Date | Event |
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Jan 1 |
Nikola Pasic, Serbian nationalist/premier (1891..1926) |
Jan 2 |
Sandor Erkel, composer |
Jan 4 |
Jan Karafiát, Broucci |
Jan 5 |
Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Germany, Idealist philosopher (Nobel 1908) |
Jan 7 |
Verner Clarges, The Face at the Window |
Jan 8 |
Albert Cahen, composer |
Jan 8 |
William Wallace Gilchrist, composer |
Jan 29 |
Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist (d. 1915) |
Jan 30 |
Francis H Bradley, British philosopher (neo-idealism) |
Feb 4 |
Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist (d. 1915) |
Feb 9 |
Wilhelm Maybach, German engineer, designer of 1st Mercedes |
Feb 9 |
Whitaker Wright, English mining tycoon (d. 1904) |
Feb 10 |
Mildred Childe Lee, daughter of confederate General Robert E. Lee |
Feb 10 |
Charles Beresford, British admiral and politician (d. 1919) |
Feb 10 |
Ira Remsen, American chemist (d. 1927) |
Feb 14 |
Julian Scott, American artist and Civil War Medal of Honor recipient. (d. 1901) |
Feb 18 |
Wilson Barrett, English playwright (d. 1904) |
Feb 18 |
Wilson Barrett, The Sign of the Cross |
Feb 21 |
Svatopluk Cech, Jestrab kontra Hrdlicka |
Feb 24 |
Luigi Denza, composer |
Feb 24 |
Luigi Denza, Despicable Me 2 |
Feb 26 |
William F "Buffalo Bill" Cody, Davenport Iowa, killed 4000 buffaloes |
Feb 26 |
William F. Cody, The Indian Wars |
Feb 27 |
Joaquin Valverde, composer |
Mar 3 |
Desiderio FA Pietri, Italian baker/marathon runner Dorando's father |
Mar 10 |
Edward Baker Lincoln, son of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln |
Mar 11 |
Antonio C G Crespo, Brazilian/Portuguese poet |
Mar 16 |
Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician (d. 1927) |
Mar 17 |
Kate Greenaway, England, artist/book illustrator (Under the Window) |
Mar 17 |
Kate Greenaway, The Sweet Hereafter |
Mar 20 |
Auguste Bender, writer |
Mar 22 |
Randolph Caldecott, England, illustrator (Caldecott Medal namesake) |
Apr 4 |
Comte de Lautréamont, French writer (d. 1870) |
Apr 4 |
Raoul Pictet, Geneva, Switzerland, Swiss physicist who invented liquid nitrogen and was a pioneer of cryogenics |
Apr 4 |
The Count of Lautreamont Isidore Ducasse, Les chants de Maldoror |
Apr 9 |
Francesco Paolo Tosti, The 3 Tenors in Concert 1994 |
Apr 24 |
Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life |
Apr 28 |
Johann E Backlund, Swedish astronomer (planets/asteroids) |
Apr 30 |
Rosalie Amstein, writer |
May 2 |
Zygmunt Noskowski, composer |
May 5 |
Federico Chueca, composer |
May 5 |
Henryk Sienkiewicz, Poland, author (Quo Vadis, Nobel 1905) |
May 5 |
Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis |
May 5 |
Federico Chueca, The Things of Love |
May 8 |
Oscar Hammerstein, Germany, opera/playwright (Kohinoor) |
May 9 |
Nikolay Feopemptovich Solov'yov, composer |
May 14 |
Arnold Kerdijk, Dutch lib politician/founder (Social Weekly newspaper) |
May 14 |
Pieter W A Cort van de Linden, Dutch premier (1913-18) |
May 17 |
Edmund Bishop, English secretary of Thomas Carlyle |
May 22 |
Oliver Perry Hay, Saluda Indiana, American Paleontologist |
May 25 |
Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria (d. 1923) |
May 25 |
Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet and writer(d. 1900) |
May 26 |
Arthur Coquard, composer |
May 29 |
Albert Gyorgy earl Apponyi, Hungarian minister of Education |
May 30 |
Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian goldsmith and jeweler (d. 1920) |
May 30 |
Peter Carl Fabergé, Million Dollar Tech |
Jun 4 |
Josef Sittard, music writer |
Jun 7 |
Wladyslaw Gorski, composer |
Jun 11 |
William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer (d. 1920) |
Jun 12 |
Richard Henry Savage, My Official Wife |
Jun 15 |
Henryk Grubinski, Sad bozy |
Jun 16 |
Augusto Mastripietri, High Treason |
Jun 19 |
Antonio Abetti, Italian astronomer (d. 1928) |
Jun 27 |
Charles S Parnell, English/Irish Home Rule Party-Lower house member |
Jun 30 |
Ricardo Drigo, composer |
Jun 30 |
Riccardo Drigo, Pappa ante Portas |
Jul 2 |
Axel Jacobsson, Gösta Berlings saga |
Jul 3 |
Achilles Alferaki, composer |
Jul 11 |
Leon Bloy, French writer (d. 1917) |
Jul 11 |
León Bloy, Directo al corazón |
Jul 11 |
Hilda Forsslund, En lyckoriddare |
Jul 19 |
Charles Edward Pickering, pioneered American spectroscopist |
Jul 22 |
Julian Hawthorne, The Lost Duchess |
Jul 22 |
Anton Ohorn, Hinter Klostermauern |
Jul 22 |
Alfred Perceval Graves, The Post-Bag |
Jul 26 |
Texas Jack Omohundro, American frontier scout, actor, and cowboy (d. 1880) |
Jul 31 |
Joseph I.C. Clarke, Heartsease |
Aug 2 |
Mrs. W.K. Clifford, Eve's Lover |
Aug 4 |
Silas Gamaliel Pratt, composer |
Aug 6 |
Anna Swan, |
Aug 16 |
Justus van Maurik, Dutch cigar manufacturer/writer/editor (Groene) |
Aug 16 |
Justus van Maurik, Krates |
Aug 19 |
Luis Martín, Spanish Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1906) |
Aug 22 |
B Amalie Skram-Alver, Norway, writer (Hellemyrsfolket) |
Aug 22 |
Amalie Skram, Lucie |
Aug 23 |
Alexander Milne Calder, American sculptor (d. 1923) |
Aug 25 |
Louise J Gautier, French poetess |
Sep 4 |
Daniel Burnham, US, architect/built skyscrapers |
Sep 5 |
John W Cromwell, Secy (American Negro Academy) |
Sep 13 |
Richard Kiepert, German cartographer (Africa) |
Sep 20 |
Agnes Tyrrell, composer |
Sep 25 |
Wladimir Köppen [Vladimir Köppen], St. Petersburg, Russia, German Meteorologist and Climatologist who mapped and classified the climatic regions of the world (Köppen climate classification system) |
Oct 6 |
George Westinghouse, Central Bridge, New York, entrepreneur and engineer (alternated US currency), (d. 1914) |
Oct 9 |
Holger Drachmann, Der var engang |
Oct 21 |
Edmondo de Amicis, Italian writer (Cuore) |
Oct 21 |
Edmondo De Amicis, Times Gone By |
Oct 23 |
Alexander Andreyevich Archangel'sky, composer |
Oct 28 |
Auguste Escoffier, king of chefs & chef of kings |
Nov 2 |
Antonio Pena y Goni, composer |
Nov 4 |
Gaston Henri Charles Antoine Serpette, composer |
Nov 5 |
Duncan Gordon Boyes, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1869) |
Nov 7 |
Ignaz Brull, composer |
Nov 7 |
Henry Youngman, The Night That Sophie Graduated |
Nov 10 |
Martin Wegelius, Finnish musicologist/composer |
Nov 10 |
Paul Kuczynski, composer |
Nov 11 |
Anna Katharine Green, The Leavenworth Case |
Nov 13 |
Herbert Standing, Stella Maris |
Nov 18 |
Aloys, Liechtenstein nobleman/politician |
Nov 19 |
Emile C Wauters, Belgium, painter (Van der Goes in the Red Monastery) |
Nov 25 |
Carrie Nation, American temperance advocate (d. 1911) |
Nov 25 |
Carrie Nation, Prohibition: Thirteen Years That Changed America |
Dec 2 |
Pierre M Waldeck-Rousseau, French Min of Foreign affairs/premier |
Dec 6 |
Henryk Jarecki, composer |
Dec 7 |
Lew Hart, The Deacon's Son |
Dec 22 |
Andreas Hallen, composer |
Dec 23 |
Leopold Strassmeyer, Viererzug |
Dec 24 |
Lotten Almlöf, A Modern Robinson |
Dec 24 |
Paavo Cajander, Hamlet |
Dec 24 |
Henry F. Downing, A Daughter of the Congo |
Dec 27 |
Zikmund Winter, Nezbedný bakalár |
Dec 31 |
Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis, vicar/Dutch anarchist (Right for all) |
Dec 31 |
Richard Kleinmichel, composer |
10 |
Albert Vanloo, Le voyage dans la lune |
27 |
Edward Noyes Wescott, David Harum |
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