Argentinian composer (Aurora; Bizancio). and opera conductor, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (d. 1967)
Aug 12 Mezio Agostini, Italian composer, born in Fano, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1944)
Aug 15 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, African-British composer (Hiawatha's Wedding Feast), born in London, England (d. 1912)
Aug 16 Florrie Forde [Flannagan], Australian singer and British music hall performer, born in Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia (d. 1940)
Aug 18 Johan E. Elias, Dutch historian (Amsterdam's regency), born in Amsterdam (d. 1960)
Aug 19 Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (Ethiopia, South America), born in Karlovac, Croatia (d. 1936)
Aug 21 Maurice Lippens, Belgian governor of Congo (1921-23), born in Ghent, Belgium (d. 1956)
Aug 23 Eugene Lanceray, Russian artist, born in Pavlovsk, Saint Petersburg, Russia (d. 1946)
Aug 23 William Eccles, English physicist and radio pioneer, born in Barrow-in-Furness, England (d. 1966)
Aug 26 John Buchan, Scottish politician, Governor-General of Canada (1935-40), writer (The Thirty-Nine Steps) and historian, born in Perth, Scotland (d. 1940)
Aug 27 Katharine McCormick, American biologist, suffragist and philanthropist, born in Dexter, Michigan (d. 1967)
Aug 31 Eddie Plank, American Baseball HOF pitcher (World Series 1910, 11, 13 Philadelphia A's), born in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (d. 1926)

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)

Sep 1 American author (Tarzan of the Apes, Mars Saga), born in Chicago, Illinois

Ferdinand Porsche (1875-1951)

Sep 3 German automotive engineer (Volkswagen Beetle, Mercedes-Benz SS) and founder of the Porsche car company, born in Maffersdorf, Bohemia, Austro-Hungarian Empire

Sep 9 Jack O'Connor, Australian cricket fast bowler (4 Tests, 13 wickets, BB 5/40; NSW CA, SA CA), born in Boorowa, Australia (d. 1941)
Sep 10 Paul Scheinpflug, German composer, born in Loschwitz, Germany (d. 1937)
Sep 12 Matsunosuke Onoe [Tsuruzo Nakamura], Japanese actor (Araki Mataemon, Yajîkita: zenpen), born in Naka-ku, Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, Japan (d. 1926)

James Cash Penney (1875-1971)

Sep 16 American department store founder (J C Penney), born in Hamilton, Missouri

Sep 17 Vyacheslav Gavrilovich Karatigin, Russian composer, born in Pavlovsk (d. 1925)
Sep 18 Henriette Renié, French harp prodigy, composer, and teacher, born in Paris, France (d. 1956)
Sep 18 Tomas Burgos, Chilean philanthropist (founder of Villa Lo Burgos), born in Osorno, Chile (d. 1945)
Sep 22 Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Lithuanian composer (Miške (In the Forest); Jūra (The Sea)), art nouveau painter, and writer, born in 1875 Senoji Varėna, Vilna Governorate, Russian Empire ( now Lithuania (d. 1911)
Oct 2 Henry Février, French composer, born in Paris (d. 1957)
Oct 5 Cyril Rootham, English organist, composer, and educator, born in Redland, Bristol (d. 1938)

Laurence Doherty (1875-1919)

Oct 8 British tennis player (Wimbledon 1902-06, US Nationals 1903), born in Wimbledon, England

Oct 11 Stefan Octavian Iosif, Romanian poet (Beautiful Irine), born in Brașov, Romania (d. 1913)
Oct 12 Aleister Crowley, British occultist, founded the religion of Thelema, born in Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire England (d. 1947)
Oct 17 Alfred Polgar, Austrian writer and theater critic (Yes & No!), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1955)
Oct 18 James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey, Ghanaian-American missionary, educator and scholar, born in Anomabo, Gold Coast (d. 1927)
Oct 18 Len Braund, English cricket all-rounder (23 Tests, 3 x 100, 47 wickets; Surrey CCC, Somerset CCC), born in Clewer, Berkshire, England (d. 1955)
Oct 23 Gilbert N. Lewis, American chemist (theory of covalent bonding), born in Weymouth, Massachusetts (d. 1946)
Oct 24 Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter, born in Moscow, Russian Empire (d. 1958)
Oct 26 H. B. Warner, British actor (Sunset Boulevard, The King of Kings), born in London, England (d. 1958)
Oct 28 Gilbert H. Grosvenor, American geographer and 1st full-time editor of National Geographic Society (1899-1954), born in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (d. 1966)
Oct 29 Marie, last Queen of Romania as the wife of King Ferdinand I (1914-27), born in Eastwell Park, Kent, England (d. 1938)
Oct 31 Seerp Anema, Dutch poet and writer (From Holland's Coasts; Modern Art and Degeneration), born in Barradeel, Minnertsga, Nethelands (d. 1961)

Sardar Patel (1875-1950)

Oct 31 Indian freedom fighter and statesman, born in Gujarat, India

Nov 3 Emīls Dārziņš, Latvian composer (Melanholiskais valsis - Melancholic waltz), and music critic, born in Jaunpiebalga, Russian Empire (d. 1910)
Nov 6 Pompeo Aloisi, Italian baron, diplomat and senator, born in Rome, Italy (d. 1949)
Nov 7 Mikhail Kalinin, Soviet communist leader and statesman, born in Verkhnyaya Troitsa, Russia (d. 1946) [OS]
Nov 8 Qiu Jin, Chinese revolutionary, feminist, and writer considered a national heroine in China, born in Shanyin, Shaoxing, Qing Dynasty (d. 1907)
Nov 10 Maude Eburne, Canadian actress (Ladies They Talk About, Guardsman), born in Bronte-on-the-Lake, Ontario (d. 1960)
Nov 11 Vesto Slipher, American astronomer who provided the first evidence to support the expanding-universe theory, born in Mulberry, Indiana (d. 1969)
Nov 13 Rogelio del Villar, Spanish composer, born in Leon, Spain (d. 1937)
Nov 14 Gregorio del Pilar, Filipino general (d. 1899)
Nov 14 Jakob Schaffner, Swiss writer (Conrad Pilater), born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 1944)
Nov 15 Birsa Munda, Indian tribal freedom fighter, religious leader and folk hero of the Munda tribe who led an uprising in Bengal against the British Raj, born in Ulihatu, Bengal Presidency, British India (d. 1900)

Hiram Bingham (1875-1956)

Nov 19 American archaeologist who re-discovered the Incan site of Machu Picchu, born in Honolulu, Kingdom of Hawaii

Nov 19 Mikhail Kalinin, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (1938-46), born in Verkhnyaya Troitsa, Tver Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1946)
Nov 22 Elizabeth Patterson, American stage, silent and sound screen character actress (The Boy Friend; Intruder in the Dust; I Love Lucy - "Mrs. Trumbull"), born in Savannah, Tennessee (d. 1966)
Nov 22 Georges Rency, Belgian poet and literature, born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1951)
Nov 23 Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian Marxist revolutionary, author and literary critic, born in Poltava, Russian Empire (d. 1933)
Nov 27 Władysław Orkan [Franciszek Ksawery Smaciarz], Polish author (Nowele Zebrane), born in Poręba Wielka, Austria-Hungary (d. 1930)
Dec 2 Frank Reicher, German-American actor (King Kong, Son of Kong), born in Munich, Germany (d. 1965)
Dec 3 Bernhard Lichtenberg, German clergyman and theologian, born in Ohlau, Prussian Silesia, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (d. 1943)
Dec 3 Max Meldrum, Scottish-Australian painter (founder of Australian Tonalism), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1955)

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)

Dec 4 Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist (Ana, The City, Duino Elegies), born in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary

Arthur Currie (1875-1933)

Dec 5 Canadian army officer (1st Canadian commander of Canadian Corps, WWI), born in Napperton, Ontario

Dec 6 Evelyn Underhill, British Anglo-Catholic poet, born in Wolverhampton, England (d. 1941)
Dec 12 Desideer Stracke, Flemish jesuit and literature historian, born in Antwerp, Belgium (d. 1970)

Gerd von Rundstedt (1875-1953)

Dec 12 German field marshal during World War II (Commander-in-Chief in the West), born in Aschersleben, German Empire

Dec 14 Dobri Khristov, Bulgarian composer, born in Varna, Bulgaria (d. 1941)
Dec 15 Emilio Jacinto, Filipino poet and revolutionary, born in Tondo, Manila (d. 1899)
Dec 15 Friedrich Niggli, Swiss composer, born in Aarburg, Switzerland (d. 1959)
Dec 19 Carter G. Woodson, American historian (African American studies), born in New Canton, Virginia (d. 1950)
Dec 20 T. F. Powys, British novelist and short-story writer (Captain Patch, Goat Green), born in Shirley, Derbyshire (d. 1953)
Dec 22 Antoine Mariotte, French composer (Paysage maritime), born in Avignon (d. 1944)
Dec 22 Johannes "Jan" Musch, Dutch actor (Dead Water), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1960)
Dec 25 Theodor Innitzer, Austrian cardinal and archbishop Vienna, born in Neugeschrei, Bohemia (d. 1955)
Dec 25 Walter Lees, English cricket fast bowler (5 Tests, 26 wickets), born in Sowerby Bridge, Yorkshire, England (d. 1924)