Notable Birthdays - 1847
1847 Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Ben Greet, Victory and Peace |
Jan 4 |
Hendrik Goeman Borgesius, Dutch politician |
Jan 7 |
Milovan Glisic, The She-Butterfly |
Jan 14 |
E. Vining, Hamlet |
Jan 16 |
Kálmán Mikszáth, Boy, the Noszty |
Jan 20 |
W R Pettiford, Founder (Alabama Penny Savings Bank) |
Jan 20 |
Frederik Christensen, Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages |
Feb 2 |
Jules Francois Blasini, Curacaos pianist/composer |
Feb 7 |
Ernst Franck, German composer/conductor |
Feb 8 |
Hugh Price Hughes, English social reformer (d. 1902) |
Feb 10 |
A N Hornby, cricketer (pioneering England Test batsman) |
Feb 11 |
Thomas Alva Edison, Milan Ohio, lit up your life (held 1200 patents) |
Feb 11 |
Thomas A. Edison, The Patchwork Girl of Oz |
Feb 14 |
Anna Howard Shaw, US, suffragette |
Feb 14 |
Maria Pia of Italy, queen of Portugal (d. 1911) |
Feb 14 |
Anna Howard Shaw, Your Girl and Mine: A Woman Suffrage Play |
Feb 15 |
Robert Fuchs, composer |
Feb 16 |
Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka, German composer (Album polonaise) |
Feb 25 |
John Watson, Canada, philosopher (Objective Idealism) |
Feb 27 |
Ellen Alice Terry, Coventry Engl, actress/director (Imperial Theatre) |
Feb 27 |
Ellen Terry, Potter's Clay |
Mar 3 |
Alexander Graham Bell, Edinburgh Scotland, inventor (telephone) |
Mar 3 |
Alexander Graham Bell, Animated Weekly, No. 12 |
Mar 4 |
Karl Bayer, Austrian chemist (d. 1904) |
Mar 4 |
Jack Crawford, The Corporal's Daughter |
Mar 8 |
Karl von Bach, German engineer (Maschinenelemente) |
Mar 10 |
Kate Sheppard, New Zealand suffragette and the most prominent member of New Zealand's women's suffrage movement (d. 1934) |
Mar 14 |
Antonio de Castro Alves, Brazilian poet (Espumas Flutuantes) |
Mar 14 |
Castro Alves, The Age of the Earth |
Mar 19 |
Constantin Dimitrescu, composer |
Mar 23 |
Alexandru D Xenopol, Romania, historian |
Mar 24 |
Wordsworth Donisthorpe, London's Trafalgar Square |
Mar 27 |
Otto Wallach, Germany, chemist (Nobel 1910) |
Mar 31 |
Jarolslaw Zielinski, composer |
Mar 31 |
Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician (d. 1878) |
Apr 1 |
Gavriil Musicescu, composer |
Apr 1 |
Jules-Nicolas Crevaux, French explorer (South America) |
Apr 7 |
J P Jacobsen, writer |
Apr 9 |
Francesco Paolo Tosti, composer |
Apr 9 |
Francis William Davenport, composer |
Apr 10 |
Charles Swinnerton Heap, composer |
Apr 10 |
Joseph Pulitzer, Hungary, publisher (St Louis Post-Dispatch, NY World) |
Apr 13 |
Cornelis Pijnacker Hordijk, gov-gen (Neth East-Indies) |
Apr 13 |
David Christie Murray, The Penniless Millionaire |
Apr 16 |
Hans Auer, Swiss architect, (d. 1906) |
Apr 23 |
Tan Xinpei, Dingjunshan |
May 4 |
Frederik Henriksen, Fodsporet |
May 6 |
Àngel Guimerà, El padre Juanico |
May 7 |
Archibald Primrose, Earl of Rosebery (Lib), British PM (1894-95) |
May 10 |
Wilhelm Killing, German mathematician (d. 1923) |
May 13 |
Johannes Haarklou, composer |
May 25 |
Alphonse Goovaerts, composer |
May 25 |
John Alexander Dowie, [Elijah the Restorer], US, evangelist |
May 30 |
Alice Sophia Stopford Green, Ireland, proponent of Irish independence |
Jun 6 |
Gerben Postma, [Ids], Frisian writer (Swealtsjeblommen) |
Jun 8 |
Ida Sazton McKinley, 1st lady (1897-1901) |
Jun 8 |
Ida McKinley, President and Mrs. McKinley |
Jun 11 |
Millicent Garrett Fawcett, leader (English women's movement) |
Jun 24 |
Gervais Bernard Gaston Salvayre, composer |
Jun 28 |
Sveinbjorn Sveinbjornsson, composer |
Jun 30 |
Jacob T Cremer, min of Colonies/pres (Dutch Trading Comp) |
Jul 2 |
Marcel Bertrand, French mine engineer (tectonic geology) |
Jul 4 |
James Anthony Bailey, Detroit, circus impresario (Barnum & Bailey) |
Jul 5 |
Agnes Marie Jacobina Zimmermann, composer |
Jul 13 |
Roger Wolcott, Admiral Dewey at State House, Boston |
Jul 20 |
Max Liebermann, German impressionist painter |
Jul 31 |
Ignatio Cervantes, composer |
Jul 31 |
Ignacio Cervantes, Original Sin |
Aug 1 |
Guido Papini, violinist/composer |
Aug 3 |
Jan de Louter, lawyer/tutor of Dutch Queen Wilhelmina |
Aug 9 |
Maria Victoria al Pozzo della Cisterna, queen consort of Spain (d. 1876) |
Aug 14 |
Robert Comtesse, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1922) |
Aug 15 |
Adolf Klein, Phantom |
Aug 20 |
Bolesław Prus, Polish writer (d. 1912) |
Aug 20 |
Andrew Greenwood, England cricketer (d. 1889) |
Aug 20 |
Boleslaw Prus, Pharaoh |
Aug 21 |
Arthur T Verhaegen, Belgian worker's union leader |
Aug 22 |
Alexander Campbell Mackenzie, composer |
Aug 23 |
Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (d. 1927) |
Aug 27 |
Gustave J Waffelaert, Flemish theologist/bishop of Bridge |
Sep 2 |
Roger Wolcott, 39th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1900) |
Sep 5 |
Jesse James, Missouri, outlaw, son of a clergyman, (d. 1882) |
Sep 13 |
Charles Dupee Blake, composer |
Sep 14 |
William Edward Ayrton, London, English Physicist and Inventor |
Sep 16 |
Albert Ross Parsons, composer |
Sep 20 |
Sergei G Netsjajev, Russian nihilist (Catechism Revolutionary) |
Sep 30 |
Wilhelmina E Drucker, [Lensing], Dutch feminist |
Oct 1 |
Annie Besant, [Wood], England, philosopher (Esoteric christianity) |
Oct 1 |
Annie Besant, Congress Session in Bombay |
Oct 2 |
Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorf und Hindenburg, German president |
Oct 2 |
Paul von Hindenburg, Hindenburg |
Oct 5 |
Paul Mounet, The Return of Ulysses |
Oct 6 |
Adolf von Hildebrand, German sculptor |
Oct 9 |
Andre Dumont, Belgian mine engineer (Limburg's coal basin) |
Oct 9 |
Stephanus J du Toit, South Africa theologist/journalist (Afr Bond) |
Oct 10 |
Gheorghe Dima, composer |
Oct 17 |
Chiquinha Gonzaga, Forbidden to Forbid |
Oct 21 |
Guiseppe Giacosa, Italian songwriter (libretti opera Puccini) |
Oct 21 |
Giuseppe Giacosa, Quantum of Solace |
Oct 22 |
Jacobus Herculas [Uncle Koos] de la Rey, South African politician |
Oct 23 |
Fanny Petersen, The President |
Oct 25 |
Archibald Clavering Gunter, A Florida Enchantment |
Oct 31 |
Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (2-fasenmotor) |
Nov 1 |
Emma Albani, Canadian soprano (d. 1930) |
Nov 2 |
George Sorel, French Socialist thinker/author (violent revolutions) |
Nov 8 |
Bram Stoker, Irish theater manager/author (Dracula) |
Nov 8 |
Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician (d. 1907) |
Nov 8 |
Bram Stoker, Dracula |
Nov 15 |
James O'Neill, The Count of Monte Cristo |
Nov 16 |
Edmund James Flynn, Canadian politician (d. 1927) |
Nov 25 |
George W. Anson, The President's Special |
Nov 26 |
Maria Fyodorovna, Princess of Denmark and Empress of Russia (d. 1928) |
Nov 26 |
Maria Fyodorova, The Tempest |
Nov 26 |
Czarina Maria Fyodorovna, Enkekejserinde Dagmars Ankomst |
Nov 30 |
August Friedrich Martin Klughardt, composer |
Dec 1 |
Agathe Grondahl, composer |
Dec 7 |
James Deacon White, Canton NY, ball player jumped teams in 1876 (Chi) |
Dec 7 |
Solomon Schechter, US Talmudic scholar/Jewish leader |
Dec 9 |
George Grossmith, English actor/writer (d. 1912) |
Dec 9 |
George Grossmith, The Diary of a Nobody: The Domestic Jottings of a City Clerk |
Dec 16 |
Augusta Mary Anne Holmes, composer |
Dec 17 |
Émile Faguet, French writer and critic (d. 1916) |
Dec 21 |
Edward E. Rice, Lone Fisherman |
Dec 26 |
Hugh Conway, Called Back |
Dec 30 |
John Peter Altgeld, German/US (Gov-Ill)/pardoned Haymarket-anarchists |
2 |
George R. Sims, Lady Letmere's Jewellery |
5 |
Jesse James, Jesse James |
10 |
Franklin Bartlett, Twenty-Second Regiment, N.G.S.N.Y. |
17 |
John I. Beggs, |
20 |
Andrew Waldron, Fighter's Paradise |
27 |
Mike Donovan, Train vs. Donovan |
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