Notable Birthdays - 1848
1848 Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
John Goff, Irish lawyer (d. 1924) |
Jan 1 |
Clara T. Bracy, The Musketeers of Pig Alley |
Jan 4 |
Katsura Taro, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1913) |
Jan 5 |
Khristo Botev, hero of Bulgarian revolt against Turkey, poet |
Jan 5 |
Adolf Krössing, Písen zivota |
Jan 9 |
Princess Frederica of Hanover (d. 1926) |
Jan 18 |
Ioan Slavici, Transylvanian writer (d. 1925) |
Jan 18 |
Ioan Slavici, La 'Moara cu noroc' |
Jan 19 |
John F. Stairs, Canadian businessman (d. 1904) |
Jan 20 |
Aleksandre Kazbegi, Caucasian Love |
Jan 21 |
Henri Duparc, French composer |
Jan 22 |
Samuel Muller Fzn, Dutch historian/archivist (Middle Ages) |
Jan 24 |
Vasily Surikov, Russian painter (d. 1916) |
Jan 27 |
Togo Heihachiro, Japanese admiral (d. 1934) |
Feb 4 |
[Francois-Victor-]Jean Aicard, Fren playwright/poet (Jeune Croyances) |
Feb 5 |
Belle Starr [Myra Belle Shirley], US female outlaw (wild west) |
Feb 5 |
Joris-Karl Huysmans, France, writer (Against the Grain) |
Feb 5 |
Ignacio Carrera Pinto, Chilean war hero (d. 1882) |
Feb 5 |
Joris-Karl Huysmans, Ventriloquio |
Feb 6 |
Luigi Mancinelli, composer |
Feb 7 |
Alfred Bishop, The Brass Bottle |
Feb 13 |
Karel Klostermann, Mlhy na blatech |
Feb 14 |
Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer (d. 1934) |
Feb 16 |
Hugo de Vries, Dutch botanist (How species emerge) |
Feb 17 |
Louisa Lawson, Australian suffragist and writer (d. 1920) |
Feb 18 |
Louis Comfort Tiffany, glassmaker (stained glass windows) |
Feb 20 |
Edward Henry Harriman, American railroad executive (d. 1909) |
Feb 23 |
Thomas Paine Westendorf, composer |
Feb 24 |
C Grant B Allen, Canadian writer (Woman Who Did) |
Feb 24 |
Johanna C P Barbiers, actress (Voddenraper of Paris) |
Feb 24 |
Andrew Inglis Clark, Tasmanian politician (d. 1907) |
Feb 24 |
Grant Allen, Die Frau mit dem schlechten Ruf |
Feb 25 |
King William II of Württemberg, Der König von Württemberg im Schloß zu Stuttgart |
Feb 27 |
Charles Hubert H Parry, England, musicologist/composer (Jerusalem) |
Feb 27 |
Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Atonement |
Mar 1 |
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, US, sculptor/designer (1907 $20 gold piece) |
Mar 3 |
Adelaide Neilson, English Actress (d. 1880) |
Mar 9 |
Martin Pierre Joseph Marsick, composer |
Mar 10 |
William Courtright, Hard Boiled |
Mar 12 |
Cyrill Kistler, composer |
Mar 14 |
Theo. A. Metz, Batman |
Mar 14 |
Laura Fitinghoff, Barnen från Frostmofjället |
Mar 14 |
Albert Robida, The Extraordinary Adventures of Saturnino Farandola |
Mar 17 |
Horace Wadham Nicholl, composer |
Mar 17 |
Clara Morris, Paul's Peril |
Mar 18 |
Nathaniel Herreshoff, America Cup yacht designer |
Mar 18 |
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, daughter of Queen Victoria (d. 1939) |
Mar 19 |
Wyatt Earp, Monmouth Ill, sheriff (OK Corral) |
Mar 19 |
Wyatt Earp, The Half-Breed |
Mar 19 |
James Otis Kaler, Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks with a Circus |
Mar 21 |
Gustaf von Numers, Pastori Jussilainen |
Mar 23 |
Sydney Grundy, Sowing the Wind |
Mar 24 |
Honoré Beaugrand, Quebec journalist and newspaper publisher (La Patrie) (d. 1906) |
Mar 25 |
William Keith Brooks, Cleveland Ohio, American marine zoologist (anatomy and embryology of marine animals) |
Mar 29 |
Aleksei Kuropatkin, Russian general/minister of War |
Mar 31 |
John Henry Roberts, composer |
Apr 2 |
Robert V. Ferguson, Venus and Adonis |
Apr 3 |
Georges Ohnet, Her Sister's Rival |
Apr 5 |
Carl Unthan, |
Apr 7 |
Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1930) |
Apr 9 |
F A MacKinnon, cricketer (later the 35th Mackinnon of Mackinnon) |
Apr 9 |
Helena Lange, German feminist |
Apr 9 |
Alexandre Bisson, Madame X |
Apr 12 |
José Gautier Benítez, Puerto Rican poet (d. 1880) |
Apr 16 |
Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Social Reformer of Andhra Pradesh, India (d. 1919) |
Apr 27 |
King Otto I of Bavaria (d. 1916) |
Apr 28 |
Ludvig Schytte, composer |
Apr 29 |
Raja Ravi Varma, |
May 5 |
Adalbert von Goldschmidt, composer |
May 15 |
Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter (d. 1926) |
May 17 |
Tony Schumacher, Das Turm-Engele |
May 19 |
Gertrude Norman, Fidelity |
May 23 |
Helmuth J L von Moltke, German general/chief of staff (WW I) |
May 23 |
Otto Lilienthal, pioneer aviator |
May 23 |
Otto Lilienthal, |
May 23 |
Félicien Trewey, The Lumière Brothers' First Films |
Jun 1 |
Otto Valdemar Malling, composer |
Jun 7 |
Paul Gaugin, [Eugene Henri], French post-impressionist painter |
Jun 7 |
Paul Gauguin, Gauguin |
Jun 15 |
Sol Smith Russell, A Poor Relation |
Jun 24 |
Brooks Adams, US philosopher (Theory of Social Revolutions) |
Jul 9 |
Robert I, Duke of Parma, last ruling Duke of Parma (d. 1907) |
Jul 15 |
Vilfredo F D Pareto, Italian economist/sociologist |
Jul 16 |
Henri[cus A] Viotta, Dutch conductor/composer (Lexicon of Music) |
Jul 16 |
Eben E. Rexford, Barfly |
Jul 17 |
Edwin Harley, The Fatal Hour |
Jul 18 |
William Gilbert Grace, Victorian England's greatest cricketer |
Jul 18 |
W.G. Grace, English and Australian Cricketers at Crystal Palace |
Jul 19 |
Cornelis A Pekelharing, artist (fabric seller) |
Jul 22 |
Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1914) |
Jul 25 |
Arthur Earl Balfour, (C), British PM (1902-05) (Balfour Declaration) |
Jul 25 |
Arthur J. Balfour, A.J. Balfour at Bristol |
Jul 27 |
Vladimir de Pachmann, painter |
Jul 27 |
Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist (d. 1919) |
Jul 27 |
Friedrich Ernst Dorn, Guttstadt, Province of Prussia (now Warmia in Poland), German physicist who discovered that radon is emitted from radium |
Jul 31 |
Jean Robert Planquette, France, composer (Bells of Corneville) |
Jul 31 |
Robert Planquette, Maytime |
Aug 1 |
František Kmoch, Czech composer and conductor |
Aug 4 |
Vladimir Sukhomlinov, Russian general (d. 1926) |
Aug 4 |
Vladimir Sukhomlinov, |
Aug 12 |
Macellus Emants, Dutch writer/poet (Along the Nile) |
Aug 15 |
Robert Kiljander, Skandaali tyttökoulussa |
Aug 19 |
Gustave Caillebotte, French shipbuilding design/painter (Rue de Paris) |
Aug 20 |
Frazer Coulter, The Prisoner of Zenda |
Aug 22 |
Melville E. Stone, American newspaper publisher (d. 1929) |
Aug 30 |
Andrew Onderdonk, Canadian railway contractor (d. 1905) |
Sep 1 |
Auguste-Henri Forel, Swiss entomologist (d. 1931) |
Sep 4 |
Lewis H Latimer, inventor/engineer |
Sep 4 |
Jennie Lee, American actress (d. 1925) |
Sep 5 |
Manuel Giro, composer |
Sep 10 |
William M Harnett, US painter (Old Violin) |
Sep 24 |
Pieter Louis Tak, literary (The Chronicle) |
Sep 29 |
Caroline Ardelia Yale, US, educated deaf |
Oct 3 |
Henry Lerolle, French painter (d. 1929) |
Oct 5 |
Guido von List, German writer (d. 1919) |
Oct 8 |
Pierre Degeyter, Air Force One |
Oct 17 |
William "Candy" Cummings, created curve ball |
Oct 23 |
Fritz Witte-Wild, The Eyes of the World |
Oct 25 |
Karl Emil Franzos, The President |
Oct 30 |
Zinovi P Rozhestvensky, Russian vice-admiral |
Oct 31 |
Boston Custer, brother of George Armstrong Custer (d. 1876) |
Nov 4 |
Joseph R. Grismer, Way Down East |
Nov 8 |
Gottlob Frege, Germany, mathematician/logician (Begriffsschrift) |
Nov 12 |
Eduard Müller, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1919) |
Nov 13 |
Albert HK, monarch of Monaco (1889-1922) |
Nov 24 |
Lilli Lehmann, opera singer |
Dec 9 |
Joel Chandler Harris, US journalist (created Uncle Remus stories) |
Dec 9 |
Joel Chandler Harris, Song of the South |
Dec 12 |
William Vanderbilt, yachtsman (donated Vanderbilt Cup) |
Dec 15 |
Edwin Howland Blashfield, decorated the dome of Library of Congress |
Dec 17 |
Frederick Grant Gleason, composer |
Dec 18 |
Karl Schroder, composer |
Dec 21 |
Edward Everett Rice, composer |
Dec 24 |
Brandon Thomas, Hello, I'm Your Aunt! |
Dec 28 |
Samuel A. Ward, The Sandlot |
Dec 30 |
Mary Frances Allitsen, composer |
Dec 30 |
David Jenkins, Distant Trumpet |
4 |
Jennie Lee, The Birth of a Nation |
29 |
Miguel Echegaray, El dúo de la africana |
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