Date | Event |
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Jan 4 |
Thomas H Rollinson, composer |
Jan 4 |
Victor Blüthgen, Gendarm Möbius |
Jan 7 |
Marie-Bernarde Soubirous, [St Bernadette of Lourdes], saint/visionary |
Jan 13 |
Albert Millaud, Frøken Nitouche |
Jan 14 |
Clara Kathleen Rogers, composer |
Jan 16 |
Ismail Qemali, Albanian nationalist (d. 1919) |
Jan 20 |
Johan Peter Selmer, composer |
Jan 25 |
Frederick E Kitziger, composer |
Jan 25 |
Albert Price, Noedebo Vicarage |
Jan 30 |
Moritz F Freiherr von Bissing, German gen/gov-gen of Belgium (1914-17) |
Feb 1 |
Eduard Adolf Strasburger, German botanist (Angiospermen) |
Feb 1 |
Granville Stanley Hall, US, psychologist |
Feb 2 |
Leander Schlegel, composer |
Feb 6 |
McKee Rankin, The Runaway Wife |
Feb 17 |
A Montgomery Ward, found mail-order business (Montgomery Ward) |
Feb 18 |
Willem Maris, Dutch painter (Hague School) |
Feb 20 |
Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann, Austria, physicist (statistical mechanics) |
Feb 20 |
Joshua Slocum, Canadian seaman and adventurer (d. 1909) |
Feb 21 |
Charles-Marie Widor, Lyons France, composer/prof (Paris Conservatory) |
Feb 21 |
Charles Marie Widor, |
Feb 22 |
Kazamierz Julian Kratzer, composer |
Feb 24 |
Benjamin P. Lamberton, Officers of the 'Olympia' |
Mar 2 |
Hermanus J A M Schaepman, clergyman/Dutch politician |
Mar 4 |
Josip Jurcic, Slovenian writer (10th Brother) |
Mar 4 |
Josip Jurcic, Deseti brat |
Mar 6 |
Nicolai Rimski-Korsakov, composer (Flight of the Bumble Bee) (NS 3/18) |
Mar 7 |
Anthony Comstock, New Canaan Ct, anti-vice crusader/philatelist |
Mar 10 |
Pablo Martin M de Sarasate y Navascuez, composer (Spanish Dancing) |
Mar 10 |
Pablo de Sarasate, Ladies in Lavender |
Mar 14 |
King Umberto I, of Italy (1878-1900) |
Mar 15 |
Bransby Cooper, cricketer (in Dhaka Batsman in Australia's 1st Test) |
Mar 18 |
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Tikhvin Russia, composer (Scheherazade) |
Mar 18 |
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, The Intouchables |
Mar 19 |
Minna Canth, Finland, playwright (The Pastor's Family) and social activist |
Mar 19 |
Minna Canth, Anna Liisa |
Mar 21 |
Alfred Wagstaff, Our Mutual Girl, No. 42 |
Mar 23 |
Eugene Gigout, composer |
Mar 23 |
Eugène Gigout, Rien que des mensonges |
Mar 23 |
Camille Lemonnier, Le mort |
Mar 27 |
Alophus Washington Greely, US, Arctic explorer |
Mar 30 |
Paul M Verlaine, France, lyric poet (Sagesse Bonbeur) |
Mar 30 |
Paul Verlaine, French Kiss |
Mar 31 |
Andrew Lang, Scotland, author (The Blue Fairy Book) |
Apr 6 |
Joseph Ludwig, composer |
Apr 11 |
W.H. Burton, Cy Whittaker's Ward |
Apr 11 |
Paul Chelles, The Hunter's Grief |
Apr 12 |
Mary Evelyn Moore Davis, The Little Chevalier |
Apr 16 |
Anatole France, writer (Thaïs, Wickerwork Woman, Nobel 1921) |
Apr 16 |
Anatole France, Gulf Stream Under the Iceberg |
Apr 22 |
Lewis Thornton Powell, would-be assassin of Secretary of State William H. Seward (d. 1865) |
May 2 |
Elijah McCoy, black inventor, held over 50 patents |
May 3 |
Edouard A Drumont, French anti-semitic journalist |
May 3 |
Richard D'Oyly Carte, England, opera impresario (Ivanhoe) |
May 8 |
Hermann Gradener, composer |
May 9 |
[Maria] Catharina Beersmans, Belgian actress (Bad Herders) |
May 16 |
John Hare, A Pair of Spectacles |
May 17 |
Julius Wellhausen, German biblical scholar (d. 1918) |
May 20 |
Henri Julien Felix Rousseau, French ambassador/painter (Dream) |
May 21 |
Henri Rousseau, Henri Rousseau 1844-1910 |
May 22 |
Mary Cassatt, US, Impressionist painter (Woman Bathing) |
May 23 |
`Abdu'l-Bahá, Successor to Prophet of the Bahá'í Faith (d. 1921) |
May 28 |
Leon Felix Augustin Joseph Vasseur, composer |
May 30 |
Louis Varney, composer |
Jun 1 |
Galusha Pennypacker, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1916 |
Jun 1 |
John J. Toffey, American Civil War hero (d. 1911) |
Jun 3 |
Detlev [Freiherr Friedrich A von] Liliencron, German poet |
Jun 3 |
Emile Paladilhe, composer |
Jun 3 |
Garret Augustus Hobart, (R) 24th US VP (1897-99) |
Jun 3 |
Garret A. Hobart, President McKinley's Inspection of Camp Wikoff |
Jun 6 |
Konstantin Savitsky, Russian painter (d. 1905) |
Jun 10 |
J Albert Neuhuys, Dutch painter (Haagse school) |
Jun 10 |
Karl Hagenbeck, German animal trainer (Von Tieren und Menschen) |
Jun 12 |
Klaus Berntsen, Kong Christian X's proklamation |
Jun 14 |
Edouard Naville, Swiss egyptologist |
Jun 21 |
Ernest F Cambier, Belgian colonial pioneer (1st railway Congo) |
Jun 22 |
Margaret Sidney, Five Little Peppers and How They Grew |
Jul 1 |
Verney L Cameroon, English explorer (Tanganyika) |
Jul 1 |
Charles Walcott, Phil-for-Short |
Jul 8 |
Mary Johnson Lincoln, educator (Boston Cooking School) |
Jul 11 |
Peter I Karadjordjevic, King of Serbia/Yugoslavia |
Jul 11 |
King Peter of Serbia, |
Jul 22 |
William Archibald Spooner, London, reverend/inventor (spoonerisms) |
Jul 22 |
Ruby Lafayette, Big Bob |
Jul 25 |
Thomas Eakins, American artist (d. 1916) |
Jul 28 |
Gerard Manley Hopkins, England, poet (Windhover) |
Jul 31 |
Ignazio Guidi, Italian orientalist/archaeologist |
Aug 6 |
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1900) |
Aug 7 |
Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist (d. 1911) |
Aug 17 |
Menelik II, King of Ethiopia (1896-1913) |
Aug 22 |
George Washington De Long, New York City, American Arctic Explorer whose disastrous expedition provided evidence to support the theory of trans-Arctic oceanic drift |
Aug 29 |
Edward Carpenter, English poet (d. 1929) |
Aug 30 |
Friedrich Ratzel, German social-geographer (Lebensraum) |
Sep 10 |
Abel Hoadley, Australian confectioner (d. 1918) |
Sep 11 |
George Clement Martin, composer |
Sep 20 |
William H. Illingworth, American photographer (d. 1893) |
Sep 28 |
Michael Hertz, composer |
Sep 28 |
Robert Stout, Shetland Islands Scotland, NZ prime minister (1884-87) |
Oct 3 |
Patrick Manson, "Father of tropical medicine" |
Oct 5 |
Francis William Reitz, State President of the Orange Free State (d. 1934) |
Oct 11 |
Henry John Heinz, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, founded prepared-foods company (Heinz-57 varieties), (d. 1919) |
Oct 12 |
George W Cable, American writer (Northampton Years) |
Oct 12 |
Charles King, The Indian Wars |
Oct 14 |
Ede Tóth, The Exile |
Oct 15 |
Friedrich Nietzsche, Röcken bei Lützen, Prussia, German philosopher (Beyond Good and Evil), (d. 1900) |
Oct 15 |
Friedrich Nietzsche, A Divina Comédia |
Oct 17 |
Miguel Nieto, composer |
Oct 18 |
Emille-Louis-Victor Mathieu, composer |
Oct 19 |
Benjamin D. Cleveland, Down to the Sea in Ships |
Oct 23 |
Louis Riel, Manitoba, leader of insurrection of Metis |
Oct 23 |
Robert S Bridges, England, poet laureate (Eros & Psyche) |
Oct 23 |
Sarah Bernhardt, Adrienne Lecouvreur |
Oct 24 |
Karl Lueger, anti semitic mayor of Vienna |
Oct 27 |
Klas Arnoldson, Sweden, politician/pacifist (Nobel 1908) |
Oct 29 |
Albert von Rothschild, Austrian banker |
Oct 30 |
Harvey W. Wiley, American chemist (d. 1930) |
Nov 2 |
Sultan Mehmed V, Hearst-International News Pictorial, No. 52 |
Nov 3 |
Mehmed V Reshad, sultan of Turkey (1909-18) |
Nov 9 |
Hasse W. Tullberg, Konsum Stockholm Promo |
Nov 10 |
Henry Eyster Jacobs, American theologian (d. 1932) |
Nov 12 |
Octave Fouque, composer |
Nov 15 |
Mary Maurice, A Mother's Devotion; or, The Firing of the Patchwork Quilt |
Nov 25 |
Karl F Benz, German designer/auto manufacturer (4-taktmotor) |
Nov 25 |
Carl Benz, |
Dec 1 |
Alexandra, Danish princess/Queen of Great Britain/Ireland |
Dec 1 |
Alfred Cellier, composer |
Dec 1 |
Queen Alexandra, Queen Alexandra's Arrival to Toldboden |
Dec 4 |
Franz Xavier Wernz, German Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1914) |
Dec 5 |
John Frederick Bridge, composer |
Dec 8 |
Émile Reynaud, Pauvre Pierrot |
Dec 9 |
Joseph B. Coghlan, U.S. Cruiser 'Raleigh' |
Dec 18 |
Lujo [Ludwig J von] Brentano, German economist |
Dec 21 |
Billy Edwards, Billy Edwards and the Unknown |
Dec 22 |
Izydor Lotto, composer |
Dec 22 |
Herbert Campbell, Burlesque Attack on a Settler's Cabin |
11 |
Virginia Moon, Robin Hood |
28 |
Milton Nobles, The Phoenix |
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